This Month's Speaker
Dr. Preston Cherry
Dr. Cherry is the Founder & President of Concurrent Financial Planning, Head of the Financial Planning Program, and Director of the Charles Schwab Center for Personal Financial Planning UW – Green Bay. Preston specializes in empowering individuals to share stories that inform their financial resources and life’s design to achieve financial wellness and freedom that cultivates life wholeness. Preston has over 15 years of financial services and academic experience, including financial planning, investment management, published research in top journals, and extensive leadership in the planning profession. He is an Investopedia 100 Top Financial Advisor, 2022 ThinkAdvisor LUMINARY Finalist, President of the Financial Therapy Association, practitioner editor of the award-winning Journal of Financial Planning, and Board Member of the FinServ Foundation. Preston is currently engaged, a cool Uncle who writes poetry, and has a vinyl record collection.
This Month's Topic- Dr. King's Economic Next Steps: The Healing of America's Moral Compass
Dr. Cherry says: I chose this topic because America's moral compass still needs nurturing towards wellness. Secondly, many label Dr. King's progression into the "Poor Peoples Campaign", "radical", and also twist his words about his economic vision, social-economic activism, and social justice to economic justice words of consciousness. Let's have a discussion.
Access This Month's Reading
- “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered this speech in support of the striking sanitation workers at Mason Temple in Memphis, TN on April 3, 1968 — the day before he was assassinated. License to reproduce this speech granted by Intellectual Properties Management as manager for the King Estate.
- MLK’S “BURNING HOUSE” A Mastery high school principal says the civil rights leader may have begun with integration—but that’s not where he landedPhiladelphia Citizen article by Sharif El-Mekki, published January 19, 2018
- Harry Belafonte Reflects on Working Toward PeaceHarry Belafonte's Architects of Peace essay is excerpted from a magazine article titled, "Is America a Burning House?: We Need a Voice of Moral Courage to Offer a Vision for the Twenty-First Century." In it, he discusses the need for the emergence of a new generation of black activists.
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Accommodations
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Recommended Further Reading from Dr. Cherry
Where Do We Go from Here by Call Number: Online AccessPublication Date: 2010In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years, he lays out his thoughts, plans, and dreams for America's future, including the need for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, and quality education. With a universal message of hope that continues to resonate, King demanded an end to global suffering, asserting that humankind-for the first time-has the resources and technology to eradicate poverty.
