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Recorder to celebrate Black Business Month with networking mixer

STAFF - August 19, 2024

The Indianapolis Recorder is celebrating Black Business Month with “Taste, Toast and Talk,” the media group’s first ever professional networking mixer for Black business...

Business

Empowering Black entrepreneurs: Bridging the gap through intentional lending

Mandi Patterson - August 1, 2024

Black Business Month is more than a time for recognition; it is an opportunity to address the persistent economic disparities faced by Black entrepreneurs...

Business

Building bonds: Cliffs Construction is pioneering projects and progress

JADE JACKSON - May 29, 2024

Dwight Cliff Sr. started Cliffs Construction, LLC, in 1995. His goal was, and is, to help families get spaces they can be proud of. These...

Arts & Culture

Anderson winery listed as Yelp’s third best winery in the state

STAFF - May 14, 2024

Cultured Urban Winery is the third best winery in the state of Indiana on Yelp. In April, the Microsoft Network compiled a list of the...

Arts & Culture

Third annual Melanin in May festival to be bigger and better

CHLOE McGOWAN - May 7, 2024

Melanin in May, the festival celebrating all things Black, including business, art, music and food, is back for year three. Celebrated in Indianapolis during Memorial...

Black History Matters

It started with a three-dollar camera from Goodwill

JADE JACKSON - February 15, 2024

Dwayne Dixon picked up his first camera when he was 15 years old. It was a three-dollar camera from Goodwill. Born Feb. 18, 1949, in Indianapolis, by the time he was 18, he was drafted into the Navy and became an aircraft carrier.

Business

The Cheesecake Lady: The rise of Indy’s go-to dessert vendor

CHLOE McGOWAN - January 19, 2024

The Cheesecake Lady, or Cassie Smith-Johnson, is now serving Hoosiers a treat out of her very own store. For the last three years, Smith-Johnson, the...

Health

MXP Breast Cancer Awareness Sip & Paint Series

BRAXTON BABB - December 14, 2023

MXP shop, which opened in April 2023, houses numerous Black-Owned Businesses that offer products such as candles, wardrobes and paintings. “MXP Shop kind of...

Business