Three Essential Products For Black Households
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#BlackGirlMagic: Women band directors make HBCU history
Dr. Kerry Anne Simon, Mississippi Valley State University’s first female band director, and Dr. Nikole Moore Roebuck, the first female...
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Black Woman Opens Hip Hop Spin Cycle Studio
New York City has an abundance of fitness classes but Briana Owens couldn't quite find a home. She spent five...
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4 New Black Owned Companies To Try
Perfectly Hued is an illustration-based boutique that features children’s greeting cards and stationery. Created to fill the void of stationery and...
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An AKA Runs The World’s 4th Busiest Airport
Photo: Los Angeles Sentinel Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is already the wolrd's fourth busiest airport but it's about to...
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Two Businesses Featured In Original Green Book To Be Honored
Photo: NATHAN MORGAN | NASHVILLE BUSINESS JOURNAL The Green Book featured roughly a dozen businesses in Nashville, back in the 1960s. According to the Tennessee Tribune, only two of them remain today: R&R Liquor Store and Swett’s, two of Nashville’s oldest Black owned businesses. On December 13th both businesses will…
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Black Businesses Took Over Small Business Saturday Nationwide
Photo: Julia Nagy, Omaha World-Herald Black Friday is all about big box retailers and Cyber Monday is for e-commerce stores. Small Business Saturday, however, encourages holiday shoppers to support small brick-and-mortar businesses in their community. Nationwide, Black owned businesses were on full display, even if most don't have a physical location, just…
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This Black Consultant Can Help You Launch Any Business
You know that your business idea is a good one and if you can just launch it, game over. All the thought you've put into your idea, however, won't mean anything if you can't get it off the ground. Frankly, you might need some help. How do you go about…
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Black Owned Coffee Company Is Expanding To Los Angeles
Red Bay Coffee Roasters is a black-owned, Oakland-based coffee company with four locations. They also happen to be Facebook's main coffee supplier at the company's Menlo Park headquarters. The company's founder, Keba Konte, recently unveiled a new headquarters in the Fruitvale neighborhood, where he originally started the company out of…
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50 Years Ago America Assassinated Its First Black President
50 years ago today, Fred Hampton was assassinated by the FBI and Chicago Police Department. That heinous act took away one of the world's brightest lights and perhaps, the Black messiah J. Edgar Hoover had always feared. Fred Hampton could have been and should have been, President of the United…
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NYC Is Majority-Minority But White Men Get 95% Of City Contracts
Photo: Getty Images NYC has over 8 million residents and close to 60 percent of them are non-white. Even so, 94.5 percent of the city's contracts go to businesses owned by white men. Black people in New York wake up everyday, go to work and pay their taxes, only to…
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Give To A Black Organization This #GivingTuesday
Photo: Montgomery Advertiser After Cyber Monday there's "Giving Tuesday." Giving Tuesday -- often seen as #GivingTuesday -- falls on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving and exists as a movement to spur charitable giving, globally. Although it only began in 2011, Giving Tuesday has a huge impact on nonprofits and various charities. In…
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25% Of Philadelphia Businesses Are Black Owned
52nd Street in West Philadelphia is one of the few corridors in the city with a high rate of black business ownership. (Jessica Griffen/Philadelphia Media Network) Blacks make up 44% of the population in the Philadelphia area. In a perfect world, 44% of the businesses in the area would be…
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Black Woman Developer Felt Unwelcome In Neighborhood So She Built Her Own Community
Pam Brown Courtney was impressed with a community in her hometown of Little Rock so she went to check it out. The neighborhood was beautiful, nice and quaint but the people most certainly were not. As she went to look at some of the homes, it became obvious that the…
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