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San Francisco losing black residents, black businesses

Jun 18, 2014
A bookstore closes shop because so many African-Americans have left San Francisco.
Shoppers inside Marcus Books in San Francisco's Fillmore District, before the store closed for good.
Lydia Daniller - lydiadaniller.com

Black buying power hits $1.1 trillion. What does it mean?

Feb 7, 2014
If we were talking about countries, that would be the 16th biggest economy in the world, but it's not a country, it's the combined buying power of a group of people who are part of this country: African-Americans.