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Speaking through his text-to-voice “eye pad,” Napoleon Wallace joined the discussion after the screening of ImpactAlpha’s mini-doc, “Napoleon Wallace and the Reconstruction of Black Wealth” (watch the trailer). Wallace invited Agents of Impact to Durham, NC, in April (details tbd).
“Together, we’ll explore pathways to economic mobility, social justice and political empowerment, building on the powerful legacy of fusion politics,” Wallace said.
Wallace’s collaborators, including Brittany Bennett Weston, Talib Graves-Manns, Wilson Lester, Homero Radway and Keith Beverly sketched the outlines of what might be called the North Carolina model for reconstruction and collective prosperity.
“Napoleon, you think bigger, you think quicker, and you think more expansively than almost anybody else that I know,” said Kimberlee Cornett of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which supported the 20-minute film.
“He is unintimidated by complexity. He is unintimidated by structural racism. He is unintimidated by ideas which seem improbable and is able to rally the ideas, the people and the capital to really do something bold and not incremental.”
