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Mia Wilson and Rico Ozuna-Harrison, two University of Michigan students, understood the assignment when they realized how hard it was obtaining Black haircare products in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a predominantly white area. So they decided to deliver on that challenge and sought to solve a unique problem. The nearest beauty …

Photo: Monkey Business Images (Shutterstock) Black-owned businesses are thriving because of Black women, but Black women are still struggling in the corporate world. While the gender pay gap is starting to close, Black women are still being paid the least. The worst part is, no matter how many college degrees …

One year has passed since a gunman took the lives of six Asian women and two others at spas in the Atlanta area. The shooting spurred new activism and awareness around violence against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. And yet reports of such violence are on the rise: …

In late 2021, my wife and I sold our house, car, and material possessions to travel full-time. We’re empty-nest entrepreneurs that don’t have to be anywhere. We’ve decided to spend our golden years building our business from locations worldwide.  We were on a Delta Airlines flight from Puerto Rico to …

Within weeks of the June 2020 announcement of the 10-year Yeezy x Gap collaboration, the artist then known as Kanye West was prepared to “walk away”—or at least, he threatened to, while campaigning for his doomed presidential run that July. As a result of the stunt, Gap shares, which had …

Members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion participate in a parade ceremony in honor of Joan d’Arc at the marketplace where she was burned at stake in 1945.Photo: Smith Collection/Gado (Getty Images) On Monday, President Biden signed a bipartisan bill to honor the only all-Black, all-female battalion to serve …

Rachel Rodgers, author of We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide To Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power and founder of Hello Seven, a coaching company that helps a largely Black clientele make money through entrepreneurship, was the first Black woman who made me feel like I …

Humans can move through time in only one way: forward, second by second, even when we set the clocks ahead an hour. But literature isn’t bound by the same rules. When narratives take place in the past or future, transporting the reader to the scene of events that already occurred …

NEW YORK (AP) — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” her epic novel about racism, resilience and identity named for the influential Black scholar and activist, has received the fiction prize from the National Book Critics Circle. The critics circle praised Jeffers for “weaving several centuries’ …

By Nika White In honor of Women’s History Month, Entrepreneur had the privilege of interviewing a Black woman founder who has one foot in the business world and another in radio. Angela Yee is best known as co-host of nationally syndicated FM talkfest The Breakfast Club, but not many realize …