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Black Families Must Focus on Asset Building

May 29, 2015

By Charlene Crowell, NNPA Columnist May 29, 2015   Charlene Crowell, NNPA Columnist     As the wealthy few continue to prosper, the rest of the nation is caught in a financial tug-of-war between stagnant wages and a rising cost of living. In communities of color, chronic unemployment and underemployment and a host of other […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Color of Wealth Summit, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act HMDA, Income Inequality, MAY 29 2015, Personal Finance, VOL. 25 NO. 20, Wage Gap, Wealth Building

Brown Girl Green Money: Question Corner

May 22, 2015

By Jasmine Zapata and Angela Fitzgerald May 22, 2015     Jasmine Zapata and Angela Fitzgerald     Earlier this month, a reader from our Facebook page submitted this question. We thought we’d share our ideas and then open it up to the BGGM community for additional thoughts on the topic. Here it is:   […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Angela Fitzgerald, Brown Girl Green Money, copyrighting, intellectual property, Jasmine Zapata, MAY 22 2015, patent, Question Corner, trademarking, VOL. 25 NO. 19

Brown Girl Green Money: Spring, Summer and Saving

May 15, 2015

By Matiya Hill May 15, 2015     Matiya Hill     Spring is officially here and I’m sure I’m not the only one looking forward to the warm weather — not to mention the colorful maxi dresses, cute wedges and fashionable sunglasses! A girl has to stay cute, right?   In the past I’ve […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Brown Girl Green Money, Budgeting, Couponing, Entertainment, Matiya Hill, MAY 15 2015, Travel, VOL. 25 NO. 18

Brown Girl Green Money: Race & Money… Let’s talk about it!

May 8, 2015

By Angela Fitzgerald May 8, 2015     Angela Fitzgerald     Whether you’re comfortable with the topic or not, race and racial injustice has become the elephant in the room (with his fist in the air no less) that we’re no longer able to avoid.   The recent uprising in Baltimore, as well as […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Brown Girl Green Money, Demos, Economic Disparity, MAY 8 2015, Racial Wealth Gap, Suburban Poverty Report, VOL. 25 NO. 17

Brown Girl Green Money: An Interview with Entrepreneur Crystal Adell

May 1, 2015

By Jasmine Zapata, M.D. May 1, 2015     Jasmine Zapata, M.D.     This week, I had the awesome privilege of interviewing an amazing African American female entrepreneur who owns a national workout company and brand: Ms. Crystal Adell, owner of Black Women DO Workout, LLC.     She recently moved to Madison and […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Women DO Workout, Brown Girl Green Money, Crystal Adell, Entrepreneurship, Healthy Living, Interview, Jasmine Zapata, Lifetime Fitness, MAY 1 2015, VOL. 25 NO. 16

Black Women Face Pay Gap

May 1, 2015

By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent May 1, 2015   Nearly 60 percent of Black women worked in either the service industry, sales or office jobs. (Stock Photo)     WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — Black women working full time earned just 64 cents for every dollar White men made in 2013, according to a […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Center for American Progress CAP, Economic Policy Institute EPI, Gender Gap, MAY 1 2015, Pay Gap, VOL. 25 NO. 16

Welcome to Brown Girl, Green Money: Part 4: Interview with Ashley Robertson

April 24, 2015

By Angela Fitzgerald April 24, 2015     Angela Fitzgerald   Also see: Welcome to Brown Girl, Green Money: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.   For our last installment of introductions, I had the pleasure of interviewing the newest member of the BGGM crew! Ladies and gentlemen, meet Ashley Robertson.   Ashley Robertson […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Angela Fitzgerald, APRIL 24 2015, Ashley Robertson, Brown Girl Green Money, VOL. 25 NO. 15

Banking Exec Earned His Money

April 24, 2015

By Jordan Shanks, NNPA Intern April 24, 2015     WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — For many professionals, the road to success starts with humble beginnings. Because B. Doyle Mitchell Jr., President and CEO of Industrial Bank, inherited his business, he has felt he has always had something extra to prove.   “There’s the impression that, […]

Popular Interests In This Article: African American-Owned, APRIL 24 2015, B. Doyle Mitchell Jr., Banking, Career, VOL. 25 NO. 15

Blackonomics: Creating Conscious Black Millionaires

April 17, 2015

By James Clingman, NNPA Columnist April 17, 2015   FINANCE   James Clingman     Who should benefit from the dollars we spend to accomplish our goals? “That be us, y’all.”     Conscious Black millionaires, by definition, would most assuredly use some of their money to assist the Black collective; conscious Black millionaires would […]

Popular Interests In This Article: APRIL 17 2015, Black Millionaires, Blackonomics.com, Bring Back Black, Jim Clingman, MATAH, VOL. 25 NO. 14

Brown Girl, Green Money: Millennials & Money

April 17, 2015

By Connie Samuels April 17, 2015     Connie Samuels     You may have heard the phrase “Too many people buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people they don’t like.” It rings true especially when considering the ‘keeping up with the Jones’ mentality so many of us have […]

Popular Interests In This Article: APRIL 17 2015, Brown Girl Green Money, Connie Samuels, Millennials, VOL. 25 NO. 14

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