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TAMPA, Fla. — A Bay-area business owner says that when he set out to expand his company, he ended up with more than what he bargained for. Instead of getting a space for one business, Christopher Cunningham bought the whole block. It’s a trend he hopes will catch on, especially for minority-owned businesses. What You Need To Know Christopher Cunningham says that when he was looking for space for his water restoration business, he ended up buying the entire block on N. Nebraska Avenue Along with his business, he is now the owner of a True Value Store According to…

After weeks of catastrophic job loss across the country, May’s labor report held out a glimmer of hope: The nation’s overall unemployment rate ticked down to 13.3%, from 14.2% in April.But for black Americans it was more bad news: A staggering 16.8% of the African American labor force was out of work, up a notch from 16.7% in April.In California and nationwide, the coronavirus shutdown is widening the racial divide between haves and have-nots. And the pandemic-driven economic meltdown has helped to inflame the black community’s deep sense of injustice as uprisings over police brutality spread across the country this…

MONTCLAIR, NJ — Community activists continue their campaign to purchase a historic home in Montclair that once belonged to the first African American man to own property in the township.Friends of the Howe House recently held a benefit event to help raise funds to purchase the property at 369 Claremont Avenue known as the James Howe House. While successful, more money is needed, advocates said. A GoFundMe campaign seeks to raise $379,000 to aid in the preservation effort. Learn more or make a donation here.According to the fundraiser page: “If we don’t preserve African American history, it WILL be erased.…

At last week’s NBC town hall event, President Donald Trump leaned in to the camera to recite a statement that has become a fixture of his reelection campaign: “I have done more for the African American community than any president with the exception of Abraham Lincoln.”Over the past year, Trump has shouted this from the lectern at campaign rallies and from the balcony at the White House as a play to Black voters, a countermessage to his racist rhetoric. The phrase has morphed over time, starting in the fall of 2019 as something more restrained — “We’ve done more for…

When a video made headlines last month appearing to show an Asian store manager pinning down a black customer he had accused of shoplifting, Hyepin Im’s heart sank.“I said, ‘Oh s**t,’” Im, president and founder of Korean Churches for Community Development (KCCD), a national nonprofit, told NBC News.For some, that cellphone video from inside Missha Beauty in Charlotte, North Carolina, rekindled memories of the 1990s, a time of tense relations between Korean store owners and black customers in cities like New York and Los Angeles.“Here I am, really trying to help reshape the narrative that has been told and trying…

Diversity How nimble, mission-driven outlets and a citizen-focused initiative are telling stories about — and for — Black communities by Deborah Douglas Tiffany Walden (left) and Morgan Elise Johnson co-founded The TRiiBE to reshape the narrative being told about Chicago’s Black communities Chantal Redmond/The TRiiBE Source link

The Ohio University College of Fine Arts professional theater company, Tantrum Theater, produced a new work spotlighting one of many untold parts of Athens history, the Berry Hotel.  The play, “Hotel Berry,” was years in the making, said playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton, having been conceptualized in 2019. Lawton’s goal was to tell a story about Athens that wasn’t widely known, but that residents were proud of. The play was funded with the help of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts awarded to Tantrum Theater in 2021.  Actors, writers, producers and directors worked with the Mount Zion Baptist…

Chaotic and often violent protests against racial injustice have topped the headlines for days, but lost in the shouting are the voices of many Black Portland residents themselves — and their feelings about the unrest are nuanced and diverse. Some feel the overwhelmingly white crowds of protesters — and particularly those committing vandalism — are co-opting the Black Lives Matter movement. Others welcome white demonstrators because with their larger numbers they can draw attention to the city’s racial inequity in ways that Black demonstrators alone can’t. Some believe deeply that there can’t be a Black Lives Matter movement without defunding…

Empowering workers to become owners The Bay State Banner Source link

How Slavery Evolved in New EnglandIn the 17th century, the majority of enslaved people in colonial New England were Native Americans. This shifted in the 18th century as New England colonists gained access to international African slave markets and sought to violently purge Native people from their lands, according to Clark-Pujara and Newell. These enslaved people worked on small farms and some larger plantation-style ones, as well as in homes, shipyards and mines. White colonists in New England also heavily invested in the slave trade, buying shares in slave ships and boosting their economy with profits from human trafficking.Early statutes…