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“Shop While Being Black!”
Starting July 12th we will be introducing Black owned products and services in Metro Detroit , avid products all over the US. “Black On purpose will air every Monday on Youtube, and Instagram please subscribe. Black Economic Exchange Group mission is “Rebuild Black Wallstreet One Brick At A Time!”
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Black Farmer in SC Wants New Land to Be ‘A Place to Heal’
Sadia Pollard at their farm in Lugoff, South Carolina on Saturday, June 19, 2021. Pollard is raising money on Go Fund Me to help build the farm, which Pollard plans on using as an educational space in addition to growing food. The 24-year-old Black farmer runs Prosper Farm, where […] Click here to view original […]
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A discussion of reparations
By Guest Columnist RICHARD ROSE, president, Atlanta Branch of the NAACP America’s enduring human tragedy is racism that started with Columbus’ miscalculated arrival in the Caribbean. The failure to successfully enslave Indigenous people led to the importation by force of sub-Sahara Africans in 1619 that was justified by Christianity. […] Click here to view original […]
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The Newspaperman Who Documented Black Tulsa at Its Height
Play/Pause The Newspaperman Who Documented Black Tulsa at Its Height The New Yorker: Politics and More 34:08 Volume Embed Photograph from Greenwood Cultural Center / Getty In the years leading up to the horrific Tulsa Race Massacre, in 1921, the Greenwood District was a thriving Black metropolis, a city […] Click here to view original […]
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Megachurch pastor pays $200k in reparations to Tulsa Massacre survivors
Megachurch pastor pays $200k in reparations to Tulsa Massacre survivors (STIRR, SBG) BIXBY, Okla. (WKRC) – The pastor of a megachurch has issued $200,000 reparation payments each to the three living survivors of the Tulsa Massacre. In 1921, a white mob attacked Black Tulsa residents and destroyed their homes […] Click here to view original […]
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Black-Owned Film and TV Production Studio Gets Greenlight From Memphis Officials
Officials in Tennessee moved a step closer to making what developers say will be a major Black-owned film studio a reality. Developers won approval from the Memphis Land Use Control Board to zone land in the city’s Whitehaven community to build a BLP Film Studios. The owners say they […] Click here to view original […]
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15 Essential Black-Owned Restaurants You Should Know in Dallas
From refined vegan eats to saucy smoked meats. Shoals Sound & Service To say that Dallas has grown over the past few years is an understatement. With major companies setting up shop and constant development in and around the Metroplex, there are plenty of people needing to be entertained—and […] Click here to view original […]
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What economic impact could Juneteenth as a federal holiday have on Arkansas?
While Juneteenth has been celebrated for decades, no data has ever been collected on the newly federal holiday to see what it’s economic impact could be in Arkansas. LITTLE ROCK, Ark — Many Juneteenth events were celebrated all across the Natural State last weekend for the first time as […] Click here to view original […]
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Juneteenth Jubilee Finally A Detroit thang On The Avenue Of Fashion
When President Joe Biden signed the bill to make Juneteenth a National holiday it was just in time for the Kickoff of Juneteenth especially in Detroit! Originally Juneteenth was always celebrated In Texas, and even across heavily populated areas of the south as early in the early 1950’s and 1960’s but all of sudden it […]
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Building Black-Owned Businesses In Mississippi
HPC founder Tim Lampkin at the site of the future regional community wealth hub, set to open in June … [+] To address the racial wealth gap resulting from institutional racism and under-investment in Black communities, social entrepreneur Tim Lampkin started Higher Purpose Co. in 2016. Now his team […] Click here to view original […]