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Admin We are listening to the founder of “Slutty Vegan,” Pinky Cole, discuss the problems at her restaurants on Earn Your Leisure. Slutty Vegan Interview Op-Ed: We Can Start All The Financial Literacy Programs In The World, But Low-Income Individuals Need More Money Too (AfroTech) Charity Washing is a big problem. It hides real issues in … Read more
John McWhorter’s excellent piece on what we can learn from the Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture in the age of President Trump. McWhorter’s long story gives depth to Black history at the museum. Leaves out the Emmett Till room. Jackson Aimiuwu, Head of Solutions Architecture at Amazon Web Services, discusses Tech in … Read more
Summary Booker T Washington (BTW) was a speaker, writer, and educator in the early 20th century. He was widely considered the most prominent Black leader of his time. He met with presidents and industrialists. He believed in the uplift of Black people through self-improvement, education, and entrepreneurship. He built and led the Tuskegee Institute for … Read more
After 120 years, the biggest debate in Black Economics still rages on Introduction One of the longest-running debates in Black Economics is still active today: How should Black people navigate the economic system in the United States? What policies and strategies can best promote upward mobility and long-term stability for Black communities? How do we … Read more
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (he pronounced his last name as “Doo-boys”) was one of the greatest intellectuals of his time. He is known as an educator, pan-Africanist, editor, and early civil rights leader. He helped found the NAACP and edited its newspaper, the Crisis. He was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in … Read more
Newspapers Only 19% of students at Howard University are Black Men At Black Colleges, a Stubborn Gender Enrollment Gap Keeps Growing. Only 19 percent of students at Howard University are Black men, whose enrollment levels at four-year colleges have plummeted (NY Times). It may be worse, if you exclude foreign born Black men. New Books … Read more
Morehouse College graduate here and I’m heading back for my 40th reunion. I’ve been reflecting on the lessons that helped many of us who graduated in 1986 succeed. Only about 50% of each entering class finishes college within six years. Here’s what worked for us: What Morehouse could do better: I also remember students who … Read more
President Trump’s huge blunder on tariffs gives us an opportunity to discuss the larger economic issues involved. How do we create good paying jobs in the United States? Or even bigger, how do we offer opportunity to people? Last time we checked, Truck driving was the best job for Black people without a high school … Read more
With all the news about tariffs, we want to set the stage with some basic information about tariffs A tariff is a fee imposed on imported goods or services by a government. A tariffs can be a flat amount on each good or a percentage added to the total cost of an imported good. They … Read more
Since Kamala Harris’s narrow defeat in the presidential election, we have been looking at real measures of economic insecurity and prosperity. Voters consistently rank the economy as their top concern, yet traditional economic indicators often fail to capture the full picture. From time to time here at BlackEconomics.com and our sister blog BlackEconBiz.com, we regularly … Read more