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Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Reparations Owed to HBCUs? Yes, But Don't Hold Your Breath
An excerpt from Black Enterprise -
A NEW BOOK MAKES THE ARGUMENT THAT HBCUS ARE OWED REPARATIONS
by Derek Major
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| Adam Harris' book The state must provide. (Image: Goodreads) |
While a student at Alabama A&M University, Adam Harris took a short drive to the University of Alabama-Huntsville and was shocked by the difference in the school and HBCUs.
Harris saw nothing but smooth roads, tree-lined streets, and new buildings. It looked nothing like the campus he called home.
“They had new and newly renovated buildings,” Harris told NBC News. “The library had longer operating hours and a more extensive collection. Potholes had been filled — if they’d ever been there. And very few of the students I saw that day were Black, which was interesting for a regional school because Huntsville is roughly 30% Black. But just 10% of UAH’s campus was Black.”
The visit made Harris wonder why the facilities at a white school founded in 1950 were better than an HBCU founded 75 years earlier?
Harris spent the next decade figuring out the answer to that question in his book “The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal—and How to Set Them Right.”
Harris, a reporter for The Atlantic, examined the history of how racial discrimination against HBCUs led to decades of underfunding and undermining that supplemented many of their struggles. Due to decades of bias and neglect by the federal government, Harris concluded that HBCUs are owed reparations.
Hospitals and Insurers Are Hiding Something
From the NY Times - (Make sure you're calm when you read this because it will likely cause your blood pressure to rise. - Faye)
Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why.
By Sarah Kliff and Josh Katz Produced by Rumsey Taylor
HBCU Young Entrepreneurs
An excerpt from Essence -
These HBCU Students Are Taking The Business World By Storm
THESE 4 ENTREPRENEURS ARE NOT ONLY YOUNG, SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS OWNERS, BUT THEY ARE USING THEIR PLATFORMS TO MAKE POSITIVE CHANGES WITHIN THEIR COMMUNITY.
Here are a few young entrepreneurs from HBCUs who are shattering glass ceilings, making an impact, and are well on their way to exceeding greatness. And you should definitely want to know about them.
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| COURTESY: BYKD |
Tahir Murray, Howard University C/O ‘21
LegacyHistoryPride, also known as LHP, is a collegiate lifestyle brand that designs and develops apparel inspired by HBCUs and Black culture. The CEO of the company, Tahir Murray, is a 22-year-old graduate of Howard University’s School of Business. LHP offers a variety of apparel options from varsity jackets, crewnecks, t-shirts and more. With every sale, a portion of the proceeds specifically benefits the College or University through their Licensing Agreements. Beyond that, LegacyHistoryPride partners directly with the students and alumni of these institutions to develop collaborations toward the growth of scholarship opportunities. LHP has been featured on some celebrities such as Chance the Rapper and Chris Paul.
See more at the link below.
https://www.essence.com/festival/2021-essence-festival-of-culture/women-in-the-sports-business/
Black Creatives Leaving America
An excerpt from NY Times Style Magazine -
The Black Artists Leaving America
Building on the legacy of luminaries such as James Baldwin and Josephine Baker, many Black creatives are seeking out new possibilities abroad.
By Emily Lordi Photographs by Manuel Obadia-Wills
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| The poet and rapper Mike Ladd, photographed at his studio in St. Denis, France, on July 1, 2021.Credit...Manuel Obadia-Wills |
“STEAL AWAY,” goes the traditional slave spiritual, a song that enshrouds a call to escape the plantation with an appeal to the afterlife; and Black Americans have responded to the original theft of the slave trade by stealing themselves back and away from the United States in myriad ways — to places beyond America, and to autonomous worlds within it that are defined by region and family rather than the nation-state. In the antebellum period, enslaved people who escaped joined Indigenous people to form secret maroon colonies in North and South America and the Caribbean, and white supremacist agencies found some free Blacks eager to join the cause to repatriate them to Africa. When Reconstruction policies aimed at social reform sparked violent backlashes and an increase in lynchings, thousands of Black Americans left for Liberia, a free nation with an elected Black government. Decades later, the Jamaican-born leader Marcus Garvey claimed to have inspired millions of adherents to his Universal Negro Improvement Association, a global benevolent association with its own dreams of African return. And throughout the 20th century, Black American artists and intellectuals including the sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois, the performers Paul Robeson and Nina Simone, the visual artists Augusta Savage and Romare Bearden and the writers Jessie Fauset, Richard Wright and James Baldwin traveled to Europe, the Caribbean and Africa seeking political alliances, creative opportunities and personal safety and sanity. Even when, in the 1960s, leaders like Malcolm X reconceived racial separatism in domestic rather than international terms — demanding that the U.S. government cede some states to Black citizens as reparations — activists like Amiri Baraka and Angela Davis sought refuge and revolutionary education in Fidel Castro’s Cuba, while writers like Julian Mayfield and Maya Angelou moved to newly independent Ghana. Many Black Americans have subsequently made new lives abroad for personal, creative and political reasons: the conceptual artist Adrian Piper in Berlin; the writer Andrea Lee in Torino, Italy; Tina Turner in Zurich; Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) in South Africa, among others. Earlier this year, Stevie Wonder announced his plans to move to Ghana, where the tourism ministry recently ramped up its decades-long outreach efforts to Black Americans by hosting a Year of Return in 2019.
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Who Needs a Hair Appointment?
From In the Know -
LINWOOD DARKIS WANTS TO CHANGE WHAT’S TAUGHT IN COSMETOLOGY SCHOOL
By Katie Mather
@getglamfam Reply to @user4221449952744 honestly, the beauty industry kinda benefits on that ignorance, in my opinion.
♬ original sound - LINWOOD
Fuddruckers Owned by HBCU Alum
An excerpt from Essence -
The Fuddruckers Franchise Is Now Owned By A Black HBCU Alum
THE ACQUISITION MAKES NICHOLAS PERKINS THE LARGEST FRANCHISE OWNER AND THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO HAVE TOTAL OWNERSHIP OF A NATIONAL BURGER BUSINESS.
BY CHANEL STEWART
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| COURTESY: NICHOLAS PERKINS |
If there’s anything that Black HBCU grads are going to do, it’s take over corporate America.
Nicholas Perkins acquired the Fuddruckers franchise for an estimated $18.5 million dollars, making him the largest franchise owner and the first African American to have total ownership of a national burger business. Perkins’ Black Titan Franchise Systems LLC reached a deal with Luby’s earlier this summer to take over ownership of the Fuddruckers brand from Luby’s, a Houston-based reported cafeteria chain that last year began liquidating its assets and dissolving the company.
“We’re excited to be purchasing Fuddruckers and look forward to working with Fuddruckers’ many dedicated, highly capable franchisees to further build this brand,” Perkins said. “As a Fuddruckers franchisee, I have a vested interest in ensuring that all Fuddruckers franchisees have the resources, infrastructure, and operational and marketing support they need to maximize their return on investment. This strategic alignment, when combined with the fact that we sell the ‘World’s Greatest Hamburgers’™, will ensure the long-term success of the brand and our franchisees.”
Multilingual Siblings
An excerpt from Black Enterprise -
MEET THE SIBLINGS WHO ARE TEACHING OTHER KIDS HOW TO SPEAK UP TO 8 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
by Black Enterprise
Cleveland, OH — Meet 4-year old Emilio, 6-year old Amora, 8-year old Rosie, 10-year old LaLa, 12-year old Anita, 16-year old Malachi, 18-year old Kimoni, 20-year old Mina, and baby Makalo. These young homeschoolers have created a YouTube channel called Multilingual Stars Academy that offers fun and exciting content to help children learn the basics of different languages.
He Gets My Support
An excerpt from the Washington Post -
An Alabama doctor watched patients reject the coronavirus vaccine. Now he’s refusing to treat them.
By Timothy Bella
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| Dr. Jason Valentine |
In Alabama, where the nation’s lowest vaccination rate has helped push the state closer to a record number of hospitalizations, a physician has sent a clear message to his patients: Don’t come in for medical treatment if you are unvaccinated.
Jason Valentine, a physician at Diagnostic and Medical Clinic Infirmary Health in Mobile, Ala., posted a photo on Facebook this week of him pointing to a sign taped to a door informing patients of his new policy coming Oct. 1.
“Dr. Valentine will no longer see patients that are not vaccinated against covid-19,” the sign reads.
Valentine wrote in the post, which has since been made private but was captured in online images, that there were “no conspiracy theories, no excuses” stopping anyone from being vaccinated, AL.com reported. The doctor, who said at least three unvaccinated patients have asked him where they could get a vaccine since he posted the photo, has remained resolute to those who have questioned his decision in recent days.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/08/18/alabama-doctor-unvaccinated-patients-valentine/
Black-Owned Food & Drink Brands
An excerpt from HuffPost -
17 Black-Owned Food And Drink Brands You Can Shop Online
August is National Black Business Month. Here are delicious ways to show your support.
By Shontel Horne
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| HuffPost |
More than 124,000 businesses identify as Black-owned, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Every day is a good day to support Black-owned businesses, but with National Black Business Month taking place in August, now is an especially great time to get familiar with and continue to support Black-owned brands — particularly in food and drink.
The 17 food and beverage brands below are sure to become staples in your kitchen for years to come. Add them to your shopping list and stock up on everything from olive oil to vegan cheese.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-owned-food-drink-businesses_l_610bead9e4b041dfbaa65821
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