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When Chicagoans John and Maggie Anderson made a pledge to spend all of their income with black-owned businesses for an entire year, they launched a movement that would eventually become The Empowerment Experiment (www.eefortomorrow.com). The story of that year, 2009, has now been told in a new book by Maggie Anderson, Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest to Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided Economy (PublicAffairs; $25.99).
The traditional kickoff for the Women of Power Summit is our annual Legacy Awards Gala, a night of moving tributes to women who have left a mighty imprint on the world, sealing their places in history, and in our hearts. In response to several requests, I share my opening remarks from this year's Legacy Awards, paying tribute to our heroines and history makers.
Black history has never moved in silence; it’s marched, chanted, and sung through generations of resistance, pride, and unapologetic joy. Black power music serves as cultural documentation and motivational fuel,...
Camera flashes pop during a photo shoot in an intimate studio located in downtown New York City. Shane and Shawn Ward, the twin brothers who own Detny by SHANE&SHAWN, a...
As having an extensive shoe collection became part of her brand, her partnership with The Athlete’s Foot allowed to represent Black women’s empowerment in the entrepreneurial space.
