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Janice Bryant Howroyd (born September 1, 1952) is an entrepreneur, businesswoman, and author. She is founder and chief executive officer of The ActOne Group, [1] the largest privately held, minority-woman-owned personnel company founded in the U.S. [2] [3] Howroyd is the first African-American woman to build and own a billion dollar company.
— The National Negro Business League Historian Juliet Walker calls 1900–1930 the "Golden age of black business." According to the National Negro Business League, the number black-owned businesses doubled from 20,000 1900 and 40,000 in 1914. There were 450 undertakers in 1900 and, rising to 1000. Drugstores rose from 250 to 695. Local retail merchants – most of them quite small – jumped ...
First African-American woman appointed to a judgeship in California. Vaino Hassan Spencer (July 22, 1920 – October 25, 2016) was an American judge, the first African-American woman appointed to a judgeship in California. [1] She co-founded the Black Women Lawyers Association in 1975, [2] and the National Association of Women Judges in 1979.
Danny J. Bakewell Sr., photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on Nov. 8. It was the tail end of the Great Migration when Danny J. Bakewell Sr. left New Orleans for Los Angeles in 1967.
The expanded Child Tax Credit included in the American Rescue Plan was a game-changer for Black small business owners and their employees. Child poverty rates for Black children dropped by 17.1% ...
J.B. Stradford. Also known as John "The Baptist" Stradford was the son of the formerly enslaved J.C. Stradford and went on to graduate from Oberlin College in 1896 and Indiana Law School in 1899.
African American newspapers (also known as the Black press or Black newspapers) are news publications in the United States serving African American communities. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African American periodical, Freedom's Journal, in 1827. During the Antebellum South, other African American newspapers sprang ...
Los Feliz (/ l oʊ s f eɪ ˈ l iː s /, / l ɔː s ˈ f iː l ɪ z /; Spanish for "The Féliz (family)", Spanish pronunciation: [los feˈlis]) [2] [3] is a hillside neighborhood in the greater Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, [4] [5] abutting Hollywood and encompassing part of the Santa Monica Mountains.