Blogs
The Consumption Multiplier: Keeping the Black Dollar Local
The power of the Black dollar is not that it’s large but that it has the ability to circulate in communities. When dollars recirculate locally, the multiplier effect creates more jobs and services than one-off purchases. That is how neighborhoods build assets.
Opportunity Zones and the Missing Black Businessowners
Opportunity Zones promised to funnel long-term capital into neglected neighborhoods. The idea had potential. Too often execution favored large developers and absentee investment rather than local entrepreneurs. The result was headlines but limited local business transformation.
Consumer Power Is Community Power
SpadesLife exists to remind us of this truth. By choosing to support one another, we rewrite the rules of wealth creation. Consumer power becomes community power, and community power becomes generational wealth.
When Culture Becomes Cashflow
African American culture fuels billion-dollar industries—from hip-hop and fashion to food trends and viral content. But too often, our creative genius gets monetized by others. Now is the time to shift from being the influencer to owning the infrastructure. In 2025, with job loss among Black women continuing to rise and corporate DEI programs being quietly defunded, cultural ownership is not just about pride—it’s about power.