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How ThePLUG Daily Founder Created A Must-Read Newsletter For POC In Tech | Jopwell
ThePLUG, the first daily tech newsletter covering founders and innovators of color.
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Reginald F. Lewis, Another Shining Chapter in Black Baltimore’s History | AFRO
Reginald F. Lewis has been an omnipresent and enigmatic figure on the Baltimore landscape for decades since his death in 1993.
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Man caught knitting on subway finds unexpected boost to business | Yahoo News
Sometimes all your small business needs is a little boost from a celebrity.
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Black Vegans Step Out, for Their Health and Other Causes | The New York Times
Aph Ko got tired of hearing that eating vegan was something only white people did. So in 2015, she created a list of 100 black vegans for a website. It included pioneering figures like Dick Gregory and Coretta Scott King and younger, less famous writers, filmmakers, cooks and activists.
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Black Business Matter: Historic Washington Neighborhood Anacostia Getting its First (Black) Bookstore in Two Decades | Atlanta Black Star
MahoganyBooks is challenging this historic neighborhood to write a new chapter in community education and service by setting up shop in the four-year-old Anacostia Arts Center at 1231 Good Hope Road.
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Mented Cosmetics Is The Black-Owned Brand Making Nude Lipstick Anything But Basic | Essence
Two Harvard Business School graduates talk about the realities of starting a cosmetics business created for and by Black women.
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The Culture Caught Up With Spike Lee — Now What? | The New York Times Magazine
After more than three decades as a provocateur, the filmmaker has returned to the movie that made him famous.
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Why This New Orleans Yoga Studio Plans to Expand into West Africa | Shoppe Black
Adrianne “Ajax” Jackson is the owner of the Only Black owned Yoga studio in New Orleans.
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Black Executives Join Forces, Forming a PAC to Back Them Up | The New York Times
Once an informal network, a group of friends and associates is organizing a united political push on issues like education, employment and voting rights.
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