Meet Eric Standifer, CEO and President of Blaylock Van LLC, Wall Street’s oldest continually operating Black-owned investment banking firm. Recently, the company served as one of four exclusively Black-owned broker-dealers to syndicate Citi’s $2.5 billion bond issuance. Blaylock Van also completed a $14 billion new issue debt transaction with Apple as one of five minority-owned underwriting...
Dr. Patrice Little, a Family Nurse Practitioner in Georgia, has launched NP Student Magazine and a platform called NP Student University to help current nursing students and new graduates to better navigate their education and fill critical educational gaps. COVID-19 has disrupted nursing education in so many ways. With the nursing community focused on containing the spread of the...
Jupiter Leo Productions LLC has launched their first app called Sista Salon for Apple iOS and Android platforms. Sista Salon is a role-playing game that teaches girls of African descent to celebrate their natural beauty while learning business and life skills. Girls can style their character at any time during the game to suit their mood with...
Research indicates that African Americans have less access to palliative care, and many do not choose hospice in end-of-life situations. Actually, Black Americans are the most likely ethnic group in the US to select life support over palliative care and hospice. This is one reason why Advance Care Planning (ACP) expert, Dr. Gloria Thomas Anderson, is urging...
Meet five Black entrepreneurs who are showing commitment to their community by joining together to offer a $2,000 scholarship for two HBCU undergraduate students. In the progression of their own success stories, four businesses have teamed together to pay it forward to the next generation of Black leaders. CEO Wesley Jacques of BlueDrem Media & Marketing...
Meet Bernard Jones and Georgia Giles-Jones, a couple from Minnesota that have officially launched CVH Recovery, an extension to their recovery home business, Central Village Housing LLC. CVH Recovery offers resources to entrepreneurs how to own, operate, and manage a successful recovery home in any state. Through their online course, entrepreneurs can learn and benefit from...
The West Des Moines Chamber of Commerce (WDM Chamber) is set to host the first annual Black and Brown Business Summit (the Summit) presented by Principal Financial Group® on April 22 and 23. This two-day conference was created by the WDM Chamber’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (DEI Committee) with the goal of elevating ethnic minorities and...
WestMason, a Black-owned design and development studio based in Orlando, has announced the launch of their first mobile app called MyOneOne, available on iOS and Android. The mobile experience offers a personal security network made up of your friends and family. MyOneOne provides minorities and underserved the power to protect themselves as well as their loved...
Denver real estate broker Michelle Thomas remembers well her early days growing up in North Aurora, a rough part of the Denver, Colorado metro area, that includes East Colfax Avenue. Stretching 26.5 miles, it’s the longest commercial street in the United States, but it and the surrounding area is best-known by natives, for longstanding squalid...
Yolanda Perkins, founder and CEO of Undies by BlendiTone, a line of underwear for children of color, has overcome a lot of obstacles in her life. She has transformed herself from being incarcerated in prison to a successful entrepreneur who promotes representation for Black children. She also is an advocate for the restoration of former prison...