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Monday, April 29, 2019

Five Cities With High Percentage of Black Populations Get $15 Million Investment

After submitting winning strategies, Chicago; Louisville; Miami; San Diego; and Syracuse, New York — all cities with high percentage of black populations — will get $3 million each to activate inclusive growth in their cities.

The five cities were the first recipients in the AdvancingCities Challenge, an annual competition launched last September by JPMorgan Chase to source innovative and sustainable solutions to address the most persistent problems facing American communities. The cities will receive a total of $15 million over three years. Advancing Cities is a five-year initiative by the nation’s largest bank to help fuel economic growth opportunities in cities globally.

The inaugural city challenge winners can use the money for multiple purposes, including providing job skills training to low-income, black, and other minority residents as well as supporting small business growth and entrepreneurial activity. The funding also provides help to individuals and businesses in underserved areas in cities dealing with economic disparities and other challenges.

The challenge drew over 250 proposals from 143 communities across 45 states and territories. Proposals had to include two of four strategic drivers of inclusive growth within JPMorgan Chase’s Model for Impact: jobs and skills, small business, neighborhood revitalization and financial health.

Winners were announced in April along with JPMorgan Chase’s 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report. The report includes Seven Traits of Advancing Cities, which the winning cities and program showed in their proposals.

“Businesses have a role to play in bringing communities together to create greater opportunity,” stated Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO, who made the announcement in Louisville. “All five of these cities have shown that they understand this type of investment and the ability to work together to solve problems is not just the right thing to do, it is also in our shared interests.”

Here’s a peek at the successful proposals:

-West Side United (Chicago): The city’s West Side residents have life expediencies that are 16 years shorter than their neighbors in The Loop, an affluent neighborhood just seven train stops away. West Side United will leverage the hiring, procurement, and investment power of major health systems on the West Side to improve the health and economic vitality of the surrounding neighborhoods. Specifically, the collaborative will address social determinants of health by connecting low-wage healthcare workers to career pathways in hospitals that provide financial security.

-Digital Inclusion and Economic Resilience (Louisville): The city’s low-income residents face significant barriers to employment, leaving them increasingly disconnected from well-paying jobs in high-growth sectors.  The program will use high-touch community outreach strategies in six of the city’s lowest income neighborhoods, working to equip residents with skills necessary to compete for jobs while also connecting them to services through a formalized referral network and a new shared data platform.

-Resilient305 (Miami): The soon-to-be-released comprehensive strategy is co-led by Miami-Dade County, the city of Miami, and the city of Miami Beach with support of The Miami Foundation. It will enable Greater Miami and the Beaches (GM&B) to more effectively tackle emerging global challenges and trends like urbanization, globalization, and climate change.

– Advancing San Diego: Small businesses represent 98% of firms in San Diego, but they struggle to compete for qualified talent, especially talent reflective of the city’s growing Hispanic population. To remain competitive as a region, San Diego must double its production of skilled workers and create 50,000 new quality jobs in small businesses by 2030. The program’s efforts will include leveraging a collaborative, employer-led strategy that aligns multiple systems around to connect underrepresented residents to high-demand jobs and provide small businesses access to diverse talent pipelines.

-Complementing its so called Syracuse Surge program, this city in New York will largely use the funding to increase its technology industry and offer job training for local residents, according to media reports. Under-represented groups like minorities, women, and veterans will be targeted help them land future technology jobs.

 

 

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J.Crew Factory Is Taking 50% Off Sitewide, Plus an Extra 20% Off Your Purchase

J.Crew Factory is already marked down significantly compared to its regular J.Crew counterpart, but now, the Factory is taking its discounts to a whole new level. Take 50% off everything on their site, plus an extra 20% off your purchase with promo code TOOGOOD. The whole factory is currently stacked with springtime…

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White Woman Defaces Nipsey Hussle Memorial

A Connecticut mural to slain rapper Nipsey Hussle has been restored after a young white woman was captured on video defacing the memorial and snapping selfies in remembrance of her brazen act of whiteness.

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Grammy-Winning Singer Peabo Bryson Hospitalized After Suffering Heart Attack

Grammy Award-winning recording artist Peabo Bryson is currently hospitalized after experiencing a health scare over the weekend.

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Arya Stark Forces Night King to Drop Out of Presidential Race

Sen. Dwight Walker (R-Beyond the Wall), long thought to be a serious contender for the Iron Throne, abruptly ended his candidacy for president of the Seven Kingdoms late Sunday night after he was reportedly involved in an altercation in the VIP section of a nightclub just outside of Winterfell.

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Monday's Best Deals: iPad, YETI Cooler, Sonos Speaker, and More

A $250 32GB Apple iPad, a discounted Sonos Smart One speaker, a YETI cooler, and an Anker Accessory Gold Box lead off Monday’s best deals.

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The Ladies of SWV Will Have You 'Weak' With This Black-Ass Interview

There are three types of people in this world:

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President Trump Is Personally Trying to Keep Fact Checkers Employed to Boost His Employment Numbers (That’s a Lie)

Let’s just get to the “This Can’t Be Life” punchline first: According to the Washington Post’s Fact Checker Database, a directory that keeps track of claims made by one President Donald J. Trump, in the 828 days since he’s been in office (and as of April 27, 2019), Trump has made 10,011 false or misleading claims.…

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Daughter of Rodney King Launches ‘I Am a King’ Scholarship to Celebrate Black Fatherhood Just in Time for Father’s Day

For residents of Los Angeles, April 29 is a day that lives on in infamy.

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Couple: ‘We Paid Off $114,151 in Debt in 23 Months’

Money is always a sticky subject when it comes to relationships. It’s the reason why most marriages end in divorce. Instead of letting debt take over their lives, this couple tackled it head-on. BLACK ENTERPRISE caught up with Jhanilka and Anthony Hartzog, a millennial couple who had to face the reality of discussing finances and finding a pragmatic solution to tackling their overwhelming debt.

When did you know you were in over your heads?

Christmas 2016, we were excited to get gifts for the family. We put a ton of gifts on our credit cards, as we normally pay them off when due. After the holidays, we quickly realized we were in over our heads with credit card debt and had to dip into our savings to pay them off. As a New Year’s resolution, Jhanilka decided she wanted to save more and travel more. We were completely aware that this would be a difficult thing to do. However, in January 2017, we sat down and discussed our debt as a whole. In this discussion came to the decision to pay everything off (student loans, car, credit card debt, etc). We had never realized what our total amount of debt was. We had $114,151 in total debt and that was when it hit us.

What was your first step to paying off debt?

Our first step to paying off debt was to calculate the total and create a game plan. Anthony religiously listened to Dave Ramsey’s podcast The Dave Ramsey Show and read his book The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness. This helped us to know where to start on our journey. We began with a budget. In addition to our budget, we adopted the debt snowball method, paying off the smallest to largest debt and tracked it on an amortization spreadsheet. From there, we were able to project how long it would take us to pay off the debt by only paying the minimum. We decided to start to take on more side hustles and did this in order to move the timeline of paying it off it into 23 months. We were able to meet our goal right in time for Jhanilka’s 30th birthday.

What were some everyday practices you executed to get rid of the debt?

Some everyday practices were making sure we stayed on track with our budget (this took us 4 months to successfully accomplish), as well as having our monthly budget meetings to go over our spending habits and discuss how we could save more. Money has become a part of our everyday conversations. It came to the point that we were excited to see our progress and hold each other accountable.

What are some practices you implement now to stay out of debt?

We are staying out of debt by not taking on new debt, not using credit cards and being more intentional with our money. We now have a 6-month emergency fund. This will help us avoid taking on new debt in the event of any life-changing circumstances. We also continue to do our budget and have our monthly budget meetings.

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John Singleton's Publicist Confirms He Is Still on Life Support, Says Earlier Death Reports Are 'Inaccurate'

Despite earlier reports to the contrary, John Singleton appears to be holding on.

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Grab the Original Sonos One For $50 Off, While You Still Can

Update: Now even cheaper, down to $150!

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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is Reborn as 'Brilliant' Bel-Air, And Will Smith Loves it Just as Much as the Rest of Us

Reboots are en vogue, and fan favorites such as Full House, Will & Grace and a Roseanne Barr-less The Connors have enjoyed renewed life as audiences clamor for a taste of nostalgia. But black audiences have been left by the wayside, as shows like Living Single and Martin have thus far remained relegated to the past.

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Let to Tell: 25 Years After Genocide, Miracle in Rwanda Sheds Light on a Tragic Legacy

It’s been 25 years since the civil war that resulted in genocide against the Tutsi tribe of the African nation of Rwanda. During a three-month period in 1994, as many as one million Rwandans were killed, including approximately 70 percent of the Tutsi population.

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Federal Judge and Civil Rights Icon Damon J. Keith Dead at 96

Judge Damon J. Keith, a civil rights icon who became the sixth black person in U.S. history to serve on the federal court of appeals, died at his home in Detroit Sunday morning surrounded by family. He was 96.

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NFL Rookie Shot Just Hours After Being Drafted By New York Giants

What should have been the best weekend in one college football player’s life turned into tragedy when he was injured and his college teammate was killed in a shooting early Sunday morning at a party in Topeka, Kan.

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Sunday, April 28, 2019

Obama Had Biden Pump His Breaks on '16 Presidential Bid: Report

According to a New York Times feature describing the relationship between the former presidential partners, President Barack Obama urged Joe Biden, his Vice President, not to run.

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Durham Mom Arrested on Frontier Airlines After Complaining of Bio-hazard on Passenger Seats

Durham, North Carolina resident Rosetta Swinney was on her way back from an Easter trip to Nevada with her young teen daughter when things went wrong. In simply trying to travel in peace and health, 53-year old Swinney now must be defended in a courtroom.

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Rapper GameOva Reedy, Creator of the viral For the D Challenge, Arrested for Alleged Child Desertion

27 year-old New Orleans bounce artist GameOva Reedy, most popular for creating the viral For the D challenge, was arrested for alleged child desertion. Deputies say she put her 5-year-old in a Lyft ride service car alone.

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Trump Sends Migrants to Sanctuary Cities as DHS Asks Defense Department for Assistance at Border

After tweeting that his administration was considering a move to send undocumented migrants to sanctuary cities, Trump told a crowd gathered at a Wisconsin rally that the authorities have begun sending immigrants to cities around the country.

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