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A black lawyer enjoys great financial success in Kentucky, despite racial bias.

A recent report of a loan company in Richmond shows that it has not discriminated by race when granting loans, known as redlining.

The Planet supports a Richmond Times Dispatch article that discusses the burden of “social equality” and forced integrated events such as the “equality dinner.”

A black news-dealer requests twenty-five copies of the Planet so he can sell only black-owned newspapers after seeing “100 colored men and boys with nothing but white papers to sell.”

Wells and Company Book Concern advertises positions for agents to sell a book written by a black man about race relations.

The Planet praises Alexander’s Magazine as “the most excellent publication,” citing its inclusion of work by “the great African composer” S. Coleridge-Taylor and Dr. Booker T. Washington.

An advertisement for a medication, Asthamalene, from New York City, promises to cure anyone from asthma, mentioning several people's success stories with the product.

A young black worker learns you can’t teach yourself to drive after taking his boss’s car for a joy ride into a restaurant window.

Hicks’ Swimming Pool and Grove opens after undergoing renovations and doubling in size.

An advertisement that offers a skin care, hair care, and odor care all in one.