2023

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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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Generational Wealth in the Black Culture: Past and Present

Generational wealth is a term used by many, but truly understanding its meaning and origin is another matter. Generational wealth refers to assets a family member passes onto their heir, most commonly allocated as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, and other investments. When many individuals think of generational wealth, as it pertains to the

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Commemorating Black Leaders in Entrepreneurial Development

As the rate of Black women pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors continues to rise, showing appreciation, respect, and love for the women who came before is just as vital. Out of respect for February’s Black History Month, a time dedicated to commemorating the efforts of our ancestors and the descendants to come, below are a few underrepresented

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A Passage

Its an evening Sunday skyDwelling on an empty presence of mankind The sorrows of a wind-driven tide are heard In screeches, it proclaimed its abandonment To whom shall carry the boatAnd to whom shall the boat carry Intertwined by the chains of rusting anchors Baracating the voices within a manic mind Paralyzed in its state–

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