Black-Owned Business Entrepreneur Hope Wiseman Is Eroding the Stigma of Marijuana in Black Communities Hope Wiseman became the youngest Black woman in the country to own a marijuana dispensary when she opened the doors to her business, Mary and Main, in September 2018. Her goal? To educate the Black community in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and beyond about the benefits of marijuana. Black people are three times more likely than white people to be...
Black-Owned Business A Trio of HBCU Grads Brought Black-Owned Craft Beer to Harlem Harlem Hops is Harlem’s first 100% Black-owned craft beer bar.
HBCUs BLM Has Made HBCUs More Popular Than Ever. But Will the Support Last? Students and faculty of HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) have long praised the value of institutions where Black students can feel at home with others who share their history and experiences. But after years of struggle for the same money and resources as predominantly white institutions, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement has ushered in a wave...
rebound Seeing Opportunity After Pandemic ‘Pause' Nearly two years after the start of the pandemic, New York City is welcoming domestic and international tourists back this holiday season. “I see great things for tourism after the pandemic. New York City is going to come back even stronger than before,” says Stacey Toussaint, president and founder of Inside Out Tours. “We paused but we didn’t stop.”
rebound Know Your Rights: New NYC Virtual Tour Examines Past Injustice & Aims to Educate Tour operator, Inside Out Tours, is hosting a new virtual experience that explores criminal justice reform in New York City while educating Americans on their rights.
rebound NYC Tour Company Drives Forward with Diverse Social Mission While the Covid pandemic is raising unprecedented questions for small businesses, one New York City tour company is defying the odds by reinventing virtual 360° experiences and navigating an in-person return.
rebound One Step at a Time: Moving Tourism Forward When a City Shuts Down A record 66.6 million tourists visited New York City in 2019 and business was booming for Stacey Toussaint, founder of diversity and inclusion-centered Inside Out Tours. But when the coronavirus pandemic brought the city to a standstill, Toussaint was left to figure out how to keep her tourism business running when there simply were no tourists.
rebound Rebound Season 4: Small Business Roundtable NBC gave three business owners cameras to document their journey as they fought through shutdowns, positive coronavirus tests, and a test of their pandemic endurance. The owners of Dallas’ Recipe Oak Cliff, Philadelphia’s Kayuh Bicycles & Café, and the CEO of Boston’s Sportsmen’s Tennis & Enrichment Center joined NBCLX storyteller Jalyn Henderson to talk about how they rebounded from unforeseen...
rebound Why This Plant-Based Café Went Virtual in ‘One More Pandemic Pivot' See why Recipe Oak Cliff, a plant-based restaurant in Dallas, Texas, closed its kitchen and launched a virtual series of healthy recipes for “one more pandemic pivot.”
rebound Why This Dallas Café Went Virtual: ‘One More Pandemic Pivot' See why Recipe Oak Cliff, a plant-based restaurant in Dallas, Texas, closed its kitchen and launched a virtual series of healthy recipes for “one more pandemic pivot.”
