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Biography
Dr. Anderson has drawn the nation's attention to the advantages of redeveloping and industrializing black communities. Dr. Anderson has begun a seafood factory project aimed at urban locations in the United States. Widely recognized as one of America's most influential intellectuals and authors, Dr. Anderson has popularized Black history. His book, Black Labor, White Wealth: A Search for Power and Economic Justice, is the foundation for the solutions, principles, activities proposed in PowerNomics®: The National Plan. Dr. Anderson has a broad and varied base of experiences spanning education, business, federal and state politics and successful social reform. During integration, he served as State Coordinator of Education for Governor Reubin Askew of Florida. While serving in that capacity, he founded the State Action Council, a coalition of black leaders for political action in Florida. Dr. Anderson, appointed by former president Jimmy Carter, served as Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of Commerce where he headed the Coastal Plains Regional Commission and funded and directed economic development activities for governors in the Southeastern states. He was executive director of two economic development corporations for the city of Miami, Florida. As special assistant to the 1988 Democratic Convention, he awarded 37% of the contracts to blacks, a record that has not been reached or broken. Dr. Anderson's books are widely read throughout the United States, particularly by African-Americans and are textbooks in many universities. His book, Dirty Little Secrets About Black History, Its Heroes and Other Troublemakers has been rated one of the top five best selling books in black America by Essence Magazine, BET, and Blackboard. Black Labor, White Wealth, his first book released in 1994, continues to be a best seller. His most recent book, PowerNomics®: The National Plan to Empower Black America, was released in February 2001 and was on the Detroit Free Press best seller list by March. On the Essence Best Seller List, PowerNomics®: The National Plan has been #1 most of the summer and fall. His other two books are also in the Essence top 10 and a number of other book lists.
Copyright 2006-2007
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corporation that is involved in major business development, primarily in inner cities, across the country.
The word PowerNomics®
represents a social-political-economic package of
principles and strategies developed by Dr. Anderson to
help make Black America a more self-sufficient and
competitive group. His latest book, PowerNomics®:
The National Plan to Empower Black America
sets forth a five year national plan in education,
economics,
politics and outlines a new role for Black
religious organizations. His ideas have begun to
ignite a national movement of reform among blacks.