With Boston’s municipal election around the corner, Imari Paris Jeffries, executive director of King Boston, and Segun Idowu, President & CEO of BECMA, call on

BECMA was pleased to see that 21 members and partners were named to the Boston Business Journal’s Power 50 list this year. This year’s Power

“Fred Alger Management, LLC (“Alger”) today announced a contribution of $160,000 to charities that focus on social justice or are dedicated to addressing inequality.  These

Cambridge City Council candidates discussed strategies for federal funding allocation, employment opportunities, and city-wide safety in a virtual forum Thursday evening. “Co-hosted by the Cambridge Community

‘This is one of the only times in our lifetime that we will have this huge infusion of financial resources to create a new world,” said Segun Idowu, president of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts and a member of the coalition. “We’re telling everybody that if you want the business owners in your district to still be business owners next year, you have to put out money right now.”

“This is one of the only times in our lifetime that we will have this huge infusion of financial resources to create a new world,” said Segun Idowu, president of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts and a member of the coalition. “We’re telling everybody that if you want the business owners in your district to still be business owners next year, you have to put out money right now.”

Leaders in Boston’s Black and Latinx communities plan to gather at Morning Star Baptist Church in Mattapan after the Sept. 14 mayoral preliminary ended without

The voters have spoken, and Boston’s next mayor will be a woman, but not a Black woman. For those hopeful that a Black Bostonian would finally achieve the mayoral office, the disappointment about Tuesday’s preliminary election, when none of the three Black candidates advanced to the final, was severe but not altogether surprising.

Grace’s new restaurant, The Underground Cafe + Lounge had its official opening Monday. It’s a cafe and event space in the ground floor of the luxury dorm, catering to both students and the surrounding Roxbury community.

“These sort of grants are valuable, said Segun Idowu, president of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, because Black entrepreneurs have historically had less access