Press Release | Black Enterprise, the premier business, investing, and wealth-building resource for African Americans, is thrilled to announce the highly anticipated 2023 Black Men XCEL...
By Gregory Simpkins Over the past 40+ years working on Diaspora issues, I have had the privilege of working with numerous Black-owned businesses and organizations. Many...
Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group is buying the Black News Channel (BNC), with plans to revive the bankrupt cable news outlet and significantly grow its distribution...
Business Wire | PAVmed Inc. (“PAVmed”), a diversified commercial-stage medical technology company operating in the medical device, diagnostics, and digital health sectors, has announced that its...
PRNewswire | Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group division Allen Media Broadcasting is proud to announce it has signed a purchase agreement for its acquisition of the...
The number of African American business owners in operation surged to almost 1.5 million last month, up 38 percent from February 2020
Omadeke: It's 'bittersweet' to join small club of Black female founders who've raised more than US$1 million
African American focused online shopping mall PurchaseBlack.com is the 2014 Innovation Whiteboard Challenge champion. PurchaseBlack.com competed against 9 other national semi-finalists in a preliminary round, where...
Radio One CEO and President Alfred Liggins and Reach Media CEO David Kantor have announced that Radio One Inc., will increase its ownership stake in Reach...
President Obama’s speech to the National Urban League conference in New Orleans on Wednesday night coincides with a debate over the role of government in helping...
(PRNewswire) – The Michigan Black Chamber of Commerce (MBCC), the governing body for all black chamber of commerce organizations within the state of Michigan, has launched...
Benny Lorenzo, CEO Kaufman Bros. LP. Kaufman Bros. LP, the minority-owned investment bank that helped unwind U.S. stakes in bailed-out financial companies, ceased operations as of...
African America chambers offer black entrepreneurs administrative, technical and financial support. When A. Bruce Crawley launched the African American Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia in 1993...
Wonya Lucas is the president and CEO of TV One – an American television channel that targets African American adults with a wide range of programming....
Meet Randall Olade (pictured), the CEO and co-founder of KOJAMI. Like any other company in this market, KOJAMI did not just develop overnight. Its growth was...
African American small business owner. PHOTO/File Although most African-American business owners said their businesses were negatively impacted within the past 12 to 24 months, they still...
Jarret Pumphrey. PHOTO/ClearCorrect LLC Jarrett Pumphrey, CEO ClearCorrect LLC Jarrett Pumphrey, grew up in Houston Texas, where his father managed a successful practice. Pumphrey channeled his...
The nation’s first free broadcast network targeting African-American audiences arrived in the nation’s fourth-largest media market on Thursday. Atlanta-based Bounce TV is an over-the-air free channel...
100 Black Men of America and University of Phoenix have announced a collaboration that will enhance the delivery of mentoring services for members of traditionally underserved...
Over the last decade the hotel industry has made small but significant steps. In 2001 there was only one branded hotel owned by an African-American. Today...
Radio One has partnered with Songza to launch Blackplanet Radio, the digital industry’s first social radio website targeted towards African Americans. “Blackplanet Radio makes creating music...
Entrepreneurs: Miko and Titi Branch PHOTO: The Atlanta Post As America’s jobs crisis, brought about by the Great Recession, drags into a fourth year, there is...
Tre Baker (left) and Lawrence Watkins co-founders of Ujaama Deals PHOTO: Courtesy of 100 Urban Entrepreneurs Meet Tre Baker and Lawrence Watkins, the co-founders of Ujamaa...
(TheWrap.com) – Bounce TV, the new broadcast network aimed at African-Americans, will air on Fox-owned MyNetworkTV sub channels, including stations in New York and Los Angeles,...
The African-American population is, today, the largest racial minority group in America, with a population of close to 43 million. This market segment’s growth rate continues...
Oprah Winfrey (pictured), partnering with Discovery Communications are gearing up for a relaunch. Discovery Communications will spend US$15 million on an ad push, 50 percent more...
Oprah Winfrey (pictured) is the highest-earning woman in entertainment, according to Forbes magazine. Winfrey, earned US$290 million between May 2010 to May 2011. The businesswoman and...
At 6 years old, he looked around his block in search of something that could be converted into a salable product, and settled on rocks...
The Lie: African-American films have little to no international market appeal. This single lie which has been repeated by white producers, Hollywood insiders, agents and critics...
OPINION - What people are learning is that dire circumstances require aggressive action and new ways of thinking...
The Labor Department has released the August jobs report and the unemployment figured was unchanged from July’s 9.1 percent. In addition, the economy added only 17,000...
Create or die. That’s how “digital content architect” Michelle Ferrier dubs her program that brings together journalists, business owners, educators, programmers and the like to conjure...
Tiffani Bell Tiffani Bell, 26 is a Howard University trained engineer from North Carolina, who after missing a number of appointments with her hair stylist was...
Linda Hayes founded the investment club to empower its residents to take control of their own destinies The newly formed Southern Communities Investment Club (SCIC) has...
CHICAGO - This news comes after the announcement that both publications' circulation has been outsourced to New York firm Shain & Oringer...
Since the beginning of the recession entrepreneurism has been on the rise as more and more people tire of endless job searches that yield few results,...
Learn from these business leaders how to take charge at an early age and change the game. Today, young people are making moves sooner than previous...
How an unconventional business put two brothers on the right track For brothers Jamon and Taj Jones, entrepreneurship is in the blood. “Our grandfather started a...
The Huffington Post recently put together an impressive list of Women in technology you Need to Follow on Twitter, showcasing some of the most dynamic women...
To a cheering crowd of Quicken Loans employees and other supporters, Earvin (Magic) Johnson announced Thursday that he’s joining Quicken Chairman Dan Gilbert’s venture capital fund...
IBM CEO Candidate Talks About His Rise Rodney C. Adkins oversees 50,000 employees and is responsible for $18 billion in revenue as senior vice president and...
The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) opens its 19th annual conference here in Miami on July 21. The theme “Making the World Business Friendly” is...
Loop Capital beats out big-name investment banks to land largest minority-led underwriting deal in recent New York City history It was a collapse of epic proportions....
By Kam Williams: Black News Dr. Randal Pinkett has established himself as an entrepreneur, speaker, author and scholar, and as a leading voice for his generation...
In the 1940s, African-American psychologists Kenneth Bancroft Clark and his wife, Mamie Phillps Clark, designed a test known as the “doll test” to see how children...
Oprah Winfrey will become CEO title of OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network, her cable network joint venture with Discovery Communications, the Wall Street Journal reports...
Each year, BLACK ENTERPRISE welcomes new companies to its BE100s lists, which chronicle the most successful African American companies across the nation. Through uncertain economic times,...
Ebony and Jet publisher Johnson Publishing has sold a minority stake to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Johnson will put the funds toward its growth plan...
President Obama signs bill that gives our financial services firms a seat at the table. But is it enough? Gerald Smith, chairman and CEO of Houston-based...
Name: Chental-Song Bembry Age: 14 Hometown: Monmouth Junction, NJ School: South Brunswick High School Business: The Honeybunch Kids Mission: To provide quality literature that entertains and...
Fred Mwangaguhunga, founder and owner of the urban gossip site “Mediatakeout.com,” recently sat down with us to share his ongoing passion for business. Mwangaguhunga told us...
