This Protege of Tyler Perry, Jon Gosier, Founder and CEO of FilmHedge, is being recognized for driving innovation in Atlanta – disrupting how finance, media, and technology intersect. His cross-industry expertise as a serial entrepreneur, investor, author, and screenwriter uniquely positions him to lead the transformation of media financing in a scalable way so it Read More…
Banks Fight $4 Billion Debt Relief Plan for Black Farmers Lenders are pressuring the Agriculture Department to give them more money, saying quick repayments will cut into profits Handy Kennedy, a farmer in Cobbtown, Ga., and founder of a cooperative of Black farmers. Debt relief approved by Congress in March aims to make amends for Read More…
The DAVID STEWARD Story: The second richest Black man in U.S. with $3.7bn fortune will inspire you David Steward is the second richest Black man in the U.S. Image via YouTube/Arch Grants Meet David L. Steward, the founder of World Wide Technologies and one of the richest Blacks in the United States. From a humble Read More…
Davonne Reaves Hotel Entrepreneur Invites you to stay, and remember “Once you go Black, you never go back!” Black hotel owner and commercial real estate investor Davonne Reaves hopes the popular cheeky catchphrase rings true for those who stay at one of thousands of Black-owned hotels and bed & breakfasts across America this summer. “In Read More…
Attorney Greg Francis, a champion for the rights of Black Americans, led and won the largest civil rights settlement in the history of civil justice in the U.S., demanding justice for 33,000 Black farmers. It was a settlement of $1.25 billion dollars. “The one thing I learned from that case is that all those farmers Read More…
Black owned farms make up less than 2 percent of all farms in the United States. According to a recent report, Black farmers lost 80 percent of their farmland from 1910 to 2007, often because they lacked access to loans or insurance needed to sustain their businesses. The report mentions the “long and well-documented history Read More…
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