Tag Archives: buying black
Is Morehouse College in Financial Trouble?
Enrollment has dropped while faculty and staff furloughed
Enrollment has dropped while faculty and staff furloughed
By Makkada B. Selah
Morris Brown Still Limping Along Financially
The embattled HBCU only has 50 registered students
The embattled HBCU only has 50 registered students
By Makkada B. Selah
“Our Black Year”
The story of one family’s mission to buy black
A little more than three years ago, John and Maggie Anderson decided to spend more…
By Alfred Edmond, Jr.
Buy Black
A circle of Atlanta professionals turns high-minded talk into community action
If there’s one thing Chandra R. Thomas knows for sure, it’s that you can support…
By Aisha I. Jefferson
POLL: How Often Do People Ask You For A Hookup?
Is the expectation that you'll offer your products or services for free a minor annoyance or a drag on your business?
TAKE OUR POLL: One of the challenges facing many black small business owners is the…
By Alfred Edmond, Jr.
Celebrating Black Business
Frederick E. Jordan and John William Templeton crusade to raise awareness with a month of recognition in August
Frederick E. Jordan didn’t have many financing options when he started his engineering and construction…
By Jason Evers Roberson
Andersons Complete Year of ‘Buying Black’
Empowerment Experiment family discusses challenges, triumphs
The Empowerment Experiment’s Anderson family discuss the successes that kept them empowered, the struggles that…
By Marcia Wade Talbert
Why I Hate The Hookup
Want to support black entrepreneurs? Stop hitting them up for freebies
One of the biggest drags on black economic empowerment is the “hookup”: black people expecting…
By Alfred Edmond, Jr.
I’m Not Rosa Parks. He’s Not Dr. King.
But they are The Empowerment Experiment
Dr. King tells me that even though he and Rosa Parks and all the other…
By Maggie Anderson
My Powerful Life As Mrs. Buy-Black America
Thanks to the Empowerment Experiment, we've met some extraordinary entrepreneurs
When we created The Empowerment Experiment, we knew things would be different. We knew…
