Hispanic seniors come together for music, culture and fellowship
wdsu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wdsu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Harrisburg Hispanic heritage festival returns
whyy.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from whyy.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Harrisburg’s Comprehensive Plan Working Group takes questions from PennLive at 6 p.m. today on Facebook Live
Updated May 04, 2021;
Members of the City of Harrisburg’s Comprehensive Plan Community Working Group will meet with PennLive’s Editorial Board at 6 p.m. Tuesday in a Zoom event that will be aired on live on Facebook.
Winnie Okello, Basir Vincent, and James Hobbs, all members of the working group, will discuss the upcoming public Zoom forum “Civic Engagement, Power, and Politics,” that will be held 7 p.m. Thursday, May 6. The committee says it is looking to engage resident of the city with the following objectives:
To weather coronavirus, Black and brown-owned businesses show grit and determination
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Facebook Share
Without a doubt, the data points to the sobering fact that Black and brown-owned businesses have taken a disproportionate hit from the coronavirus.
In the past year, more minority-owned businesses have gone under or drastically reduced their staff and hours. A survey by H&R Block released in February found more than half of Black small businesses owners said their revenue fell by at least 50% (by comparison, 37% of white small business owners responded similarly).
But the narrative is not wholly one of despair and devastation. For some Black and brown business owners, the protracted coronavirus pandemic has forced them to tap the grit and determination that many of them say has been a perennial prerequisite for their demographic to survive in the business world.