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we're working to preserve, enhance and elevate historic African-American neighborhoods and commercial districts | #HAANDS

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Re-connect with us this year! Register for one of our virtual networking meetings at haands.org.
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Congrats @DotFoodCoop on the grand opening ! Great to witness such a milestone for the Dorchester community 🥳
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August is #NationalBlackBusinessMonth, we recognize and support Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurs nationwide. The @NatBankers1927 Foundation recognizes that minority owned and women owned businesses make #communities stronger. 💼 Learn more: nationalbankers.org/foundati…
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#HappyJuneteenth
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On this day in 1865, after white Southerners had extended the enslavement of countless Black people by concealing the Civil War’s end for months, Union troops arrived in Texas. #Juneteenth calendar.eji.org/racial-inju…
June 19th, 1865 | A History of Racial Injustice

June 19th, 1865 | A History of Racial Injustice

On this day, Juneteenth, Black people celebrated the delayed arrival of freedom after being enslaved months after the Civil War's end.

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Congrats to all recipients and @tanyadebose @indheightstx! savingplaces.org/stories/202…
$3.8M in Action Fund Grants Help Protect 40 African American Historic Sites | National Trust for...

$3.8M in Action Fund Grants Help Protect 40 African American Historic Sites | National Trust for...

Now in its sixth year, the Action Fund's National Grant Program in 2023 is supporting 40 grant recipients that represent important aspects of African American life and achievement.

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Wonderful to hear stories about how Historic African American Neighborhood District Summit is organizing to lead with community first, to love neighborhoods and not mistreat them. @MainStreetsConf @_haands @SweetAuburnWork @urbanimpactbhm @SavingPlaces
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Like many Black property owners in Chicago, all of Hansberry’s buildings were eventually appropriated through eminent domain during the urban renewal and highway projects of the 1950s and 60s. His buildings where located in Bronzeville, known as the prosperous “Black Metropolis."
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#Day1 recap of #HAANDS22! Keynotes: @ChristopherCoes & @BrentLeggs Speakers: @tanyadebose @NedraDeadwyler @Urban_Main @WestEnd704 @guildatl @ANDACCESSretail @HDDCCommunity @CandyTate_Emory Ed Bowen
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Join us in #BIRMINGHAM this September for the summit held in #4thave and the #Civilrights district.
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The heart and soul of DC's U Street/Black Broadway's--the historic Lincoln Theatre, aka "The Crown Jewel," circa 1950. "The Crown Jewel," and Ben's Chili Bowl, circa August 2022. Submitted by @BlkBroadwayOnU Shellee M. Haynesworth #blackbroadwaydc #BlackHistoryMonth
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'Facilitating the Next Golden Age of Black Business' A brilliant piece by @leoncprieto & @drsimonephipps for @mitsmr sloanreview.mit.edu/article/…
Facilitating the Next Golden Age of Black Business | MIT Sloan Management Review

Facilitating the Next Golden Age of Black Business | MIT Sloan Management Review

Lessons from the golden age of Black business can teach today’s leaders how to help Black entrepreneurs prosper.

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Check out this @nytimes's article "8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History" featuring grantees of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund @SavingPlaces nytimes.com/2023/02/05/trave…
8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History (Published 2023)

8 Places Across the U.S. That Illuminate Black History (Published 2023)

Over the years, many important African American landmarks have disappeared or fallen into disrepair. An effort to restore them promises a fuller understanding of American history as a whole.

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💚 go tap in and hear a little about I created blckspces/DRBTS & hear some knowledge from Ms. @tanyadebose about Houston! Grateful for the feature and for @_haands allowing me to be apart of the space 🫶🏾
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Check out @_haands! Creating a network of historic Black neighborhoods and biz districts. zcu.io/vV6U Next summit Birmingham Fall 2023. Spotlight a neighborhood for #blackhistorymonth: zcu.io/LnOE #historicpreservation #urbanplanning #culturalheritage
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Happy Black History Month! We'd love share your #hood! bit.ly/haandsbhm2023
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Join us for our first monthly virtual networking of the year! We'll talk post-conference, 2023 goals and ways you can engage this year. Follow others that have registered at haands.org.
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In a new report, authors offer five recommendations on how city leaders can support Black entrepreneurs’ efforts to improve Black commercial real estate ownership, including creating dedicated city funds for commercial real estate acquisition. brookings.edu/research/five-… 1/3
Five ways city leaders can support Black entrepreneurs’ efforts to ‘buy back the block’ | Brookings

Five ways city leaders can support Black entrepreneurs’ efforts to ‘buy back the block’ | Brookings

When it comes to commercial real estate ownership in majority-Black neighborhoods, Black business owners are often systemically excluded from the economic benefits such ownership can generate, while...

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Aerial footage of Overtown, Miami before and after much of the neighborhood was bulldozed for the construction of I-95 in the 60s. Over 12,000 residents of the neighborhood were displaced for the highway, along with thousands more in subsequent "urban renewal" projects.
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DAY 4: Ujamaa (cooperative economics) - To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together. O.W. Gurley, the founder, wasn't just a Black/Colored man who purchased 40 archers of undesired land that what grew to become... #Kwanzaa
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