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Executive editor John William Templeton
Executive editor John William Templeton
Addresses City of San Francisco Celebrating Black American History luncheon

Griot, the African-American, African and Caribbean business daily was launched in 1995 by John William Templeton, first black editor of a business newspaper at the San Jose Business Journal and Richmond Business Journal in the 1980s. The online version, Black Money Worldwide, took flight in 1998.

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Templeton received the Circle 7 Profile of Excellence Award from KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco in December 2011 for his historic preservation and economic development work.   The station featured him on a tour of San Francisco's African-American historic sites, which included a Prince Hall Masonic lodge founded in 1852, the country's oldest black-owned bookstore and a nightclub which has continually operated since 1959.

KGO's Profiles of Excellence
KGO's Profiles of Excellence
Templeton, right, among the station's 2011 honorees

Earlier, he was the award-winning editor of America's oldest black newspaper, the Richmond AFRO-AMERICAN and Richmond Planet, and executive editor of the Winston-Salem Chronicle, first black newspaper to win the N.C. Press Association general excellence award.

BlackRestaurant.Net
BlackRestaurant.Net
Started with a 2005 exhibition on San Francisco's black restaurants

Templeton was also press secretary for the lieutenant governor campaign of L. Douglas Wilder in Virginia, the first successful statewide election for an African-American in the southeast; and for Asa T. Spaulding Jr., first to win a southeastern primary as candidate for secretary of state in North Carolina.

Blackmoney.com provides the African-American market the same critical business information which drives major economies.  Today's black consumer market is among the top dozen economies on the globe.

9th National Black Business Month
9th National Black Business Month
31 Ways 31 Days August 2012

New reports indicate that the African continent is slated for the fastest growth on the planet over the next 50 years.  The Single Market Economy is giving Caribbean islands new hope.

Commerce between and among the 2 million black businesses requires competitive knowledge in real time--our objective.  This $137 billion market is the key to America's economic recovery, as catalyst for one of the dozen top economies on the planet, the $1 trillion black consumer market.

We also meet the needs of parents and students with The Black Parents Guide and encourage supporters of National Black Business Month with BlackMoney Local and BlackRestaurant.Net

Newly completed
Newly completed
Historic resource study of blacks in San Jose

Our historic preservation and curriculum practice can be found at californiablackhistory.com and africanamericansf.info.

As a presenter, Templeton has keynoted the California Council for Social Studies, Impact 209, Celebrating Black American History, Greater Cincinnati Black Economic Empowerment Summit, South Florida State of Black Business Forum and presented scholarly papers at the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History and California Council for the Promotion of History.

Historic preservation leads to economic development
Historic preservation leads to economic development
Preserving California Black Heritage Nov. 17-19

He's provided professional development for San Francisco Unified; Sacramento City, Oakland Unified and San Diego City school districts.

S.F. Black Heritage Tours has served conferences ranging from the American Library Association, American Bar Association, American Educational Research Association, National School Boards Association and California Council for the Social Studies and groups like the Martin Luther King Jr. Research Institute at Stanford.

A Great Day in Gaming: From Queens to Silicon Valley: The Gerald A. Lawson Story and Freedom Riders of the Cutting Edge are signature documentaries of our new instructional channel ReUnion: Education-Arts-Heritage, designed to change the low participation of black students in math and science courses in high school.  See these documentaries around the country.

Catapulting Learning and Innovation is an objective of our State of Black Business Forum series as we share how to spur Innovation & Equity through building new manufacturers to create much needed employment and wealth.  Join us for the 2012 Innovation & Equity Symposium Saturday, Jan. 14 and Sunday, Jan. 15 in the nation's capital.  The Symposium recognizes the 12th annual 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology.

Capitalizing Creativity
Capitalizing Creativity
Job Creation and Innovation