I am pleased to share that my Women Entrepreneur Panel went well on Saturday. I’ll be honest, I was a little concered because it started off a little slow, but things morphed into an amazing blessing. Let me explain how. First of all, I got to the library and the person I spoke with didn’t…
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Reminder: Women Entrepreneur Panel Tomorrow
This is a reminder that my Women Entrepeneur Panel is tomorrow from 10 am to 12 pm at Woodson Library which is located at 9525 S. Halsted. Dequiana Jackson, the mastermind behind Inspired Marketing, Inc., and Rhea Steele, co-founder of Blue Ocean Logic, Chairman of Chatham Technical Institute, are two confirmed panelists. These women are…
Save the Date: Women Entrepreneur Panel – March 31, 2018
To celebrate women entrepreneurs and to close out Women’s History Month, I am hosting a panel of women entrepreneurs doing great things. This is an extension of my Powerful Women series I published a few years ago. The event will be held in the second-floor conference room at Woodson Library from 10 am to 12…
Black People in Chicago Were Not Always Allowed to Roller Skate Indoors
In fact, Black people were first allowed to roller skate indoors at the Savoy Ballroom in Chicago’s Bronzeville community on December 8, 1938 thanks to Jimmie Davis, the manager of The Savoy at that time. I don’t have the newspaper articles back this up because the microfilm machines were down at the Vivian Harsh Research…