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How Serena Williams has helped 14 companies reach unicorn status
Serena Williams is undoubtedly one of the greatest tennis players to grace the court. In her prime, she combined her tennis career with investing in business. In 2014, she launched Serena Ventures — a venture capital fund — after having had more than ten years of experience in investing. Through Serena Ventures, she has invested…
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‘I invested in Tesla in 2006 before Elon took over’: Will.i.am on two investments he made that changed his life
Will.i.am is a musician, producer, technologist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Born Williams...
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Allen Onyema: Meet the peaceful man who left law to start Nigeria’s leading airline, Air Peace
Meet Allen Onyema; he is the founder of Nigeria’s largest carrier, Air Peace. The Nigerian...
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9-year-old’s decision to give his only dollar to tycoon he assumed was homeless earns him free shopping spree
It was an act of goodwill with no intended expectation in mind. Donating his only dollar to...
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Meet Goldfields’ Catherine Kuupol, who is now the first woman general manager in Ghana’s mining history
Get to know Ms. Catherine Kuupol, a mineral engineer who has provided metallurgical technical services to Ghana’s mining communities for almost two decades. In Ghana’s mining industry, where...
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Larry Demeritte becomes first Caribbean trainer at Kentucky Derby despite cancer battle
Larry Demeritte is the first Caribbean trainer to participate in the Kentucky Derby and the third Black trainer in 35 years. Blacks used to dominate the derby, but since 1951, there have only been three...
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Tahra Grant is reportedly the first Black woman to be Chief Comms Officer at a major Hollywood studio
Sony Pictures Entertainment has appointed Tahra Grant as its Chief Communications Officer. She replaces Robert Lawson, who will relocate to the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, as SVP of Corporate...
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How Ashley Fox quit her Wall Street job and built a startup to financially empower those Wall Street would never talk to
Meet Ashley M. Fox, the founder of Empify and the first in her family to attend college. She also landed her dream job of working on Wall Street, which will inspire her to pursue entrepreneurship. Despite...
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Howard graduate working at the deli counter at Walmart vies for Olympics
Dylan Beard is a Howard University graduate who is currently working at a Walmart deli. Beard, who works full-time at the grocery chain, graduated from Howard with a Masters in Public Health. The Walmart...
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From his living room, he launched a software company that recently raised $20m with clients like Ford
Get to know Jordan Taylor; he is the founder of Vizcom, a software company that helps industrial designers do their jobs better and more efficiently. Vizcom’s industrial design software enables designers...
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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....
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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 co-founded the Gran Coramino Tequila brand with Juan Domingo Beckmann. In that same year, the brand launched a...
