May 9, 2022 | Business, Entrepreneurship
Minority-focused business development platform, Black Billionaire Institute, takes its three-part workshop series to Tampa Bay to help minority communities build their startups. Dina Davis and her team at Black Billionaire Institute have taken the pursuit of providing...
May 9, 2022 | Business, Entrepreneurship
Black-owned businesses in Portland, Oregon, have found financial, emotional, and technical support by working with each other creating a tight-knit network of Black residents. Since the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement, Black-owned businesses in Portland have been...
May 9, 2022 | Entrepreneurship, Finance
With the housing redevelopments in Miami like Liberty Square, Liberty City is gaining economic momentum. Now the largest Black-owned bank in America, which has a customer branch in the inner city neighborhood, has begun to support local Black...
May 2, 2022 | Entrepreneurship, Food & Beverage
On a residential block in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a nondescript eatery has become all the rage by putting an inventive twist on a New York staple. The Black-owned Cuts & Slices on Howard Ave. attracts celebrities and regular crowds alike thanks to its...
May 2, 2022 | Detroit, Entrepreneurship
A new program at the Detroit Historical Museum is celebrating black entrepreneurs. “The Hustle” will document the history of Black Detroit businesses that are the backbone of their neighborhoods. This exhibit will incorporate things like photography, oral histories,...
May 2, 2022 | Entrepreneurship, History
America Newton, a formerly enslaved Black woman, and her young daughter, Clara, left rural Kansas 150 years ago, looking for a new beginning in the backcountry hills of San Diego County. To reach the small town of Julian, where Newton planned to homestead, she...
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