What is the Black Economic Revolution? | w/ Seren Sensei | Brut

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Inspired by Black Power’s rhetoric of economic self-determination and reignited by the Black Lives Matter movement, the movement to #BuyBlack and divest from businesses that contribute to racial inequality has been picking up steam.

Since 2015, YouTuber, writer, and activist Seren Sensei only shops at black-owned businesses, which she sees this as a solution to keeping money in the black community.

"I decided to buy only from black-owned businesses, almost as a challenge to myself," she said. "A lot of black people are starting to realize the importance of circulating the dollar within our own communities."

Platforms connecting consumers to black-owned businesses are also growing in popularity. Official Black Wall Street started on Instagram and now has an app that helps consumers discover black-owned businesses. And We Buy Black, a massive online marketplace for black-owned businesses, seeks to rival Amazon.

• To learn more about the Buy Black Movement:
▶︎ Website:
https://www.buyblackmovement.com/Home/

To learn more about Black Lives Matter:
▶︎Website:
https://blacklivesmatter.com/
▶︎Facebook:
  / blacklivesmatter  
▶︎Twitter:
  / blklivesmatter  
▶︎Instagram:
  / blklivesmatter  

• To learn more about the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s:
▶︎https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/the...

• To read the report from Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity “What We Get Wrong About Closing the Racial Wealth Gap”:
▶︎https://socialequity.duke.edu/sites/s...

• To follow Seren Sensei:
▶︎ Her Youtube channel:
   / @senseiaishitemasu  
▶︎ Her Tumblr:
  / sensei-aishitemasu  
▶︎ Her Facebook page:
  / seren-sensei-651740511679676  
▶︎ Her Instagram account :
  / sensei_aishitemasu  

▶︎ To order her book “So, About That... A Year Of Contemporary Essays on Race and Pop Culture”
shorturl.at/dKMW7

• Special thanks to Angel Anderson, owner of the Spice Suite in Washington, D.C.
▶︎ Website:
https://www.thespicesuite.com/
▶︎ Instagram:
  / thespicesuite  
▶︎ Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/TheSpiceSuit...

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