Top Black News Stories November 27th to December 3rd, 2023

Top Stories Better than Economics… African American Business 33 Black-Owned Businesses To Shop This Holiday Season  (Real Simple) Black Americans need better immigration policy (Post and Courier) – By Andre Barnes who is the HBCU Engagement Director for NumbersUSA.   So this is an interesting read with lots of background.  NumbersUSA is a conservative organization that … Read more

Top Black News Stories — Nov. 20th to Nov. 26th, 2023

November 20th to November 26th Top Stories At Lululemon, Being Black Is ‘Off-Brand’ (Business of Fashion) – Yoga apparel brand Lululemon, despite creating a new department to improve internal diversity and inclusion is still showing discrimination towards black people. Fearless Foundation gets funding boost from national diversity group (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) – The National Minority … Read more

Black Business and Economic News Nov. 13-19th

Top Stories Pharrell Williams’ $1 Billion Plan For Black And Hispanic Entrepreneurs (Forbes)- Black Ambition which was founded in 2020 held its third annual Demo Day, which discusses lack of capital for startups among Black and Hispanic communities. Why ‘Buy Black’ for the holidays matters (Bay State Banner)- Spending money in our own black community … Read more

Black Economic and Business News Summary – 2nd week of November

Here are our best picks for the second week in September from the staff at BEBN. We really like our lead article ••• I took my daughter to Daymond John’s Black Entrepreneurs Day. Here’s what we learned. (Entrepreneur Magazine) — This year’s event was highlighted by insightful conversations with Black business icons including Cedric the … Read more

Great stories for September 2023

Top Stories Wanted: 20,000 Young Americans to Fight Climate Change (NY Times) — The White House plans to create an “American Climate Corps” that would train thousands of young people for green jobs. Diddy Accused By Diageo Of Working Against Other Black-Owned Businesses (Hot New Hip Hop) The number and share of SBA-backed 7(a) and … Read more

Top stories July 15th to July 22nd

Most Black adults in the U.S. are optimistic about their financial future (Pew Research) How Some MBEs Led Baltimore to Suspend a Prime Contractor (Engineering News) The new International African American Museum opens at a prominent site of the slave trade (WBUR) Historically Black Colleges and Universities Have Affirmative Action Solutions. But They Need Help … Read more

Black Economic and Business Stories for June 21st to July 18th 2021

  June 21st to July 18th 2021 Top Stories The pandemic saw a boom in new Black-owned businesses — the largest surge in the last quarter-century (Los Angeles Times) Pandemic Sees Largest Surge In Black-Owned Business In the Last 25 Years (Atlanta Black Star) Black Workers Stopped Making Progress on Pay. Is It Racism? (NY … Read more

Stories for June 7th to 20th, 2021

Top Stories Job creation is the key to reducing violence and providing critical social services (Philadelphia Tribune) “The economic state of Black America: What is and what could be” (McKinsey). Lots of great points in this study. Black people work disproportionally in low-wage occupations. Also closing the pay gap in 20 specific professions would drastically … Read more

Stories for April 26th to May 9th 2021

Top Stories Black Women Are More Likely to Start a Business than White Men (Harvard Business Review). A lot of statistics regarding type of business, funding, and education. Telecommuting allows Black women in Maryland to build wealth (Baltimore Sun). The pandemic has opened labor markets which allows Black women to secure better-paying jobs. Most expensive … Read more

Stories for May 24th to June 7th 2021

Top Stories When Tulsa’s Black Wall Street Went Up in Flames, So Did Potential Inheritance (Wall Street Journal) Racial discrimination has cost American economy trillions. Tulsa, massacres just a start. (USA Today) Wanted: Creative careers for Black and Brown New Yorkers (NY Daily News) Tech companies made big pledges to fight racism last year — … Read more