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Utah’s small Black population grew at a faster clip than in most other U.S. states, according to new data released by the Pew Research Center.Still, the population here remains one of the smallest among the 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C.According to the U.S. Census Bureau figures crunched by Pew, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization, the Black population in Utah totaled 72,756 as of 2023, according to one-year American Community Survey estimates. That’s up 89% from the figure for 2010, 38,539, tops among places that had at least 25,000 Black residents as of 2010.Next, said Pew, came Arizona, Nevada and…

Nia-Tayler Clark’s Farmers Branch bookstore went from an eviction notice on the door to a thriving business. “I just couldn’t believe it,” Clark said. “People were calling me and asking me was the store open? I was telling them that it was, but that’s how I found out we had been locked out and there was an eviction notice on the door.” The former Dallas ISD high school teacher has made it her mission to show representation in literature and provide access to that representation. That mission started with her students when she was in the classroom. “I just wanted…

From the displacement of Native peoples to the enforcement of Jim Crow, the history of U.S. land policy and practice is a history of inequities. Gold rush-era Chinese workers and Blacks fleeing Southern racism were barred from California’s housing market and segregated to particular communities. After the Great Depression, the federal government backed mortgage lending as a route to homeownership and wealth accumulation, but redlined minority communities. White flight to suburbia left the urban core starved for investment and government services. Predatory lending and the 2010 foreclosure crisis further depressed rates of homeownership in the inner cities. Today, housing deeds…

As a Black man who grew up in Orange, N.J., in the 1980s and witnessed the effects of the war on drugs in my family and community, I never thought I’d be in the cannabis business. But then again, I never thought I’d be in the NBA either.I started in the cannabis industry more than 12 years ago, near the end of my 16 seasons in the NBA, with a mission to show others the healing power of the plant just as I had shown it to my grandma Viola, for whom I named my company. Although marijuana is now…

David Robinson hired a private investigator and has traversed the Arizona desert with volunteers in search of his 24-year-old son, Daniel, a geologist who went missing in late June.Rasheda Smith in Aurora, Colorado, said she didn’t hear from police for more than a week after she reported that her teen stepson, Xavion, had run away earlier this month.Robinson, Smith and relatives of Jelani “JJ” Day, an Illinois State University graduate student who has not been seen since August, all have something in common: They’re Black people who are exasperated after pleading with authorities to do more to find their loved…

APPLETON, Wis. — A pair of roller skates would probably not be the first thing you’d think of when advancing a lesson in American history. But that was Kempton Freeman’s first thought. He knew the important role roller skating played in Black history during the civil rights movement. So he took that idea and rolled with it. What You Need To Know Roller skating played a huge role in Black communities during the civil rights movement. Roller skating offered Black people an avenue to break free from the barriers of discrimination. In the 1950s, skating rinks were open to the Black community just…

US Vice president Kamala Harris has reportedly gained enough pledged delegate support for a likely Democratic nomination. In the event of a faceoff between Donald Trump and her, the vote of Black citizens will be important. Speaking on Monday (Jul. 22), this New Yorker is part of a group of voters known as never-trumpers. “I know there would be historical implications for having a black female president, the first female president, well, she wouldn’t be the first black president, but the first female president, there would be historical implications. But my strongest emotions for the election are just being anti-Donald…

Black employment on a worrying decline The Royal Gazette Source link

At the Ross School of Business, the Black Business Undergraduate Society offers programming and events to prepare students from minoritized identity groups for successful careers in business. BBUS is committed to facilitating the academic, professional, and social development of its members, and welcomes students in the Michigan Ross BBA Program as well as undergraduates from across the University of Michigan.Here’s what some current BBUS members have to say about their experience at Ross and favorite Black-owned businesses. Eve TaylorProgram/year: BBA ‘23Hometown: Chicago, IllinoisRole: Vice president of marketingPost-grad career interest: Real estate financeWhat are your favorite Black-owned businesses that you support and…

Stay informed. Sign up for Sahan Sunday, our weekly newsletter with Minnesota news you need to know. Black entrepreneurs in Minnesota face tough challenges and a lack of guidance as they try to break into the business world for themselves. That was the key takeaway from a community forum sponsored by Sahan Journal that drew more than two dozen people to the Capri Theater in Minneapolis last week. The panelists at “Meet the boss: Me. Black, African entrepreneurs talk about making it in Minnesota” discussed the business environment in the state while reflecting on their journeys as entrepreneurs of color.…