Entrepreneur Creates Coupon Program for Black-owned Businesses to Compete With Groupon
By Chicago Defender via NNPA
Nashville, Tenn. — While many startups and small businesses struggle with building customer loyalty, Black-owned businesses must work even harder because of negative stereotypes. One common misconception is that all...
Investors Predict Tech, Finance Companies With More Gender Diversity Will See Stock Prices Rise:...
By Olivia Riggio, Special to The Informer via DiversityInc
A study by Stanford University, Northwestern University, Dartmouth College and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology found investors are more likely to bet that a company will...
How Millennials Are Expanding The Gaming Industry
By Destiny Royston, Special to The New Tri-State Defender
The gaming industry is expanding, and millennials are the driving force.
What used to be considered a waste of time and quarters is now a full-blown industry....
OCTFME Shares Plans for 202Creates
By Brianna Rhodes, AFRO Staff Writer, mgreen@afro.com
This September marks the four year anniversary of 202Creates Month in the District and all month long Washington, D.C. residents will have the chance to participate in events and activities...
This 25-year Old Turned Down $4.4m And Now Her Company Is Valued At $7.3m
By The Chicago Defender
Launching just eight months ago the company’s value quickly rose by $1.4M after recent investments from the likes of Ladarius Gunter (former-Green Bay Packers Cornerback), Shaun Hamilton (Washington Redskins Linebacker), Ayodeji...
New Website Helps Diners Find Black-Owned Restaurants
By Lisa Fitch, Our Weekly News Los Angeles Contributor
More than 2,000 Black-owned eateries are featured on the new internet-based restaurant locator eatblackowned.com, which launched June 21 intending to support Black-owned restaurants.
“There’s only one thing that...
Morgan Awarded $35 Mil for Research
By AFRO Staff
Morgan State University has secured a total of $35 million in new grant awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
The funding will be...
Tryp Rideshare
By Black News PR
Everybody knows about Uber and Lyft, but there's a new rideshare company called Tryp that is becoming especially popular with Black and other minority entrepreneurs. It's the only rideshare platform that...
Rocket Scientist Gets Obama Love
By Micha Green , AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com
As commemorations for the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 took place all last week, a barrier-breaking hometown hero with beauty, brains and #BlackGirlMagic was also...
Bison STEM Scholars Berlin Bound
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com
The Howard University Bison STEM Scholars Program - a multi-year program that provides full undergraduate scholarships to students who have committed to pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and...
Tennessee State Opens Coding Hub For Black Schools
By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee State University is opening a hub for computer programing and app development that will serve historically Black colleges and universities across the country.
To kick off...
Transformative 5G Technology Arrives
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent, @StacyBrownMedia
The next wave of technological evolution has arrived in the form of 5G, a new generation of mobile networks for which at least four major telephone carriers in America...
