Elevating Boston’s Black Entrepreneurs

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The disruptions of the past year have cast a spotlight on the unique hurdles that Black business owners face, including lack of access to capital, financial education, and networking opportunities.

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NNPA NEWSWIRE — As the global coronavirus pandemic upends all aspects of our lives, U.S. Bank is uniting with other corporations and longstanding partner organizations that are representing members of underserved and minority communities to advocate for inclusion among Pan-Asians and other cultural

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Buying Black: Is it a trend or Something We are Committed to Doing?

This is a fantastic turn of events for black business

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Source: Chicago Defender

New leadership for Nubian Square

The organization, formerly Dudley Square Main Streets, coordinates efforts to improve Roxbury’s largest commercial district, now known as Nubian

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In Letter to Congress: Black Wealth 2020 Sends Plea for Unity in Pandemic Relief | Afro

Black-Owned Businesses Got Little Relief Under PPP

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As MLK asked in 1967, Where Do We Go from Here: Community or Chaos?

Over the years, this column has reported on racial disparities in homeownership, family wealth, the lack of access to affordable credit, and the pattern of alternative financial services preying upon communities of color by charging triple-digit interest rates on small-dollar

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Groups partner to reopen Black-owned businesses damaged during protests

The Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce has partnered with one of its members, First United Bank, to support Black entrepreneurs dealing with damage to their businesses that occurred during the protest on May

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

9 Black Owned Hotels To Visit When The Pandemic Is Over

When that time comes you can travel and support black businesses at the same

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Source: Black America Web

Joho boosts response as Covid-19 cases rise

When the first Covid-19 case was announced in the country, Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho was among the first leaders to set up an emergency response committee and isolation facilities to arrest the spread of the

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This 'Juneteenth Shop Black' Event Features Nearly 100 Black-Owned Brands

Event planner Cynthia Daniels’ Memphis, Tennessee-based business, like so many around the country, came to a screeching halt when the coronavirus pandemic

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Zimbabwe Forex Woes Set to Deepen, Researchers Warn

Zimbabwe's foreign currency shortages are set to worsen due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic that has reduced exports and slowed down remittances, a leading research firm has

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What informs your IT hardware buying decisions?

I have hardly ever seen any of the top business leaders or affluent people at any of these car releases – it’s always mostly the average person, who has a mortgage, overdraft, a maxed-out credit card and who is still paying for their

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Source: TechCentral

Africa: WE CANNOT REMAIN SILENT!

Dakar — Africans in Africa and Around the World in Solidarity With African-American Sisters And Brothers

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5 Major California Firms, Other Businesses, Invest Billions in Black Enterprises. Where Will The Money Go? – Observer News Group

Over the last month, several corporations have stepped up to fund the Black community. Two weeks ago, Netflix announced it will drop 2% of its cash holdings, up to $100 million, into Black-owned banks and other financial institutions and organizations that directly support African American

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Source: Observer News Group – Group Newspapers of Southern California

African-American businesses

African-American businesses, also known as black-owned businesses or black businesses, originated in the days of slavery before 1865. Emancipation and civil rights permitted businessmen to operate inside the American legal structure starting in the Reconstruction Era (1863–77) and afterwards. By

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Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Announces the Reimagining Atlanta City Detention Center Task Force recommendations

ATLANTA—The Reimagining Atlanta City Detention Center (ACDC) Task Force submitted to Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, its Final Report on recommendations to close and reimagine the use of the Atlanta City Detention

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Coronavirus, COVID-19 Tulsa, Oklahoma May 21 | The Oklahoma Eagle

Test results are updated daily For the most up-to-date news, information and business resources in Tulsa, the Civil Emergency in Tulsa, groups of 50 or less are allowed to gather and the City has begun issuing special events permits for events with less than 50

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Mayor Lightfoot and BACP Awards $5,000 Grants to Nearly 1,000 Chicago Microbusinesses Impacted by Covid-19

Launched on April 28, the Chicago Microbusiness Recovery Grant Program was designed for businesses that may not be able to obtain funding through federal and other financing

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Could the Juneteenth Shop Black Virtual Experience be the forerunner of Kwanzaa’s ‘ujamaa’? Absolutely!

We also want people to make a conscientious decision to buy black,” said Daniels, the creative force behind events such as Memphis Black Restaurant Week, the Soulful Food Truck Festival, and Black Christmas

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Devastating effects of Covid-19 on thousands Street Kids in Zimbabwe: Edith Chibhamu.

It has given rise to a myriad of challenges such as mental instability, hunger and gender based violence (GBV), street kids have not been spared by this deadly pandemic and are made to face the wrath of this global novel on their

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Mexico’s Leftist Leader Rejects Big Spending to Ease Virus’s Sting - The New York Beacon

By Azam Ahmed People were losing jobs by the tens of thousands, they warned. Small and medium-size companies, which employ more than 70 percent of the Mexican work force, were running out of cash. The government needed to intervene, they argued. The data was

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