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“Shopping While Being Black Episode #3” Black Owned Products located in Ulta Beauty
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Media mogul Byron Allen pays $70M for Michigan TV station WJRT
After taking on General Motors and other automakers, media mogul Byron Allen is expanding his presence in Michigan, his home state. On Wednesday, Allen’s company, Allen Media Group, announced it would pay $70 million to buy WJRT from Gray Television. WJRT is the ABC affiliate in Flint-Saginaw. This deal […] Click here to view original […]
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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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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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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 […]
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Surprise: Bronzeville Beer Makers Are Planning Not One, But Two Taprooms
Turner Haus Brewery has picked Bronzeville for its upcoming taproom, a culmination of nearly nearly nine years of work. They plan to launch their taproom inside the 92-year-old Rosenwald Court Apartments at 78 E. 47th Street, according to the Sun-Times . What’s more, the Turner Haus team is partnering […] Click here to view original […]
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Black and minority-owned business: The road to recovery
An August 2020 Federal Reserve Board report painted a dire portrait of the effects of COVID-19 on minority-owned business, especially in Black communities. Among all small businesses, the number of active business owners fell by 22% from February to April 2020, the largest drop on record. But the racial […] Click here to view original […]