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In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress. In 1972 she launched a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, breaking another political barrier.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| Framebridge | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Custom Framing |
| Founded | 2014 |
| Founder | Susan Tynan |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC |
Area served | United States |
Number of employees | 200 (2017) |
| Website | framebridge |
Framebridge is a direct-to-consumer startup company in the custom framing industry. The company allows customers to upload photography or mail in art to be framed,[1][2] and, beginning in 2019, began operating physical locations.
The company was founded in 2014 by Susan Tynan, who is the CEO.[3][4] Framebridge has raised more than $81 million in venture funding — the most ever raised by any woman-founded company in the D.C. area.[1][3][5][6] The company is headquartered in Washington, DC and operates a manufacturing facility in Richmond, Kentucky.
In 2017, the company announced a partnership with Target.[3][4] In November 2017, Nate Berkus joined Framebridge as Creative Advisor.[1]
In March 2019, Framebridge announced the launch of two new retail stores in the DC area, one in downtown and one in Bethesda.[7] As of January 2022, the company was operating 15 brick and mortar stores with plans to open 30 by the end of the year.
In May 2020, Framebridge was acquired by Graham Holdings.[8]
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Framebridge is a direct-to-consumer startup company in the custom framing industry. The company allows customers to upload photography or mail in art to be framed, and, beginning in 2019, began operating physical locations.
Fred D. Schaufeld (born September 23, 1959) is an entrepreneur, venture capital investor, sports team owner, philanthropist and patent holder. Schaufeld is a co-founder and managing director of SWaN & Legend Venture Partners (SWaN). He is a partner in Monumental Sports & Entertainment. He also is a partner in the Washington Nationals (MLB), Team Liquid (esports), the Professional Fighters League and the Hill Top House Hotel, Harpers Ferry, WV. Schaufeld is the majority owner of American Bike Ride, parent of the DC Bike Ride. American Bike Ride is designed to promote bicycle riding and currently hosts 20-mile, road rides in four cities across the United States. He also currently sits on the boards of Sugar23, DuraStat, José Andrés Group, Mindshow, Georgiamune and Telos (Nasdaq: TLS). He previously was an advisor to the boards of Cava Group, ClassEDU, Growcentia and Biothred and previously sat on the boards of American Honors College, Anonymous Content, Asurion, Bio-Warn, Framebridge, KIND Healthy Snacks, NEW, OrderGroove and SocialRadar. Prior to SWaN, Schaufeld founded and led National Electronics Warranty Corporation (NEW), which was acquired by Asurion in 2008 (now NEW Asurion). NEW Asurion is the world's largest consumer product protection company, employing more than 20,000 people worldwide. During his tenure, NEW was recognized by Inc. Magazine in its "Inc. 500" list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. Mr. Schaufeld is the patent holder of the Rigid Insurance Form (Patent #4,874,187) and a Founder and former President of the Service Contract Industry Council (SCIC), a national Extended warranty trade association that works with lawmakers across the country to develop fair and uniform regulation to protect consumers. In 1996, Schaufeld and his partner, Tony Nader, presented the financially troubled Best Buy Corporation (NYSE: BBY) with their concept: "Making Best Buy Even Better," suggesting comprehensive consumer extended warranties could be sold without pressure or sales commissions at significantly lower prices than offered by BBY's main competitor, Circuit City. The adoption of the program led BBY to become the single biggest NYSE large-cap turnaround/growth stock as of that time.
Stephen McConnell Case (born August 21, 1958) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist best known as the former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL). Case joined AOL's predecessor company, Quantum Computer Services, as a marketing vice-president in 1985. In 1991, he became CEO of the company (renamed AOL). Later, at the height of the dot-com bubble in 2000, Case orchestrated with Gerald M. Levin the merger that created AOL Time Warner, described as "the biggest train wreck in the history of corporate America." Since resigning as chairman of the company in 2003, he has launched a venture-capital firm, Revolution LLC, based in Washington, D.C., and authored The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future, which in 2016 became a New York Times bestselling book. In 2022, he published his second book, The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream.
The Washington–Baltimore combined metropolitan statistical area is a statistical area, including the overlapping metropolitan areas of Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. The region includes Central Maryland, Northern Virginia, three counties in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, and one county in south-central Pennsylvania. It is the most educated, highest-income, and third-most populous combined statistical area in the United States behind New York City–Newark, NJ and Los Angeles–Long Beach. The area is designated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the Washington–Baltimore–Arlington, DC–MD–VA–WV–PA Combined Statistical Area. It is composed primarily of two major metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), the Washington–Arlington–Alexandria, DC–VA–MD–WV MSA and the Baltimore–Columbia–Towson, Maryland Metropolitan Statistical Area. Five smaller urban areas not contiguous to the main urban area but having strong commuting ties with the main area are included in the metropolitan area: Hagerstown–Martinsburg, Maryland–West Virginia MSA, the Chambersburg–Waynesboro, Pennsylvania MSA, the Winchester, VA–WV MSA, the California–Lexington Park, Maryland MSA, and the Easton, Maryland micropolitan statistical area (μSA). Some counties, such as Caroline and King George County, Virginia, are not officially designated by OMB as members of this metropolitan area but still consider themselves members anyway. This is mostly due to their proximity to the area, the size of their commuter population, and by the influence of local broadcasting stations. The population of the entire Washington–Baltimore Combined Statistical Area as of the 2020 census was 9,973,383. The area's most-populous city is Washington, D.C., with a population of 689,545, and the area's most populous county is Fairfax County, Virginia, with a population of 1,150,309.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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