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Success Comes from Affirming Your Potential | Harvard Business Review

November 20, 2019November 20, 2019African American Economics, African American Professionals ...

When you see how underrepresented African-Americans are in current leadership roles, it can be easy to get discouraged about their prospects for leadership advancement. Despite a rise in the number of black college and university graduates, just 8% of managers and under 4% of CEOs are black. In the Fortune 500 companies there are currently […]

Serena Williams Raises Awareness About Financial Abuse | Black Enterprise

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019African American Economics, African American Wealth

Serena Williams is always taking a positive stance when she is not playing tennis. According to CBS News, Williams is now the national ambassador for the Allstate Foundation Purple Purse program. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “A really close friend of mine was going through a situation that wasn’t really healthy for her, wasn’t healthy for her friends, […]

How America’s Ugly History of Segregation Changed the Meaning of the Word ‘Ghetto’ | TIME

September 25, 2019July 28, 2020African American Commuities, African American Wealth ...

By Daniel B. Schwartz, TIME Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime-ridden African American segregated areas—“inner cities,” in a common euphemism. This connotation is relatively recent; it has only become mainstream in the past 70 years or so. Beforehand, the term was primarily associated with Jewish urban quarters, and […]

Business leaders seek to combat poverty through improving education, creating jobs | The Philadelphia Tribune

May 7, 2019May 7, 2019African American Economics, African American Wealth ...

Ayana Jones Tribune Staff Writer, The Philadelphia Tribune [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Chamber of Commerce for a Greater Philadelphia is advocating for an inclusive neighborhood growth agenda to help address the city’s stagnant poverty rate. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “The purpose of the PHL Neighborhood Growth Project is to focus on job creation across Philadelphia,” Yvette A. Núñez, vice president […]

Study finds that landlords exploit the poor | Big Think

April 15, 2019April 15, 2019African American Commuities, African American Wealth ...

Landlords aren’t the ones getting rich off of renting properties; slumlords are.

(July 29, 1985) Poverty is complex; Poor share work ethic, U.S. dream | Los Angeles Times

December 5, 2018African American Commuities, African American Economics ...

“Every chance at a job turns out just to be a tease…”

READ: How America Criminalizes Impoverished People of Color | Colorlines

April 13, 2018African American Economics, African American Wealth ...

The New Republic breaks down how policy and practice punish the least resourced among us.

How it became a crime to be poor in America | The Guardian

November 7, 2017November 7, 2017African American Economics, African American Families ...

In the United States, a system of modern peonage – essentially, a government-run loan shark operation – has been going on for years

How do Americans view poverty? Many blue-collar whites, key to Trump, criticize poor people as lazy and content to stay on welfare | Los Angeles Times

August 22, 2017August 25, 2017African American Commuities, African American Economics ...

Most Americans do not believe that the government bears the main burden of taking care of the poor. Asked who has the “greatest responsibility for helping the poor,” just over one-third said that the government does. That figure has not budged in three decades.

How Do You Throw a Birthday Party When a Child Is Homeless?

November 22, 2016November 23, 2016African American Commuities, African American Wealth ...

Stephany Cruz’s son, Jeremiah, who just turned 8, was thrilled by the face painting, games and pizza at his recent birthday party. It was especially thrilling because Ms. Cruz and her son were homeless at the time and living at a Win homeless shelter in Manhattan.