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For Black entrepreneurs, the most visible form of business capital is still venture capital. It is also one of the least representative of where most Black-owned businesses actually get money...
Back in the 1990s, Byron Allen was just a comedian trying to get TV stations to air his shows. His first attempt at building a company ended in bankruptcy. His house nearly went into foreclosure. More...
Imagine a freelance designer. They start making $3,000 a month from a home office. At first, it’s simple. Money comes in. Expenses go out. Everything runs under the owner’s legal name...
Long before Shaquille O’Neal became one of the world’s most recognizable athletes and businessmen, he was a child growing up in a low-income household, moving frequently as his stepfather...
Black entrepreneurship is growing faster than most headlines let on. The Kauffman Foundation found that 0.45 percent of Black adults aged 20 to 64 started a business in an average month in 2025...
For decades, sports worked on an unwritten rule: teams held the power, players took what they were offered. Free agency loosened that grip a little, sure. But most agents still just fought for bigger...
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...
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...
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...