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     The new notebooks feature original artwork that includes positive depictions of children of color. With notebook names such as Brown Girl Genius Notebook and Brown Boy Brainy Notebook, the company is amplifying young voices of color and diversity by offering children’s books that are written and published by children.

It’s a good idea to conduct a financial health check-up to know where you currently stand. You can do this by reviewing your credit report to be on the lookout for any discrepancies, calculating your debt-to-income ratio, and assessing your emergency savings. It’s also important to determine if you need to obtain health insurance or plan for retirement. Depending on the results of your financial health check-up, you may need to consider more proactive strategies to help you gain financial stability.

On November 6-7, Kristi Jackson – White House-recognized innovator and founder of the Women CEO Project – will present the Global Power Tour to empower Black women business owners. The virtual conference will bring a power-packed lineup of nine renowned speakers to invest in Black women entrepreneurs with strategic and hands-on business development tools for success.

     The 1,000 Black Families movement aims to address those very same inequalities. Having struggled as a single mother in the projects in New Haven CT, Dr. Roberta is all too familiar with the barriers that limit Black economic progress. After spending years speaking, writing, and teaching others how to break what she has dubbed “The Poverty Curse”, she seeks to share lessons she has applied to her own success with Black families looking to increase their overall wealth. And in keeping with that critical mission, Hoskie’s daughter, Allia, a senior at Morgan State University, an HBCU, has worked as the Managing Director of the 1,000 Black Family Program and has been instrumental in the program’s development.

     Touted as the ‘Best Urban Foodie App’, Black Foodie Finder is an app database of Black-owned restaurants, food trucks, and other eateries all across the United States. The app features a list of Black-owned restaurants from over 6,000 locations that offer everything from soul food and barbecue to cultural cuisine, vegan dishes, and more.

     Meet Adrian Le’Roy Devezin, founder of Empowr News, a news app built by Black engineers for a Black-owned nonprofit featuring only Black news publishers.

     “Yet even today, with all those credentials and as one of the leading executives on Wall Street,” wrote McGuire, “I am still seen first as a six-foot-four, two-hundred-pound Black man wherever I go — even in my own neighborhood. I could have been George Floyd. And my wife and I are constantly aware that our children could have their innocence snatched away from them at any given moment, simply for the perceived threat of their skin color.”   

     Damian Mills, the 52-year old president and CEO of Mills Auto Group, now owns 14 car dealerships in four states – Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Earlier this year, he acquired his first ultra-luxury dealership, a Maserati franchise in Fort Mills, SC.

Perfectly Hued Expressions, a Black woman-owned business, is celebrating children with melanin-rich skin tones with a new line of greeting cards. Established in 2018 by entrepreneurs Kateena Thomas and Latisha Armstrong, their company set out to fix the glaring problem of a lack of diversity in the greeting card industry. Their solution was to introduce to the market high-quality, fun and stylish products that mirror the beautiful hues of diverse little ones. The unique greeting card brand and stationery line was created for, and inspired by, kids of color!

A new program has been launched that is targeting newly-coined African American “mobile-preneurs” who want to work from home or remotely in the lifestyle consulting industry. Amidst the aftermath of the global Coronavirus pandemic, millions of people are in a desperate search to make a living and thrive financially in a market and climate where jobs literally don’t exist anymore. Business owners and entrepreneurs alike have had to evolve and adapt and find new ways of generating income and maintain their current lifestyle or find a new lifestyle.