Meet five Black entrepreneurs who are showing commitment to their community by joining together to offer a $2,000 scholarship for two HBCU undergraduate students. In the progression of their own success stories, four businesses have teamed together to pay it forward to the next generation of Black leaders. CEO Wesley Jacques of BlueDrem Media & Marketing...
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THE CALL TO RESTORATION: THE STRUGGLE TO RECOVER By Demetrica L. Jefferis
THE CALL TO RESTORATION: THE STRUGGLE TO RECOVERBy Demetrica L. JefferisLast Summer, I accomplished a financial review and a debt management plan for one of my clients who’s a dearfriend of mine. Before we got started, I asked her how much money she was left with each month after payingher debts and expenses. “Zero”, she...
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Living with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) part one
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal disorder common among women of reproductive age. Women with PCOS may have infrequent or prolonged menstrual periods or excess male hormone (androgen) levels. The ovaries may develop numerous small collections of fluid (follicles) and fail to regularly release eggs. The exact cause of PCOS is unknown. Early...
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Intangible Love
Intangible Love Of Consciousness Do you know how to develop and understand the unity of the love within oneself? An important concern in this five sense independent communication is that the information is not a form of energy. It is a physical quantity called ‘entropy .Energy and entropy are two different physical quantities. The relationship between information and ‘negative entropy’ in living cells...
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Black Couple Start Home Recovery Business
Meet Bernard Jones and Georgia Giles-Jones, a couple from Minnesota that have officially launched CVH Recovery, an extension to their recovery home business, Central Village Housing LLC. CVH Recovery offers resources to entrepreneurs how to own, operate, and manage a successful recovery home in any state. Through their online course, entrepreneurs can learn and benefit from...
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NFL Player to Speak at Business Summit
The West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce (WDM Chamber) is set to host the first annual Black and Brown Business Summit (the Summit) presented by Principal Financial Group® on April 22 and 23. This two-day conference was created by the WDM Chamber’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (DEI Committee) with the goal of elevating ethnic minorities and...
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Black Owned Tech Co. Creates Police Brutality App
WestMason, a Black-owned design and development studio based in Orlando, has announced the launch of their first mobile app called MyOneOne, available on iOS and Android. The mobile experience offers a personal security network made up of your friends and family. MyOneOne provides minorities and underserved the power to protect themselves as well as their loved...
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Black Realtor Teaching Investors Alternative Solutions to Gentrification
Denver real estate broker Michelle Thomas remembers well her early days growing up in North Aurora, a rough part of the Denver, Colorado metro area, that includes East Colfax Avenue. Stretching 26.5 miles, it’s the longest commercial street in the United States, but it and the surrounding area is best-known by natives, for longstanding squalid...
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Your Crippled Mind Is Stealing Your Heart
Do you see the crutches that you have been using since emancipation? Do you see the coat of anger you have been wearing since reconstruction? Do you see the disease that you carry across the ocean since the trans-Atlantic journey? Many beliefs which collapse under scrutiny may nevertheless persist indefinitely when they are not scrutinized,...
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Black Mom Expands Line of Underwear for Kids of Color
Yolanda Perkins, founder and CEO of Undies by BlendiTone, a line of underwear for children of color, has overcome a lot of obstacles in her life. She has transformed herself from being incarcerated in prison to a successful entrepreneur who promotes representation for Black children. She also is an advocate for the restoration of former prison...