Saturday, September 15, 2018

35 Black Owned Nail Salons

A Polished Work Nail Spa Lounge (Chicago, IL)

Beautiful Sisters Nail Spa (Chicago, IL)

Simply Panache Nail Bar and Pedi Spa(Hampton, VA)

Nails by Tiara (Atlanta, GA)

Poochiez Pawz Nail Studio (Atlanta, GA)

Divine Designz (Jacksonville, NC)

Alicia B Nail Bar (Columbia, SC)

Artisan Nail Studio (Charlotte, NC)

Studio 7 The Salon and Spa (Baltimore, MD)

Fyubi (Washington, DC)

Cre8tions Nail Spa (District Heights, MD)

Scrub Nail Boutique (Baltimore, MD)

Ms.Glitter Nail Lounge and Spa (Oakland, CA)

Powder Beauty Co (Los Angeles, CA)

Blessed By Beedy Nails (New Orleans, LA)

Cher-Mère (Ontario, Canada)

Nice Nails Baby (London, UK) ) is a nail salon that provides fabulous nails, 3D nail designs, great waxing, beautiful tinting, and stunning eye.

Shea’D Beauty (London, UK)

WAH Nails (London, UK)

Colour Riot Nails (London, UK)

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Black-Owned Firms That Help Other Black-Owned Businesses

According to federal statistics, there are more than 2 million Black-owned businesses in the country, but many are struggling to stay afloat. Many generate revenues of less than $100,000 a year, and have few employees. So what's the plan for 2016?

Here are 6 Black-owned marketing, public relations, and diversity recruitment companies that can help:

#1 - The Front Page Firm: This firm, launched by PR executive Tosha Whitten Griggs (best known for her work with BET), is a full service publicity boutique specializing in executive and talent visibility; television and film campaigns; red carpet premieres; and special events. They are known for being the go-to publicists for mainstream/urban media cross-over campaigns. Their clients include Bounce TV, the Queen Latifah Show, the Oprah Winfrey Network, and Spelman College.

#2 - Foote Communications: This firm, launched by marketing and PR veteran Neil Foote (best known for his work with the Tom Joyner Morning Show), combines traditional public relations and content management and social media for entertainers, entrepreneurs, corporations and educational institutions. His services include public relations, graphics & design, social media strategies, web site management, and more. Their clients include the Tom Joyner Morning Show, the African American Museum of Dallas, Rickey Smiley, and J. Anthony Brown.

#3 - BlackPR.com: This company, launched by marketing guru Dante Lee, offers an extensive press release distribution service to all the African American newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations. For just $150, they can help you get your story in some of the country's top Black publications, and they can even help you get radio and TV interviews. Their clients include the NAACP, the Tom Joyner Foundation, Tavis Smiley, Iyanla Vanzant, TV One, and BET.

#4 - HBCU Connect: Looking to hire African American college students and graduate? This company, launched by social media pioneer Will Moss, can help you do that for as little as $249. Their online career center offers various options including posting simple job listings to options for banner ad packages and employer showcase listings. Their clients include Microsoft, FedEx, United Negro College Fund, Merck, and many Historically Black Universities and Colleges (HBCUs).

#5 - PR, Etcetera: This company, launched by African American PR veteran Toni Beckham, offers several professional marketing communication services including branding, crisis communications, public relations, media training, and even technical writing/proofing. Their clients include the Bay Area Black Expo, Rainbow/PUSH Silicon Valley Project, the City of Oakland, and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women.

#6 - TaylorMade Media: This company, launched by PR expert, media coach and best-selling author Karen Taylor Bass, creates strategic public relations, branding, and marketing campaigns for corporations, luxury brands, celebrities, athletes, and entrepreneurs. Karen has been featured on Dr. Oz, CNN, BET, NBC Today, Fox-TV, and in Essence Magazine.

BONUS - FraserNet: Founded by entrepreneur/ visionary George C. Fraser, this global networking movement holds annual PowerNetworking conferences where thousands of Black professionals, business owners, and community leaders gather to learn the art and science of networking, entrepreneurship and wealth creation.

courtesy of blog.blackbusiness.org

Friday, June 15, 2018

Black Owned Banks & Credit Unions in the United States

CARVER BANK IS NOT BLACK OWNED - only Black Operated.. NOT Black Owned..

Invest in Black Banks to begin building an African American Empire.. Every other race keep their money within themselves.. They shop in their own stores and buy their own foods. We as African Americans are the only race that does not support each other..

Let us start and see the power and wealth that we can create amongst each other..Every week, African Americans spend over a billion dollars in non black communities and non black businesses. Let us support each other Today!

Broadway Federal Bank, Los Angeles, CA
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Citizens Bank, Nashville, TN
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Columbia Savings Bank, Milwaukee, WI
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Illinois Service Federal
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Liberty Bank, Kansas City, MO, Chicago IL,
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Tri-State Bank, Memphis, TN
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One United Bank, Los Angeles, CA, Main, Vermont, NC, Georgia
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Broadway Federal Bank, Los Angeles, CA
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City National Bank, Harlem & Brooklyn, New Jersey New York
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Urban Upbound Federal Credit Union, New York, NY
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Columbia Savings and Loan, Milwaukee, WI
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Mechanics and Farmers Bank, NC,
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Southern Teachers and Parents Credit Union, LA
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There are hundreds of black owned banks not listed here..

Click here for a Complete Lists of Black owned banks

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Beyoncé Gives $100,000 in Scholarships to Historically Black Colleges

Last year, Beyoncé launched the HOmecoming Scholars Award Program, awarding scholarship money to young women attending four specific universities. Now, it has been announced that the BeyGOOD Initiative is pivoting to something called the Homecoming Scholars Award, giving out $25,000 to one student from each of the following historically black colleges and universities: Xavier University, Wilberforce University, Tuskegee University and Bethune-Cookman University.

As Rolling Stone reports, all students in the eligible disciplines (literature, creative arts, African American studies, science, education, business, communications, social sciences, computer science and engineering) will be eligible, with finalists and winners to be determined by the universities.

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Monday, April 16, 2018

Rihanna Wore Giant Ugg Boots To Coachella - Do You LIke?

Coachella is just as much about the fashion as it is about the music, and no one brings the sartorial looks harder than the A-list celebs in attendance on the festival grounds. And one of those celebs to watch is Rihanna, and this year she debuted a memorable look. Rihanna wore thigh high Uggs to Coachella, and she's probably the only person on the planet who could pull them off so nonchalantly.

While most festival-goers opt for thong denim shorts, flower crowns, and head-to-toe crochet, Rihanna went the opposite route and made a sartorial statement by wearing head-to-toe Uggs. Unexpected? Yes. Unforgettable? You bet. While Uggs are known as the winter staple of just about every college girl alive, they also have a more sartorial side that doesn't make it into the public eye as often as their leggings-and-North-Face pairings. Case in point: RiRi wore the Y/Project x Ugg collab, which is probably one of their most avant garde collections yet.

Y/Project is a Parisian brand with a penchant for slouchy, unisex designs. Creativity is the driving force of the label, where they come up with tinfoil looking bubble coats matched with slouchy snakeskin thigh high boots, mitochondria shaped sweaters, and tulle scarves that make you look like you're wearing spun cotton candy around your neck.

The designer behind the brand, Glenn Martens, created an androgynous line of boots for Ugg this year in the hopes that it would push the iconic Australian brand's boundaries.

"The UGG Classic boot is one of the most recognizable shoes in history. It's timeless and challenging design made it a worldwide statement. Y/Project is about challenges. Since launch we've been twisting the grounded codes, we challenged the acceptable and triggered people by putting focus on the unexpected," Martens said in a release. And when there is something unexpected, Rihanna is just around the corner.

She debuted her Ugg-inspired Coachella outfit on Instagram, where she was wearing the designer for the entire look. The first thing that catches your eye is the sheer scarf-like dress that she has on, which made it down the runway during the Autumn/Winter 2018 Paris Fashion Week. What looks like an extra-long sheer scarf knotted and twisted into a flowing caftan, it's an experimental piece that she accessorized with a diamond choker and glittering hair clip.

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But the shoes are what stole the show. The particular style that she wore was the "Classic Extra Long Stiletto" in a chestnut color, which is a baggy thigh high boot with scrunched folds that create volume, along with a lethal four inch stiletto heel.

"Putting on Uggs is like putting your foot in a warm pot of butter, and I thought why not elevate that and immerse your full legs!” wrote Martens. “So we decided to design an Ugg boot that climbs up to the crotch and covers the whole leg.”

Does it vaguely remind you of a Shar-Pei dog? Yes, yes it does. Is it still stylish as all hell? Yes, yes it is. She was spotted wearing this outfit while front row at Beyoncé’s historic headlining performance, so you know she brought her sartorial A-game.

This isn't the first time that Rihanna stepped out in a Y/Project creation, either. A few months ago she stepped out in their ruffled denim wire boots, where they looked like Victorian pantaloons, just made out of jeans.

She also wore another denim number from the brand in March, but this time instead of shoes it was an oversized denim jacket with a duvet-like shawl wrapped around its shoulders. Suffice it to say she loves the out-of-the-box silhouettes the brand specializes in.

If you have a couple of Ugg boots in your collection, maybe its time to consider expanding your collection to the more high-heeled, slouchy territory of this new collab.

Friday, April 6, 2018

KENYA LAUNCHES FIRST SATELLITE

By MWENDE KASUJJA

University of Nairobi (UoN) and University of Rome on Monday launched a satellite into the International Space Station in Florida marking the first Kenyan space exploration. It is also a major win for UoN.

The Cube Satellite was developed by a team from the two universities with Foreign Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma celebrating Kenya’s involvement.

Juma termed the launch as a “milestone in Kenya’s exploration into space.”

The selected team from both institutions was first announced during the TICAD VI, as a beneficially of the first round of the KiboCUBE Programme.

KiboCUBE is an initiative that offers educational and research institutions from developing countries, the opportunity to deploy cube satellites (CubeSats) from the Japanese Kibo module of the International Space Station (ISS).

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The Kenyan Cube Satellite developed under the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which is Japan’s National Aero-space agency programme was delivered to JAXA on January 16, 2018 in preparation for its deployment into space.

A team from the University of Nairobi, handed over to JAXA the Satellite it had developed known as “First Kenya University Nano Satellite-Precursor Flight” (1KUNS-PF) at the JAXA Tsukuba Space Centre.

“Kenya is very proud to be associated and involved through TICAD VI in the development of the Satellite. we hope this is only a beginning of many collaborations and initiatives for Kenya under the KiboCUBE programme,” CS Monica Said.

The deployment of the satellite into space will take place in late May, 2018.

courtesy of Nairobinews.nation.co.ke

Kenya launches first satellite, to observe farming trends

Apr. 06, 2018, 6:00 pm

By STAR REPORTER, @thestarkenya

Kenya launches first space satellite to observe farming trends. COURTESY

Kenya has launched its first space satellite which will be used to observe farming trends.

It was launched from an International Space Station in Florida, the United States on April 2.

The satellite was developed by the University of Nairobi in collaboration with the University of Rome.

“This is a milestone in Kenya’s exploration into space,” Foreign Affairs CS Monica Juma said.

The selected team was first announced during the TICAD VI, as a beneficially of the first round of the KiboCUBE Programme.

Also read: Kenya builds 1st satellite, launch set for April, May

The Kenyan Cube Satellite was developed under the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, which is Japan’s national aero-space agency.

It was delivered to JAXA on January 16, 2018, in preparation for its deployment into space.

The University of Nairobi christened it as “First Kenya University Nano Satellite-Precursor Flight (1KUNS-PF).”

“Kenya is very proud to be associated with and involved, through TICAD VI, in the development of the satellite. We hope this is only a beginning of many collaborations and initiatives for Kenya under the KiboCUBE programme,” Juma said.

The deployment of the satellite into space will take place later in May.

courtesy of the-star.co.ke/news

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