Tag Archives: economic empowerment
The Truth About Black Folks and Our Reputation in Business
Four reason some black businesses get a bad rap (and what entrepreneurs can do to fight it)
Four reasons some black businesses get a bad rap (and what entrepreneurs can do to…
By Felicia Joy
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
‘Tis the Season to ‘Buy Black’
The Anderson family shares tips on how to check "shop at Black-owned businesses"
Blackenterprise.com spoke with the Andersons, founders of EE, about the importance of supporting black-owned businesses,…
By Janel Martinez
How to Achieve Your Financial Freedom
Author and finance expert Ryan Mack gives tips on breaking free from financial burdens
In his new book, Living in the Village: Build Your Financial Future and Strengthen Your…
By Sheiresa Ngo
UBR Morning Post: Orchestra Founder Jeri Lynn Johnson
Bonus content on the entrepreneurs and strategies featured on The Urban Business Roundtable
This week on The Urban Business Roundtable, UBR Contributor Angelique Westerfield speaks with arts entrepreneur…
By Alfred Edmond, Jr.
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.
Are Black Folks ‘Scrubs?’
Although we've made great progress, we're still "sitting on the passenger side" of American wealth
I’m talking about the scrub described in TLC’s lyrics: “Sitting on the passenger side of…
By Eric D. Grant
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…
