The Blueprint Has Always Been Ours. The Question Is: Will We Finally Use It?

As the Black Wall Street Summit arrives on August 5, Doni Glover’s Black Blueprint: Baltimore to Burkina Faso finally gets the stage it deserves—and perhaps the moment it was written for.

(BALTIMORE – June 27, 2026) – “I was never meant to be a statistic. I was raised to be a solution.”

Those are the first words of Black Blueprint.

Every time I read them, I’m transported back to North Avenue.

Back to the crack epidemic.