Longtime Atlanta citizen and community activist Cecilia Houston-Torrence was honored by the Atlanta City Council on Monday, September 18, 2023. She was commended for her outstanding community service to Atlanta and to several non-profit organizations.
A little-known fact about Houston-Torrence is that, as pointed out by her close friend Susan “Sue” Ross, at a very young age, Houston-Torrence and her sisters integrated Christ the King Elementary School in Daphne, Alabama | Read more...
Actress and Entrepreneur Kim Fields will be the featured keynote speaker at the Atlanta Business League (ABL) 2023 Membership Campaign on Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Experience Membership and Embrace Success
Networking Opportunities
Professional Development
Advocacy and Support
Visibility and Recognition
Come and learn how you can join the Atlanta Business League (ABL) and tap into a supportive community that can offer guidance and | Read more...
TILA Studios is proud to announce the commencement of its 2023-2024 Garden Fellowship. An award-winning and nationally recognized fellowship program for Black women visual artists, the Garden Fellowship is a 15-month program that helps these artists take their careers to the next level.
In celebration of the start of the fellowship, TILA Studios is hosting a Juneteenth Block Party on June 17, 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM with Sweengreen, at its location in Atlanta’s Ponce City | Read more...
Ted Santos is a man very familiar with change, chaos, and instability. In fact, he resides in it. The entrepreneur, corporate advisor, and author was for years a world traveler who was more likely to be found trekking through a Central American jungle than sitting at an office desk. Today, as the CEO of Turnaround Investment Partners, he helps companies who find themselves at a standstill to become disruptors, creating problems so they can turn around and solve them.
“For | Read more...
Changed by the Pandemic and Feeling Economic Pressure, U.S. Hourly Wage Earners Are Reshaping the Workplace – on Their Own Terms
Responses from more than 29,000 U.S. hourly wage earners to Employbridge’s 2023 Voice of the American Workforce Survey portray a workforce pinched by economic pressures yet determined to advance and define their roles on their own terms.
While better pay has been a consistent desire among workers for more than a decade, this year respondents | Read more...
In celebration of National Financial Literacy Month, OneUnited Bank, the nation’s largest black-owned bank, is proud to announce its 13th Annual “I Got Bank!” National Financial Literacy Contest where ten children will win a length="480",000 savings account. To make financial literacy a core value of the Black community, the Bank is offering a free “I Got Bank” E-Book.
Students from across the country between the ages of 8 and 12 are encouraged to read a financial literacy book of | Read more...
Funding from National Telecommunications and Information Administration will allow MSM to examine relationship between digital health equity and increased access to technology
Atlanta, Georgia – March 22, 2023 – Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) has received a .2 million dollar grant to understand the impact increasing technological access and literacy will have on digital health equity. This project encompasses the work of Morehouse School of Medicine’s Office of | Read more...
By Milton Kirby
On Wednesday, February 15th, the C. T. Martin Recreation Center was the place to be. The Atlanta Department of Parks and Recreation hosted the community for an afternoon of food, fun, haircuts, manicures, facials, financial coaching and health resources.
The village of volunteers came together to provide the attendees a plethora of resources and services.
Madam CJ the Mobile Barber along with several other barbers, volunteered to participate as a way | Read more...
It is officially tax season, according to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) which declared that this year’s tax season started on Monday, January 23. It’s that special time of year when people collect their documents to either rush over to their tax preparer or enter in themselves so that they can receive those nice tax refund checks.
The IRS estimates that they will receive more than 168 million filers this year, most of who will be filing before the April 18 tax | Read more...
By Milton Kirby
Saint Philip A.M.E. Church along with several other churches partnered with DeKalb County Government to distribute 5,000 boxes of food in celebration of Black History Month. The food was distributed on a first come first serve basis to families that came from walking distance neighborhoods and cross county communities.
The families received a 10-pound bag of chicken hindquarters, a 20-pound box of food that contained fruits and vegetables, a dozen | Read more...
National - Project REAP (Real Estate Associate Program), the industry’s leading effort to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in the commercial real estate (CRE) industry for close to 25 years, is accepting applications for its Spring 2023 Academy now through Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at midnight EST. The REAP Academy is designed to further career advancement for diverse professionals seeking to enter the field of commercial real estate. Real estate experience is NOT | Read more...
Ten Atlanta area residents graduated from the Construction Ready Pre-Apprenticeship training class at Westside Works on Friday, December 9th. The graduates completed a 20-day construction education program and have been matched with construction jobs in the Atlanta area. Since 2014, more than 1,300 workers have completed the 20-day adult program providing participants with the training and credentials needed for entry level jobs in the construction industry.
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