05.15.2009 12:28 pm

Couple’s experiment: patronizing only black-owned businesses

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Four months ago, a Chicago couple launched a one-year “Empowerment Experiment” in which they would try to patronize only black-owned businesses.

Thanks to ToastedRavs for bringing an article by Errin Haines of the Associated Press to our attention, and to FTPD for…

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Tags: black entrepreneurship, Black-owned businesses, Booker T. Washington, Buy Black, Empowerment Experiment, Gregory Price, John Anderson, Maggie and John Anderson, Maggie Anderson, Marcus Garvey, Morehouse College

02.01.2009 5:26 am

Black America: State of the race

By Darryl Swint

By Kurt Greenbaum and Darryl Swint

Barack Obama’s election brought a question to the minds of some Americans: Is the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream fulfilled? Are we now blind to race? Some say yes, some say not yet.…

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Tags: African Americans, black, Black America, Black-owned businesses, Darryl Swint, education, health, health insurance, home ownership, income, jobs, marital status, marriage, population, post-racial society, poverty, racism, State of the Race

Couple’s experiment: patronizing only black-owned businesses

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