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...
Feb 23, 2026 | Entrepreneurs, Events
The Fayetteville Town Center’s 9th annual Black-Owned Business Expo introduced a “Kidpreneur Track” to support the next generation of entrepreneurial Black youth across Northwest Arkansas. This year’s expo featured two young entrepreneurs,...
Feb 16, 2026 | Business, Entrepreneurs, Fashion
Arin Reynolds started his own clothing line three years ago and has seen it blossom. “It gets me going every time I see somebody wearing my clothes,” Reynolds said. Reynolds grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved to Missouri for college. “You can get this...
Feb 16, 2026 | Entrepreneurs, Food & Beverage, History
A long-broken post-Civil War pledge is finding new meaning on Chicago’s West Side. During Black History Month, entrepreneur Liz Abunaw is reframing the historic promise of “forty acres and a mule” through the launch of her grocery store, Forty Acres Fresh Market, in...
Jan 5, 2026 | Entrepreneurs
There was a buzz in the air at a Starbucks near the downtown Miami Brightline station — and it wasn’t only because of the caffeine. A “Holiday Sip and Shine,” featuring kids’ games, a DJ and drink specials, took over the cafe. Concessions International, a Black-owned...
