Category : Community Forum

Black Businesses Supported During Pandemic Helped Wells Fargo Create Current $2.1B Economic Impact Nationwide

by Jeffrey McKinney July 24, 2024 The ripple effect occurred as businesses leveraged their funding to garner public and private investment. In a major new development...

Race, Gender And Politics: Is The United States Ready For A Black Woman President?

(MENAFN– The Conversation) Shirley Chisholm , a Democratic congresswoman, was the first African American woman to run for president of the United States. Sixty years later, Kamala Harris will become the first Black and South Asian American wo...

The dizzying array of firsts for Harris if she wins nomination or election

Kamala Harris, the country’s first female vice president, is no stranger to being the first in many rooms. Now that she’s the likely Democratic nominee in 2024, Harris has the chance to make history again. As a woman of color, and the daughter o...

Black voters feel excitement, hope and a lot of worry as Harris takes center stage in campaign

ATLANTA – Black voters, who helped power Joe Biden to the White House, expressed a mix of hope and worry Monday over his exit from the presidential race and the prospect of Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the Democratic nominee. A key Democrat...

Numbers game: Annual biz expo for Hispanic Chamber shows strength, depth of minority businesses in state

There are plenty of fun ways to describe Féria de Negocios, the annual business expo by the Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey that has long established itself as one of the most important — and certainly the most fes...

AEG Hosts Networking Night To Facilitate Procurement Opportunities For Los Angeles-Based BIPOC, Women And Minority-Owned Businesses

Date 7/22/2024 2:00:54 PM (MENAFN– 3BL) Underscoring its commitment to econ...

Banks shun black businesses

Durban — One of the biggest problems in our country is that traditional banks do not support black businesses was the utterance made by Durban’s business mogul, Vivian Reddy. Reddy, chairperson and founder of the Edison Power Group, spoke at the re...

47-year-old shot and killed at Burton party store

BURTON, Mich. (WJRT) – A 47-year-old man is dead after a shooting at a party store along the Burton-Flint city limits Friday. The shooting was reported shortly after noon at the 10 Eleven convenience store at 3280 Lippincott Blvd. Burton Polic...

Amex Black Card Benefits: The Ultimate in Luxury and Service

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Microsoft reportedly fires DEI team — becoming latest company to…

Microsoft has reportedly laid off a team devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion after pouring millions of dollars into the initiative — becoming the latest major company to ditch the “woke” policy. The Big Tech giant disbanded the DEI team at t...

Columbia’s first Black-owned beauty supply store opens doors to customers

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Opinion | With Vance, Trump has selected a standard-bearer of MAGA politics

Gunfire prompted the president to recommend turning down the rheostat on political rhetoric, a welcome thought from someone who in 2012 — before Donald Trump normalized enveloping grotesque lies in scabrous language — told an audience, including man...

I read the entire Project 2025. Here are the top 10 ways it would harm Black America

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. If you frequent Black Twitter, visited a barbershop recently or could hear the BET Awards over your uncle yelling: “If God...

Comcast NBCUniversal Is Launching A New Series Showcasing Black Entrepreneurs

Teamwork, collaboration and planning black women with documents, paperwork or design strategy in office. Business startup, gender equality and marketing ideas of diversity people in workspace meeting Black...

Government excludes, discriminates against Black-owned media despite federal advertising spending reaching $15B

A new report released this month has revealed that the federal government spent $14.9 billion on advertising contracts over the last 10 fiscal years to inform the public about various programs and services. However, despite the government’s mandat...