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Economic empowerment: How Troy Smith is providing millions of dollars in alternative financing for Black wealth ambitions

Troy Smith, the founder and CEO of G1 Commercial Mortgage believes that economic empowerment is the saving grace for African-Americans. He posits that to take control of wealth, Black people need to control the economic…

By Preta Peace Namasaba April 12, 2024
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‘I learned to make money while I slept’: Don Barden built a $500 million business starting with $500 in savings

Don Barden‘s rise to the top is a true grass-to-grace story. Beginning with a record label and newspaper, he developed the largest Black cable television operator. Barden was the first African-American to own a casino…

By Preta Peace Namasaba March 17, 2024
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This Black owned real estate firm is closing the wealth gap through a billion dollar home ownership strategy

While the top 10% of residents in America own 76% of the nation’s wealth, the bottom 50% own just 1%. African-Americans and other minorities have less than seven times the average wealth of their white…

By Preta Peace Namasaba March 13, 2024
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This father-son duo have closed over $2 billion in real estate transactions

National Standard Abstract, a Black family-owned real estate title insurance firm has emerged as a leader in the industry. Headed by founder and president Osei Rubie and his son and partner Nadir Rubie, the firm…

By Preta Peace Namasaba March 12, 2024

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A Black-owned stock exchange motivated by MLK’s dream: These genius investors are thinking outside the box

Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream Speech” was delivered at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was organized by Black union members as a call for workplace equality.…

By Preta Peace Namasaba March 11, 2024
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How two enterprising Black women are reviving Black businesses in Pittsburgh

Khamil Bailey, originally from East Orange, New Jersey, relocated to Pittsburgh in 2005 to pursue her education at the University of Pittsburgh, subsequently choosing to make the city her home. Over time, she became aware…

By Oji Ben Ebuka February 23, 2024
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Remembering Ernesta Procope, the first Black woman to own a business on Wall Street

The storied history of Wall Street begins from the 17th century with an actual wall. Wall Street was also the site of a slave market in pre-independence America and even some time afterwards. And when…

By Preta Peace Namasaba February 7, 2024
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How a lifelong dream became $500 million in sales for Kirk J. Lewis

Some enterprising African-Americans are at the forefront of the tier 1 automotive supplier industry but this fact does not often make the news. The $100 billion US car and auto manufacturing market that employs over…

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