Black entrepreneurship is blowing up right now. Still, building a company you can actually scale looks wildly different depending on where you drop your pin on the map. Back in 2023, the count of Black-owned employer businesses topped 200,000. That…
Roz Brewer didn’t climb some neat corporate ladder. She kept jumping into messier, bigger problems on purpose. Twenty-two years at Kimberly-Clark. Started as a scientist. Ended up running the Global Nonwovens business. Then she walked away from all that seniority.…
When Ellison stepped in as CEO back in July 2018, Lowe’s was making money, but it was all over the place. Home Depot was beating them on sales. Core retail tech was falling behind. Activist investors at D.E. Shaw were…
You’ve spent hours perfecting your resume, tailoring your cover letter, checked for typos, saved your files as PDFs, and finally hit “Submit.” And then… crickets. You’re not alone. The average job search now takes about six months. With roughly 11,000 job applications…
Starting a business as a Black founder in America isn’t a one-size-fits-all deal. Everyone brings different tools, budgets, and ambitions to the table. There’s no secret playbook. What actually decides if you make it? Old-school discipline. Solve a real problem,…
