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Not on TikTok yet? You’re not alone. The video only platform can feel pretty alien to many users, especially if you didn’t grow up with ready access to technology. But the growing platform is increasingly home to more and more users – including small businesses. Many small and locally-owned businesses, like Jamaican-born Annya Brown’s Natural […]

Using social media can feel intimidating, and making stories on social media – even more so! But it doesn’t have to be that way. Whether you’re already using stories, or just hearing about them for the first time today, you can make them work for you without a ton of effort. Focus on creating engagement

Small businesses can still build a strong culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion – without a dedicated staff working only on these initiatives. Even without a single DEI or dedicated Human Resources contact, no matter what size your organization is, you can make DEI an important aspect of your company’s culture through commitment, ideas and

Interest in reforming the state’s 25-year-old rooftop solar subsidy program – which unnecessarily increases electric bills for non-solar customers – continues to grow. Now, more than 100 diverse organizations representing low-income, seniors, faith-based, community and business have joined the Affordable Clean Energy for All Coalition, including the Sacramento Black Chamber of Commerce. About 70% of

Literary scholar, Henry Louis Gates Jr., is collaborating on a book series with Penguin Press to be released in 2023 that focuses on Black thinkers and artists, each completed by a leading contemporary author. There are two dozen pairings so far including Farah Griffin on Toni Morrison, Tiya Miles on Harriet Tubman, Imani Perry on

According to new research, Black business owners are more likely to receive Paycheck Protection Program loans from online lenders, rather than from banks. Racial Bias still skews applicants in traditional systems, and the studies found that this problem was also more prevalent in smaller banks than in bigger financial institutions. The majority of Black borrowers

Do you qualify for free or low-coast broadband access? Many Californians do and simply don’t know about this program.  The FCC’s website lays out a number of ways to qualify based on your income or COVID-19-related hardship: Your household income is no more than 135% of the federal poverty level. In California and most other states,

On October 4th, 2021, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom, signed a new law aimed at reducing the high Black maternal death rate that persists across the state. Nicknamed the “Momnibus” bill – a reference to the legislative term “omnibus” that generally means one bill that combines multiple pieces of legislation on a range of topics, includes

Did you know that the way kidney function is measured, can differ between Black patients and White patients by up to 5 points? This can impact how equitable access to life-saving organ transplant surgeries and dialysis is. Glomular Filtration Rate (GFR) is a standard of measurement used to see how effectively the kidneys are flushing