Blu Jean Louis, the founder and CEO of Empire Tax Services, a Black-owned financial services company, is expanding her reach and impact with the opening of her company’s first physical office in downtown Kokomo, Indiana. Located at 106 W. Mulberry Street, this milestone marks the company’s evolution from a virtual business to a community-focused hub offering essential financial services and support. Despite this exciting new chapter, her company will continue to accept virtual clients nationwide, maintaining the accessibility and flexibility that have been key to its success.
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In its 50th Reunion Year—to many of its members, the memory seems impossible to believe that nearly one-half century has passed since last donning the halls of several of Broward’s 20 high schools.
The Levan Center of Innovation is a public-private partnership between Nova Southeastern University and Broward County and is known as the “The World’s First Theme Park for Entrepreneurs™”, an economic and education development engine linking the South Florida innovation ecosystem with local, regional, national, and international impact. The Levan Center of Innovation’s focus on creating professional networking opportunities and promoting innovation collaboration.
In 2020 alone, we lost 41% of Black businesses between the months of February-April. Many of our brick-and-mortar mainstays didn’t survive the economic shutdown, particularly those who weren’t sufficiently tech-enabled. Many of those mom-and-pop shops or small-to-medium size enterprises (SME) have been subsumed under the new everyday economy. The everyday economy is now almost entirely online, and the central reason we have to tech-enable every Black business at little to no cost.