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Black-owned senior day center suffered from COVID delays, but is now serving senior population
After seeing their own loved ones go through dementia and Alzheimer’s in their personal lives and seeing the need for senior care in their professional lives, one local couple opened Acclaim Senior Activities Center in September. Paullecia “Pauli” Brown-Scott and her husband, Terrell, originally planned to open the senior […] Click here to view original […]
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How Apple is celebrating Black-owned businesses this Black History Month
In advance of Black History Month, Apple announced a slew of content across its products and services to celebrate and amplify Black creators, artists, developers, and businesses. Back in January Apple unveiled a new special edition Apple Watch Series 6 ‘Black Unity’ complete with a new band (available separately) […] Click here to view original […]
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Amazon launch bootcamp for black-owned businesses
Amazon are launching a a two-day bootcamp for black-owned businesses with free education to help with getting their product business online. During othe two-day event, attendees will benefit from sessions on how Black-owned businesses can get started online, sell products on the Amazon stores, send products to customers, scale […] Click here to view original […]
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Focus on Black-owned businesses: 7th Floor Clothing’s success boosted by boldness, timing and a hat-wearing guy named LeBron
Preston Clark and Frank Miller III have been friends since they were kids. As adults, they also are business partners, including doing tax preparation. But they are better known as the owners of 7th Floor Clothing , an Akron fashion business that makes T-shirts, hats, hoodies, a brand-new line […] Click here to view original […]
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This Black-Owned Breakfast Food Company Is Making ‘Cereal For The Culture’
Content loading… On one particular night last summer, Nic King had trouble sleeping. There was a lot on his mind. The 34-year-old had recently left his corporate job. The Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd had just begun to spread nationwide. It was out of […] Click here to view original […]
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Queer And Black-Owned Vegan Cafe Opens To ‘Promote Inclusivity’
LesbiVeggies owner Brennah Lambert hopes the cafe will promote diversity and healthy eating in the community Credit: Instagram Reading Time: < 1 minute A young black queer woman has transformed her vegan catering company into a cafe in Audubon, New Jersey. It is set to open later this month [...] Click here to view original […]
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After 2020, Black-owned businesses find themselves in new landscape
Before the pandemic, Black-owned businesses faced distinct and lingering obstacles. Access to capital, insurance availability, bidding on contracts can be challenges to entrepreneurs of all races — but in the struggle to build an enduring legacy, those challenges can be acute for Black employers. Locally, however, some Black entrepreneurs […] Click here to view original […]
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Google Introduces New Feature That Helps You Shop Black-Owned
To commemorate Black History Month , Google has introduced a new shopping feature to help shoppers identify and buy Black-owned. The feature is an expansion of another element that launched over the summer, “which allowed businesses to identify as being Black-owned on Google Search and Maps, the attribute will […] Click here to view original […]