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3 Books to Better Understand Black Business Leadership

A trio of Black-focused books to dive deep into the diversity, equity, and inclusion issues and to better support minority businesses, communities, and customers.

Cantor Arts Center presents the photographic work of Gordon Parks

Langston Hughes, Malcolm X and Sister Ethel Muhammad Sharrieff are some of the famous faces featured in the third and final exhibition in a series at the Cantor Arts Center celebrating The Capital Group Foundation Photography Collection at Stanford University, a collection of more than 1,000 20th-century photographs by American artists.

A Loaded Camera: Gordon Parks, on view in the Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery through July 3, celebrates the artistry and impact of Parks’ documentary photography.

Highlighting black authors for Black History Month

Highlighting black authors for Black History Month

A book for every reader: Expand your knowledge of Black authors, history, and ideas

At a recent program event at the King County Library System, author Jason Reynolds said that as a young Black person, he wanted to read things in books that were familiar to him, and about people who looked like him. Jo Anderson, the social impact coordinator from the library system tells that story as an example of why they curate lists of books for events like Black History Month.

"We try to highlight varied stories that offer a cross-section of culture and lived experience," Anderson said.

This New York Exhibit Celebrates African-American Culinary History

The Museum of Food and Drink’s “African/American: Making the Nation’s Table” exhibition will open on February 23 … [+] 2022 at the Africa Center. This photo shows an advanced cooking class at Saint Augustine’s School, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1923.

A refugee and advocate reflects on being a Black woman in the US After fleeing conflict in Liberia as a child, Lourena Gboeah describes during Black History Month how she now draws on her own experiences in her career as a leading refugee advocate.

A refugee and advocate reflects on being a Black woman in the US

After fleeing conflict in Liberia as a child, Lourena Gboeah describes during Black History Month how she now draws on her own experiences in her career as a leading refugee advocate.

'It's a big homecoming:' Eustis African-American Heritage Celebration Committee hosts parade and festival

EUSTIS — The streets were lined with excited families as Eustis' African-American Heritage Parade and Festival stepped off Saturday morning on Bates Avenue.

The event — now in its 29th year — was put on hold last year over health concerns, so this parade was especially important for many community members.

We polled over 1,000 Black entrepreneurs. Here’s what they told us

Black entrepreneurship is on the rise. LinkedIn research reveals why and what it will take to advance equity.

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