Hajj Flemings - Brand Camp University
It’s Time to Reimagine What Black Means
The Black experience from a historical perspective in America is very painful. Racial injustice in America is more than a 400 year old problem which didn’t start yesterday and won’t be solved in a day. The unnecessary and untimely death of an unarmed black man named George Floyd on May 25, 2020 at the hands of four Minneapolis Police has amplified the problem of police brutality and racial injustice in America. Mr. Floyd’s death is in a long list of unarmed Black men and women who have been killed disproportionately in comparison to other races. Hajj will discuss how we reimagine what black means.
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About The Speaker
Hajj Flemings
In 2011, Hajj Flemings was one of eight entrepreneurs selected for CNN's Black in America 4: The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley documentary with Soledad O’Brien. During the filming of the documentary, he came to understand the real meaning of the term ‘meritocracy’ and recognized that lack of access in the technology space was creating a permanent underclass in communities of color. That experience literally changed the course of his life.
Hajj is founder of Brand Camp University, an educational platform that is preparing people for the future of work. In 2017 he launched Rebrand Cities, a global civic design partnership with WordPress.com with the audacious goal to get 10,000 businesses online and eradicate the digital divide.
He has worked with clients including Walt Disney, AT&T, WordPress.com, Pitney Bowes, Pfizer, the Detroit Lions, and the U.S. Department of Defense, been an invited speaker at Harvard University, Iowa State University, University of Michigan—Ross School of Business, Davidson College, and others, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Mashable and CNN Tech Money on the subjects of startups, digital technology and branding.