Angela Simmons is teaming up with Bow Wow, and this time, it’s for business. During a preview of Thursday’s episode of Growing Up Hip Hop, via Too Fab, the young entrepreneur revealed she is collaborating with her former boyfriend while chatting with her brother, JoJo Simmons. “I be talking to …
Read More »Verizon Announces $10K Grants for Hundreds of Minority Small Businesses
Almost 250 small businesses received grants of $10,000 on Thursday as part of Verizon’s $7.5 million Small Business Recovery Fund to help struggling businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic. Of the recipients, 62% are women-owned businesses, 96% are minority-owned, 12% are veteran-owned, and 87% are in distressed locations. “Verizon recognizes how …
Read More »Reclaiming Our Sourdough Starter: 'Rage Baking' Began With a Black Woman—and Right Now, We Want It Back
Screenshot: Fox & Friends (@revrrlewis via Twitter) A twisted tale only recently came to our attention, but feels especially relevant today as Paula Deen and her loyal following celebrate her new weekly Fox & Friends’ segment, “America Cooks Together”—you know, because Paula Deen is such a great American unifier. But …
Read More »The Before Times of a Solar System
Read: A baby planet is born “It’s an unexplored area,” says Johanna Teske, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science, who was not involved in the new research. According to theories of planet formation, a baby planet’s position inside a protoplanetary disk dictates what kind of world it turns …
Read More »Oprah Winfrey Trying To Make Her Own Bed Is Hilarious
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Read More »About Damn Time! Venture Capitalist Arlan Hamilton’s New Book is Filled with Crisis-Busting Advice
Arlan Hamilton, the Silicon Valley-based maverick and founder of Backstage Capital, couldn’t have known when she cut her deal with Penguin Random House that her first book would be released in the midst of a pandemic. It’s available next week, on Cinco de Mayo, unlike the many other books slated …
Read More »Drake Drops Dark Lane Demo Tapes and the Internet Weeps With Joy
Photo: Kevin Winter (Getty Images) If you went to bed last night thinking, “Boyyyyyy, would I love a new Drake mixtape!” then today’s your lucky day, because the 6 God has emerged from his “50,000-square-foot ultra-luxe pleasure dome” with a new project in tow. On Friday, at exactly midnight, October’s …
Read More »The Lifelong Appeal of Physical Letters
Each installment of The Friendship Files features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she talks with two women who met as strangers on a ferry. Their casual conversation turned into a summer spent together …
Read More »Brace for Impact: The Oval Returns
The Franklins are back and more scandalous than ever. Source link
Read More »All Star Code Founder Christina Lewis Is Learning to Celebrate Failure
Featuring a broad cross-section of women who have distinguished themselves across a rich variety of careers, our Portraits of Power series is a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Black Enterprise, and of black women. It’s a place for today’s businesswomen to share their own favorite images and their own …
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