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Tristan Walker, founder and CEO of Walker & Company, is one of Silicon Valley’s rising entrepreneurs hoping to shake up the perception of the technology hub. Walker grew up poor in the projects of Southside Jamaica, Queens in New York City, using his tough experiences to fuel his current passions. At the age of three, […]

  Warren Shadd, the CEO of Shadd Pianos & Keyboard, USA, is the first African-American piano manufacturer in the world. Now a top player in his field, Shadd’s pianos are in high demand and have been featured everywhere from concerts to top television series. Shadd, a Washington, D.C. area native and Howard University graduate, was […]

  The next time you find yourself in Philadelphia and in need of a comic books and coffee fix, there’s a destination in town that has you covered. Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse is owned by Ariell R. Johnson, the first Black woman to open a comic book store on the East Coast. Johnson, a Baltimore […]

Since 1975, Detroit businessman George P. Barnes Jr. has overseen Heritage Optical Center and Heritage Vision plans, providing vision services and insurance in Detroit and across Michigan. Barnes’ Heritage Optical Center is Detroit’s first Black-owned and operated optical dispensary has amassed a number of high profile clients across the state over the past four decades. […]

The title of the longest-running Black-owned company in the U.S. goes to E.E. Ward Moving & Storage, based in Columbus, Ohio. The roots of the multi-million dollar company were established during the U.S. Civil War and it remains one of the Arch City’s most-reliable companies. John T. Ward, a Richmond, Va. native, moved to Ohio […]

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Market Strategist and CEO of Odyssey Media, Linda Spradley Dunn, joined Roland Martin on NewsOne Now to discuss the increasing number of Black women business…

Chase Reed had a cash flow problem like many teens do. But in his case, his addiction to sneakers would turn out to be the thing that ultimately helped him solve that problem. When he wanted money to go out, Reed’s father would hold onto one of his pairs of expensive sneakers for collateral until […]

Gwen Jimmere, the founder and CEO of Naturalicious, is the first Black woman to patent a natural hair care product. In the fast-growing natural hair care industry, Ms. Jimmere’s company has become a global success, although she has not forgotten her humble beginnings. Jimmere’s natural hair journey began when as a divorced mother with a […]

If you were wondering what Oprah Winfrey, one of the most successful women in media and the nation’s only self-made Black female billionaire had to say about T.I., ludicrous assertion that a woman president would be ‘rash and emotional’ we have the answer. TMZ cameras picked up Winfrey outside a New York hotel, where she […]

Biddy Mason was born into slavery, enduring the hardships of labor and motherhood under terrible conditions. However, Mason would win her freedom in court on her way to becoming one of the first Black women to own land in the city of Los Angeles. Mason was born August 15, 1818 in Mississippi to owners Robert […]

The late Ophelia DeVore died last February, leaving behind a rich legacy in the modeling field and setting a new standard for Black beauty. DeVore was one of the first successful Black models and used her platform to help shape the careers of Diahann Carroll and Cicely Tyson among several others. DeVore was born on this […]

  Dr. Traci Lynn, the founder of Traci Lynn Fashion Jewelry, has turned her formerly modest company into a multi-million dollar enterprise. Lynn’s rise to fame is a living testimony in how much one can achieve with tenacity, confidence, and a lot of faith. Lynn was exposed to the inner workings of being an entrepreneur […]