18-Year Old Black Teen Entrepreneur Signs Major Deal With Target Stores — Introduces Plant-Based Skincare Giftbox!
Buffalo, NY — Zandra, a leading plant-based social good company that educates and empowers girls and women across the globe via STEAM & Entrepreneurial education, partners with Target. To mark the first time that Zandra products will be available in Target Stores, Zandra A. Cunningham…
Free Webinar Teaches African Americans a Little-Known Strategy to Making Money From the Stock Market
Nationwide — When most people think of making money from the stock market, they think of buying shares of stock in a company and making money as the stock, hopefully, appreciates in value. Eric Johnson, a computer engineer from Baltimore, MD, held this same perspective…
10-Year Old Boy Bowls a Perfect Game and Makes History!
Linden, NJ — Kai Struthers, a 10-year old boy from New Jersey, recently made history when he bowled a perfect game in a competition at Jersey Lanes in Linden. Kai is now the youngest person to bowl a 300, and the second youngest in the…
From Silent Film to Blaxploitation: The Film Detective Celebrates Black History Month with 70 Years of African-American Cinema History
Rockport, MA — The Film Detective, a classic film and television company that restores and distributes vintage films for today’s cord cutters, announces a lineup of prominent African-American films in honor of Black History Month. Beginning February 1st, the Featured category on the company’s app…
Mom Determined to Show Daughter the Importance of Education Crosses the Stage for Diploma While in Active Labor
Louisiana, LA – If you think graduating from college is difficult, imagine graduating from college while enduring birth contractions—because that’s exactly what happened to Anshonarial Greenhouse last week. She was all set to walk across the stage and receive her diploma from Louisiana State University…
This Father-and-Son Black-Owned Business Did Over $500 Million in Real Estate Deals in One Year
New York, NY – National Standard Abstract, a title-insurance firm based in New York, is one of the very few Black-owned business enterprises in the area. The company’s CEO, Osei Rubie, and his son, Nadir, equipped with a decade of experience in the title insurance…
Studying in South Africa and Learning Who I Am
Nationwide — I was born in Moca, a small city in the Dominican Republic, and today I am a 21-year old junior at Mercy College, in New Jersey. Thanks to the Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship, I studied in South Africa last summer, and it was…
Start-Up Capital Available For Aspiring Beauty Supply Owners
Nationwide — Beauty Supply Lending Group, an organization recently founded by Professor Devin Robinson, who wrote the best-selling book Taking it Back: How to Become a Successful Black Beauty Supply Owner in 2007 and founded Beauty Supply Institute in 2008, continues his work in the…
Meet the Genius Whose Revolutionary Payroll System Could Prevent Future Government Shutdowns
Maywood, IL — The pay system used by the United States Postal Service and many other government agencies has become outdated in a sense that technological advancements of today is no longer compatible with the slow-paced practices from decades ago. Unfortunately, the postal system of…
Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” Will Soon be a Classroom Curriculum For Young Black Girls
Nationwide — Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s book Becoming, which sold over 1.4 million copies in its first week of release, has inspired many Black women all over the world. Having been inspired by the book herself, Lauren Christine Mims, a former assistant director of the White House…
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