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Support trusted journalism in Connecticut. Join CT Mirror’s members today and make an impact. The great poet Maya Angelou once said, “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” When I was growing up, I had the opportunity to see many Black leaders throughout my community and the state of Connecticut. I cannot forget the impact they had on me while they made history throughout the state and in our cities and towns. These leaders were changing the dynamics of Connecticut and their impact has been…

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A well-known metro Atlanta pastor is calling for the Black community to boycott major retailer Target after it recently eliminated its diversity, equality and inclusion, or DEI, policy.On Sunday, Dr. Jamal Bryant, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, showed his support in joining other leaders and activists in boycotting the Minneapolis-based store, saying that they “spit in the face of Black people” by the decision.On Friday, Jan. 24, Target announced it would join rival company Walmart in cutting out its DEI policy in response to the White House’s push to remove the initiatives.RELATED:…

Iowa’s First Black Comic CompanyIowa just welcomed its first Black comic book company, according to the Des Moines Register. Basi Affia launched Sensi’il Studios in October 2022 as a labor of love. The overall goal for Affia is for Sensi’il Studios to be the central point for Black and minority comics in Iowa, noting that people of color have stories in the futuristic space that need to be told. “That’s why I chose sci-fi,” Affia said. “To show like, ‘Hey, minorities and Black people and members of the Pan African diaspora, we have a future. We will be here for…

ALEXANDRIA, VA – Juneteenth is upon us, making it the perfect time to highlight and celebrate  the accomplishments of small businesses locally run by African American entrepreneurs. This article lists 27 black-owned businesses that have sprouted and prospered in the Alexandria area. Food-Related Stops to Make The Cameron Café is a refreshing coffee shop which offers outdoor seating to enjoy their fabulous coffee, pastries, or anything else they have to offer. Located around Ben Brenman Park, and run by Dayan Worku, this black-owned coffee shop leaves it’s customers satisfied, happy, and content whenever they come in for food and drink!…

Guests socializing in the backyard of Rock Rest in Kittery. Photo courtesy of the Sinclair Family Collection, Milne Special Collections & Archives, UNH Diamond Library Every summer, tourists flocked to Rock Rest, a tidy house tucked away in the woods on the outskirts of Kittery. After sightseeing and days on the beach, they gathered on the lawn to socialize and play badminton. They ate three-course dinners of seafood, freshly grown produce and desserts baked by their host. In York, guests at the Jewell Inn slept in small cabins and were served meals in the lodge, where there was a jukebox…

“Voices of Tomorrow”: CEOs of Tomorrow to host exclusive look at its new office space in the Black Business Hub on Saturday Madison365 Source link

Do Black households face higher home energy bills than white households? That was the question a University of California-Berkeley researcher set out to answer. After looking at data from nearly a million households across the country, the answer she found was yes.Residential electricity, natural gas and other home-heating fuel expenditures were “statistically and economically significantly higher for Black households than for white households,” according to a working paper by Eva Lyubich, a PhD student in UC-Berkeley’s economics department and a researcher at the Energy Institute at the Haas School of Business.On average, Black renters spent $273 more per year for electricity,…

Black Diamond BBQ, a northern Vermont food favorite for more than a decade, has opened a brick-and-mortar location at the former Green Top Market at Morristown Corners.Since its humble beginnings in Jason Pacioni’s Elmore farmhouse kitchen, the catering company with a focus on smoke now offers two dozen seats as well as takeout meats, classic side dishes, inventive specials and a full bar.The renovated space has a large, semi-open kitchen, a handful of high and low tables, and a casual-chic barnwood and iron ambiance. Wendy Valliere of Seldom Scene Interiors in Stowe jumped at the chance to help make the…

KEMMERER—When Jamie Miller stepped away from her 15-year career in health care, she moved back to her hometown in southwest Wyoming for a slower pace of life where she and her daughter could set roots. “After the whole [pandemic] I decided I’m burned out already,” said Miller, 46, who’d traveled the country working in cardiac interventional medicine. “I want to do something different. I want to connect to my community because I feel like I haven’t been connecting with a community.” She’d always been a prolific seamstress, a skill she’d acquired as a youngster attending 4-H sewing classes in Kemmerer.…

Half a million dollars and nearly four years into his Los Angeles-based cannabis venture, Donnie Anderson had no shop, no prospects and a mountain of debt.With financial help from family and friends, Anderson rented a $6,000-a-month space in January 2018 for his new cannabis retail shop. He kept paying the rent as the city’s permitting process dragged on. He bought cabinets and other equipment as he waited. And waited.Sick of waiting, he’s selling all that equipment and giving up his lease. Inaction by the city is forcing him to give up his dream, he says.“It’s killing business owners,” Anderson says.…