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Credit: Times Network For generations, Black communities have driven the U.S. economy with their purchasing power, yet far too often, that power has been taken for granted. On Friday, February 28, 2025, Black consumers and allies will take a stand by participating in National Blackout Day, a nationwide economic protest against corporations that have abandoned their commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). This isn’t just about boycotting—it’s about sending a clear message: the Black dollar is not to be ignored. Why the Blackout? National Blackout Day is a response to major corporations—including Amazon, Walmart, Target, and McDonald’s—that once pledged…

CNN  —  When two loud bangs rang out on the streets of Lafayette, Louisiana, no one knew where the gunshots came from as protesters gathered to demand justice for another Black man killed by police. Among the crowd was a group of armed Black men and women who call themselves the “Not F**king Around Coalition” or NFAC. The group did not run toward the gunshots or break formation. Instead, they kneeled on the ground amid the confusion, and then walked away after their leader shouted, “fall back! fall back!” The all-Black, Atlanta-based group has grown in size out of frustration…

LaTasha Crawford isn’t a doctor or scientist, but she is in the business of killing viruses.Crawford is the owner of Miscellaneous Staffing Services, which does janitorial and staffing work throughout the metro.”It is a pandemic, and so I think there is a huge demand to sanitize, to decontaminate areas,” she said. “Here we are available, you know, to provide people that’s going to help go in there and kill that virus.” Crawford started the company with her husband in 2017, and said, despite a few months when they had to close at the beginning of the pandemic, business more recently…

Keep up with LAist. If you’re enjoying this article, you’ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. In the 1940s, Nick Gabaldón, an athletic, handsome student at Santa Monica High School, would often escape class to Bay Street Beach, a half-mile stretch of shoreline roughly between Pico and Bicknell Streets, by the Casa Del Mar hotel. Derisively called “the Inkwell” by some white Angelenos, Bay Street Beach was a haven for people of color.Here, Gabaldón would bodysurf for hours, impressing two…

The owner of a semi-professional basketball team in Lewiston is creating Maine’s first Black Chamber of Commerce, with a focus on advocating and lobbying for Black business across the state. But the effort is facing criticism from another organization that supports Black-owned businesses in the state. Joshua Brister, the owner of the Lewiston-Auburn Maples basketball team, says that a roundtable earlier this year helped to spark the creation of the Black Chamber. The event featured Black business owners and Maine officials, and Brister said the conversation demonstrated the need for an organization that could provide ongoing support for Maine’s Black…

Former Vice President Joe Biden told a group of black mayors in Georgia during a 2019 meeting that an issue with education reform in their communities is that “parents can’t read or write themselves,” The New York Times reported on Thursday. The story, which detailed Biden’s precarious and unsteady positioning among South Carolina’s black voters after devastating losses in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, said that Biden’s literacy comment “shocked and frustrated many in the close-knit group.” According to data on adult literacy from the National Center for Education Statistics from 2014, white Americans made up 33% of…

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After graduation, Bergmann and Lentz worked as consulting geologists on different projects in Canada. After both worked on the same contract, they ended up leading a number of others together. While on these remote Canadian work trips, whether working out of tents or cheap motel rooms, they formed their business.”It was rocks all day and then forming a business around rocks all night,” Bergmann said. “We took a really long time to strategically plan how we were going to launch our company and our ideas … and how we could really get into the market as 24-year-olds.”In 2010, the two…

The Nettie Gregory Center was a hub for Black residents of Utah’s capital from the mid-1960s until the turn of the century.(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) A former Black, west-side community center is seen in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. It was founded in 1964 and is being considereed for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.A simple white building squeezed between a looming new apartment complex on one side and a towing company on the other could be Salt Lake City’s newest addition to the National Register of Historic Places.The unassuming structure at…

SAN ANTONIO – In honor of Black History month, Apartment list and Black@A-List partnered up to create a list of the best cities for Black Professionals and San Antonio came in at number three on the top 10 list.Four things were used to determine the list: Community and Representation, Economic Opportunity, Housing Opportunity, and Business Environment.Austin, Houston, and Dallas also made the top 10 list. It’s no surprise that Texas is one of the best states to live in, but San Antonio ranks higher in the list with a score of 66.08 because of its high ratings in economic opportunity,…