Business

Up-and-Coming Young Black Entrepreneurs: Eric Jackson

There are over 31 million small businesses currently operating in the United States. However, only 2.3% of these businesses are Black-owned. In some areas, the percentage of businesses that are Black-owned goes up. For example, in the DC Metro Area, 7.7% of businesses are Black-owned. In the Fayetteville Metro Area, 11.2 % of businesses are …

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Up-and-Coming Black Entrepreneurs: Robert Rhodes

Small businesses are extremely important. They create jobs and provide goods and services to their communities. They are over 5 million employer firms in the United States. Yet, only about 134,567 of them are black-owned. This has widespread effects because business ownership is a very common and reliable source of family wealth. In 2019 The …

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Up-and-Coming Black Entrepreneurs: Endora Guillaume

Black-owned businesses are important. They create jobs and provide goods and services to their communities. But there aren’t enough of them. Fortunately, the number of black-owned businesses is growing. According to Robert Fairlie’s (a research associate at the University of California in Santa Cruz) analysis of census data, the number of Black small-business owners was …

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Recreating Black Wall Street

What must be done to recreate America’s Black Wall Streets? In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, several segregated African American neighborhoods took it upon themselves to establish their own versions of the centers for commerce, industry, and entrepreneurship that white Americans had locked them out of. Because New York’s Wall Street and other …

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Behind the Scenes: Three Black Icons You Might Not Know

If you were asked to provide a list of Black icons of civil rights, social justice, and activism, what figures would you name? It’s very likely that several mainstays of those categories would come up: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Angela Davis, etc. Maybe you’d stray slightly off the beaten path and …

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Roadblocks Women of Color Encounter in Entrepreneurship

As we all know or can assume, the entrepreneurial journey is an extremely challenging one. But for women of color, there are different sets of obstacles that can be even more daunting. Despite the fact that black women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S., they still face a number of unique hurdles …

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