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Lilly Gaddis, a self-proclaimed “trad wife” and TikToker, has thanked the “Black community” for launching her career in “Conservative media” after her video using the N-word went viral.After backlash spread online, Gaddis posted a non-apology video and doubled down on using the racial slur. Due to the controversial video, Gaddis lost her new job as a marketing and sales manager but still isn’t apologetic.The “trad wife” recently revealed that she’s always been a “super conservative” and claims she’s not afraid to say what people are scared to say.TikToker Lilly Gaddis Posted A Racist Video On TikTokTikTok | Lilly GaddisGaddis recently…

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A steady stream of media reports detailing the deaths of unarmed Black Americans at the hands of police. False 911 calls aimed at bringing harm to African Americans engaged in innocuous, everyday activities. Street protests calling for an end to discrimination and police brutality.  As racial tensions swirled this summer, so did calls on social media for those who support the social justice movement for African American civil rights to amplify Black voices and support Black businesses. One problem? A lag in Black entrepreneurship and corresponding deficit in Black businesses available to support — a result of hundreds of years…

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HADDON HEIGHTS, New Jersey (WPVI) — It’s the end of an era in South Jersey.Ken Jackson, owner of the beloved small-town family-owned dollar store Kenny’s World on the Black Horse Pike in Haddon Heights, has retired.UPDATE: Information earlier given to Action News indicated the store would close, but a new Facebook post on the store’s page Monday morning said it will remain open under new management.Jackson told Action News on Sunday, after 30 years in business, he will take countless memories with him.”Made a lot of great friends that I will have forever. Made a lot of great memories that…

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Against the backdrop of anti-racism protests last summer, racist violence was surging in Chinatowns and Asian American communities across the country.In July, an 89-year-old Chinese woman was set on fire while walking on the street after being slapped in the face in Brooklyn, New York. The two assailants, she said, didn’t say a word before attacking her. She scrambled to put out the fire, but it left a large burn mark on the back of her pink blouse — a grisly reminder of the attack.It was not an isolated incident. Between March 19 and December 31, 2020, there were more…

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — State travel and tourism data shows there are about 200 wineries in North Carolina. Fewer than 30 of them are Black-owned. And, the percentage of owners is even smaller when it comes to Black women. What You Need To Know There are about 200 wineries operating in North Carolina Camillya Masunda launched Ebony Wine & Spirits in September 2020 The wine is sold across the southeast and will launch soon in three more states   But just in time for Women’s History Month, Spectrum News 1 found one gutsy entrepreneur who’s hoping to inspire a reversal of…

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Black business ownership is surging in the US despite the coronavirus pandemic, research shows, with a rise in businesses owned by Black women.At the start of the pandemic, Black-owned businesses suffered. Between February and April 2020, Black business ownership dropped by more than 40%, the largest drop of any racial or ethnic group, according to a report from the House committee on small business.When government aid became available, Black business owners received fewer small business grants than white business owners, with paycheck protection program funds only reaching 29% of Black applicants versus 60% of white ones.But according to research from…

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Rather than using Black History Month to recognize the adversity faced by Black Americans and celebrate Black culture, Fox News, its website, its sister website Fox Business, and its online streaming platform Fox Nation have instead used the month of February to peddle problematic anti-Black narratives. Although Fox has aired a few Black history month segments — such as one on civil rights activist and  Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and one on the first Black woman to hold a pilot’s license, Bessie Coleman — more airtime was spent pushing racist rhetoric. Every day of February, Fox figures have spread…

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In the early 1970s, Portland’s urban development agency destroyed the homes of 171 families to make room for a hospital expansion that never happened.Half a century later, following months of racial justice protests and a week that saw the ”Red House” protests shine an intense spotlight on the issue of gentrification in the city’s historically Black Albina neighborhood, some descendants of the area’s displaced families are making a renewed push for reparations.Of the 171 households forced out by the city through eminent domain between 1971-1973 to pave the way for the expansion of Emanuel Hospital, nearly three quarters were Black.…

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