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Black Women Business Owners in Brooklyn Came Together to Make Some Black Girl Magic

Bed-Stuy business owners pledged to support one another as COVID ravaged their community and nearly forced them to close

By

Angela Johnson

Published

March 14, 2022
News, Race Matters

Black-Owned Business are Thriving More Than Ever Because of Black Women

Black women are creating more businesses than women in any other demographic

By

Noah A. McGee

Published

February 8, 2022
Culture, Race Matters

The Social Justice Movement Has Inspired Black Entrepreneurship to Rise

We are seeing a rise in Black ownership since the start of the coronavirus pandemic

By

Noah A. McGee

Published

December 8, 2021
Culture, Race Matters

Black People in Oklahoma and Beyond Still Feel the Effects of the Tulsa Race Massacre

100 years after the Greenwood area in Tulsa was destroyed by white attackers, the Black community has yet to fully recover.

By

Vanessa De Luca

Published

October 26, 2021
Culture, History

What We Lost In the Fire: Black Wall Street Before the Tulsa Race Massacre

By any measure, John W. Rogers is a success story. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago and started trading stocks when he was 12. He attended Princeton and played on an Ivy League champion basketball team while studying economics. In 1983, he raised $10,000 from friends and family and started Ariel Capital…

By

Michael Harriot

Published

May 26, 2021
Culture, History

Greenwood, Okla.: The Legacy of the Tulsa Race Riot

Editor’s note: Here’s the story of a sad chapter of American history, pulled from The Root’s archives. J.B. Stradford, the son of a freed Kentucky slave, rose to prominence in Oklahoma during the early 1900s as one of the key developers of the all-black Tulsa enclave Greenwood. A lawyer and businessman, Stradford owned the 65-room…

By

The Root Staff

Published

February 24, 2011