The headline number is encouraging: Black Americans owned about 4.4 million businesses without employees in 2023. Those businesses brought in $128.7 billion, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data. Then comes the number that changes the story. Roughly 201,000…
Maybe the smartest thing Doechii ever did was decide a project mattered less than everyone assumed it did. By 2022 she was past the independent-artist stage — Top Dawg Entertainment and Capitol Records had teamed up around her, which meant…
By 2015, Bevel had already cleared the hard part, or you’d think so. Customers were buying Tristan Walker’s shaving system — built for men with coarse or curly hair — and coming back for replacement blades. The actual problem was…
He barely moved up on that Hall H stage. No fist pump, no big wave to the crowd. Just a guy in his early thirties, born and raised in London, trained at RADA, standing there while two thousand people who…
Ayo Edebiri’s most revealing career move didn’t happen in front of a camera. During “Fishes” — the season two episode of The Bear where Sydney Adamu doesn’t even show up — Edebiri kept coming to set anyway. She was already…
