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Black Owned Cigar Businesses You Should Know
August 14, 2018
The cigar lifestyle is not only about what type of cigar you smoke it’s also about where you smoke them. Whether you like to…
Harris Family Brewery is the First Black Owned Brewery in Pennsylvania
August 10, 2018
Harris Family Brewery is believed to be Pennsylvania’s first Black owned brewery. The brewery started gaining attention this year after securing space for a brewpub…
Philadelphia Printworks: Activism Never Looked so Good
August 8, 2018
Philadelphia Printworks is a conscious clothing company that creates T-shirts, sweatshirts and other apparel with designs inspired by social issues and the legacies of…
Black-owned Nail Salons You Should Know
August 7, 2018
I was scrolling through our Instagram page @shoppeblack and saw a video of a Black woman being attacked at an Asian nail salon in…
Chicago Area Woman Opens Beauty Supply Store
August 5, 2018
Princess Dempsey knows that she’s a rarity — it’s nothing new. The Broadview businesswoman has for years owned one of the few minority- and…
Philadelphia’s BlackStar Film Festival: Where Black Film is High Art
August 4, 2018
For the past several years, some of my closest East Coast friends and I have made an annual trek. For me, it’s only required…