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Fostering Community and Connectivity with Cricket Wireless

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Cricket Black History Now Fostering Community and Connectivity with Cricket Wireless It’s February, the annual 28-day, time-honored tradition where we *officially* engage in celebrating Black History, remembering the sacrifices, and reveling in the innovations from the past. But we high key celebrate Black History 365, knowing we are exploring, evolving, and elevating, right here, right now. As we look at…

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WORST DECISION I MOVED TO NIGERIA AFRICA, FROM AMERICA REGRETS AND TRIUMPHS EfikZara

WORST DECISION?? I MOVED TO NIGERIA AFRICA, FROM AMERICA: REGRETS AND TRIUMPHS | EfikZara

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WORST DECISION?? I MOVED TO NIGERIA AFRICA, FROM AMERICA: REGRETS AND TRIUMPHS | EfikZara Zara is back on CurlyNikki! She’s a fabulous naturalista who shares her natural hair journey with her followers. That includes more than 170K subscribers (aka ZeeStarz) on her EfikZara YouTube channel! A couple of weeks ago we shared Zara’s revelations on why she disappeared in Nigeria…

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8-Year-Old Barber Celebrates Passing Barber Training By Giving Free Haircuts to the Community

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via MadameNoire by Marsha B. Neijae Graham-Henries has a philanthropic spirit that is to be admired. This past summer, the 8-year-old Philadelphia resident attended the Junior Barber Academy lead by P. Michael Boone. Boone created a six-week program to give young men the tools they needed to become a barber. View this post on Instagram Starting from the crown. ?credit:…

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Black Women Lead The Boom in America’s Women-Owned Businesses

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Between 2007 and 2016, women entrepreneurship has grown dramatically with women-owned firms now numbering 11.3 million (11,313,900), employing 9 million (8,976,100) and generating more than $1.6 trillion ($1,622,763,800,000) in revenue. That’s according to the 2016 State of Women-Owned Business Report commissioned by American Express OPEN. The report also noted that it is minority women–namely Black women–who are spearheading this explosion…

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Meet The Founders of ScholarX, A Scholarship App For Nigerian Students

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Pictured Left to Right: Maxwell Ogufunyi, Abolade Lawal, and Abayomi Johnson Written by Mike Orie of TheConsciousTip.com These three African/African American entrepreneurs launched a scholarship app for Nigerian students. Continue Reading CurlyNikki.com recently interviewed a group of entrepreneurs from Nigeria about their start-up, ScholarX. ScholarX is an app designed to help Nigerian students both home and abroad access available scholarships…

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African American Entrepreneur Creates Ride Sharing App To Compete With Uber & Lyft

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Written by Mike Orie of TheConsciousTip.com An African-American entrepreneur is looking to give Uber & Lyft some competition with the development of his new ride-sharing app. Continue Reading Tanzanian-born Godwin Gabriel has created new ride sharing app, Moovn. Similar to other ride-sharing apps, Moovn works very similar, but aims to be both more affordable and notes safety as one of…

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