Brandon Harden, The Inquirer, Philly.com Jessica Griffin / Staff Photographer, Featured Image [dropcap]Jake[/dropcap] Adams remembers when a 15-year-old Jill Scott tried to sing in his North Philly jazz bar, ballroom, and restaurant, New Barber’s Hall. It was 1987, and the venue was riding high with intimate performances by such jazz and R&B stars as Dottie […]
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West Chester Woman’s New Female Wellness App on Track to Generate $3.5 Million by 2020 | Vista Today
Mark Hostutler, Vista Today Tam Williams launched her She’s It SHEapp in October 2018. Photo by Shawn Sims/Truevine Photography. Featured Image [dropcap]Launched[/dropcap] last year by West Chester resident Tam Williams, SHEapp offers women an empowering wellness platform that focuses on all aspects of their health, writes Melissa Jacobs for Main Line Today. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Williams’s […]
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The Little-Known Tale of the Only African American Automaker | Car and Driver
Patterson-Greenfield only built cars from 1915–1918 but found time to innovate, even patenting a door design that presaged those on modern-day vans.
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African American businesses grew 400% – but they still need investment | The Guardian
Minority-owned businesses received lower loan amounts and were forced to leverage their own cash, a survey found. Without capital, it’s tough to invest in the future
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Black-Owned Shops, Restaurants, Day Spas & More Boom In Philadelphia | Visit Philly
Visitors To Philly Can Support Independent, Brick-And-Mortar African-American Businesses
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Mahisha Dellinger Became a Multimillion-Dollar Beauty Maven | Black Enterprise
Alisa Gumbs, Black Enterprise [dropcap]How[/dropcap] does one go from growing up in a rough neighborhood—crime, drugs, gangs—to founding one of the pioneering natural haircare brands in the $2.5 billion African American haircare market? Over the past 15 years, Mahisha Dellinger has built CURLS from formulas she was making in her garage to more than 40 […]
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The Black- and Woman-Led Success of a Chicago Ice Cream Company | WTTW
Daniel Hautzinger, WTTW [dropcap]Only[/dropcap] one Fortune 500 company has ever been headed by a black woman – Ursula Burns, who ran Xerox from 2009 to 2016 – and that number is indicative of the immense challenges black women and other women and people of color still face in climbing the corporate ladder. So imagine what […]
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5 Small Business Grants for Black Women Entrepreneurs in 2019 | Black Enterprise
Tarra Jackson, Black Enterprise On average, black women workers are paid only 67 cents on the dollar relative to white non-Hispanic men, even after controlling for education, years of experience and location. (Photo by WOCinTech Chat | Flickr CC 2.0). Featured Image [dropcap]As[/dropcap] women-owned businesses continue to grow, one of the significant obstacles they face […]
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[VIDEO] New Voices Foundation Acquires Madam C.J. Walker’s Estate To Create Think Tank For Black Women Entrepreneurs | Essence
The Villa Lewaro estate will be used as a “learning institute, or think tank, to foster entrepreneurship for present and future generations,” according to New Voices Foundation’s Richelieu Dennis.
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Black-Owned Startup Combines Greeting Cards With Technology and Automation | Black News.com
Photographs by Marti Corn; Text by Mark Murrmann , Black News.com [dropcap]Atlanta[/dropcap]— “How many times have you found yourself in this scenario: It’s a friend’s or relative’s birthday and you’re driving to the store at the last minute to buy a card. You also must go get stamps. “I’ve been there more times than I […]
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