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MILWAUKEE — Drive along Doctor M.L.K. Jr. Drive and you’ll find the first Black- and brown-owned plant shop in the city of Milwaukee. But as a centerpiece of Milwaukee’s historic Bronzeville neighborhood, Maranta Plant Shop serves a greater purpose beyond just plants. In the summer of 2021, the plant shop began hosting markets every Saturday for local businesses. Maranta manager Sinceree Dixon said this goes back to the business’ original goal: to support other Black-and-brown-owned businesses and creators. With music blasting and people dancing, Dixon said the markets were a way for them to build a sense of community and give…

Echoing well-trodden disinformation that has infected the U.S. presidential election, pop icon Janet Jackson said she has heard Vice President Kamala Harris is not Black.The remarks were published Saturday by The Guardian, granted access and interview time as Jackson promotes her latest tour’s European stops. Jackson is also promoting a residency that starts in December at Resorts World Las Vegas.Jackson’s representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday evening.Because Jackson sang of wanting to “break the color lines” on the 1989 single “Rhythm Nation,” the interviewer said she was inspired to ask for Jackson’s view of Harris…

Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority hosts 2nd annual Black Dollars Expo to support local businesses KSHB 41 Kansas City Source link

On a recent evening in Detroit’s Mexicantown neighborhood, notes from a guitar played by a busker on the sidewalk reverberated off the walls of the mural-covered buildings. The smells of Mexican street food filled the air, and Valeria Lopez was bent over a clipboard at a booth inside Taqueria Lupita’s Authentic Mexican Restaurant. Regulars just call it Lupita’s.Lopez runs the place now. She took over the business from her parents, who decided to retire when the pandemic hit. Her plan was to get a forgivable loan for small businesses from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to help pay…

This is the first story in Capital B’s “Disconnected: Rural Black America and the Digital Divide” project, which explores the disparate effects of broadband accessibility on Black Americans in the rural South. This project is made possible by a grant from The Center for Rural Strategies and Grist. Aaron Sankin, investigative reporter for The Markup, contributed to the reporting. PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — Military veteran Obbie Riley is “sad, angry, and all of the above” as he thinks about the high cost and lack of broadband access in his rural Mississippi hometown. He became a Neshoba County supervisor in 2008 in…

Owner Joyce Sanders Credit: Submitted photo Up from the ashes: clothing store opens storefront at MOA Local entrepreneur Joyce Sanders recently opened her Urban 29 clothing store at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN. She describes it as “a premium, luxury streetwear brand” that caters to men and women, ages 18-35 years old.  The U29 brand offers more than unique fashion. There’s also an inspiring backstory.  She shared, “I had a mentor [that] I had about maybe 10 years now. I used to do a lot of vendor shows; I used to do some Sister Spokesman stuff.”  The Sister…

(CBS DETROIT) – The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Detroit-based Rocket Mortgage, alleging that the company canceled a Black homeowner’s refinance application after she reported that her home was undervalued due to racial bias.The federal lawsuit was filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado against the company and two appraisers, Solidifi U.S. Inc. and Maverick Appraisal Group Inc., and Maverick’s CEO, Maksym Mykhailyna.The woman lives in Denver, Colorado, where the home was previously appraised at $860,000, according to the complaint. According to the lawsuit, the woman contacted Rocket Mortgage to refinance her home. The…

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