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12/07/2019

Although jobs serve an important purpose in our society, they are not a viable long-term solution to the problems faced by Black people in America. A job should be used to develop your work ethic, master your craft, and/or save money to start your own venture or invest in assets such as stocks, ETFs, and real estate. Unlike a business or an investment, a job can’t be inherited by future generations and, therefore, only serves a limited purpose. ⠀⠀
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12/01/2019

11/28/2019

11/28/2019

Segregated Interstate Transportation was Banned
On November 25, 1955, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), a federal agency that regulates railroads and other transporters of goods, banned racial segregation on interstate buses, train lines, and in waiting rooms. The ICC ruled that “the disadvantages to a traveler who is assigned accommodations or facilities so designated as to imply his inferiority solely because of his race must be regarded under present conditions as unreasonable.” The ban was consistent with a 1946 United States Supreme Court decision, Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia, which held that a state law requiring segregation on interstate buses traveling through the state was unconstitutional.

Despite the ruling, neither the Supreme Court decision nor the ICC ban covered intrastate travel, and thirteen states still required segregation on buses and railways that traveled exclusively within state borders. Some of these states ignored the new ban on segregated interstate travel and continued to enforce unconstitutional laws. According to a report issued by the Public Affairs Research Committee in December 1957, police in Flomaton, Alabama, had been called to arrest African Americans traveling in the white section of an interstate railroad line. The report additionally found that employees of rail and bus lines in Alabama “have flagrantly segregated colored travelers or called police to arrest those who would not easily be intimidated where their rights were involved.”

The ICC ban was not given force until November 1961, through an order by the ICC and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, largely spurred by the Freedom Rides movement launched that year by an in*******al group of college students.

11/23/2019

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11/21/2019

Congratulations to these young black men! .st 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

11/21/2019

THE APOLOGY "They beat me and I called you to save me, but you couldn't.. so I secretly resented you.They took our babies and sold them, I begged you to save us.. but you couldn't .. so I secretly blamed you.. They r***d me, and I cried out for you to protect me, but you couldn't.....So I stopped trusting you... You were supposed to be my man.. my provider.. my protector but when I needed you.. you couldn't be there... so I hated you...How could I let you tell me what to do.When massa could protect me more than you..How could I submit to you when you are forced to submit to massa? So to protect myself I submitted to the one who could protect me and our children. I stopped trusting you..I stopped loving you.. I stopped honoring you.. I stopped valuing you and in turn I became valueless to you. I didn't see the frustration in your eyes when our children were sold.. I didn't hear your silent cries when I was beaten. I didn't see your anger when I was being ravished. I didn't understand that you held your emotions to be strong for me. I thought you didn't care.. but you wanted to be there. You wanted to protect me, but massa made it so you couldn't so I would trust him more than you. I didn't see the hidden hands shaping our destiny.. all I saw was my pain.. and the feeling that you neglected me.. For all the times I blamed you, I'm sorry. For the resentment and distrust I've held against you for centuries, I'm sorry. For the times I've let you down. For all the times I've broken your spirit with my words and my actions. For the times I openly rejected you, and tried to control you, because I thought less of you.. I'm sorry.. Massa had a plan that he said would work for 400 years.. 400 years is over now. My eyes are wide open... I see the king in you... Please forgive my wrongs and see your queen in me."" -Aisha Williams . .

11/20/2019

Christon Jones () has been nominated as a Black Enterprise Teenpreneur of the Year. He has spoken to audiences on three continents and has an online mastermind course that (grown) people across the country are taking, to learn from him. Christon is a day trader on the U.S. Stock Market and the CEO of his own firm, Return On Investment, LLC. None of this is necessarily unheard of in world history at first glance but the Christon’s story takes an unusual twist, should you ask his age — he’s actually 12.�
Christon’s dad is in real estate and his mom is in the military. At the age of seven Christon heard about a Black boy in Chicago who made $50,000 after investing in the stock market. He asked his mother to show him how to invest in stocks — she didn’t take him too seriously. Christon began doing his own research, which convinced her that he was in fact sincere. Christon obviously has done well trading but his ambitions aren’t selfish. Jones is particularly focused on helping underprivileged youth learn how to invest and trade in the stock market, to create financial freedom for the future. To that end, he founded the Truth Playmaker Awards, which was held its first show this past summer, in Atlanta.

11/19/2019

These boys are living proof that you can do anything you put your mind to! A group of teenage boys have expanded their squeegee business to now include a bottled water company, reports The Baltimore Sun. Korner Boyz Enterprises is a business created by a group of Baltimore squeegee kids. The boys st...

11/17/2019

Janelle Ryan-Colbert, founder and CEO of the Colbert Law Center, is a fierce advocate for black fathers' rights and the stability of black families.