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Nevaeh Dent, center, and her mentees: London Loman, Constance Dennis, Kamaiya Hyman, and Skyla "KK" Kenion.
To understand how Nevaeh Dent came to run her own beauty supply shop, salon, and after-school program teaching young people the finer points of braiding, makeup, nails, lashes, confidence-building, and entrepreneurship — all in her early twenties — you have to go back to her Troup Middle School fifth-grade teacher, Marissa White.
“Just her being young and Black, being a teacher,” Dent said, was an inspiration for all she knew she too could accomplish.
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Sep 9, 2024 11:56 am
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Time A Tell's Josh McCown in action with Moroccan-born American rapper French Montana at Oakdale Theatre.
Jayce Greene, 10, and his mother pushed through the door of Time A Tell, the clothing store and smoke shop at 1700 Dixwell Ave. He was looking for a Time A Tell hoodie.
“All the kids on my team are wearing them,” said Jayce, a student at Worthington-Hooker School and member of the Elm City Elite basketball team, as owner Joshua McCown brought out a selection of sizes and colors in the high-ceilinged, warmly-lit space. “They’re all over New Haven,” his mother added.
That’s an index of the quantum leap that McCown, 20, has taken in the two years since opening his shop with a mission to leverage his eye for fashion into being his own boss and realizing financial freedom.
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Aug 20, 2024 9:43 am
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Young entrepreneurs (clockwise from left) Erron Duncan, Chance, Tae Cunningham, Michael "MJ" Smith, Nyla Shepard, and Mathieu Duncan, with Gorilla Lemonade's Kristen Threatt.
On a recent sun-drenched morning, Nyla Shepard, a ninth grader at Eli Whitney Tech, approached a white Honda on the corner of Legion and Sherman Avenues, a bottle of lemonade in each hand. The driver shook her head, then redirected her eyes at the road.
“People are gonna do that,” she said, as the light turned green. “You just gotta get used to it.”
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Jul 17, 2024 12:57 pm
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Lino Liuzzi with brother Nicola, co-founders of Liuzzi Cheese.
The aging room at Liuzzi cheese — what Lino built.
Pasquale “Lino” Liuzzi’s first job upon immigrating to America in 1962 was pouring concrete for sidewalks in the Bronx.
A few weeks after landing that work, he saw an ad in an Italian newspaper: a factory in East Haven was looking for a cheesemaker. He decided to give it a shot.
So he took a train to New Haven station — and took his first steps towards building a Connecticut cheese empire.
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Mar 13, 2024 12:57 pm
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Joshua McCown.
Spaced out on the walls of Time A Tell, a clothing store and smoke shop at 1700 Dixwell Ave., are black-and-white photos. Each shows a celebrated rap artist — Baby Money, DThang, Cuban Doll, Skilla Baby, and Babyfxce E — wearing Time A Tell clothing made by Joshua McCown, the shop’s 20-year-old owner.
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Feb 20, 2024 2:21 pm
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Co-owners Donald Moody and Mujahid Mohammed with Dannie Beverly of Made in Greenwood smoke shop.
Mujahid Mohammed had a dream. So did Dannie Beverly. And Donald Moody. It was, as it turned out, the same dream.
“All three of us did time in prison, and we wanted to come up with something for the community, a platform to give back, and that was starting our own business,” said Mohammed on a recent afternoon at Made in Greenwood.
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WaveMAX's ribbon-cutting ceremony.
In December, Michelle Robinson graduated from the city’s program for new entrepreneurs. Last week, she and her husband Jazz Stair celebrated the grand opening of WaveMAX, their new laundromat in Quinnipiac Meadows.
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Jan 8, 2024 11:26 am
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Hallie "Rock" Bolden, Jr. with Hallie "Bizzy" Bolden III.
The bell above the door sounded at DA’W.O.R.L.D., the Whalley Avenue mecca for men’s urban clothing.
“Coming in for some love,” the customer said, dapping up DA’W.O.R.L.D. manager Hallie “Bizzy” Bolden III, wardrobe consultant Tariq “Riq” Bolden and owner Hallie “Rock” Bolden, Jr. behind the counter. “Have a good one.”
