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In diverse metro Atlanta, why are less than a quarter of homes black-owned? | Curbed

June 12, 2019June 12, 2019African American Economics, African American History ...

Only six U.S. cities have lower percentages of black homeowners, analysis finds

Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations | The New Yorker

June 11, 2019June 11, 2019African American Economics, African American Wealth ...

By The New Yorker, The New Yorker YOUTH & FAMILIES DETERMINED TO SUCCEED. Featured Image [dropcap]It’s[/dropcap] not often that an article comes along that changes the world, but that’s exactly what happened with Ta-Nehisi Coates, five years ago, when he wrote “The Case for Reparations,” in The Atlantic. Reparations have been discussed since the end […]

HBCU Money’s 2019 African American Owned Bank Directory | HBCU Money

May 10, 2019May 10, 2019African American Economics, African American Wealth ...

Travis Loller, Associated Press, HBCU Money Dr. James Hildreth dissects a frog Friday, March 29, 2019, with seventh grader Keyshawn Walker at the Haynes Middle Health/Medical Science Design Center in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Travis Loller). Featured Image [dropcap]NASHVILLE[/dropcap], Tenn. (AP) — The number of African-American men entering medical school hasn’t budged since the late 1970s, […]

Business leaders seek to combat poverty through improving education, creating jobs | The Philadelphia Tribune

May 7, 2019May 7, 2019African American Economics, African American Wealth ...

Ayana Jones Tribune Staff Writer, The Philadelphia Tribune [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Chamber of Commerce for a Greater Philadelphia is advocating for an inclusive neighborhood growth agenda to help address the city’s stagnant poverty rate. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “The purpose of the PHL Neighborhood Growth Project is to focus on job creation across Philadelphia,” Yvette A. Núñez, vice president […]

The Ultimate List of Black Owned Farms & Food Gardens | Shoppe Black

April 18, 2019May 3, 2020African American Economics, KOLUMN ...

Phenomenal Black owned farms make up less than 2 percent of all farms in the United States. According to a recent report, Black farmers lost 80 percent of their farmland from 1910 to 2007, often because they lacked access to loans or insurance needed to sustain their businesses. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The report mentions the “long […]

Fast Food Mogul, Serial Entrepreneur La-Van Hawkins Dies at 61 | Black Enterprise

April 11, 2019April 11, 2019#BuyBlack, African American Economics ...

Samara Lynn, Black Enterprise Illustration by Neal Fox, Featured Image [dropcap]La-Van[/dropcap] Hawkins, a black entrepreneur in the food industry, just died at the age of 61, reports Crain’s. Hawkins was featured several times in BLACK ENTERPRISE magazine. In 1995, his business, La-Van Hawkins Inner City Foods, ranked No. 45 on the BE 100s listing of […]

‘Black Farmers’ gear up for legal fight after appeals court setback | New York Amsterdam News

April 3, 2019April 3, 2019African American Economics, KOLUMN ...

Dr. Sybil C. Mitchell, Special to the New Tri-State Defender, New York Amsterdam News Photo by Mark Seliger, Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] Black Farmers and Agriculturalists (BFAA) recently hit a snag when the U. S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, denied the group’s complaint against the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] […]

Kamala Harris’s First Campaign Policy: A Raise for Teachers | The New York Times

March 27, 2019March 27, 2019African American Economics, African American Politics ...

Astead W. Herndon, The New York Times Senator Kamala Harris in Houston on Saturday, where she unveiled early portions of her first policy rollout, a federal investment in teacher pay.CreditCreditLarry W Smith/EPA, via Shutterstock, Featured Image [dropcap]Senator[/dropcap] Kamala Harris of California announced a plan Tuesday to heavily invest federal money into teacher pay, the first […]

The Impact of Structural Racism in Employment and Wages on Minority Women’s Health | American Bar Association

March 12, 2019March 23, 2019African American Economics, African American Employment ...

Ruqaiijah Yearby, American Bar Association [dropcap]In[/dropcap] 2010, at the end of the great recession that disproportionately harmed racial minorities and women, the federal government recognized that health disparities are caused by the social determinants of health (SDOH) (Figure 1), which are outside an individual’s control. In fact, research shows that SDOH account for 80 to […]

I Quit Google, Started a Company, and Sold It to Amazon. Ditching Silicon Valley for Atlanta Was Huge | Inc.com

March 11, 2019March 23, 2019#BuyBlack, African American Economics ...

In 2013, Jewel Burks Solomon launched Partpic, a startup that makes it easier to identify industrial parts. One day, Amazon called–with an acquisition offer.