In 2015, Black Americans had nearly $1.2 trillion in buying power. By 2016, Nielsen estimated that about 11.5 million Black millennials lived in the United States. Despite their economic influence and cultural presence, major media brands still viewed them as…
Trevor Rozier-Byrd left a secure Wall Street career to solve a problem he believed traditional finance had failed to address: helping underserved communities build wealth through investing. Most people choose to stay, get promotions, and build wealth within the system…
A guidance counsellor once told Aisha Bowe that college might not be for her. Years later, she would become a NASA rocket scientist and one of the few Black women to travel to space.. At that time, she was earning…
The founders supported through Felecia Hatcher’s ecosystem have gone on to raise more than $280 million in capital. Yet Hatcher has never argued that funding is the real problem. She believes the bigger challenge is building the infrastructure that makes…
Tems did not need to change her sound to become a part of American popular music. Instead, a song she had written and produced years earlier became the emotional backbone of one of the biggest hip-hop records of the decade.…
