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#BlackTechFutures Research Institute Announces Inaugural #BlackTechPolicy Week
#BlackTechFutures Research Institute opens registration for its first-ever #BlackTechPolicy Week. Funded in part by an Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Knowledge Challenge award, granted to Stillman College School of Business and Dr. Fallon...
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Essence and Higher Heights Amplify the Stories and Voices of Black Women in the final weeks leading to Election 2020
ESSENCE, the number one media, technology and commerce company dedicated to Black women and communities, and Higher Heights, the leading national organization exclusively dedicated to advancing Black women’s political power by ensurin...
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Yellowbrick Donates Ad Space to Black Girls CODE
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hybrid cloud data warehouse company Yellowbrick Data today announced that it is donating advertising space to Black Girls CODE (BGC). The advertising space is in out-of-home placements around t...
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Keys To Black Wealth Summit Returns During National Financial Planning Month
The Keys to Black Wealth (KTBW) Summit made its debut on Juneteenth, also known as FREEDOM DAY this Summer.
Now, during National Financial Planning Month the Summit will return and this time will be a hybrid between a live in-person a...
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GREEN PINES MEDIA PREMIERES MINI-DOCUMENTARY “DOING SOCIAL WORK DIFFERENT” ON AMAZON PRIME
Green Pines Media premieres on Amazon Prime with a mini-documentary called "Doing Social Work Different." The release is a 12 – minute look into the for-profit benefit corporation's journey to help monetize, merchandise, and...
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New Season of ‘Buried Truths’ Podcast Investigates and Explores the Ahmaud Arbery Case
In the third season of the Peabody Award-winning podcast, Buried Truths, host Hank Klibanoff investigates exactly what happened when Ahmaud Arbery took his final jog along the residential streets of Brunswick, GA, when neighbors decided to...
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World’s largest collection of African bronzes located in Orlando
Bronze Kingdom, considered as one of central Florida’s best kept secrets,
offers something for everyone.
Orlando, Fla. – One of the best kept secrets in Orlando is sure to draw interest from around the world. Bronze Kingdom is...
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WOC Beats Bias with C.B.D Formula
Bliss MoleculesⓇ founder launches joint venture, shares secrets of success.
Woman of color-owned CBD cosmetics firm Bliss MoleculesⓇ enters a joint venture with J&B Investments to scale globally amid a burgeoning “farm to face&rdq...
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Black Women's Creator's Virtual Conference 2020
Nashville, TN - Join Cool Girls Create for the Official 2020 Conference for Black Women Content Creators on August 29 & 30. The virtual conference will feature exclusive workshops for Black women who want to elevate their cre...
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Black-owned Family Business, CurlyKids Mixed Texture HairCare, Reaches Milestone of 6,000 Retail Stores Worldwide
CurlyKids Mixed Texture HairCare, a prominent black-owned family business, started with a small idea and grew into a multi-million dollar brand that is now available in 6,000 retail stores across the globe. The idea that this business was f...
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KARTEMQUIN FILMS DOCUMENTARY ‘UNAPOLOGETIC’ TO DEBUT IN BLACKSTAR’S NINTH FILM FESTIVAL BEING HELD AUGUST 20-26
UNAPOLOGETIC, the directorial debut of Ashley O’Shay and producer Morgan Elise Johnson is set to premiere as the opening night film in the BlackStar Film Festival, which runs between August 20-26. The documentary focuses on the unrele...
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Wells Fargo Launches $400 Million Small Business Recovery Effort
The company donates all processing fees from Paycheck Protection Program to nonprofits helping entrepreneurs, minority-owned businesses
(Black PR Wire) SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Following an April 2020 industry-leading commitmen...
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Empress of Coils Explores Hair, Self-Confidence, Heritage and Standards of Beauty for our Young Black Girls
New children’s book encourages natural-hair confidence
DENVER, COLORADO – The ongoing debate between permed and natural hair in the Black women community has left many Black women and girls questioning the very crowns...
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McDonald’s USA Launches $500,000 Scholarship Fund to Help HBCU Students Return to School Amidst COVID-19 Crisis
McDonald’s USA today announced the launch of its $500,000 Black & Positively Golden® Scholarship Fund to help students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) continue their education this fall, despite...
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Essence Calls for a National “Declaration of Equity” and Launches $100 Million Equity and Justice Benefit Initiative
ESSENCE Unstoppable Collective, a Public-Private-NGO Partnership for Sustained Change, Launches June 25 - - Inaugural Public Partners include the Cities of New Orleans, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, San Francisco & Washington, DC
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A UNIQUE VIRTUAL SUMMER CAMP EXPERIENCE CELEBRATING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ARTISTRY OF THE ARTISTS THAT SHAPED THE PERIOD
Harlem, New York – The historic community of Harlem is in the midst of the Centennial Celebration of the Harlem Renaissance, and the Harlem School of the Arts (HSA) through its HSA@Home platform, has tapped into this prolific epoch to...
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The 2020 Virtual Juneteenth Music Festival Presents a Cultural and Musical Marathon and After Party Hosted by DJ Jazzy Jeff
The 2020 Juneteenth Music Festival is proud to present a full day of online programming that will include panels, performances, a virtual marketplace and The DREAM BIG Awards powered by US Bank. The newly imagined event will take place on J...
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Black Woman CEO Workshop Celebrates Profit, Power, and Purpose
Quanisha Green, MSS delivers crucial guidance for the country’s most active entrepreneurs
While the economy contracts in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, Quanisha Green’s business has attracted clients, developed its pipeline,...
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Meet Essence Ventures' New Chief Growth Officer
(Black PR Wire) New York - (Business Wire) Essence Ventures., the independent Black-owned consumer technology company focused on merging content, community and commerce to meet the evolving cultural and lifestyle needs of people of color, a...
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BPRW Celebrates Caribbean American Heritage Month
Many of us are dreaming of our next vacation getaway after being shut-in for weeks due to COVID-19. The good thing is that trouble does not last always and this pandemic will eventually run its course. So, to get you in the mood for traveli...
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