[Black Business\COVID-19]
Times: More than 40 percent of Black business owners reported they weren’t working in April, when businesses were feeling the worst of the pandemic’s economic consequences. Only 17 percent of white small business owners said the same.
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DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE STATUE TO BE UNVEILED AT U.S. CAPITOL NEXT YEAR
[Women’s History Month\Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune\U.S. Statuary Hall]
Mary McLeod was the 15th child to slaves on a farm near Mayesville, South Carolina. She would become one of America’s leading advocates for education, civil, and voting rights, the founder of one of America’s premier schools—Bethune-Cookman College.
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