Issa Rae urges participation in Small Business Saturday

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A financial cashpot of £185million to help small businesses has been welcomed but Jackie Baillie MSP says the fund needs to be made available now - not next month.And the Labour member said that local firms were struggling to get access to some of the existing support grants.Finance secretary Kate Forbes last week announced the package of £185 million in additional targeted support will be made available to

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAnother front in the war between Facebook and Apple has erupted, with the two tech giants fighting over Apple’s move to implement a new opt-in requirement for users with iOS 14 devices to grant permission to be tracked for advertising purposes.Facebook is framing the dispute as one that will harm millions of small businesses that use its social networks to reach potential customers, and alleges that Apple is making it harder for advertisers to track consumers in

Stacey Solomon is the crafting queen, but as well as dressing her home with items she made this Christmas, she has also bought some fabulous decorations. The Loose Women panellist has cherry-picked a selection of very unique and personal festive delights to transform the Essex home she shares with her boyfriend Joe Swash, their baby Rex, and her sons Zachary, 12 and eight-year-old Leighton.

EXCLUSIVE: Issa Rae and La La Anthony want to scare the living daylights out of you and make you laugh at the same time with Juju.

Some governors are favoring celebrities and Hollywood in the enforcement of coronavirus-related shutdown orders, Fox News contributor Joe Concha said, reacting to a business owner in California who blasted an entertainment company for setting up a tent to feed its crew near her establishment, which had been forced to close due to public health concerns.

We simply can’t get enough of the hack and decorating queen that is Stacey Solomon. When she isn’t providing entertainment and great opinions on ITV’s Loose Women, she’s at home sharing all her nifty tips and tricks to her 3.9 million Instagram followers.

A small business owner said Sunday that California's new coronavirus shutdown may force him out of business.  Alex Miladi, the owner of a karate academy in South Yuba City, told "Fox & Friends" his business has already taken a 70% hit as a result of prior California lockdown measures to contain the virus. “This coming lockdown will pretty much put us out [of business],” he said.

You would think that perhaps HBO would have the inside track on landing a new series produced by Issa Rae and Adam McKay, right? Well, even though HBO is the home for Rae’s “Insecure” and various McKay projects including “Succession,” the premium network still found itself in a bidding war with some serious competition for the new half-hour comedy series, “Nice White Parents.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterIssa Rae and Adam McKay are teaming up to adapt the Serial Productions podcast “Nice White Parents” into a half-hour series at HBO, Variety has learned.The project has received a pilot commitment at the premium cabler.

Drew Barrymore is encouraging everyone to shop small this holiday season. The actress' talk show,, is sharing Drew's Little Book of Small Businesses Gift Guide -- filled with the star's handpicked holiday gift recommendations from small businesses from across the country. The show has curated the list from suggestions sent to Barrymore's Instagram, which resulted in over 70,000 submissions.

A video of a Michigan restaurant owner went viral Thursday after he interrupted a news reporter on live television to express his frustration with the government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Nov.

Glamour, I was not going to pass it up. “I remember hearing a quote from Nas when I was in high school that for every three dollars he makes, he saves one dollar, invests one dollar, and spends one dollar,” Rae tells me. Rae has tried to live by that advice ever since, but it's not just about where you invest those dollars, it's about where you spend them, too.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was widely slammed on Twitter this weekend for committing to helping small businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic despite having openly supported protesters at the height of social unrest over the summer. “Small businesses, especially Black and minority-owned businesses, urgently need relief to survive the effects of coronavirus this winter,” Harris, 56, tweeted on Saturday.

holiday gift, and there are many meaningful reasons to shop Black-owned businesses on Black Friday and through the holiday shopping season.First, the obvious: Buying something from any retailer puts money in their pocket, which they need in order to be sustainable. Black-owned businesses are often small businesses, so when the economy takes a hit like it has this past year, they're more at risk than massive retailers.

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SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – Sandwiched between Black Friday and Cyber Monday is Small Business Saturday, a national initiative to shop local and break away from large box stores.