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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Black businesses are growing nationwide but are still underrepresented, according to a report from the Alliance for Entrepreneurial Equity.As ABC 10News marks Black History Month, our newsroom wants to highlight programs making a difference here in San Diego.10News anchor Wale Aliyu reported live from Daygo Performance, a Black-owned business in National City.DeAndre Steward, one of the co-owners of the gym, told 10News that one of the keys to success is having business literacy. “How hard is it being a business owner? How hard is it being a Black business owner, and how hard is it being…

through Stacy Jackson March 4, 2025 Kavia Simmons says thousands of dollars spent thousands of dollars in the Coffee Bar to open the main place, but it never happened. Kavia Simmons, I love my coffee black, had his heart on his online brand with a coffee bar in Englewood. But the plans fell into 38-year-old entrepreneurs who said that the retail grocery platform yellow bananas, which belongs to the Chicago Metropolitan. The deal between Simmons and the Yellow Banana followed the 2022 reconstruction agreement in Chicago, which appointed a retail operator based on Ohio on the south and western side…

The first trailer for Survival of the thickest Season 2 finds Michelle Buteau again in search of love and career opportunities, staying true to her positive self. Based on Butheau’s Book of Essays of the same name, the new season of the Netflix The Sitcom stars Buteau as Mavis Beaumont, a stylist who is trying to do it in New York City. According to the official description: Survival of the thickest centers of Mavis Beaumont (Michelle Buteau). Black, tailored more and looking for love, while he loves herself, Mavis works a lot to grow his brand and settle as a…

The business of the North American Toy Fair, an annual showcase of the latest in silly putty, monster trucks and board games, is fun. But this year at the convention center in New York City, tariffs were killing the vibe.In February, US President Donald Trump raised tariffs on products made in China by 10%. Then last week, with little warning, he announced an additional 10% border tax, which has now come into force on Tuesday, along with tariffs on Mexico and Canada.In the toy industry, which estimates that about 80% of toys sold in the US are made in China,…

Aaron Goodwin, from Eliot, is accused of race-motivated assault against a Black man outside of a diner in 2023. CONCORD, N.H. — A white former New Hampshire police officer has been accused of race-motivated assault against a Black bank executive outside of a diner on Thanksgiving Eve 2023, according to a civil rights complaint filed by the state attorney general’s office. Similar complaints also were filed against Aaron Goodwin’s brother and sister-in-law. The conduct by the Goodwin family “was motivated by race and/or national origin,” the attorney general’s office said in its filing Tuesday. To establish a violation of the…

Fox News contributor Charles Payne said on Tuesday that former New York City mayor and presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg was an “elitist” who harbored “a particular disdain for black people.”Payne, who hosts the program Making Money with Charles Payne on the Fox Business Network, made the remarks on Tuesday’s episode of Fox & Friends with co-hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Pete Hegseth. They discussed Bloomberg, the billionaire entrepreneur and erstwhile mayor, and how his past actions might affect his qualifications for president of the United States. In particular, Payne mentioned Bloomberg’s infamous “stop and frisk” policy, which some allege…

RFK Jr. had no good explanation during his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday for his past peddling of dangerous, anti-Black misinformation about how white people and Black people process vaccines.Senator Angela Alsobrooks, Maryland’s first Black senator, asked Kennedy about his previous comments, made in a 2021 interview. “You said the following, and I quote: ‘We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that’s given to whites because their immune system is better than ours.’ Can you please explain what you meant?”Kennedy immediately began to flail. “There’s a series of studies, most of them by Poland, that show that…

Born in 1880, Anderson Hunt Brown used his natural business genius to become one of the nation’s first Black property moguls—and he used his wealth to effect serious advances for civil rights. For Anderson Hunt (A.H.) Brown, frustration was a powerful factor that inspired much of his success.  The frustration and pain of losing three wives to childbirth in his segregated hometown of Charleston, West Virginia inspired him to fight for adequate medical care for Black citizens. That push led to the opening of the Community Hospital in 1924, the city’s first state-of-the-art hospital for Black residents. Brown’s frustration with…

Once one of the fiercest advocates, the mayor said on Tuesday she no longer considers the plaza’s name a priority. WASHINGTON — Black Lives Matter Plaza will change its name, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser confirmed in a statement Tuesday, marking a shift from the plaza’s biggest advocates amid pressure from a Republican in Congress.  The change comes as a Georgia Republican Andrew Clyde introduced a bill to the U.S. House that threatened to withhold federal funding to D.C. unless the District renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza to “Liberty Plaza.”  The mayor called the name change an “evolution” on Tuesday, acknowledging…

As the Charlotte region continues to grow as a major business hub in the South, Black entrepreneurs such as Herb Gray are a part of that progress. And he wants more people to join him.“I encourage them to try, whether it’s working somewhere and working on (your business) at night,” said Gray, owner of Life Enhancement Services, a mental health care company based in Charlotte. “For me, it’s been tremendously rewarding.”The Charlotte area ranks among the top cities for Black-owned businesses in the U.S., according to a new report and an analysis from LendingTree, an online, Charlotte-based lending marketplace. The…