This year’s Memorial Day weekend will be extra special for residents of Tulsa, Okla. From May 28 to 30 at the Black Wall Street Legacy Festival, a series of community-led events will be held to commemorate the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. The festival will be centered in Tulsa’s historic Greenwood District —…
There was an interesting moment in sports this week, one you may have missed, and it involved the Atlanta Hawks, the organization that continues to put its money where its basketball is. The Hawks announced on Thursday they were refinancing a construction loan for the Emory Sports Medicine Complex utilizing a network of Black-owned banks.…
Being a Black entrepreneur is not celebrated enough. I am sure that we all believe that that is a factual statement. There is a stigma in the African American community at times that we must secure nine-to-five jobs and have incomes that can sustain for years to come and an employer driven retirement plan. This…
The hashtag #BlackOutDay2020 went viral staring in early May urging black people and their allies all over America to halt their spending for a day as an act of protest. Social media personality and activist Calvin Martyr has spent the last two months promoting the campaign after raising the idea in a video that has been shared…