Green Label - Richmond

Green Label - Richmond Mission:
To close the racial wealth gap by cultivating Black Excellence

This year I put together a gift guide with a few things I've enjoyed this year in the hopes that you will consider where...
11/25/2022

This year I put together a gift guide with a few things I've enjoyed this year in the hopes that you will consider where you're spending your money this holiday season.

I designed the guide so that the underlined items are hyperlinks to websites that share more information. However, the internet won't let me be great and make the links in the image clickable, so I have to share them separately.

Click the links below to learn more about By Black Richmond, and consider supporting these or other Black owned Richmond businesses on Small Business Saturday and throughout the gifting season.

By Black Richmond: https://byblackrichmond.org/

The Kitchen on Wellington Charcuterie Box: https://thekitchenonwellington.com/

Roots Holistic Tea Blends: https://www.rootsrva.com/shop

Baker Unified Fitness Personal Training: https://bakerunifiedfitness.squarespace.com/

Jevata Herman Luxe Silk Haircare: https://jevataherman.com/collections/luxe-silk-pillowcases

Sip and Savor RVA: https://vagraceevents.ticketbud.com/sipsavordinner-2301/lavender

Brookland Park Flowers & Gifts: 214 West Brookland Park Boulevard

One of our values at By Black Richmond is to cultivate a Learning Mindset.As we create programming in our organization, ...
03/01/2022

One of our values at By Black Richmond is to cultivate a Learning Mindset.

As we create programming in our organization, it will focus on education and professional development. In all things we hope to have a growth mentality - where we see challenges as a way to learn and evolve.

We will encourage a learning mindset by delivering difficult truths in love and being solutions oriented so that Black businesses have greater access to the tools and resources they need.

We believe in collaboration and inspiration - and will highlight the many other organizations in town who are doing their part to support Black business. We need ALL of them to surround Black entrepreneurs to ensure our thriving. We do not see any other organization as our competition, but as a partner in this very important work. We hope to learn from their work, and likewise hope to share what we learn as well.

Please like, share and encourage every Richmond area Black business owner you know to register for our free directory. Link in bio.

Deborah “Dee” Gordon - Who remembers Ukrop’s in Carytown? If so, chances are you met Deborah “Dee” Gordon who worked at ...
02/28/2022

Deborah “Dee” Gordon - Who remembers Ukrop’s in Carytown? If so, chances are you met Deborah “Dee” Gordon who worked at the store’s salad bar in the mid 1980s as a high school graduate. Today you will find her with Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods as the HR manager responsible for safety. Learn more about Dee in Richmond Magazine’s Bold Women of Richmond, 2020 profile. Photo by Jay Paul.

Dr. Lucille M. Brown - In 1991, she became the first woman to serve as superintendent of Richmond Public School. Dr. Bro...
02/25/2022

Dr. Lucille M. Brown - In 1991, she became the first woman to serve as superintendent of Richmond Public School. Dr. Brown is a 1950 magna cm laude graduate of Virginia Union University. She is also an honors graduate of Howard University, and has completed additional graduate studies at Virginia State and Virginia Commonwealth Universities, and the University of Virginia.

Dr. Brown has received numerous awards and recognition for her service to the Richmond community. Among her various commitments, Dr. Brown is also a member of the Virginia Union University Board of Trustees, and she is a dedicated member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

Leslie Garland Bolling (September 16, 1898-September 27, 1955) attended Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and gr...
02/24/2022

Leslie Garland Bolling (September 16, 1898-September 27, 1955) attended Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and graduated from Virginia Union University. He made a living as a porter, letter carrier, and utility tradesman, and in his spare time he carved wooden sculptures. Most of the sculptures were single human figures between a foot and two feet tall. In January 1935 he became the first African American in Virginia to have a one-man exhibition, at the Richmond Academy of Arts. Three years later, he opened the Craig House Art Center to teach art and its appreciation to African Americans where he taught wood sculpting and displayed his sculptures.

Ethel Bailey Furman (1893-1976) was one of the earliest African-American women to work as an architect in Virginia. The...
02/23/2022

Ethel Bailey Furman (1893-1976) was one of the earliest African-American women to work as an architect in Virginia. The daughter of a Richmond building contractor, Furman studied architecture privately in New York City. Returning to Richmond with her family in 1921, she began designing houses for local residents. She worked in partnership with her father, while also raising three children and holding a variety of other jobs to supplement her family’s income.

Furman surmounted the discrimination she faced as a black woman, often by submitting her building plans to local administrators through the male contractors with whom she worked. Late in the 1920s she was the only woman who attended the Hampton Institute’s annual Builders’ Conference. She continued her training in the 1940s with coursework in architectural drafting at the Chicago Technical College. Throughout her long career, Furman designed an estimated two hundred residences and churches in central Virginia as well as two churches built in Liberia. Her 1962 design for the educational wing of Richmond’s Fourth Baptist Church was recognized on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Church Hill North Historic District extension in 2000. A Church Hill park was named in her honor in 1985.

At By Black Richmond, one of our values is Support.We support Black business owners by listening to them. We believe the...
02/23/2022

At By Black Richmond, one of our values is Support.

We support Black business owners by listening to them. We believe they already know what they need. So it's important to consider their input and then connect them with resources they need.

As part of the campaign of support, we want to encourage our whole community to buy Black first, which directly affects the local economy.

We hope that by building our free directory of Black businesses in Richmond, supporting Black entrepreneurship and encouraging our community to consider buying Black first, we can make supporting Black businesses second nature.

Please like, share and encourage every Richmond area Black business owner you know to register for our free directory. If you're looking for ways to support Black entrepreneurs, sign up for our newsletter. Or if you have the means, consider becoming a financial supporter of our nonprofit. Link in bio.

Henry Leander Marsh III (born December 10, 1933) is an American civil rights lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Marsh wa...
02/22/2022

Henry Leander Marsh III (born December 10, 1933) is an American civil rights lawyer and politician. A Democrat, Marsh was elected by the city council as the first African-American mayor of Richmond, Virginia in 1977. He was elected to the Senate of Virginia in 1991, and resigned from his seat in 2014. Marsh represented the 16th district, consisting of the city of Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, and parts of the city of Richmond, and Chesterfield and Prince George counties. Marsh became a commissioner on the Virginia Department of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, a position to which he received appointment from Governor Terry McAuliffe promptly after his departure from the Senate in 2014.

Dr. Elizabeth A. Coles Bouey (November 14, 1890-February 5, 1957) was born in Liberia, the daughter of Virginia missiona...
02/21/2022

Dr. Elizabeth A. Coles Bouey (November 14, 1890-February 5, 1957) was born in Liberia, the daughter of Virginia missionaries. She was a public school teacher who studied theology at Virginia Union University and earned a master’s degree in education from Columbia University. In 1939 she founded the first chapter of the National Association of Ministers’ Wives right here in Richmond. Over the next sixteen years, Bouey recruited members from more than thirty states and West Africa, started the publication of the organization’s journal, Ministers’ Wives Herald; and the purchase of a building in Richmond. After Bouey’s death the organization changed its name to the International Association of Ministers’ Wives and Ministers’ Widows, and has welcomed more than 40,000 members. Today the organization explains its purpose as uniting wives and widows of various denominations into one Christitan fellowship, to promote cultural exchange, and to cultivate international goodwill, stronger interpersonal relationships, and foster a more effective communication network.

On this Friday, we hope you consider Buying Black first. At By Black Richmond, we believe that intentional actions, like...
02/18/2022

On this Friday, we hope you consider Buying Black first. At By Black Richmond, we believe that intentional actions, like spending with a local Black owned business can have a real impact on our local economy and in the lives of business owners and their families.

As we approach the Valentine's Day weekend, we hope you'll consider shopping with Black owned businesses to show your love. And if you're unable to shop, please like, comment, leave a positive review and share about your favorite Black owned businesses today and all month.

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