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Sixty-six days passed between the public release of SARS-CoV-2’s genetic sequence and the start of the first clinical trial of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire was among the...
The Black Cultural Assets Entering the Public Domain: 5 Opportunities for Creators and Entrepreneurs
A century after its release, Bessie Smith’s “The St. Louis Blues,” with Louis Armstrong on cornet, is available for reuse in the United States without a licence for that recording. It is one of...
A study of French small-business owners found that they reported fewer daily recovery experiences than employees. Across four surveys, better recovery was associated with greater well-being and lower...
On March 18, 2026, New York State Senator Leroy Comrie introduced Senate Resolution J1778. It proposes recognising Black Entrepreneurs Week from October 21 to 28 and lists planned “Game Changer...
At a Senate Banking Committee hearing in February 2026, Angela Alsobrooks put a direct question to four federal banking regulators: should banks help enforce immigration law? She asked those who...
In 2015, Dr. Joy Buolamwini was working on an art project at MIT when facial-analysis software failed to detect her face. She put on a white mask. The software detected it. That incident stayed with...
On March 21, 2023, people raced across New York looking for a pair of Nike Air Max 95s. The shoes were part of a Corteiz release, the London streetwear label founded by Clint Ogbenna, whose social...
For nine months, Marshmallow’s founders worked from the lounge of a Virgin Active gym. British-Jamaican identical twins Oliver and Alexander Kent-Braham and software engineer David Goaté were trying...
In 2022, Boston University’s Stone Gallery put Cey Adams’s subway graffiti photographs beside Def Jam album covers he helped design. The room made a career visible in one glance: lettering first made...