Category: Black Business
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As We Approach Black History Month, The Financially Woke Conversation Creeps In, Are We Closing the Wealth Gap?
This data was originally posted on Financial Literacy & African Americans: Bridging the Gap (annuity.org) African Americans have struggled for centuries to build wealth in America. Historical injustices — including slavery, systematic inequality, employment discrimination, racist housing policies and other barriers — have stymied economic well-being and harmed retirement confidence for the community. Today, the…
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All In A Year’s Time, A Lot Can Change In Life, Tahyira Savanna Speaks on her personal growth journey
Dear Diary, Thank you universe for blessing me in unexpected ways. I named the title All In a Year’s Time. It is reflective of me truly growing up and entering a new freedom zone. I launched all in a year’s time when I was 24 years old. I couldn’t find a job during the great…
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Kanye Tells Gap To Fuck Off, Closes Deal Through Legal Team
Ye told CNBC that sometimes it felt like “I was on mute or something.” The partnership was originally announced in June 2020 and included the release of a number of fast-selling, buzzy items, but according to a Wall Street Journal report on the split the Gap was required to sell 40% of Yeezy Gap product in its…
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Tyler Perry Speaks Up About More Black Creators Being Needed In The Space
Perry was at a speaking panel during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where is on hand to promote his new upcoming love story, The Jazzman’s Blues airing on Netflix next week, September 23rd. During the talk, Perry mentioned that he feels grateful to be creative in a time when more Black focused storytelling is…
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In Black America, Pretending to Be White Has Exposed the Truth of White Privilege – It Pays To be White-skinned
The NYT is reporting yet another discriminatory practice in housing. We searched the news archive nationally to see if we could find a trend. We did. In 2021, Atlanta Blackstar reported on Erica and Aaron Parker. The black couple who knew something was wrong when an initial appraiser valued their Loveland home at more than…
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Our Black Leaders: Angela Davis Acquitted
Happy August. It is National Black business month in the U.S. We honor the past and our history for equity as the descendants of the enslaved African population. African-Americans are the reason the United States democracy exists. The assassinations of leaders who were fighting for real world equity both in finance and social mobility of…
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Kim K, Pete Davidson, and Kanye Are All Tv Stars, One of Their Documentary’s Is Nominated For An Emmy, jeen-yuhs for your Emmy Consideration
Directed by Coodie & Chike “A SUPERHERO ORIGIN STORY. Watch this series, and you can’t help but be impressed by how he got there.” ROLLING STONE “AN UNPRECEDENTED LOOK inside formative moments from the life and career of one of the biggest and most influential artists in the world today.” THE WRAP “There isn’t much…
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It’s Black Business Month. More Black Medical Professionals Leave White Owned Institutions
Black Women Suffer from Uterine Fibroids More Than Women of Other Races Fancy Felder the CEO at Swag Her Magazine, a Black owned media brand, shared the above headline. She interviewed Ella Destiny, a life coach, author, and fibroids advocate who battled with fibroids since high school. Here’s more of the story. “My fibroid journey started…
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In Honor of Queen Bey’s upcoming 7th Album, We Went Back Through Time To Revisit All Her Album Release Vibes | WATCH BREAK MY SOUL LYRIC VIDEO HERE
Let’s take a black parade stroll with these images of Beyonce, the performer, the friend, the happy girl, the girlfriend turned wife, and the best representation of the mom’s who Werk coalition. While searching her personal site, we found this link to Black owned businesses in Brooklyn. Click here to add these brands to your…
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Watch Bryon Allen, Sacha Jenkins, Tami Roman, and More Black Entrepreneurs Discuss The State of Access To Funding
We have to realize that as Black Americans, we have not come that far. The first time the United States honored Juneteenth was 2021. It is also concerning that this video received less than 100 likes on Instagram.
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Black Brands Need Love Too
It’s our favorite time of the year to help our brothers and sisters who are entrepreneurs. It’s all about spending Black dollars wisely. Especially around the holiday shopping season. Where are you planning to shop this year? There is something to be said about how Black Americans financially invest into the American economy. Do you…
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Netflix Trans Employee Community Stage Walk Out, Are They Just Trying To Cancel Another Black Man In Hollywood?
People are walking out of everything lately in the states. The latest would be transgendered employees working at Netflix Inc.’s headquarters in Los Angeles. Netflix bosses are braced for an employee walkout and rally in Los Angeles as anger swells over a recent Dave Chappelle comedy special that activists say is harmful to the transgender…
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Cannabis and Louis Armstrong
Cannabis, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, and racialization of a healing plant.. October 5, 2021 By, Torrence BRANNON-Reese, MSW/Founding Director, FA-MLI, Inc. It is a well known fact that Jazz, the esteemed, free-spirited African American musical artform, was birthed in New Orleans, where its antecedent artistic predecessors, (African based rhythmic patterns, Blues, Folk Songs, Ragtime, etc.) sprang forth…
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Film Producer Shawn Carter Attends ‘The Harder They Fall’ London Red Carpet Alongside Stars Regina King and Iris Elba [IMAGES + VIDEO]
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The cast and crew attends the London red carpet event for Netflix’s The Harder They Fall. Beyoncé attended to support her husband but mysteriously didn’t appear on the red carpet with fellow stars, she had her own photographers shoot her on the carpet. She truly controls all aspects of her art, including paparazzi imagery.
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How Social Media Giants Like Tik Tok Made Safe Space for Black Entrepreneurship During National Black Business Month
In America, the words Black and Business are becoming more synonymous with building black wealth outside of the housing market. Black Americans are heading to platforms, like the Chinese owned Tik Tok, to develop, promote, and sustain their online business ventures. We found that business discovery is easier on social media where smaller brands struggle…
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The MIT-Approved Rivet App Provides Expert Tools for Creators in the Digital Age
Throughout the pandemic, one thing that has become overwhelmingly clear is the importance of digital spaces for artists. However, with the dominance of so many social channels and a seemingly endless feed of content, creators need to pay more attention than ever to the business side of things. Thankfully, the new Rivet app can help…
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Elite Women’s Business Society
I am reaching out to each and every one of you wonderful ladies to join my Elite Business Women’s Society FB Group. Just launched last night! Inside this group you can advertise you business, post your vids and lives, attain motivation and inspiration, business tips, and guest speakers will be in periodically to talk about…
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5 Reasons Why Your Blog Views Are Not Rising Like Bread
Endless hours of sitting at your computer typing out the best blogs you have ever written. Checking your stats everyday to see how many people have looked at your blogs. The growth you have been looking for has not happened. Your followers go up and down and your biting your manicured nails trying to figure…
