Star C Empowerment

01/17/2026

Congratulations Blake and the Williams Crew! Wow 🤩 all grown up!!

01/17/2026

Super Excited for today’s beautiful bead party!

01/10/2026

Of course everyone has a photo of these dog brothers being fancy… okay AI🤔😂

01/10/2026

Rocks of Love🎊

01/10/2026

The Crystal Shop had a significant number of visitors today. We are grateful for your loyalty, CoMo. Upcoming Chakra Classes are anticipated, mark your calendars!

01/04/2026

Hello 👋 I’m Star and I’ve been a business owner since 2015! I have been slowly building our brand and business!! We will be sharing so much more to come…..

12/22/2025

Carrie Payne!!

The Candy Lady Was the System
Across Black America, a front-room business became a neighborhood’s smallest, steadiest institution—priced in quarters and governed by respect.

For many Black Americans, “the Candy Lady” is a memory so universal it can feel folkloric—one of those childhood references that prompts a smile before you’ve even decided you’re smiling. Yet if you treat the Candy Lady as nostalgia, you miss what she reveals: a neighborhood institution built at the scale of the living room.

She sold candy, yes. She sold chips and pickles and juice and sometimes baked goods bought in bulk and resold as individual portions. She sold frozen cups—Kool-Aid or fruit drink poured into plastic sleeves and frozen solid—called different names in different places, but recognized everywhere as the price of surviving summer. And she sold something else, less sentimental and more consequential: predictability.

The Candy Lady was a micro-economy calibrated to scarcity and a safety system that didn’t call itself one. In neighborhoods shaped by segregation, underinvestment, food deserts, and over-policing, the Candy Lady’s enterprise often filled gaps the formal economy left behind. She made childhood more navigable: one less hungry hour, one less unsupervised stretch, one more adult who knew your name and knew how to enforce a rule without calling the state.

Read the full article at https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/12/21/the-candy-lady-was-the-system/

12/22/2025

Family and Friends today is the day! Come on out and get a unique gift for your family!

12/07/2025

This is getting exciting!!! The Crystal Bar is coming along! Let us warm up your cup with Larimar from the DR!

12/06/2025

Tonight was a blessing…. Thank You 😊

10/15/2025

Here we go…. Which one is your favorite?

10/13/2025

What’s your favorite color of Jade?