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I am behind on updating this content due to labor shortages If you want to volunteer and help post content, write to BlackNetMedia@gmail.com. A stipends will be paid when you help us out. posted Aug 2023 ships anywhere Black Boston Souvenirs Authentic, one of a kind t-shirts and accessories marking the year 1638, when Boston’s first Black community began forming. Join the list fo Advance screening movie passes Sign-up for movie passes Tweets by blackboston Follow the money. There has never been a better time for African American business owners in Boston. The Biden Administrations’s promises to Black America and Cares Act legislation for all America has arrived with anti-poverty tactics in play. Black Business advocates have pressed millions of dollars from supporters and pooled it. GRANTS are going to Black-owned businesses in Massachusetts. font size="+1" See more Black Business funding sources here. Shoutout to Eastern Bank for their ultra-friendly PPP customer service support and decision making timeline. The 10 Steps to Starting a Business. Start here A short film about Black Professional Couples in Boston - Click to view. Enter your e-mail address for chance to win free tickets Grants Cash grant providers and business builders Use our ZOOM Event Hosting team for your next project and leave the worries to us. BOOK IT Co-working spaces in Black Boston Check out the Fairmont Innovation Lab of Dorchester. The Fields Corner Business Lab, the libraries and the Roxbury Innovation Center are the places to know about. REEVX LABS, a FREE co-working space in Nubian Square for local entrepreneurs and non-profits. COVID-19 caused programming to move online where the centers stage virtual workshops, lectures, business plan competitions, coaching and classes. Nubian Square News Plan to rename the Roxbury library to the "Nubian Square Library." Sign the Petition . The Nubian Square Black Wall Street energes! A Black Wall Street in Tulsa rose above acres of empty space owned by a wealthy Black-landowner. Watch community planners design Nubian Square See our list of Grant and Funding Sources here. The Roxbury Cultural District is embedded in Nubian Square. View Nubian Square business owners discussing their profitability . Site Topics Affordable housing lottery offers page Boston Black Church Recommendations livestreaming Black Business Directory Black Politics in town: highlights and donations Local Investors Grants and Funds 10 Steps to Starting a Business. Start here Events feature page of venues and locations this week Directory of Black-owned night clubs PDF File Movie Screenings free tickets and film clips Services: info for advertisers Taxi & Charter Bus Transportation: info and rates Job Openings. See Who is Hiring Now Go to www.BlackBoston.com/Gigs Research Studies for Volunteers are paying to participate Cancer Help Get ahead of Multiple Myeloma. It affects African Americans more than any others. Read the Promise Study Research study for African American parents. Volunteer African-American (Black American) parents with a child between the ages of 4 and 12 is invited to participate. A small compensation is provided. Sign-up All Around Boston. Fall Sightseeing Tours and more. NAACP NEWS The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons. Download the free NAACP Niagara Movement program book keepsake from the 2017 100th Year Boston held Centennial Celebration Sixteen Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Programs The average monthly payment of a person with student debt ranges from $150-$244 per month. It can be a problem for some graduations. On average, 5% of household income goes to pay off the student debt balance every year. These sixteen agency programs accept applications to reduce or remove student debt from your personal balance sheet. Affordable Housing News Mayor Walsh announced he would steer seventy million dollars to building and perserving affordable apartments and homes in the City of Boston. It will create 1,097 units of housing in Brighton, Chinatown, Dorchester, East Boston, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Roslindale, Roxbury and West Roxbury. There were 3,733 new housing units were built in Boston in 2018 as part of Mayor Walsh’s Housing plan to build 69,000 new housing units by 2030, 16,000 of which would be income-restricted. Education: Boston has so far maintained steady growth in overall enrollment. Black Construction Businesses Drive Black Boston’s Wealth Creation Janey Company and partner completes OMNI HOTEL Seaport skyscraper story coming soon... Black Tech has yet to make any kind of dent in the wealth creation pastures of Black Boston. Roxbury holds down the center of African American culture in New England and the Dudley Square Nubian Square Block is a busy intersection of transit, construction development and public education policy management. Black builders have arrived and they are winning! Cruz Companies will build affordable housing in Dudley Nubian Square The proposed project in the video has resulted in a $100 million dollar deal. Sixty percent of the budget is designated for competitive Black-owned companies and minority developers who construct buildings. The CRUZ Companies win is a WIN WN for residents as well. A plan for creating two buildings with 150 housing units was selected. According to the BayState Banner newspaper report, 50 units of rental housing is priced at 30 to 50 percent of Area Median Income. In today’s dollars a family of three would need to make $30,600 to $51,000 for rent rate eligibility. Another 100 condo units will be sold. Fifty condos are priced at 70 and 80 percent AMI levels. A family of three would pay $217,000 to $257,000 in today’s dollars to own a condo at the property. 50 housing units will be sold at market rate prices where the sky is the limit. 270 parking spaces are planned for the property. Black Boston gentrification has been a tornado wiping out Black and brown people who have been there for years. The rent is too damn high in Boston. Kudos to the City of Boston and to BECMA, the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts for working in equity participation practices. Look here to view the Boston Affordable Housing Income Limit Charts. Black-owned Boston Architect and Construction Firms Score Big Wins. Black Boston Community GDP exceeds the $2B level It was a good year for black-owned architecture and construction industry firms in 2018. Now, the trend continues in 2019 as recent parcel developments have been awarded by the City of Boston. This is a good deal for trade skilled electricians, cleaners, plumbers, brick masons and greenspace makers. The share-the-wealth plan is starting to materialize in Boston as a small group of black-owned firms have been winning big deals. Remember 2011, when the Black Boston...