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Black businesses remain largely unattractive to venture capitalists. As such, many Black entrepreneurs source funds through family and friends to launch or expand their business. Although the Black Lives Matter...

Kevin Livingston is the Founder and CEO of 100 Suits for 100 Men. Founded in 2011, the organization was created to serve the needs of men and women in need of...

Flutterwave was not the first of its kind in Africa when it was started in 2016 by Nigerian technologists and former bankers. But perhaps, the point of its success can be attributed to the...

For so many years, the agriculture sector has been the mainstay of Africa’s economy until it was recently overtaken by the services sector. Many development analysts have said agriculture is...

Nashlie Sephus is on a mission to build a tech hub in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, to train the next generation in technology. Downtown Jackson is not known for its technology...

Ashley Lamothe started working at Chick-Fil-A when she was 15 years old in her hometown of Atlanta so as to save money to buy a car and go to college....

Morgan Stanley has announced 11 startups for its fifth cohort of the Multicultural Innovation Lab, including seven companies run by Black founders. The Lab is an accelerator program for technology and technology-enabled...

In the age of globalization, it appears every facet of the business community is being digitized. Usually, in the barbering industry, if one wanted a haircut, he or she simply...

Parents never want to see their children in any form of pain. They naturally look for remedies to relieve their kids of their distress and that let a Baltimore father...

Young environmental scientist Dorothy Jean Tillman garnered national attention when she received her master’s degree at 14-years-old. Now, the Chicago teen is breaking into entrepreneurship by exposing more youth to opportunities...

An Atlanta-based hair entrepreneur started off as a bank executive while braiding hair as a side hustle in 2010. Tiffini Gatlin took the risk and put the earnings of her twenty-plus years...

Many young people across the country have dreams of becoming their own boss and creating their own business. One young Philadelphian has already started a business at the tender age of 11,...