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What Is China Doing In Africa?v| Forbes

November 27, 2019November 27, 2019Africa

Chinese corporations are all over Africa. In June 2017 a McKinsey & Company report estimated that there are more than 10,000 Chinese-owned firms operating in Africa. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] What are Chinese corporations doing in Africa? That’s a highly controversial issue. The reason Chinese corporations are in Africa is simple; to exploit the people and take […]

‘Juju’: Three Black Women Learn They’re Descendants Of Yoruba Witches In New Fantasy Web Series | Shadow And Act

November 26, 2019African American Cinema, African American Film

When the witch-centric series Siempre Bruja premiered on Netflix in February, it garnered a large amount of criticism on Twitter for its premise: A time-traveling Afro-Colombian witch goes to the 21st-century at the behest of a wizard who promises to save the life of her lover–a white man who turns out to be her slaveholder’s […]

In the 2010s, White America Was Finally Shown Itself Ta-Nehisi Coates on “Obama’s decade,” reparations, and Kaepernick. | The Intelligencer

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019African American Activist, African American Author

If the racial politics of the 2010s has a definitive chronicler, it is Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose magisterial 2014 Atlantic essay “The Case for Reparations” forced Americans to reckon with slavery, Jim Crow, and redlining in ways that many of them never had. Since the essay’s publication — which eventually prompted a congressional hearing on the […]

How Sports Agent Nicole Lynn Is Making Major League Money Moves In A Male-Dominated Industry | xoNecole

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019African American Professionals, African American Sports

“The goal is not simply to be accepted. The goal will always be to break stereotypes and shift attitudes towards the presence of women in male-dominated spaces.”

Introducing a New Black-Owned Line of Ready-to-Bake Frozen Cookie Dough | Black Business.com

November 26, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

Megan Mottley, a mother, baker, and entrepreneur from Memphis, Tennessee, has recently debuted her line of Goodness Gracious Luxe Cookies frozen cookie dough at a grocery store in her hometown. The cookie dough, which is ready-to-bake, has no preservatives, and has the same taste as her delectable homemade, freshly-baked cookies! [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Mottley has always […]

Opinion: Trump didn’t transform the economy — it’s mostly the same as it was under Obama | MarketWatch

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019African American Economics

But the current president has used a lot of money from the Treasury as stimulus

No Shortage of Need | Baltimore Magazine

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019African American Economics

Homelessness, gross inequities in education, shortages of affordable housing, a lack of job training, few options for underprivileged inner-city youth, and a thriving and deadly drug trade. Are we picking on poor, old, bad-mouthed Baltimore again? Actually, we could be talking about the challenges facing any large American city—check out St. Louis, New Orleans, Detroit, […]

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