Search

... project has gathered a significant number of professionals throughout the city as well as a number of West Louisville thought-leaders and businesspeople. Ms. Reynolds is a proponent of creating an economi ...

... k Americans, 14 million households. Nearly all of Black America households is in the bottom 50 percent of owners of wealth in America that is only one percent of the total. Don't tell me about Oprah, ...

... that we need. Politics. When you create the community that has a business district, the people leverage money made from focused Black economics to influence elections and politicians to advocate a Black ...

... the Global Urban Collective. Nevertheless, I am intellectually honest enough and can remove enough of my own arrogant pride and ego out of a situation to know and understand that the concerns that he has bro ...

... of know…and even perhaps those that don’t know…or maybe even don’t like? Do you know? Are you sure? So what’s going on? There is going to be another American president after Mr. Obama, one that is ...

... African American neighborhoods. So let us consider this a journey. One that we take together as we travel to the destination of neighborhoods with less crime, more positive entrepreneurial and busines ...

I have a range of mixed feelings, yet at the end I am left with a large, lingering sense of disappointment. An agreement was reached with Simmons College and KSU in sharing the building on 15th Street. ...

... Right Now at Innovating and Creating Solutions” NEW ROOTS PRODUCE & THE MULTIPLE FRESH STOPS Fresh Stops are community-focused and run enterprises where one can order fresh produce that you pick up ...

I hate urban intra-racial crime and violence. I am distressed by multiple homicides in the Russell and Shawnee neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky, and the headline stories that pop-up on network ...

... early in the calendar year. I brought Narrow The Gap! on the scene to provide the good people of Louisville and particularly the beautiful ones of West Louisville so that folks could be an ...

... were the likes of you as that property has lay barren for nearly FIFTEEN YEARS? Where were you with high-minded development proposals then? How come none of you folk approached the Bridgewaters family ...

- by Michael R. Hicks Webmaster, narrowthegap.org ""100 Church Challenge". What If we got 100 Black Churches to donate $1,000 toward opening a new business? That would be $100,000 of start up money. ...

... Two considerable opportunities for economic stimulus in the West End looks to be Gone Baby, Gone. So what now? What happened? To get a grip and an idea of what is going on, first we have to understand ...

... transform our neighborhoods. I have to share an important and connected story. As I have been studying and working with brothers and sisters on urban and business development projects, one group of people ...

... Nobody’s asking Chinese or (East) Indian children about what their test scores were, and we have wasted years and time testing our kids into the rubble with (perhaps) good-intentioned initiatives that ...

... t use this as an opportunity to think about — and more hopefully, serious cats put their money together and seek to do about — the abandoned and/or blighted areas in West Louisville neighborhoods. The ...

... also postponed a presentation to Louisville Metro's Board of Zoning Adjustment.   Seed Capital Kentucky founder Steven Reily acknowledged the people of West Louisville's influenced this move. "This is a commu ...

NTG! Feeds

Blog & Info

Links We Like

Donate - BHB & NTG!