The head of this city’s largest organization for Black-owned businesses believes African-American owned companies are doing better than previously reported.
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Philadelphia-area African American Chamber of Commerce has a new leader, and they’re using Small Business Saturday to promote area companies and the value of chamber membership.
When Sue Ellen Zhang got the call that she was going to be featured in The Philadelphia Tribune’s list of Philadelphia’s Most Influential African Americans, she wasn’t sure if it was real or a prank.
After Ed Dwight’s journey to become the first African-American in space ended, Maj. Robert H. Lawrence Jr. was selected, on June 30, 1967, for the Department of Defense’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory program.
On the night of July 4th, New Orleans’ main thoroughfare, Poydras Street, was blocked with stand-still traffic for almost a mile, the sidewalks packed with people.
In the United States, the risk of pregnancy-related deaths for Black women is three to four times higher than that of white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Joining what seems like every black woman in America at Essence Fest, senator and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris unveiled a $100 billion plan to increase black homeownership…!
African Americans have long celebrated the legacies of leaders like Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., all formidable forces for change within the black community and beyond.