 
Wall St. and Business and Wednesdays: * Update On The BlackElectorate.com "Business and Building" Black-Owned Bank Initiative
This week we begin contacting individuals - registered for our Initiative - who live in the vicinity of the eight banks that we have nominated for consideration to receive the BlackElectorate.com endorsement and eventually our deposits. The objective of this approach is to enlist the insight, assistance, and help from those who live closest to these institutions and who know their reputations 'on the ground.'
There has been a change to the list of the banks under consideration.
* Due to the recent change in ownership at Independence Bank in Washington, D.C., we have replaced that bank with Industrial Bank (http://www.industrial-bank.com/).
So, now the list of 8 banks reads:
1. Bank: Broadway Federal Bank
Location: Los Angeles, California
Website: www.broadwayfed.com
Ticker: BYFC (Nasdaq)
2. Bank: Carver Bancorp Inc.
Location: New York, New York
Website: www.carverbank.com
Ticker: CNY (Amex)
3. Bank Name: Citizens Trust Bank
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Website: www.ctbatlantahb.com
4. Bank Name: Douglass National Bank
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Website: www.douglassbk.com
5. Bank Name: First Tuskegee Bank
Location: Tuskegee, Alabama
Website: www.firsttuskegeebank.com
6. Bank Name: Illinois Service Federal
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Website: www.isfbank.com
7. Bank Name: Industrial Bank
Location: Washington, D.C.
Website: http://www.industrial-bank.com/
8. Bank Name: OneUnited Bank
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Website: www.oneunited.com
On Wednesday, July 11, 2007, the official letter, written to each of the 8 institutions will be published at BlackElectorate.com. That letter is being drafted right now.
It will detail our desire, interests and the process we would like to follow. We will allow 30 days for the banks to respond accordingly before providing another public update at this website. We will then officially enter into negotiations with any interested banks, with the tentative goal of their completion in between 30 to 45 days afterward.
If you feel it is worthy, we encourage you to continue to spread the word of this effort and discuss our selection process (http://www.blackelectorate.com/articles.asp?ID=1905) with your friends, family, and acquaintances. The more serious, sober, and enthusiastic our participants, the more leverage we will have in negotiating with the prospective institution and extracting the most benefit for ourselves and our wealth creation and community development objectives.
All information submitted through our sign up form (http://www.blackelectorate.com/bank.asp) is private and only used for the purpose of this Initiative.
Cedric Muhammad Wednesday, June 20, 2007 To discuss this article further enter The Deeper Look Dialogue Room
The views and opinions expressed herein by the author do not necessarily represent the opinions or position of BlackElectorate.com or Black Electorate Communications.
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