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According to the Selig Center for Economic Growth , the Black buying power was $1.4 trillion in 2019. However, that figure doesn’t translate into dollars that are put back or stay circulating continuously within Black communities versus others–causing a true generational economic crisis. But many are finding more ways to teach Black people financial literacy, investing, and for Tiffany James , her prized bull is the stock market and helping Black girls and women get their generational coins up. The global stock market is $85 trillion , which the United States market represents 40% of the overall figure. Unfortunately, the Federal Reserve reported that only 33.5% of Black households, hold any stocks versus white households which are at 61%. However, ModernBlkGirl was created to be a catalyst in shrinking the wealth gap by teaching stock market literacy–disproving that it was made for white men in wrinkly suits. James sat down with AfroTech to explain why now is the best time to learn...
For many making attempts to teach their older loved one’s anything technical, the response is typically rooted in the fact that it is too hard or can’t be figured out. But, Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient, Fareedah Shaheed is not taking that for an answer. Her response was to create, Sekuva –a tech company that facilitates helping parents keep their children safe navigating virtual spaces. According to USA Today , “The increase in reports tracks in the United States and abroad during the pandemic, experts said. Tips to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the clearinghouse for such information in the United States, nearly doubled from 6.3 million in the first half of 2019 to 12 million through June of this year. Reports of online enticement similarly spiked during that timeframe, from 6,863 to 13,268.” Shaheed created Sekuva with an understanding of the influx of cyber bullying having been a recipient of being bullied as a Black American girl growing up in Saudi...
Conversations surrounding the issues that impact Black people, globally, are often relegated to its “timeliness” in the media. Media only allows the stories of Blackness to be told in order for it to fit within a frame that is palatable to audiences while neglecting to push the envelope that is required to address racism and white supremacy and its wider affect on the world. Ashley Akunna’s, The Grapevine TV is a roundtable-style platform that brings together Black creatives, game-changers, and professionals to tackle the topics mainstream media is afraid of. The Grapevine is hosted on YouTube and presents its viewers with conversations that serve to address and assert the views of the wider spectrum of Black voices that exist. Past conversations have included panels on harm against Black trans women, cultural appropriation, hot topics in mainstream media that address Blackness, and leveled up discussions featured exclusively on their Patreon for paying members. The series has...
Entrepreneurship for Black, marginalized, people are often birthed from necessity and survival. Creating avenues of access for people who are often denied opportunities is a selfless act that is as a result of having been on the receiving end of closed minds, closed doors, and an extremely minuscule range of what it is to truly be “diverse” and “inclusive”. For the trans actress, activist, and entrepreneur Angelica Ross , TransTech Social became her passion project to “empower trans and gender non-conforming people through on-the-job training in leadership and workplace skills”. For many, the name of Angelica Ross would be synonymous with hit television shows such as POSE and American Horror Story, or her activism for trans and racial equality, however, Ross is also a self-taught tech expert. Ross’s TransTech Social is a platform centered around the upliftment for trans, queer, and gender non-conforming people with a grander purpose of providing tech education and employment–aiding...