Amanda Seales Talks Black Entrepreneurship [Video]

During her keynote speech at Newark’s Black Creative Economy Summit, Amanda Seales shared her thoughts on how Black business owners should head in. She spoke passionately from her perch in a director’s chair on the stage at Newark Symphony Hall. 

Seales recommended that Black business owners divorce themselves from the idea that they should be modeling their companies on best practices that have traditionally served White businesses. 

Moving Different

“We just need to operate differently than what has been demonstrated for us, and I feel like the only blueprint that’s been told to Black people that works is what White people do,” she said. “And that is not a real thing.” 

As an independent producer, Seales often develops her projects outside of more predictable pipelines. 

The Black New Jersey Creative community gathered in the newly renovated ballroom to listen to the experiences of Seales and other creatives carving out space for themselves. The industries that the panelists have thrived …