Tag: women
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IE Women’s Business Center Helps Small Business Survive
By Dianne Anderson In a perfect world with her perfect five-star customer ratings, Deanna Margarith’s video arcade should have had standing room only. Her virtual reality family center was drawing the little kids, the bigger kids and adults all to the same space for high-quality fun and games. Margarith, a local Black business owner, was ... -
Demo Chicks: Get Black Women Into Nontraditional Roles
By Dianne Anderson Spoken like a true engineer, Robin Thorne explains how her nonprofit outreach operates in ways that other like-minded engineers can appreciate. “How would I describe it? Demo Chicks are more of a conduit,” said Robin Thorne, founder and CEO of CTI Environmental, Inc. in Long Beach. “What we like to do is ... -
Women Veterans Honored in High Desert
By Eliz Dowdy, Staff Writer The Victor Valley Women’s Club Executive Board members made the decision to honor women veterans in the local area. The annual Veterans Parade was canceled due to the pandemic. The Victor Valley Women’s Club has hosted two fall meetings in the tent of a restaurant. On November 17, they started ... -
Tech Diva Cynthia Renee Frazier Succumbs
By Dianne Anderson Tenacious businesswoman, loving grandmother, teacher and down to earth social justice advocate are a just few of the many endearing qualities to describe local tech diva, Cynthia Renee Frazier. Ms. Frazier passed away last week. Charmain Johnson reflects on 20 years of their friendship, the long intellectual conversations about the community, business ... -
Black Women Voters Seek to Shake up Midterms
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire National Newspaper Publishers Association President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., heralded 2018 as “payback year” for African Americans and other minorities who have suffered on the new presidential administration policies and it that seems Black women are in lock-step with Chavis. Two years into the presidency of ... -
Black Women Make History with Runs for Political Office
By Lauren Poteat NNPA Newswire This year, an unprecedented number of Black women have made history running for political offices across the country. According to blackwomeninpolitics.com, a comprehensive database that lists women of color running for political offices in 2018, currently, over 600 Black female candidates are running for offices nationwide. In an election that ...