Kollie Gbassie, a Liberian entrepreneur in Philadelphia, brings style, vibrancy, and business expertise to the Philadelphian community with his well-seasoned dishes. Throughout his extensive entrepreneurial journey, he has carefully curated a recipe of resilience, which he shares with FunTimes Magazine.
If you’re looking for some last-minute gift ideas, here are the best Kwanzaa or Christmas presents we have in store.
In the final part of the series, we speak with gig-worker turned entrepreneur, Shanise Anderson, about her journey from gig work to entrepreneurship, and advice for gig-workers who are interested in moving gig work to the next level.
We explore relations between the US and the Afro-Caribbean nations of Jamaica and Haiti, including Marcus Garvey’s Back to Africa movement, Haitian Migration to the US during and after the Haitian Revolution, the US occupation of Haiti, and, subsequently, raise a case for reparations.
US-Sierra Leone Relations Through the Centuries, The Legacy of Freed Black Repatriates in Sierra Leone, and Post-Civil War Liberian and Salone Immigrants in Philly Rebuild Resources
In celebration of Liberia’s bicentennial, we are exploring economic, social and political relations between the US and formerly-enslaved societies, with a special focus on Liberia, Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Haiti and more.
COVID’s Economic Shift is a three-part series that explores the future of the US labor force. In the second part of the series, we investigate the work structure of gig work, and its impact on work/life balance for Black communities.
In part 1 of the series, we explore changes brought by the ‘great resignation’, and utilize qualitative and quantitative research to determine the impact of the ‘gig’ economy during the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 31st is Transgender Day of Visibility. To dispel myths about non-heteronormative identities in traditional Africa, and ‘shake the table’ by providing an anti-colonial perspective on gender, we are exploring queer identities practiced in African societies
A Ghanaian proverb says “Obi nnim obrempon ahyease/No one knows the beginning of a great man”.
