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EyeSeeMe bookstore teaches children the value of African-American history | USA Today
As African American parents, Pamela and Jeffrey Blair of St. Louis, Missouri, always taught their four children about their history and helped them to develop a positive self-image. They told stories about their lives, their grandparent’s lives and their families’ migration from the Caribbean. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] When the Blairs started homeschooling the children in grade […]
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Salamander Resort Gets Five-Star Rating: An Interview with Sheila Johnson | The Network Journal
Sergie Willoughby, The Network Journal Sheila Johnson, owner, Salamander Resort & Spa, Featured Image [dropcap]Ever[/dropcap] think of opening a world-class luxury resort & spa over 340 gorgeous acres of land in an idyllic setting? Entrepreneur Sheila Johnson thought about it a decade ago after visiting a quaint area in Loudoun County, Virginia; and in 2013, […]
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Fast Food Mogul, Serial Entrepreneur La-Van Hawkins Dies at 61 | Black Enterprise
Samara Lynn, Black Enterprise Illustration by Neal Fox, Featured Image [dropcap]La-Van[/dropcap] Hawkins, a black entrepreneur in the food industry, just died at the age of 61, reports Crain’s. Hawkins was featured several times in BLACK ENTERPRISE magazine. In 1995, his business, La-Van Hawkins Inner City Foods, ranked No. 45 on the BE 100s listing of […]
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Black Love Experience Takes Over THEARC | AFRO
George Kevin Jordan, AFRO Staff Writer, AFRO [dropcap]The[/dropcap] line for the Black Love Experience event snaked back from the entrance and curved around a corner down Mississippi Avenue, S.E. Hundreds of people huddled the cool air waiting for their chance to get inside. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] You only have to step inside a few paces to […]
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Award-winning Filmmaker Tells the Stories of Black Businesses Through a Historic Lens | Black Enterprise
Radley Balko, Black Enterprise Boss: The Black Experience in Business , PBS (YouTube), Featured Image [dropcap]Oftentimes[/dropcap], when mainstream business success stories are told, the African American experience is overlooked despite the fact that black folks have been building businesses—as well institutions and communities—for decades in the face of racism, legal segregation, and systemic oppression. However, […]
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I Quit Google, Started a Company, and Sold It to Amazon. Ditching Silicon Valley for Atlanta Was Huge | Inc.com
In 2013, Jewel Burks Solomon launched Partpic, a startup that makes it easier to identify industrial parts. One day, Amazon called–with an acquisition offer.
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FUBU Is Back With A Relaunch Of The Iconic Fashion Brand | According 2 Hip Hop
A2HH, According 2 Hip Hop Jessica Griffin / Staff Photographer, Featured Image [dropcap]FUBU[/dropcap] is back with a streetwear capsule available exclusively at cENTURY 21. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] As the first product created under FUBU’s “Can’t Resist a Classic” campaign, the capsule references the brand’s ‘90s-era styles, offering 10 pieces based on the classics that helped to […]
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This North Philly bar near Temple hosted legends like Coltrane and Patti LaBelle, but its owner refuses to sell | The Inquirer, Philly.com
Brandon Harden, The Inquirer, Philly.com Jessica Griffin / Staff Photographer, Featured Image [dropcap]Jake[/dropcap] Adams remembers when a 15-year-old Jill Scott tried to sing in his North Philly jazz bar, ballroom, and restaurant, New Barber’s Hall. It was 1987, and the venue was riding high with intimate performances by such jazz and R&B stars as Dottie […]
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The Little-Known Tale of the Only African American Automaker | Car and Driver
Patterson-Greenfield only built cars from 1915–1918 but found time to innovate, even patenting a door design that presaged those on modern-day vans.
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