Black-Owned Businesses You Can Support in North Texas ARIA BELLย |ย JUNE 18, 2020ย |ย 4:00AM The COVID-19 pandemic has given the nation a chance to observe, reflect, mobilize and unite to end systemic racism. While there are many ways to get involved withย social reform organizationsย and toย plan and prepareย for protesting, one significant way to uplift black communities is by shopping locally at black-owned establishments. Weโve put together a list of black-owned businesses…
Now may not seem like the right time to invest in your personal brand, but it is actually the EXACT time to do so. If the marketplace was competitive before, it’s 10xs more so.ย With millions filing for unemployment, big businesses laying off and cutting back and no real end to the health crisis and economic unrest in sight. I’m a serial entrepreneur.ย I launched my first agency…
BY ALEX EDWARDS โข JUN 12, 2020 ย Earlier this year, Texas was ranked as the No. 2 state for Black entrepreneurs to build a business. While there are many factors that make the state, and Dallas-Fort Worth, a great place for founders of colorโcamaraderie, opportunity, economic incentivesโthereโs still a ways to go when it comes to inclusion. Those issues are evermore apparent in the current state of…
So you want to be an ally? Itโs ok to be new to it. You just gotta be true to it. How? The biggest hurdle youโll have is empathy. Itโs the thing that allows you to take a walk in someone elseโs shoes and causes you to look beyond yourself. Itโs the one thing that topples white fragility, which is one of the most substantial barriers to allyship.…
The year was 2013. I was minding my own business, rocking my 3-month-old to sleep after her midday bottle when my smartphone lit up. It was my first supervisor, a partner at a massive agency. He was embedded at a company that used to be a client, and that I had incredible respect for. Ultimately, he asked me to come work for that company. I wasnโt in the…
I usually begin my messages with storytelling, and while I could tell any number of stories of my experience with discrimination in Corporate America, I want to humanize this message by focusing the discussion on you–the leader who actually has some decision- making power to do something about the black employee experience in your workplace. I’ll start by asking this question: How will you move this important…