Entrepreneur Agnes Davis is on a mission to prevent drownings among Black kids.

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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently announced that Johnson Publishing Co.’s former headquarters may be designated as a landmark.

Harlem has become a hotbed for entrepreneurship. Business incubators and gentrification are shaping the business scene.

According to an article on the Black Enterprise Magazine’s website blackenterprise.com, Black women are starting up businesses at a rate 6 times the national average; in fact the number of businesses owned by Black women increased from 1 in 6 back in 1997 to 1 in 3 in 2015. Businesses owned by non-minority women increased by […]

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Presidential candidate Jim Webb, the former Senator of Virginia, shared his discontent with the Democratic debate.

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In this week’s edition of the CBC Message to America, Congressman Donald Payne, Jr.  (NJ-10) discusses how African-American owned small business are vital to the…

On July 23, 2014, a Majority Report of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship was released, detailing their key findings and next…

With inspirational women like Cathy Hughes, Oprah and Iman to look up to, Black women entrepreneurs don’t have the mental block of uncharted territory to…

A program aimed at helping jumpstart the local economies of struggling cites is pairing high-performing college graduates and business startups in cities like Detroit, New Orleans and Providence, R.I. Modeled after Teach For America, Venture For America is a two-year program that places recent college graduates into business startups. “Our concrete goal is to generate […]