On January 18, 2020, Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly stood at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and made it official. The fourth Ford-class supercarrier, CVN-81, would be the USS Doris Miller. Not an…
Back in the late 1990s, not many believed a small enterprise software company could go global while Oracle, SAP, and IBM ate everything in sight. The market was consolidating fast. Internet infrastructure was still shaky. Investors wanted safe bets, not…
For years, publishing operated on an assumption: fantasy with Black protagonists just didn’t sell. Nobody said it out loud, exactly, but the shelves told the story. Eurocentric worlds everywhere. Millions of kids growing up without a single book that looked…
Black-owned businesses play a significant role in the American economy. In 2023, the United States had around 201,000 Black-owned employer businesses that generated about $249 billion in revenue. Every dollar lost to avoidable penalties, missed deductions, or poor tax planning…
The NAACP is launching a significant campaign for the upcoming midterm elections. It is committing $20 million to encourage Black voters participation ahead of November 2026. This campaign comes at a critical time for voting rights in America. On July…
