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EAST ORANGE, NJ — A renaissance of Black-owned restaurants continues to blossom in East Orange.On Tuesday, the city welcomed yet another culinary success story to its borders, hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony for Gaby To Go at 305 Park Avenue. According to city officials, the Black-owned business has an inspiring origin:“Guerline Gabriel and her husband Pierre came to the U.S. in 2003 and settled in Essex County to raise their family of four children. Known for her love of cooking, Guerline chose East Orange to establish her business due to the Haitian population base and the opportunity to share the…

A medical professional administers a coronavirus test at a drive-thru testing site run by George Washington University Hospital, on May 26, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images A medical professional administers a coronavirus test at a drive-thru testing site run by George Washington University Hospital, on May 26, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Note: This page is not being updated. Find a more up-to-date version of this data here. In April, New Orleans health officials realized their drive-through testing strategy for the coronavirus wasn’t working. The reason? Census tract data…

A building that once was the heart of Charlotte’s Black business community has been reborn as the Brooklyn Collective, where small businesses, nonprofits and local artists come together to serve the community.Jason Wolf did not know about the rich history of the three buildings he purchased six years ago when he was looking to invest in a commercial building. Jason Wolf, owner of the Brooklyn Collective, at the Brush Strokes & High Notes event on Feb. 18 He loved the feel of old churches and heard about the last remaining buildings from the former Brooklyn neighborhood.Brooklyn was located in uptown’s…

The Ivy League is taking the A-train to Harlem after a court in 2010 upheld Columbia University’s plan to build a $6.3 billion satellite campus in the storied neighborhood. While many areas might welcome financial investment from an Ivy League outsider, Harlem residents fear it will irrevocably change the neighborhood’s special character, with gentrification squeezing out long-standing Black-owned businesses. While Black businesses contribute greatly to the economy, they face daunting barriers that directly hinder their upward mobility – not least gentrification. This burden adds an additional layer of stress that Black business owners need to navigate while going against larger…

The U.S. Custom House is on the National Register of Historic Places. So is the Sengstake Building.The Golden West Hotel, which stands directly across a street from each of those buildings (and is older than both), is not.One reason for this: The Golden West hid in plain sight for years.The Portland building, at Northwest Broadway and Everett, catered almost exclusively to Black guests in the early 1900s, a time when people of color weren’t welcome in much of the city. In a very real sense, it was an unseen place, one that most Portlanders — as well as the city’s…

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Business leaders and community members seek to revitalize what was once Baltimore’s thriving entertainment district.Walk through the doors of The Avenue Bakery, and you’ll find a gem that looks less like an actual bakery and more like a museum. The bakery is on Pennsylvania Avenue, Baltimore’s Black arts and entertainment district. The avenue is not the thriving area it once was decades ago, and several business owners and residents are trying to change that.James Hamlin told 11 News that owning The Avenue Bakery in the neighborhood where he grew up wasn’t a childhood dream of his. It’s simply a means…

Despite the population of people of color growing in Rhode Island over the last decade, those who go on to own their own businesses continues to lag the national average.Only about 7.4 percent of the state’s 21,000 businesses have BIPOC owners, which is less than half of the nation’s 18.3 percent average, according to a study commissioned by Rhode Island Commerce in 2022.Here are some BIPOC-owned businesses that you can support all year long.What are some BIPOC-owned restaurants, cafés, bars, and food trucks in Rhode Island?Four/29 Brunch and Supper Club is a food-service management and catering company with the mission…

Hundreds of businesses lined the streets of downtown Rock Hill by the 1950s. Sadly, a government program led the district’s removal in the ’70s. ROCK HILL, S.C. — Throughout February, WCNC Charlotte is celebrating Black History Month by highlighting historical people and places in Charlotte and the Carolinas.  A monument in downtown Rock Hill now sits where the city’s historic African-American business district was once located. It pays tribute to the district that served the city’s Black community until it was demolished in the early 1970s.  The district was established in 1908 and by the early 1950s, hundreds of business…

When Dr. H.M. Green opened his new medical office building on East Vine Avenue in 1922, Black residents of this city on the Tennessee River could be seen only in the basement of Knoxville General Hospital. They were barred from the city’s other three medical centers. Green, one of America’s leading Black physicians, spent his life working to end health inequities like this. He installed an X-ray machine, an operating room, and a private infirmary in his building to serve Black patients. On the first floor was a pharmacy. Today the Green Medical Arts Building has been replaced by a…