{"id":2950,"date":"2021-12-27T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2025-05-06T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T12:40:03","slug":"buy-black-bee-marketplace-business-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apexsamplework.com\/insightnews\/2021\/12\/27\/buy-black-bee-marketplace-business-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"BUY BLACK: BEE Marketplace business profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Black women must band together, put their hands and their brains together, and make work and business for themselves.<\/em>&nbsp; Madam C. J. Walker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout American history, Black women have defied constant trials to become homeowners even during slavery and that included Harriet Tubman.&nbsp; In 1670, twenty-five-year-old Zipporah Potter Atkins, a free Black woman, purchased a plot of land where Boston\u2019s Greenway Park now sits.&nbsp; She was one of the first Black women to own property in the U.S.&nbsp; In 1866, Biddy Mason, a Los Angeles nurse and midwife, bought the first of many properties eventually making her a wealthy and well-known real estate developer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then there was the Queen Bee. &nbsp;In 1903, Madame C. J. Walker became the first African American woman in the country to charter a bank and the first woman president of a bank.&nbsp; While Walker\u2019s hair products made her a millionaire, she was also a philanthropist, an activist for social justice, and a real estate investor.&nbsp; She urged her 25,000 sales agents to buy homes with their earnings. Walker had her mansion, known as Villa Lewaro, built on the banks of New York\u2019s Hudson River.&nbsp; Interestingly, she made sure to situate her architectural wonder where it could be seen from the street to especially inspire little Black girls and boys. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fast forward 125 years where Kenya McKnight-Ahad, founder and CEO of Black Women Wealth Alliance (BWWA), brings her business experience, savvy and passion to a social enterprise focusing on the development and economic stability of Black women entrepreneurs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2020, 41% of Black owned businesses closed their doors and more than 130,000 Black women were fired or furloughed from the workplace.&nbsp; Many women struggled to reinvent themselves, but it\u2019s been difficult.&nbsp; They lacked the necessary technology and marketing skills, equipment, and funds to build a digital presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BWWA offers a wide range of services that provide access, discovery, and realization of what can be possible, customized for individuals, cohort and membership frameworks,.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BEE Marketplace was established as a pilot program to provide marketing, website and social media overhauls, sales tracking tools, and capacity grants.&nbsp; From now through January 30<sup>th<\/sup>, 2022 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beemarketplace-us.com\/\">www.beemarketplace-us.com<\/a>), the BEE Marketplace virtual shopping experience introduces products and services from a select group of Twin Cities Black women-owned businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keiona Cook, who started sewing &nbsp;of six, is a couture fashion designer creating one-of-a-kind garments for girls and women at her company. Que Bella Couture.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to share that empowering feeling, uplifting Black girls and women from the inside out,\u201d she says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cook is a mixed-medium artist, mixing acrylics with African wax, applying to print fabrics and found objects.&nbsp; She is also the founder and executive director of Lovely\u2019s Sewing &amp; Arts Collective where she works with youth from all over the Twin Cities, ages 4-16, introducing them to the world of fashion, design, and business.&nbsp; She is the author and illustrator of \u2018Lovely Helps Mommy Fold the Laundry\u2019 and a motivational speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Shamika Brown was a little girl, she loved to bake and cook right beside her grandmother.&nbsp; Those fond memories led her to explore the field of culinary arts and eventually earn a degree from Le Cordon Bleu, along with an MBA certificate from St. Thomas University.&nbsp; She is well-known for her bakery delights and for her high heel shoe addiction.&nbsp; Her dream is to open a storefront that will employ pastry chef interns and offer baking classes to young people in the community along with a retail shopping experience.&nbsp; The pandemic has required businesses like Cook\u2019s and Brown\u2019s to re-invent themselves. For Cook, it meant making masks and adding men\u2019s clothing.&nbsp; Our history dictates tenacity and perseverance, even in the face of the unknown.&nbsp; Passing our experiences, good and bad, and learned wisdom down to the next generation is also an obligation, Cook says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Desiaa Buford, Shamika Brown\u2019s daughter, owns \u2018Seize the Moment Branding Agency. The young entrepreneur says she loves frogs, arts and crafts, and graphic design.&nbsp; Her specialties are unique web page design and strategic branding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information on the featured entrepreneurs, contact Jazinae Patterson, BWWA Business Advisor.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazinaep@bwwa-us.com\/\">www.jazinaep@bwwa-us.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black women must band together, put their hands and their brains together, and make work and business for themselves.&nbsp; Madam C. J. 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