First Black-Owned Cigar and Hookah Lounge Opens In Detroit
Lindsay Keener October 22, 2020 Detroit is one establishment closer to being the blueprint for Black-owned innovation and it has Lance McGhee to thank. McGhee is...
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This Founder Sold her Start-up to Amazon at 27 — Now as Head of Google for Startups US, She’s Helping Give Back
Published Wed, Oct 21 2020 By Catherine Clifford Jewel Burks Solomon is a 31-year-old Black woman heading a key division of Google. She is also...
A New Picture Book Reminds Black Sons: You Are ‘Every Good Thing’
The kids in I Am Every Good Thing are compared to the best things: moonbeams on brand new snow, the center of a cinnamon roll, a perfect...
She Did The RIGHT Thing – How One Teacher’s Black Lives Matter Lesson Divided a Small Wisconsin Town
Oct. 24, 2020, 4:30 AM By Tyler Kingkade She wanted her fourth grade class to understand systemic racism. Parents said she was indoctrinating their children and...
These Twin Sisters Started A Wine Brand That Celebrates Black Culture
By Deanna Taylor: AUG 24, 2020 7:34 AM As Jay Z said, “what’s better than one? Two. Especially when they’re from the same hue as you.”...
African and African American Entrepreneurs Collaborate to Build a Community in Ghana (Video Interview)
Published on September 6, 2020 By Shoppe Black Kofi Anku is a shareholder and board member of Ayi Mensah Park, a vibrant of 200 unit townhouse...
Denver Entrepreneurs Launch App Designed to be “a GPS to Find Black-Owned Businesses”
By JOE RUBINO | jrubino@denverpost.com | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: September 4 A GPS for finding Black-owned businesses. That’s the vision Ramond Murphy and Mariam Kazadi had this summer after being...
Fabiana Pierre-Louis Becomes New Jersey Supreme Court’s First Black Woman Justice
By Dana Givens September 3, 2020 This week, the New Jersey Supreme Court made history by swearing in Fabiana Pierre-Louis as the newest Supreme Court justice. She is...
R&B Singer Akon is Building a ‘Real-Life Wakanda’ Worth $6 Billion in Senegal
Aisha Salaudeen, CNN • Updated 2nd September 2020 (CNN) — The award-winning R&B singer Akon is going ahead with ambitious plans to build a “futuristic” city in Senegal...
Three Brothers Create All-Natural Vegan Frozen Pops Inspired By Black Culture
By Rae Williams | August 30, 2020 Amid a pandemic, a civil rights reckoning, and the heat of the Los Angeles summer, three young brothers are helping to...