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...
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....
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...
Jeneba Barrie, the founder of Jeneba Barrie Footwear, a Black woman-owned diverse, and inclusive luxury skin-tone shoe line, is celebrating 3 years of business this August. Jeneba originally launched in 2019 after running a successful Kickstarter campaign. The company is dedicated to redefining the meaning of “nude” shoes from one or two shades of beige to...
As Devonte Saunders walks through a luxury condo in his hometown of Atlanta, he can’t help but reflect on his years growing up as a child in the foster care system. The word “home” was always a foreign word to him, considering that he never had one. In fact, during one stretch of his childhood between 2004...
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...
Even during a pandemic, we have learned that people still want to a reason to celebrate. This past weekend, the Grand Opening of Elegant Affairs Conference & Event Center revealed to its attendees how EXCITING a non traditional space can be; repurposed and personalize to fulfill the expectation of a memorable celebration. The grand opening...
Today the Delbert B. Madison II Foundation launched in Montgomery, Alabama. The mission of the foundation is to give support to students who persevered through a life challenge with a scholarship. For more information regarding the foundation and the scholarship visit www.DBM2Foundation.com.
Mirabel Umenei, a mother of three and the founder of Motherland Cooking Xperience, has launched interactive, virtual cooking lessons for children ages 3 to 15-years old that highlight Africa’s culinary diversity. The online classes combine cooking lessons with singing, Kiswahili lessons, and live music. The summer camp began on June 7th and ends on August 21st....
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta has announced a partnership to support the launch and growth of the National Black Bank Foundation (NBBF), whose Co-Founder and General Counsel is Ashley D. Bell (pictured). The Community Foundation is serving as fiscal sponsor of NBBF as it awaits its final IRS determination letter which will allow it to act...