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Until recently, many Americans had never heard of the Greenwood District of the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the largest, most prosperous Black communities in the United States that was destroyed in 1921 during what the Oklahoma Historical Society calls the “single worst incident of racial violence in American history.” Before 1921, most of Tulsa’s 10,000 African American residents lived in the vibrant district with flourishing Black-owned businesses, two newspapers, several churches, a hotel and library. Some referred to Greenwood as the Black Wall Street. Burned bricks on a storefront in the Greenwood district of Tulsa remain from the…

Bell, who worked in President Donald Trump’s administration and is Redemption Holding’s CEO, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that growing the number of Black banks in the U.S. is critical to providing equal access to financial services that allow for wealth generation.“This system has offered no grace and no mercy for Black people in our country,” Bell said. “We think that having a bank called Redemption, where grace and mercy will be bountiful for people who need it, is important.”Holladay will become the only Black-owned bank in the Mountain West region of the country, according to a Tuesday news release.Credit: contributedCredit:…

Black-owned banks have been in the news this year. It started when a rapper who goes by the name “Killer Mike” called on people to open accounts at a bank in Atlanta after police shootings of African-American men. There is only one black-owned bank in Texas, and it’s Unity National Bank in Houston’s Third Ward. CEO John Scroggins says the bank continues to see an uptick in new accounts after the summer, when many people wanted to make a statement in response to the deaths of African-Americans in interactions with police. Scroggins says there used to be many more black-owned…

This story, by Report for America corps member Carly Berlin, was produced through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public.After state leaders signed off on new restrictions to Vermont’s motel voucher program last year, over 1,500 people experiencing homelessness were pushed out of hotels and motels. The mass wave of evictions last fall left many Vermonters in precarious situations, some sleeping in tents — including families with young children — and prompted public outcry from service providers, municipal officials, and even some legislators who helped craft the law.Now that lawmakers have returned to Montpelier, they have their first chance to…

Lucretia Marchbanks: A Black Woman in the Black HillsTodd GuentherSouth Dakota History, volume 31 number 1, 2001South Dakota History is the quarterly journal published by the South Dakota State Historical Society. Membership in the South Dakota State Historical Society includes a subscription to the journal. Members support the Society’s important mission of interpreting, preserving and transmitting the unique heritage of South Dakota. Learn more here: https://history.sd.gov/Membership.aspx. Download PDFs of articles from the first 43 years and obtain recent issues of South Dakota History at sdhspress.com/journal.Early in the summer of 1876, a determined former Tennessee slave woman in her mid-forties took her place…

Yelp’s addition of a ‘Black-owned’ tag led to a slight drop in business ratings in Detroit Michigan Advance Source link

A man came to themeeting last spring with a warning.North Mississippi Avenue, the neighborhood’s main drag, might soon lose its last black-owned building. City leaders had fined the Masonic Lodge more than $40,000 in code violation fees. They had placed a lien on the property.The fines were racist, the man said, a targeted attempt to rid the hip neighborhood of one of its oldest community groups.African Americans once owned much of the property on and around North Mississippi Avenue. Each loss had its own complicated backstory. Each was a tale of fines or bad business decisions, of systemic or deliberate…

Kiara Ellis Credit: Courtesy of Nail Bar MN Nail art entrepreneur perseveres through adversity Local businesswoman Kiara Ellis launched Nail Bar MN a year ago. Unfortunately, since then her business has been forced to close numerous times due to a myriad of challenges. First, it was construction, then COVID-19, and then the tragic death of George Floyd. How has the shop been able to find success? “In this season, it’s resilience. We’ve had hurdles and changes,” said Ellis. Any client that enters Nail Bar MN will likely be enamored by the swanky, upscale salon, staffed by a team of creative…

Antoinette Candia-Bailey couldn’t wait to slap a Lincoln University bumper sticker on her mother’s car upon receiving her acceptance letter to the historically Black college. After graduating in the late 90s with a degree in sociology, she made regular trips back to the central Missouri school to celebrate homecoming with her sisters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Inc, the nation’s oldest Black sorority. When a position as vice-president of student affairs came available at Lincoln in spring 2023, Candia-Bailey – a polished administrator with a PhD in leadership studies, whom most knew as “Bonnie” – saw fit to continue her higher-ed…

When Kamala Harris was confirmed as the Democratic candidate for the United States presidential election in August, she had hoped to become the first woman, first Indian American and the second African American to make it to the White House. Harris was expected to reverse a troubling trend for Democrats and win back Black voters, who had been drifting away from the party. Since then, her campaign has targeted Black voters in battleground states, often with the support of the country’s first Black president, Barack Obama. Yet as results in Tuesday’s election trickled in, a stunning fact emerged: It is Trump,…