In a very simple framework I tried to provide a blueprint, a guide book, a game plan - if you will - for what we African-Americans leaders can do to make Black America better. We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better. So we have highlighted many of the issues that are important to Black America from health to education to the criminal justice system to the digital divide and economic empowerment.
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