black money matters
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Black-Owned Bank OneUnited Offers the Blackest Royalty Bank Card Money Can Buy
Just when you thought it couldn’t get no blacker … BLAOW! Turns out that royalty is in more than our DNA; it’s in our ATMs, too. OneUnited, the nation’s largest black-owned bank, recently announced its latest Royalty campaign to celebrate the power of melanated money. An official OneUnited statement on the Queen card reads: [F]rom…
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#SafeWayOut: Serena Williams Wants to Raise Awareness About Financial Abuse
When we discuss the effects and types of domestic abuse, there is one component we often overlook: financial abuse. Financial abuse (or economic abuse) is defined by the U.S. Office on Women’s Health as “when an abuser has control over finances in a relationship and withholds money from the victim.” Now, as an ambassador for…
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'Black $$$ Matter': Protesters Gather Outside Brooklyn Nail Salon Following Fight Over Botched Eyebrow Wax
Dozens of protesters gathered outside of an East Flatbush nail salon in Brooklyn, N.Y., demanding that the business be closed after viral video spread of employees, who are Asian, attacking a black woman with the handle of a broomstick or a mop and even spraying what appears to be acetone nail polish remover The New…
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OneUnited Bank, Black Lives Matter Team Up to Organize Black America’s Spending Power
Elected officials, businesses and society in general can sometimes find it easy to overlook voices of protest that call for equality and justice. One thing that is seldom overlooked, however, is money, and black America has a lot of spending power to throw around—about $1.2 trillion. Now OneUnited Bank, the largest black-owned bank in America,…