In a recent study done by New York City’s comptroller, documenting the financial state of the City between the years of 2007 to 2012, the dismal state of Black business was noted. According to the study, in 2007-2012, the presence of Black Businesses in New York City declined by 31.4%, while Black businesses nationwide rose […]
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A black-woman owned construction company. Owned and created by Vernice Bradley. Tweet
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“I fact, a third of all free black people lived and worked in white households and those who did not labored to support themselves in a tightly restricted job market. Four out of ten black men were in the unskilled rank and their proportion in the skilled trades sharply declined during the first decade of […]
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According to a new biography on Marvin Gaye written by his wife Jan Gaye, Marvin Gaye was one of the original investors in Wally Amos’s “Wally’s Famous Amos Cookies.” Tweet
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