Baltimore native Nailah Queen is a serial entrepreneur whose career spans travel, wellness, beauty, and business coaching. In this Q&A, she shares how her own journey shaped her approach to mentoring Black women, offering advice on scaling businesses, overcoming challenges and building legacies.
Tag: Black women entrepreneurs
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Investing in equity: How grants provide Black women with pathways to success
Black women are launching businesses at record rates but often face steep barriers to funding. Grant programs like SoGal, IFundWomen of Color and the Fearless Fund are stepping up to fill the gap. With expert insights from Felicia Wise of UNCF, this article explores how targeted funding and transparent communication can help Black women entrepreneurs thrive.
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Commentary: Black businesses are under attack–now, so are financing opportunities to help them
The Fearless Fund is a venture capital fund that targets investments in Black and Brown women-owned businesses, and a White conservative activist has sued the fund, claiming that its focus on grantmaking for Black women is discriminatory.
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Commentary: Attack on the Fearless Fund
The Fearless Fund is a venture capital fund that targets investments in Black and brown women-owned businesses, and a White conservative activist has sued the fund, claiming that its focus on grantmaking for Black women was discriminatory.
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The fight against Fearless Fund is a fight against Black economic advancement
By Kerry Mitchell Brown, Ph.D. Edward Blum, the conservative lawyer who led the fight to overturn affirmative action, has a new target in his quest to dismantle civil rights advancements: The Fearless Fund, a venture capitalist (VC) fund dedicated to leveling the playing field for Black women and women of color. Blum’s organization, American Alliance […]
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Black Economic Alliance Foundation joins Fearless Fund in fighting lawsuit
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Earlier this year, Edward Blum’s American Alliance for Equal Rights launched legal action against Fearless Fund. The lawsuit, brought before the U.S. District Court in Atlanta, alleges that the Fearless Fund discriminates against non-Black women. Experts said the suit could present a pivotal moment in the ongoing discourse on […]