Black Entrepreneurship

To close out Black Business Month, we look back on 7 pioneers who helped shape Black entrepreneurship into the juggernaut it's become today.

Singer and music producer Pharrell Williams is challenged corporate America to “do more” by supporting entrepreneurs economic equity of color and adopting economic equity measures during the Urban League of Hampton Roads’ annual Martin Luther King Jr. awards program.

A new self-defense brand, the first of its kind, is launching in October to close out domestic violence awareness month. MOCA Defense is on a mission to empower black women with the charge to embrace their power, be aware of all surroundings, and ultimately defend themselves. This personal protection resource brand provides accessory kits that […]

A computer virus is no joke. One minute you’re watching your favorite show on Netflix and the next thing you know the dreaded blue screen of death takes your computer and you realize you have a virus. The solution? You go and buy anti-virus software but the cost is so high sometimes that you think […]

We know women have made leaps and bounds in the work force and aviation is no different. Women have worked as flight attendants, managers, pilots and owners. But over in the Bahamas Black Girl Magic is alive and well. 29-year-old Sherrexcia ‘Rexy’ Rolle is the Vice President of Western Air Bahamas and she is one […]

Memphis, Tennessee displaces Atlanta as the top city for Black entrepreneurship, BlackTech reports.

A nail salon exclusively for men? While the Shark Tank investors didn’t think the idea would fly, fortunately for screenwriter/entrepreneur Michael Elliot, other folks with money watching the show did. So while he failed to impress the Sharks, his company’s exposure on the show netted him a group of investors willing to put up some […]

The shoe repair business has been around a long time, although there’s typically an emphasis on dress shoes and the like. But in Birmingham, Alabama, two friends can lay claim to creating the state’s first Black-owned sneaker dry cleaning service which has expanded quickly since its opening. Tavaris Godbolt and Alvin Miller are the founders […]

  Herman J. Russell, a prominent Atlanta businessman responsible for helping to develop the city’s many top destinations, died over the weekend. He was 83. Born December 23, 1930, Russell was raised in the Summerhill section of the city, the youngest of eight children. His father was a building plasterer, passing on the trade and […]

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Madinah Nalukenge recalls the day she set out to sell food on the filthy edges of a bus terminal in the Ugandan capital in 2004. She had just $10 left over from a failed attempt to sell bed sheets. Now she runs a catering business that makes a monthly profit of […]

Magic Johnson has taken life after sports to a new level. Not only does he own everything from his now trademark Magic Johnson Theaters to Starbucks and Fatburger’s franchises, now he’s building schools. Next week, Johnson opens two new locations of his Magic Johnson’s Bridgescape Academy in the Chicago area. These schools add to the […]