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Stepping Up: New Orleans Entrepreneur Turns Shopping Bots into Shoe Business Success
New Orleans, May 2025 – Darrick Jones, founder of DSneakerXpress, transformed a technical edge into a thriving online sneaker resale business—leveraging shopping bots not for profit, but to serve snea
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Empowering Homes & Equity: HOMIE Launches Solar Rollout in Florida
May 1, 2025 – Florida – HOMIE, a climate‑focused energy startup, has begun its national rollout by offering affordable solar and weatherization services to low- and middle-income homeowners in Florida
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Black Businesses Lean In Amid Declining External Investment As Investment Falls, Community Lifts Black-Owned Firms in Los Angeles
Across Los Angeles, Black-owned businesses are leaning on one another as external funding dries up. Spectrum News reports that in 2024, the Small Business Administration approved 5,054 loans to Black-
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Propelling Black Entrepreneurship: FACE Coalition Launches 2nd Round of Bursaries in Canada
MONTREAL, May 8, 2025 – The Federation of African Canadian Economics (FACE Coalition), with renewed investment from TD Bank Group, has introduced the second round of its Propelling Black Entrepreneurs
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Black women suffer steepest job losses even as U.S. labor market remains stable
In April 2025, Black women in the U.S. experienced by far the most acute decline in employment among any demographic group. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), employment amon