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After the Eviction Notice | The New York Times

December 30, 2019December 30, 2019African American Commuities, African American Families ...

In North Charleston, S.C., a struggling family pulls together for the bitter experience of moving out. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Shanatea Turner’s landlord filed eviction papers against her in mid-November. By early December, the pile of belongings she had no choice but to throw out was starting to grow on the curb. And the family she had […]

Being a protective black mom isn’t a parenting choice—it’s the only choice | Quartz

December 20, 2019December 20, 2019African American Commuities, African American Families

Salena Alston is an involved parent. The 40-year-old mother of seven describes herself as a “liberally strict” mom who keeps track of her kids’ friends and whereabouts but also encourages their independence and accountability. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Alston wouldn’t call herself a helicopter parent per se, but it’s a trope that she sometimes identifies with, simply […]

Meet the Black woman who has fed thousands for free on thanksgiving for almost 40 years | Yen

December 11, 2019December 12, 2019African American Commuities

Kind-hearted Janet Easley has been serving Thanksgiving dinner to thousands of needy people in central Indiana every holiday for the last 38 years. Indianapublicmedia.org writes that Janet Easley has welcomed everyone to the Turner Family Thanksgiving Meal, which will be held at three locations across Indianapolis in 2019. Easley has invited everybody including children and […]

Success Comes from Affirming Your Potential | Harvard Business Review

November 20, 2019November 20, 2019African American Economics, African American Professionals ...

When you see how underrepresented African-Americans are in current leadership roles, it can be easy to get discouraged about their prospects for leadership advancement. Despite a rise in the number of black college and university graduates, just 8% of managers and under 4% of CEOs are black. In the Fortune 500 companies there are currently […]

Serena Williams Raises Awareness About Financial Abuse | Black Enterprise

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019African American Economics, African American Wealth

Serena Williams is always taking a positive stance when she is not playing tennis. According to CBS News, Williams is now the national ambassador for the Allstate Foundation Purple Purse program. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “A really close friend of mine was going through a situation that wasn’t really healthy for her, wasn’t healthy for her friends, […]

Suicide attempts by Black teens have risen, and I’m not surprised | Mic

October 17, 2019March 30, 2020African American Commuities, African American Health ...

I remember the first time a friend of mine died by suicide. I was living in Washington, D.C. when I got the phone call from our mutual friend, Preston. The friend we’d just lost was a young Black man brimming with potential. He had a smile that lit up a room and an incomparable sense […]

Black U.S. Olympians Won In Nazi Germany Only To Be Overlooked At Home | NPR

October 16, 2019December 20, 2019African American Athletes, African American Sports ...

Eighty years ago this month, the United States competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games in Nazi Germany, with 18 African-American athletes part of the U.S. squad. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Track star Jesse Owens, one of the greatest Olympians of all time, won four gold medals. What the 17 other African-American Olympians did in Berlin, though, […]

How America’s Ugly History of Segregation Changed the Meaning of the Word ‘Ghetto’ | TIME

September 25, 2019July 28, 2020African American Commuities, African American Wealth ...

By Daniel B. Schwartz, TIME Today, for many Americans, the word “ghetto” conjures images of run-down and crime-ridden African American segregated areas—“inner cities,” in a common euphemism. This connotation is relatively recent; it has only become mainstream in the past 70 years or so. Beforehand, the term was primarily associated with Jewish urban quarters, and […]

EXCLUSIVE: How This Woman Became the Youngest Black McDonald’s Owner in the U.S. | Black Enterprise

September 25, 2019July 28, 2020KOLUMN Magazine

By Kemberley Washington, CPA,Black Enterprise Jade Colin made headlines earlier this month when The Black Professional broke the news that she held the title of the youngest black owner of a McDonald’s in company history. Colin acquired her franchise after working at her family’s McDonald’s straight out of college and then completing the restaurant chain’s […]

When a black-owned funeral home in a gentrifying city has no one left to bury | The Washington Post

September 24, 2019July 29, 2020African American Commuities, Gentrification ...

By Paul Schwartzman, The Washington Post The thick, dusty ledgers were scattered about the cluttered office, 18 of them, their pages filled with neat script documenting the deaths of thousands of black Washingtonians over the course of a half-century. Open a volume to Page 123 and there is Lawrence Monroe Ryles, 39, a “colored” […]