May 4, 2026 | Canada, Entrepreneurs, Leadership
Entrepreneurs, professionals, community organizers and university students gathered in Old Montreal this weekend to discuss empowering the city’s black communities and the issues they face in the business world. The Black Economic Forum in Montreal aims to act...
Apr 27, 2026 | Entrepreneurs, Events
Three Brooklyn small businesses took top honors at the inaugural Ignite Brooklyn Made Pitch Competition on April 15 at BRIC Arts Media, where finalists competed live for a share of $50,000 in additional funding. The Shark Tank-style event marked the culmination of a...
Apr 13, 2026 | Business, Entrepreneurs
“What’s next?” That’s the question Nicole Murphy asked herself when sudden unemployment forced her into entrepreneurship in 2014. A new opportunity came within the property management industry but when the pandemic hit, her company became one of the 450,000...
Mar 30, 2026 | Business, Entrepreneurs, Leadership
A Brooklyn entrepreneur is gaining international attention for transforming cultural influence into economic opportunity, linking American brands with rapidly expanding markets across Africa and the Middle East. Peter Brooks, founder of 28th & Foster, has built a...
Mar 30, 2026 | Entrepreneurs, Food & Beverage
Chinatown Square, which opened in 2017 as an Asian food hall in the former Shanghai Bazaar gift emporium, was all but empty for two years, as its vendors dropped out one by one. The double storefront at 1016 Race St. is being revived as the Square Food Court, overseen...
Mar 23, 2026 | Entrepreneurs, Women
Black women have a long history as workers in the United States – from the early horrors of their traumatic, involuntary arrival as forced slave laborers to their present-day reality where they must navigate persistent gender and racial norms and expectations about...
