An IBM Engineer and US Virgin Islands Native on Irma’s Destruction of Her Homeland; Beauty Through Heartache; and How You Can Help
In a post originally shared on Medium, IBM engineer Rashida A. Hodge, who is part of the IBM Watson team and was featured in Black…
Educational Inequality and Segregation in U.S. K-12 Schools
We should be clear: As long as there remains a segregated and unequal K-12 system, there is no meritocracy in college admissions. — Ida Bae…
Black Businesses and Supporters Offer Harvey Aid in Spite of Own Obstacles
James Davis, a BE 100s auto dealer in Houston, figures his company had about $230,000 in losses caused by Hurricane Harvey. There was some $130,000…
Spendwith Is Allowing You to Become An Investor
So many new startups seek venture capital to finance their companies but Spendwith, a social impact company focused on increasing commerce within cultures, is taking a…
Spendwidth Is Allowing You to Become An Investor
So many new startups seek venture capital to finance their companies but Spendwith, a social impact company focused on increasing commerce within cultures, is taking a…
Flaky Bakes’ CEO Lateshia Dowell on Making ‘Piekies’ Pies and Being a ‘One-Woman Show’
On Episode 11 of Steve Harvey’s Funderdome, Lateshia Dowell pitched her business, Flaky Bakes—a metro Detroit home-based, delivery-only, cookie company specializing in piekies (pie cookies)—in the…