Cheryl McKissack & Don Peebles On The 'Affirmation Tower', Minority Developers, Equality + More 

BREAKFAST CLUB!!!! Y’all out here educating us and bringing heavy hitters on your show! What a transition your show has had and I’m proud I’ve been rocking with y’all throughout. Let’s keep the energy going!

Don is a beacon of hope for emerging developers. True legend.

Don Peebles is one of my favourite entrepreneurs. His book Peebles Principles is amazing.

I met Ms McKissack at the National Organization of Minority Architects convention in Chicago (I believe) back in the 90's. As one of 2 black female architecture students at that time, it was so inspiring to me to see another black woman in the profession. I hope I am one day able to rent an office in Affirmation Tower!

I'm going to show this to my students at Bennett College during our lesson on Reparations - Breakfast Club you are moving mountains for our community. THANK YOU!.

WOW What a powerful inspiring interview. We need more and more interviews like this. Well done again Breakfast Club

Great guests. Kanye was saying the same in terms of being influential and wealthy and still being blocked in the fashion world. His delivery was unhinged and incoherent, but similar concept. Cheryl and Don are worth 100's of millions of dollars, intelligible, and all the good stuff, and still being blocked in the real estate/ development field.

These two are the best guests you guys have had on this show since Dr Claude Anderson. Every single point they made was absolutely right. Great Great interview. And this is coming from a guy who typically hates your interviews and your guests. I just hope you guys will have them on again in a few months to get an update on their building project...👍✊👏👏👏👏👏👏

Breakfast Club - Charlemagne & DJ Envy your non-music interviews are on point... Please continue and expand these type of interviews... Thank you...

I like these two, and to be honest I feel if we had more people like them as kids growing up we would know that the sky was truly the limit. Instead of just hearing it we will see it. I also appreciate their honesty as far as even though being a Democrat saying that Trump property would have done more and expressing that he was unhappy with what Obama has done or hasn't done

Just WOOOOOOW!!!!!! This is by far one of the best interviews I have seen in a very long time on the Breakfast Club. I’m so inspired as a black business owner and so hopeful that we as blacks and brown people are heading in the right direction. All we want is fairness and we will continue to push forward until we get it! And it’s not that far! Thanks to these two very powerful Black Icons and American Heros. Ps. We have to start holding our Black Churches accountable for not putting our black money in black owned Banks! EVERY Monday morning, Black churches put hundreds of millions if not billions of Black dollars into white Banks only for those money to be given to whites as loans to help keep us behind! Black churches ⛪️, STOP putting your black dollars in white banks! Google black banks and move your money there. Just make sure it’s ACTUALLY owned by blacks!!

Excellent interview. Read Don's book last month. On his 2nd now. In the RE game completing my GC license. Great mentor from afar. Sky is the limit ✊🏾💪🏾🏡🏦💰

GREAT INTERVIEW! MCKISSACK is my cousins family. My Grandad also had a big Construction business. Great business to be in and love seeing these types of accomplishments ❤

This McKissack & Peebles interview is a classic and one of BC's best!! "Your money can work harder than you..." Thank you so much!!💕💕🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏼🙏🏼

I LOVE this! As a project manager in construction, this warms my heart. There are so few of us in this industry.

So glad they did this interview. We’re heavily underrepresented in the Commercial Real Estate Industry so I hope this inspires people to get involved. Don did it without a college education and is thriving. Imagine how we can build off of this, the sky’s the limit.

Love to see this: The wisdom! The vision! The execution! ECONOMIC INCLUSION. It’s so good to see people that have “made it” working together to create a MASSIVE monument to their people. Yes!

Love this interview! Nothing but ideas and solutions. Probably the best interview the Breakfast Club has ever done!

Don Peebles is so right about us helping each other. My former Fortune Five Hundred company used a black supervisor and black HR Director to get rid of me after working 27 hard years because I followed company policy and complained about racist images being uploaded on my computer after they claimed they didn’t know how it happened!

I so appreciate this information as a black women and mother who has a son who is very inspired by Don Peebles to do what he does and I am inspired by both Don and Cheryl to change my career to real-estate, Economics and politics and help our people. Thank you thank SO INSPIRED!!! #AffirmationTower ready to see all the opportunities our community will gain with this project!

Affirmation Tower must happen! Great interview 👏🏽

Everybody and their Mama needs to watch/listen to this episode. One of the best I’ve seen in awhile. Bravo! Breakfast Club, y’all understand your platform and reach and you use it consistently with intention. BLACK PEOPLE. New Yorkers I want y’all on this like you get on what’s GUCCI. We ultimately are the change that we want to see.

Great interview and information! I love that they didn't shy away from saying Black People! We get tricked into including everyone (saying people of color) so that we sound and act inclusively while other "people of color" reap the benefits of our struggle. Please give us more of these interviews.

Black excellence…I just watched a documentary on Don a few days ago…i love how they came with concrete ways building affirmation tower will have positive financial impact for the black community

To me this was one of the best interviews breakfast club has done. Definitely a top three of all time on the show.

Wow!! I just watched the video about black upper class and watched Mr Peebles and many more like him. Happy to watch this video, you rock The breakfast club…🕺🏼🕺🏼🕺🏼❤️❤️

Aight everybody, we got work to do!!!!! This is amazing. 🖤 Don Peebles reminds me of Dr Claude Anderson. And remember, there’s nothing wrong with being broke or being old. Just don’t be both at the same time.

I helped build the Javits Center here in NYC, I'm about to see how I can amply to project manage with them and CBRE...I want to give my talent and work for this project. #BlackExcellence

Black economic empowerment is the key factor to our emancipation ✊. This was your best interview ever 🙌!!! Thank you Breakfast Club 🙏🥰..

That was the best interview I’ve ever seen the breakfast club do. It was so informative and inspiring. Please do more interviews like that and follow up with these two specifically to see how the project is going.

This is uplifting interviewing that betters all people. If the Breakfast Club was a major news stream on the OWN NETWORK, with this type economic inclusion- it would change a generational sentence…

This sounds like it's gonna be an amazing project, that will be a blessing to millions of black, white, Asian and Hispanic people's, built and owned by black people

Best show! Been in Real Estate since 1982. Remember this is the International Decade for People of African Descent. I want to be a part of this.

I randomly stumbled upon him in a special about not famous wealthy black people. Loving this interview.

Wow! What an interview! Maybe one of the best done by the Breakfast Club. A lot of gems in this. Thank you.

Man, just the name alone is powerful in its own right. "Affirmation Tower", WOW!

Simply stated, one of the very best conversations. Extremely important and on point. Access to capital I'd the only way to level the playing field. Affirmation Tower a worthwhile project. Do more shows like this, have more guest in development.

YES DON PEEBLES!!! This is a REAL Los Angeles Legend!! I know EYL plugged this

We needed this interview!!!! We need more of this!!!

Class is in session! 🙌🏾 I learned so much here. I'm in support and even South African.

best interview this year. economic freedom is the only way. also Cheryl's laugh is infectious lol.

I just watched a short documentary the other day on the black upper class and it's the first time I've heard of Don Peebles. Now he's on BC crazy.

MORE INTERVIEWS LIKE THIS PLEASE!!!! These people just fed my soul!!!!

I plan to build the affirmation tower in California. See you two soon as future partners McKissack and Peebles

Amazing interview!! We need a lot more of these interviews educating us and giving tangible solutions and ways for us to start making changes and what us as black people and minorities need in order to start shifting and closing that gap.

Most impactful interview yet! Good shit.... !

With my student loans in Undergraduate I tried to buy a town home. I was the first to attend and matriculate from college. I've always thought outside the quadrilateral Parallelogram. Many failed ideas and companies however I'm still going and trying without a village or parents that paved the proverbial way.

I must of seen this interview a million times . Every time I learn something new. He took us to church ❤

That was one of the best interviews I've ever seen. Thank you so much for bringing this to the forefront. #affirmationtower

This man have learned me more than I learned in school love ❤️ love them…WoW speaking big FACTZ

"Making money in real estate isn't complicated " man I needed to hear that 🙏🏾 bless this man

Most important, most influential, most dopest show thus far. Don for President. Can't wait until his projection is complete to go pay tribute. He brings a feeling of pride to being Black. God Bless this man💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

The part about your money working harder than you can is soooo good 👏🏾

Great interview and so many nuggets. Most of us get out the mud but if you listen closely having a foundation via generational exposure (both of them), a supportive & open local/city govt, and having the right ppl around you - makes a huge difference as well. Generational knowledge is huge!!! Those things are extremely important. Mr Peebles is right….the MONEY matters and they don’t want to change the status quo. Excellent interview

This one was THE BEST hands down !!! I learned so much , Thank you 👌🏽💯🥰

McKissack & McKissack is a LEGENDARY architecture firm.

This year my post graduation 5 year plan expired. I checked off everything! I created a new one. I look forward to seeing affirmation tower when its completed in the next 5 years!✊🏾

Man I absolutely love this episode!! Feels good being black!! 💪🏿💪🏿

Great interview. I’m a first year Urban Planner in Maryland. I aspire to be involved with projects of this size in the near future.

The mindset is everything! Wow! Thank you for bringing them on.

Everybody saying what a departure this is for the breakfast club, yall must not have been paying attention..because this has been the wave! It's been a place of ratchetness and righteousness for awhile and this is only a continuation from there..I've learned about credit, black history, issues involving other cultures of poc, finance etc. I've been recommended books on mental health, physical fitness, generational trauma, wholeness and wellness and on and on and on...this ain't new. But oftentimes ppl see bad in a place and then place labels on that thing forever because we're tribal, and you see what you expect! This is a show about wholeness and there's whole spectrum of duality in that💯💯🏆👏🏽🖤

This is the only type of interviews I watch ..#Gratitude

Thank u for this conversation This is why we love the breakfast club🙏🏿

Totally enjoyed this interview. Refreshing and honest

Been watching since the start of this show and I’m really enjoying the evolution of TBC✊🏾👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Rappers blow money. These people know how money works. This is real wealth and talent and production.

Thank you Breakfast club for the platform and Cheryl Mckissak and Don Peebles for taking the time to speak to us. Very informative and needing conversation for our people to have. I think we definitely need more Black people involved in government behind closed doors to help these initiatives pass.

Yall got to have Don Peebles on more. He is the goat!

Wow! This was a excellent interview. So much knowledge given out! I could’ve listened for hours. Absolutely amazing interview.

This is great........HOWEVER CAN WE HAVE OUR OWN.......STOP TRYING TO BE INCLUDED AT THE TABLE WITH OTHERS AND BEING ACCEPTED.......CREATE OUR OWN TABLES......OUR OWN EVERYTHING

This is what we need, stop promoting what the bottom of our community is doing. Start promoting what we CAN start doing AND what great blacks are doing. Democrats really just build our hopes up and don't deliver. We really do need to take aggressive action to demand economic access for us.

Fantastic interview with substantial information @work and thanks so much “The Breakfast Club” . I really needed this Clarity in my Life. Ole school be “Quiet like a rat pissing on cotton” is No More… Blessings

Love these interviews!

Now this is why I rock with The breakfast club. This is the best interview I have ever seen in my 50 years on this Earth. Very well done. I wish you all blessings and prosperity

Don Peeples my guy! The largest African American Real Estate Developer in the US!

So happy to see this on The Breakfast Club! Kudos to Cheryl McKissack, Don Peebles & partners on this extraordinary venture. Excited for the project progression & all that will come from it! Keep going!

Once again, excellent interview and guests!!

This was a masterful interview. Thank god for charlamagne

Never heard of this brother. Love the way he thinks and advocates. He’s amazing!

Government of MD stole land from my family back in the 70s or 80s. I was very young when my family took them to court.

I really enjoyed this interview!! FINALLY! What an amazing man!

This episode was and is an absolute inspiration. Kudis to the Breakfast Club. Keep up the good work.

I affirm that this video is the most viewed breakfast club video ever. There are many paths to generational wealth! These guest show one way! As a new author I hope to positively influence people’s perceptions of mental health awareness and spirituality to make generational wealth more attainable! Just like the special guest it starts with one generation and moves to the next. I aim to plant the seed and nurture it through intentional conversations! Thank you for this interview!

Shout out to the late Marion Berry. He gave Peebles his first opportunity in business and supported him to financial success. The importance of black leadership that makes black wealth.

Great piece of conversation, political and financial of course… braaavo to you guys and to your learned guests. They were both fantastic and extremely knowledgeable, most of all logical.

Fantastic interview! This was THE BEST re economic empowerment 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Awesome interview… I agree with everything that was said.

Man I'm up early and in tears of joy watching this! Thanks king's and Queen's 👑! Including our sister Angela ❤️

This is a GREAT interview! It’s so great to see these positive influential black business moguls speak and give us inspiration! I want a seat at the table also! 😍

👍🏼👍🏼 wow! These two are amazing! They make me proud! You see these are the type of people that we should be seeing winning NAACP awards, and not just entertainers and athletes which gives our children a limited view of what success is. I want my nieces and nephews and godchildren to see this type of limitless visionary potential and growth and possibility. I am so grateful I caught this episode. At a time when I feel like the progress of African-Americans are being slowly rolled backwards it makes my soul feel good to know that there are great people in our culture working tirelessly to move The culture progressively forward. This is what should be taught in our children’s schools from preschool through our grade school and high school and on the collegiate level so the race/culture can move away from depending on white folk. Love you guys! Keep up the great work!

This is what's up, I like seeing folks on here who can educate....change up from rappers sometimes

This gave me chills! I can't wait to visit Affirmation Tower. AMAZING!

This!! Now we have to intentionally...unapologetically...support projects like this. We have got to start training our children to build businesses so we can be financially in charge of our talent. I handle RFP for a major corporation....I have a hard time FINDING BLACK OWNED BUSINESSES to give these projects to. My children will go to college but they will have trade certifications....the social respect we required...historically....has financially harmed us....IN THE BIGGER ECONOMIC PICTURE. Education is important but don't get stuck being the best highly educated worker for a white corporation who's leaders aren't half as educated nor skilled as you but 10 times richer and wealthier than we will ever have access to. We have to take the risk and join this movement for the FUTURE.

Powerful and awakening interview globally for Black people!

Great job bringing quality guests. Keep it up. ✊🏿

Thank you for such an informative interview!

This is the most emotional interview I've watched in a long time! This is like sitting in the corner and Watching the Bible being written!!! Thank you all so much!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

I first saw Don Peebles on RU-vid in a documentary called, America's Black Upper Class.

This was the only interview I needed this year. This is good talk. “The Peebles Principles”

One of, if not THE BEST breakfast club interviews ive ever seen‼️