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In The Wake Of Layoffs, Black Women Are Reclaiming Their Identity Beyond Work

After being forced to start over more than once, they learned their worth isn’t defined by any organization. By Eman Bare There’s been an exodus of Black women leaving the workforce. Both a forced pivot and a deliberate redefinition. We’ve seen the headline time and time again – 300,000 Black women left their jobs in 2025. In […]

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Virginia Lottery Plans $43M In 2026 Spending With Minority Firms, Including Black Businesses

A focus on transparency and equitable community engagement will be among tools used to broaden activity and business relationships. by Jeffrey McKinney Several reports claims that state lotteries can have drawbacks for Black Americans. Research has shown that Black people spend much more on lottery tickets than other minority groups, including the total dollar amount and

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Miami’s biggest fundraiser: 14th Annual ‘Give Miami Day’ kicks off with early donations and a 5K run

WLRN Public Media | By Sergio R. Bustos The Miami Foundation is hosting its 14th annual “Give Miami Day” next Thursday to help more than 1,300 non-profit organizations in greater Miami continue their work in the community. Early giving began Saturday with a 5K race planned for Sunday. The 24-hour giving event, which has established itself as

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Next Fed interest-rate cut could slide into 2026

By Mary Helen Gillespie TheStreet Sticky inflation, murky economic data, and growing divisions inside the Federal Reserve could create an inflection point for monetary policy in just a few weeks. Markets were pricing in a near-certain December interest-rate cut not long ago. Even some Fed officials expected the central bank to deliver a third reduction in 2025.

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Pharrell leads Miami summit for Black, Hispanic entrepreneurs. It’s about access

By Michael Butler In 2021, Fort Lauderdale engineer D’Angelo Senat launched his business, AllPeeP, a social community platform. He raised $70,000 from friends and family over seven months before he hit a roadblock — he only had enough money left to run his venture for a month. The same month, he won a Black Ambition award.

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Miami millennials earned $3,000 less at age 27 than Gen X did, data shows. Why?

By Max Klaver How much you earn as an adult, at least in your 20s, depends somewhat on how much money your parents had when you were growing up. Regardless, across the board in Miami-Dade — whether they grew up in a high-, middle- or low-income household — most millennial earners make, on average, somewhere between

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