Consumers worldwide might be tightening their belts, but Maggie Anderson's mind is black with plots to spend.Read the whole article and where would you suggest this family spend their money. Especially if their search for black businesses or professionals should take them here into the 6th.
Her Oak Park family is publicly committing to a year of buying from black-owned business and supporting black professionals exclusively, starting Jan. 1.
Maggie Anderson, daughter Cara and husband John vow to buy only from black-owned firms in 2009.
These days, she's searching frantically for black-owned firms for staple items and services, until she and her husband, John, can broaden their awareness of businesses and professionals.
That means she's got to find a new dry cleaner. She's looking for a place to gas up the family's two cars. And locating black McDonald's franchises is a must. "My girls love the fries," she said of her two daughters.
Her family's efforts will be followed by a team of college researchers as part of a project called the Ebony Experiment to determine the impact of the Andersons' spending if extrapolated to a larger portion of black America.
Dispatches from Chicago's south side.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Their year of buying black
From last Sunday's Sun-Times:
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