Activest co-founder Napoleon Wallace joins the hosts to share his remix of Gil Scott-Heron’s seminal 1971 record The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Wallace, the subject of ImpactAlpha’s mini-documentary, “Equity and Ownership,” which charts his quest to build a strategy for shared prosperity while living with the challenges of ALS.
In the remix, Napoleon uses his AI voice, cloned from pre-diagnosis recordings; in the podcast conversation, Napoleon speaks through his text-to-voice (eye) pad.
This finale to the first season of The Activest Podcast sets up Juneteenth 2025, marking 160 years since US troops arrived in Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation. It also marks 160 years since the beginning of the Reconstruction era, the period of political and economic rebuilding that followed the defeat of the Confederacy, the end of slavery and the establishment of citizenship and political rights for Black Americans. Napoleon and the hosts introduce Re:Construction, an effort to reclaim and extend the march to progress that never ceased.
Links shared in this episode:
- Equity & Ownership: Napoleon Wallace & The Reconstruction of Black Wealth (free viewing here when you share your email address)
- Impact Alpha: Playbook for Shared Prosperity
- Black Farmer Fund https://blackfarmerfund.org/
- The Seed Commons https://seedcommons.org/
- The Boston Ujima Project https://www.ujimaboston.com/
- Chicago TREND https://www.chicagotrend.com/
- The East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative https://ebprec.org/
