Inland Empire Black Professionals

06/01/2021

What have you been up to? I would like to hear what some of you have been doing. Over the last year, it's been chaotic, to say the least. Let's build a better tomorrow together.

04/12/2020

For many years I have been talking about the importance of having a secondary income. Never in the history of our country has this been more important than it is today. Many African Americans are suffering financially because they banked on their job (just over broke) to never go away. Well, the internet is still going strong and those who prepared their business to be online are still making money. For a very small investment $99 to $199 you can be online with your business. Just watch this video that shows how to start your business on a shoestring.

10/03/2019

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08/22/2018

Kappa Alpha Psi is giving back to the community in a big way.🙌🙌

The brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi in California are doing some powerful work to prepare young men who emancipated with the things they need to succeed as young adults. The men of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated are well known across US College campuses as being debonair, well dressed and styl...

08/21/2018

Time to support a worthy cause!

01/07/2018

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11/01/2017

Solar-Powered Food Carts Helping Poor Black Entrepreneurs to Become Street Vendors

Three social entrepreneurs, Manon Lavaud, Nataliey Bitature, and Keisuke Kubota, have founded Musana Carts, a San Francisco-based company, that provides urban street vendors with a cleaner, safer and more efficient solution to their cooking, storage, and financing needs.

Their initial launch was in Uganda, and so far, their solar-powered food carts have already impacted the lives of 30 street vendors, giving them an otherwise impossible opportunity to run their own business. But the company's ultimate goal is to help tens of thousands of street vendors all throughout Africa!

Why its such a big deal

Food carts are very expensive. The typical price range for a food cart starts at around $5,000, but food trucks can be as much as $30,000. And this cost does not include the price of a power generator.

But Musana Carts feature innovative technology that include an eco-friendly stove (that reduces smoke emission and fire hazards), a small refrigerator, light bulbs and phone chargers. Everything is powered by a solar panel, meaning that charcoal is no longer needed.

In Uganda, the carts even include a business license because it is difficult for street vendors to obtain a license on their own. Musana also provides vendors with access to finance and business training.

Everything a street vendor needs

Manon Lavaud, strategic lead for Musana Carts, describes the carts as "a great solution for growing companies." The carts provide everything a street vendor needs to go into business for themselves.

Because most vendors cannot purchase the carts outright, they are allowed to pay a small amount each month until the cart is paid off. But vendors keep all their sales revenue!

After paying off the cart -- usually within one year -- vendors pay the equivalent of just $10 USD monthly in a franchise fee that ensures they continue to receive further training, branding and support.

Thanks to the innovative thinking of a socially conscious tech company, Musana Carts now offer a path to a sustainable, reliable income through street vending. The carts are referred to as "the urban vending solution of the future."

For more details about the company, visit

08/18/2017

Back in 2014, an innovative app company called Oju Africa, based in the country of Mauritius, has introduced a set of African/Black emojis as a solution to the lack of diversity on Apple's popular set of emojis used around the world. The unique emojis can be downloaded from the Google Play Store, and are designed to work on all Android platforms.

An emoji (or emoticon), for those that don't know, is a graphic representation of a facial expression, formed by using various combinations of keyboard characters. For example, typing in :-) creates a smile. Emojis are generally used in text messages, and on social meda platforms like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and others. Emoji apps are so popular that some of them are making up to $1 million dollars a day!

So why the need for Black emojis?

CNN recently interviewed Alpesh Patel, CEO of Oju Africa, and during the interview he explains why there was a need for the emoticons: "Oju is an iconic African character -- if you look at the main logo with the tongue sticking out, he's a cheeky, very friendly, cool African character that also works in digital by the smilie, but also works in non-digital by a traditional character licensing. Today Africa does not have its own Mickey Mouse, does not have its own Hello Kitty, there is no African character brand."

According to their web site, the company was created to "celebrate Africa", and what better way to do it then to give Africans a digital face that looks like them.

Just how big is the mobile phone industry in Africa?

Well, according to SmartPlanet.com, since the year 2000, the mobile phone market in Africa has grown from 16.5 million cell phone users to more than 650 million cell phone users. That means that the continent of Africa has more cell phone users than the United States or the entire European Union.

Patel comments, "Mobile is basically what makes Africa go round today, what makes Africa work today. We never had any fixed infrastructure so Africa has come from nothing to wireless and in that process we've been able to develop some superior networks in Africa compared to the ones in the western world."

Obviously with that many cell phone users in Africa plus the millions of African descendants around the world (African Americans, African Europeans, etc), it would be nice to have a digital set of emoticons that they can identify with.

For more details about Oju Africa, visit: www.ojuafrica.com

To download the Black emoticons to your mobile phone, visit: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=oju.emoticon.app

07/18/2017

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07/17/2017

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07/04/2017

WOW if you are in the Inland Empire, Super Clean Laundry is the place to go for all of your laundry needs. It is a black-owned and operated laundry facility that takes pride in giving back to the community. The owner, Leroy Jones is always making sure that the place is exactly what the name of his business is SUPER CLEAN. You will even be offered free coffee and donuts while you wait for your laundry to finish. Please share and let others know about Super Clean Laundry.
1008 N Mountain Ave, Ontario, CA 91762
Phone number (909) 395-5505