6 Aug,2020 | Black Enterprise Magazine, Business
The mayor of a small Virginia town is under fire after calling presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s potential running mate “Aunt Jemima” on Facebook. In a since-deleted post, Luray Mayor Barry Presgraves wrote on Sunday...
29 Jul,2020 | Black Enterprise Magazine, Business
Recovering from economic loss is hard for any small business. This week, a Black woman came to her store to find that all of her inventory had been stolen, equating to $70,000 in revenue loss, leaving her and her team in a perilous situation. Ghanaian-born Charity...
29 Jul,2020 | Black Enterprise Magazine, Business
It has been suspected throughout the course of the protests against racial injustice that there have been “other groups” who have been rioting. Now, according to police officials in Richmond, Virginia, recent riots were instigated by white supremacists who...
24 Jul,2020 | Black Enterprise Magazine, Business
Virginia’s largest school system is renaming the Robert E. Lee High School after the Hon. Congressman John Lewis, who died July 17 after decades of fighting for freedom. The Fairfax County School Board in Springfield, Virginia, voted Thursday to officially...
13 Jul,2020 | Black Enterprise Magazine, Business, Uncategorized
Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a lawyer, conservative activist, and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, emailed Mayor William Holloway of Clifton, Virginia, demanding the removal of a Black Lives Matter banner. The banner, which states...
