African American institutional and global strategy has spent a century perfecting the moral argument while the balance sheet, the governance structure, and the geopolitical anchor remained largely unbuilt. Drawing on John Henrik Clarke’s analysis of power competition — from ancient Carthage to twentieth-century New York — HBCU Politics argues this is a global contest, not a domestic one, and examines what a coordinated ecosystem of cities, banks, businesses, campuses, and diaspora partners would need to build to compete in it. Continue reading →