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‘Hip-hop’s best basketball player’ Lil Durk is giving HBCU students a chance to win $333K in scholarships
Lil Durk is an American rapper and one of the most influential voices in the realm of hip-hop. Since emerging in the hip-hop industry, he has built a strong fan base that has catapulted him into the limelight. As a result of his growing popularity, STARRY, PepsiCo’s crisp lemon-lime flavored soda brand, has collaborated with…
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Kevin Hart’s Gran Coramino Tequila donates over $1 million to small Black and Latinx businesses
In 2022, Kevin Hart added a new title to his impressive resume: a tequila entrepreneur. He...
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How an entrepreneur used LinkedIn to raise $13.8 million
Benjamin Harvey is the founder of AI Squared, a third-party software company that helps organizations...
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Ghanaian lecturer Anthony Baidoo sets record completing his PhD in just 30 months, university says
Dr. Anthony Baidoo of the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) Department of Forest...
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How Raven White went from working at the CIA to owning a leading luxury event planning firm
Raven White is a luxury event entrepreneur and CEO of The Envision Firm, which delivers exceptional and exclusive experiences in the form of events and lifestyle management. Prior to venturing into the...
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Entrepreneur Sharon Tucker becomes the first Black mayor in Fort Wayne’s history
Meet Sharon Tucker; she has become Fort Wayne’s first black mayor and the second woman to hold the esteemed position. Her new position requires her to resign from her current position as City Councilwoman...
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After a single phone call, Mellody Hobson is co-CEO of 1st Black-owned mutual fund company with $14.9B in assets
Mellody Hobson is the co-CEO of the first Black-owned mutual fund company in the U.S., Ariel Investments. The company was started by John W. Rogers Jr. in 1983 when he was just 24 years old. Headquartered...
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Sentenced to 100 years, he got college degree while in prison and now going to a prestigious law school
At the age of 19, Benard McKinley was sentenced to 100 years in prison at the Stateville Correctional Center in northern Illinois after being apprehended for a gang-related murder at the age of 16. Now,...
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Just 3 years after Dwyane Wade became minority owner of Utah Jazz, the team has doubled in value, from $1.75B to $3.46B
Dwyane Wade is a retired NBA player who at the peak of his career won three NBA championships. Growing up, Wade started doing drugs and to avoid gang life and drugs, he took to basketball throughout his...
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How founder of Stanbic IBTC Atedo Peterside built his billion-dollar business from a tiny office in Lagos
Atedo Peterside is a Nigerian entrepreneur, businessman, banker and founder of one of Africa’s most prestigious banks, Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc. The bank started more than three decades ago as Investment...
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How 62-year-old trailblazing engineer Deryl McKissack turned $1K into a $15 billion business
Deryl McKissack is the President and CEO of McKissack & McKissack, a Washington, D.C.-based construction management and design firm behind some of the most prominent buildings in America. Some of her...
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Will Drewery on working for Elon Musk before building his own startup: ‘The hardest thing that I’ve ever done’
Will Drewery is the co-founder of Diagon, a startup that helps manufacturers procure equipment. After graduating from business school in 2012, he moved to the Bay Arena where a friend told him about Tesla,...
