Author: admin

On the corner of Stevens and Sprague, something is cooking to a crisp. It could be either fried chicken or catfish, but it is certainly from Chicken-N-Mo, the Southern-style restaurant that’s fed Spokane and beyond since Robert Hemphill opened shop in 1992. After years of great eats, community service and three generations of family business, Hemphill and his wife, Teresa, are celebrating Chicken-N-Mo’s 30th anniversary, making them the oldest Black restaurant in downtown Spokane. “I think it’s the community support, and I think it’s our resiliency,” Teresa Hemphill said. “The fact that Bob has been able to make a connection…

Ocean Star Seafood Ocean Star Seafood Co. is planned for the former Black Bear Diner location, according to city permit applications. The city issued a sign permit for Ocean Star on Aug. 29 for 1420 Market Place Drive. Business Bites: Black Bear Diner closed; GRAE+CO opens; Mi Rancho downtown location off; retirement party for Mayor Bob Kelly; Ignite 2024; art reception The applicant is listed as Paradigm Restaurants, according to city staff. The company’s registered agent is Hongyan Cai who has opened Hokkaido restaurants nationwide, including the Great Falls location. We’ll post more information as we get it. Panda Express…

Mario Benjamin, Co-Owner, Hella Coastal: Some of the breweries that we have gone to, we realized that the beer is great, but, sometimes, the energy just didn’t feel as receptive.I mean, we were like the very few and far between, as far as who we see as — not only as a consumer, but as who’s going to be represented front of house, who’s serving. That’s what we have realized that there is a sense of community, but there needs to be some improvement. And we need to disrupt what was essentially who the beer drinker looks like. Source link

Twenty out of the top 20 business schools listed by “U.S. News and World Report” have an association or club for black business students. Research consistently shows diverse business teams perform better and achieve superior outcomes, so business schools across the country are not only working on strategies to recruit a diverse group of students but also to provide the resources needed to support them. The College of Business at the University of Nevada, Reno is no exception. In Fall 2018, the College started its first Black Business Student Association to connect black students, or students of African descent, with…

Long before Martin Luther King Jr. was born, Francis “Frank” Boyer had a dream.The African American Georgia native, born just six years after the end of the Civil War, envisioned a town run and populated by African Americans somewhere in the southeastern part of the territory known as New Mexico.The community, which would be named Blackdom, would give African Americans struggling under the Jim Crow laws of the South the chance not only to flee racial discrimination and violence but carve out careers as farmers, ranchers, businessmen and, eventually, oil men.Even more ambitiously, the town’s article of incorporation laid out…

Last week, IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft announced they would pause or end sales of their face recognition technology to police in the United States. The announcement caught many by surprise. For years, racial justice and civil rights advocates had been warning that this technology in law enforcement hands would be the end of privacy as we know it. It would supercharge police abuses, and it would be used to harm and target Black and Brown communities in particular. But the companies ignored these warnings and refused to get out of this surveillance business. It wasn’t until there was a national…

Image credit: nortonrsx on istock.com For over 20 years, I have explored how to change financial systems in the United States to promote greater equity and inclusion. This has led me to the conclusion that if we want to close the racial wealth gap, we need to get serious about public banking. Public banks, owned by state and local governments, are driven by a community-serving mission, Currently, financial systems favor White-owned firms and disfavor firms that are owned by people of color, limiting the wealth-building opportunities available to them. Public banking could help change these dynamics. Why a Banker Became a Public…

Following George Floyd’s death in May, Portland was one of many cities across the US to react with massive racial-justice protests.  More than two months later, the Portland protests rage on, even as they have diminished in size in most other places. For many, this is unsurprising since the Oregon city is seen as a stereotypical coastal liberal enclave. But in reality, Portland has been called the “whitest city in America,” and the state of Oregon has a troubled history of excluding Black people. Oregon once banned Black people from its borders During the pioneer era in the 19th century,…

Massachusetts hospitals are back in the black so far this year The Business Journals Source link

Editor’s note: In an effort to shine a light on a community once pressed into the shadows, The Leaf-Chronicle showcased local trailblazers, intellectuals, activists and heroes every day in February during Black History Month. These Clarksville legends helped tear down racial barriers during some of the most turbulent times in American history.Take a look at the list here.Yet, this list was incomplete. Few of the people honored were women. It’s true that decades ago, less women ran for political office, led congregations, graduated from medical school or served in active combat. But there would not be Black history, including a Black community…