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(l-r) Frances Murphy Draper, publisher of Baltimore’s Afro- American newspaper, with Tracey Williams Dillard, publisher of the MSR, standing before a portrait of late MSR publisher Launa Newman Credit: Photo by Julie Gordon The MSR is one of six selected for this season Deluxe Company has announced the six businesses that will be featured in season six of its acclaimed television series “Small Business Revolution,” available at www.sbr.org, on Hulu and Prime Video. The businesses selected for this season are all Black-owned and based in Minneapolis and St. Paul. All will receive business advice and financial guidance plus marketing and…

Missouri has sued Starbucks for discrimination because its workforce has “become more female and less white”.Filed on Tuesday by the state’s Republican attorney general, the lawsuit accuses the coffee chain of engaging in “systemic racial, sexual, and sexual orientation discrimination” through its diversity, equity and inclusion policies, including hiring quotas, advancement opportunities and board membership.The lawsuit alleges that as of 23 August 2020 the company’s US employee breakdown was 69% women, and that by 24 September 2024 the figure was 70.9% women.It also says that in 2020 the firm’s US workforce was “47% Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (Bipoc)”,…

Minneapolis, Minnesota – When civil unrest shook Minneapolis, Minnesota in the United States earlier this year, many residents were horrified – but not all felt the effects directly. For those who were at home, working remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic, life largely hummed on. But for people who owned businesses along streets hit by looting, their entire lives were upended over a few days – and they are only now beginning to recover. “It’s like a Tale of Two Cities,” Dr Bruce Corrie, a professor of economics at St Paul’s Concordia University, told Al Jazeera. “There are the people…

A popular business in Arvada is moving locations but staying in town thanks to assistance from the Colorado city. Black & Read has been located on Wadsworth Boulevard for decades but it is now moving down the street to a larger space. Black & Read owner Kari Bakken, left, with Arvada Economic Development Association’s executive director Iza Petrykowska, right, inside Black & Read. CBS On Monday part of the store that sells vinyl records was being cleared out while the other half — which sells everything from books to board games — was still bustling and full of activity. Owner…

The average Black woman’s business earns just 11 percent of the revenue earned by white women-owned businesses. (WOCinTech Chat / Flickr) Black women are driving America’s entrepreneurship boom—starting six times more businesses than average and creating 1.4 million jobs, according to the Center for American Progress. Latina women are also making a significant contribution, with 944,000 firms and $65.5 billion in annual receipts. This increase in entrepreneurship indicates that women are seeking alternatives to the traditional workforce for establishing economic self-sufficiency, pursuing business ownership as a wealth-building tool instead. But even though Black women are starting businesses at a rapid…

This piece comes from Claytee White, the inaugural director of the Oral History Research Center for UNLV Libraries. She contributed to the Libraries’ digital collection, Documenting the African American Experience in Las Vegas. She also is one of five founders of the Las Vegas Black Historical Society Inc.  The Westside — our city’s historic African American community — spanned from Bonanza Road north to Owens Avenue and from A Street west to H Street. Within this small community was a business corridor referred to as Jackson Street (even though it is really named Jackson Avenue). Over the burgeoning period of 1940s…

It was places such as Fantastic Caverns that made every mile of Route 66 feel less like a fun adventure and more like a minefield. Also, since the route crossed two-thirds of the continent, motorists were bound to run into any kind of weather. Chicago has the most brutal, bitterly cold winters in the country, and in the fall, Oklahoma can be windier and colder than Chicago. Summer in Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas can be oppressively humid, and temperatures can reach over 100 degrees in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California’s Mojave Desert.Article continues after advertisement From Springfield, Missouri, it…

“When you go into the most marginalized parts of St. Louis and those places are thriving, then St. Louis is thriving,” Ashe said ST. LOUIS — Looking for a new coffee shop to study in?  What about a yoga class? Counselor? Barber?…A labor and postpartum doula? When Ohun Ashe launched her website, For the Culture STL, the goal was to showcase the wide range of diverse products and services local Black business owners have to offer.  “Black people in St. Louis have always been trendsetters,” Ashe said. “It’s in fashion. It’s in music. It’s everything we do. We are the…