Nationwide — This 12 months’s tenth Annual Alaska Black Business Expo was the most important gathering of Black-owned companies and supporters within the state of Alaska. It was attended by 1000’s and is to date one of the profitable Black enterprise expos held throughout the nation.
The festivities are all the time held the primary weekend in February every year in Anchorage Alaska to kick off black historical past month and act as a gathering spot for all issues black tradition, enterprise, and neighborhood. This 12 months’s occasions had been held in collaboration with many neighborhood companions and companies together with the Anchorage Museum, NAACP Anchorage, Ohana Media Group, Subsequent Degree Teaching, Worldwide Salon Institute, The Di Expertise, Waffles and Whatnot, Edutainment Nite Publishing, and extra.
Visitors included: Talib Kweli, Legendary Rapper and Group ActivistCarlton Brown, Co-Founding father of FUBUJ Alexander Martin, Co-Founding father of FUBU, Keith Perrin, Co-Founding father of FUBU, Antoine Tutt, President of Gross sales at FUBU/COOGI, Regina Davenport, A Banner Imaginative and prescient, Sheley Anderson, Anderson Legislation GroupLeslie Jennings, Leslie Jennings Actual Property, Derrick Inexperienced, Waffles and WhatnotSophia Metters, and The Hole Program.
This 12 months’s occasions featured panel discussions, a black enterprise expo, a citywide free day on the museum, a youth entrepreneur pitch, an after celebration, and Alaska Black Artistic’s Style Present that includes Alaskan designers in addition to FUBU, COOGI, and David Banner Assortment.
Jasmin Smith, Founder and Creator of the occasion, feedback, “This occasion is designed to point out our neighborhood what we’re able to. There may be a lot to know, be taught, and have fun and every year we get nearer to that dream of redefining generational wealth. My hope is that these occasions encourage my neighborhood and others to dream, envision the longer term they need, and know there are sources and help to make it occur. Alaska has an distinctive black neighborhood doing nice work that’s historical past within the making and we wish to have fun that for generations to come back regionally and nationwide. There are such a lot of folks to thank for making the occasions this weekend doable and I need every of them to know the way appreciated they’re.”
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