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It’s a family business! Tony A. Reimonenq Jr., his wife and three sons are the owners of the real estate firm Reimonenq & Co LLC. Tony has over 20 years in the business, but his latest deal will be his biggest one yet! Three years ago, Tony came across a property he couldn’t pass up. After overcoming difficult negotiations and denied loan requests, he was finally able to close a seven-figure deal, making him the owner of a 20-unit strip mall in the Oak Grove community of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, which will be renamed Greenwood Plaza. With this purchase, they plan…

Chavion Yeager Credit: Submitted photo Local cleaning company breaks barriers  Local entrepreneur Chavion Yeager established Impact Cleaning Service, located in New Hope, MN, in 2017. She said, “I started off doing residential house cleaning—bi-weekly, monthly cleanings—and then we were doing multi-family housing as well.”  Yeager is originally from Minneapolis. “I lived over South for a while, and North as well,” she said. She also graduated from Irondale High School in New Brighton.  Yeager expanded her business by offering commercial cleaning but said the process wasn’t easy. “I had a hard time with basically retaining staff, and the biggest thing I felt,…

The popular bear was seen all over the Metro East. BELLEVILLE, Ill. — A black bear roaming around the Metro East was spotted in Mascoutah Saturday.  The bear, named “Dewey” by local Facebook accounts, was spotted in a tree in Columbia; roamed around Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville;  Fairview Heights; O’Fallon, Illinois; and Mascoutah.   Scott Air Force Base posted on social media that the bear was seen near Cardinal Creek Gate. The bear was next seen behind a Mascoutah retail business Saturday afternoon. Officials believe the bear came from Missouri since there are no recorded black bear…

The population in U.S. jails, like the Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail pictured above, has risen since the pandemic. Most jail inmates are either awaiting court action on a current charge or held in jail for other reasons. Reed Saxon/AP hide caption toggle caption Reed Saxon/AP The population in U.S. jails, like the Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail pictured above, has risen since the pandemic. Most jail inmates are either awaiting court action on a current charge or held in jail for other reasons. Reed Saxon/AP A report from the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals new…

A US federal court of appeals panel has suspended Fearless Fund, an Atlanta-based, Black woman-owned venture capitalist firm, from continuing the firm’s Fearless Strivers Grant Contest, a grant program for Black female business owners.In the 2-1 ruling, the panel of three judges, two appointed by Donald Trump and one appointed by Barack Obama, ruled that the grant program “is substantially likely to violate” section 1981 of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1866, which prohibits the use of race in making contracts. The act aimed to fully integrate formerly enslaved Black Americans as citizens, give them the full rights of…

Very few items remained on her desk, and except for a few photographs of her family on the wall, Sherry Black was ready to say goodbye to Western Nevada College after a distinguished career. A fixture on the Fallon campus since 1987, Black worked her way up from an office assistant, counselor, professor and eventually director until her recent retirement.Black, who received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nevada, Reno, in finance, witnessed both the good and bad times for WNC, yet she remains optimistic the local campus will continue to make its comeback after struggling during the Great…

In this article we are going to list the top 20 biggest black owned companies in the US. Click to skip ahead and jump to the top 10 biggest black owned companies in the US. Any time blacks in the United States throughout history have tried to establish themselves, they’ve been stopped by white supremacists. Even after slavery was abolished well over a century ago, black people were treated disdainfully and were considered to be inferior by white folk, who also held all the power. This is why racism wasn’t just institutionalized, it was a national past time and this…

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors’ opinions or evaluations. Richard Anderson, 43, experienced Covid-19 not only physically, but also economically. Anderson, a trombone player and owner of Kinfolk Brass Band and Music Group based in New Orleans, tested positive for Covid-19 early in the pandemic. It took him nearly a month before he recovered and had the wind to play his horn again. But that wasn’t the worst of his story. Kinfolk Brass Band is one of the most requested bands in New Orleans, performing at more than…

Black individuals, in the United States and in other countries, have long faced significant hurdles when it comes to investing—and to finance in general. These hurdles include lending discrimination in the U.S. and racism in the insurance industry, among others, which have held back people of color. The investors on this list have made extraordinary achievements within the investing industry and groundbreaking accomplishments. All are notable for their expertise and influence, both within the industry and in the outside world. Key Takeaways These investors have achieved remarkable success despite facing systemic barriers such as lending discrimination and racism in finance.Many of…

About 200 protesters came to Sugarman’s Corner, the local hotspot in downtown Klamath Falls, Oregon, last Sunday night to protest the killing of George Floyd.Like in many of the protests that have recently sprung up in cities across the United States, the group was made up of white, black and Latino people, members of the Native American Klamath Tribes and people in the LGBTQ communities: a diverse coalition in a county of 68,000 where 9 out of every 10 residents are white, according to Census estimates. They held signs, many of which have become common during recent protests: “Black Lives…