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Breaking Barriers: Remarkable Women of Color Who Made History

Black History, Featured, Science and Technology / Abdelrahman Hussein

Women have achieved ground-breaking things throughout history in various disciplines, frequently in predominately male sectors. Women of color must overcome extra barriers and hurdles to conquer these challenges. This article will showcase some amazing women of color who have made history by being stand-outs in male-dominated sectors. Katherine Johnson Katherine Johnson was born in White […]

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Up-and-Coming Young Black Entrepreneurs: Eric Jackson

Around The City, Black History, Business, Featured / Shane Cameron

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

Around The City, Black History, Business, Featured / Shane Cameron

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

Around The City, Black History, Business / Shane Cameron

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

Black History, News & Politics /

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

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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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Black History Month at George Washington University

Around The City, Black History, Featured / Abdelrahman Hussein

February is a month of commemoration, acknowledgment, and reflection; it’s the month of honoring Black history. It is the cadence of celebration where glasses are raised to the symphony of freedom. This month of remembrance allows us to revisit the tales of our great ancestors’ struggle, passion, and fight that never ceases to inspire. It

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Recreating Black Wall Street

Black History, Business, Featured / Myles Walker

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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What Happened to Black Wall Street?

Black History, Business, Featured / Shane Cameron

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Behind the Scenes: Three Black Icons You Might Not Know

Black History, Business, Featured / Myles Walker

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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