Meet a culinary expert and business leader Claude Booker, the CEO, and founder of Booker’s Soul Food Starters which are now available in over 1,000 grocery stores across the country. His business providing Southern side dishes for buffets was decimated as a direct result of the pandemic, and most buffets remain closed. He pivoted his business during...
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31-Year old becomes youngest black lawyer to open an office on the southside of Chicago.
Attorney Shymane Robinson, founder, and CEO of True Lawyer, is now the youngest Black lawyer to have a law firm office on the Southside of Chicago. At just 31-years old, she now has two offices in the city for her real estate and trademark law firm that helps transform black communities. Her firm is also the...
Women of color with breast cancer launch new brand photography campaign to build awareness
For the Breast of Us, the first-ever blog and online community for all women of color affected by breast cancer is excited to announce the launch of its new brand photography in an effort to increase the representation and inclusion of minority breast cancer thrives. For the first time since launching in 2019, it has...
A woman who once saw her dad point a gun at her mom is now helping others to overcome childhood trauma
Patrice Brantley, a community licensed mental health therapist, says she watched her father tried to kill her mother when she was just 6-years old. Patrice Brantley is an author, educator, licensed therapist, and podcaster, who is on a mission to empower others to overcome childhood trauma and heal. At a young age, Patrice Brantley experienced...
Meet the siblings who are teaching other kids how to speak up to 8 different languages.
Meet 4-year old Emilio, 6-year old Amora, 8-year old Rosie, 10-year old LaLa, 12-year old Anita, 16-year old Malachi, 18-year old Kimoni, 20-year old Mina, and baby Makalo. These young homeschoolers have created a YouTube channel called Multilingual Stars Academy that offers fun and exciting content to help children learn the basics of different languages. “Learning different...
Founder of TRiBL Messaging app for Pan-African commerce has a plan for a new black wall street
Ikechi Nwabuisi, Founder & CEO of TRiBL, today calls for a “New Black Wall Street,” offering a bold vision on how Blacks around the world can create generational wealth by building off some of the many lessons learned 100 years after the famed Greenwood community in Tulsa was destroyed. Nwabuisi, a Nigerian-American, is the founder...
Black mom and daughter duo makes history and open apparel store in one of La’s most luxurious malls.
Meet Lakeisha Jackson and her daughter, Katelyn, who are making history as the first African American mom-daughter duo to open a Black-owned lifestyle athletic leisure apparel store for women at the high-end Topanga Mall in Los Angeles. Their company, SGH Apparel™, is a lifestyle brand dedicated to superwomen who are movers and shakers, risk-takers, and goal-getters....
Mom and daughter team up to launch the newest black woman-owned record label.
For months, Selena B. Hunter had been agonizing over what to call her new record company. The label would be the embodiment of “Black Girl Magic.” It would be groundbreaking. It would be bold. And it would be built on principles rarely, if ever, seen in an industry often riddled with misogyny and exploitation. Artists...
Meet the black entrepreneur partnering with hospitals across the country to help motivate their nurses.
Meet Rasheda Hatchett, a registered nurse, author, speaker, and resilience expert that educates and empowers thousands of nurses from across the country. Her company, Rasheda Hatchett Media, LLC, helps high-achieving healthcare leaders optimize their teams’ reach and productivity through the lens of resilience. During the pandemic, healthcare workers are fighting a lethal virus with acute shortages...
Founders of Black women-led organization launch event series.
FOUNDERS OF BLACK WOMEN-LED ORGANIZATION LAUNCH EVENT SERIES TO TEACH EDUCATORS HOW TO BE MORE INNOVATIVE Teach Your Heart Out (TYHO), a Black-women-led organization, founded by Lisa Dunnigan and Tosha Wright, is committed to creating high-impact programs and events for educators. They have recently announced their schedule of events through summer 2022. The upcoming schedule...