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Share0 Image via @blackgirlsunscreen/Instagram Black entrepreneurs have statistically always had more problems with access to venture capitalists to help garner the necessary capital needed to expand their business. According to previous reports, despite leading the pack in business creation and entrepreneurship, black women business owners receive 1% of all venture …

Screenshot: Netflix (Twitter) In the outcries following the now-countless incidents of police violence upon black America, what is often most deafening is the silence—from non-black friends, influencers, politicians and, perhaps most importantly, from those who have the kind of massive platforms that actually reach into American homes and sway public …

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced Sunday (May 31)  that the state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, will take the lead in any prosecutions related to the death of George Floyd. The news comes after an intense weekend of protests in 75 cities around the country. The ongoing protests following the police killing of George Floyd …

Share0 FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden is seen at War Memorial Plaza during Memorial Day, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Castle, Delaware, U.S. May 25, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo By Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) – Presumptive Democratic …

Screenshot: @kennygotsoul (Twitter) Some white people have been showing up for the ongoing protests against the George Floyd killing with thoughtfulness and in solidarity, including by putting their bodies in between cops and black protestors. Other white people have been showing their whole entire asses. In the ‘whole entire asses’ …

Read: The absence of legitimate authority in Baltimore Understanding why typical law-and-order policing isn’t a good solution in these tense situations shouldn’t be hard. Protesters have come to the streets because they are rightly angry at police brutality, furious at the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others. …

After President Donald Trump claimed he spoke to the family of George Floyd on Friday (May 29), describing them as “terrific people,” the late Minnesota resident’s brother, Philonese Floyd, is sharing what went down on that phone call. “He didn’t give me the opportunity to even speak,” Philonese told Al …

Share1 (Image: Gwen Jimmere) Since the spread of COVID-19, or the novel coronavirus, pandemic, many entrepreneurs have been forced to make a complete pivot with their businesses to adapt to the new reality brought on by the viral outbreak. Gwen Jimmere is known for creating a highly successful natural hair …

Photo: Mandel Ngan (AFP via Getty Images) Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, says President Trump barely gave him a chance to speak during a recent phone conversation about the killing of his brother by police in Minneapolis. Philonise described his call with the president as “fast” in an …

In that moment, Beatty told me, she wasn’t a member of Congress. She was just another black American attacked while protesting injustice—one of innumerable others across the long expanse of history. The events of the past week, she said, represent “a collection of historic anger.” I talked with Beatty about …