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Kevin Hart’s The Coramino Fund gives $10,000 grants to support small businesses with AI training
The Coramino Fund, the investment arm of Gran Coramino, the tequila company co-founded by Kevin Hart and Juan Domingo Beckmann, has recently awarded grants to a new group of small businesses. These $10,000 grants are part of a $1.5 million commitment aimed at assisting over 150 under-resourced entrepreneurs in the U.S. and Mexico in their…
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Gloria Gaynor speaks after receiving a Medal of Honor from Trump
Gloria Gaynor, 82, was among the artists honored at this year’s unconventional Kennedy...
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5-year-old boy saves family from fire that completely tore down their home
A family in Vicksburg is calling their 5-year-old son, Ranajai Hill, a true hero. His quick...
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Meet the student breaking HBCU ground as a triple-threat scholar and Rhodes Scholarship recipient
Aniaba Jean-Baptiste N’guessan, a brilliant final-year student at Morehouse College,...
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This Kenyan mom fights cancer stigma with knitted breast prostheses after surviving 2 cancer diagnoses
Mary Mwangi is bringing hope to others with what kept her going when her world turned dark. Mwangi, a lively woman who manages a tailoring business in Thika town, Kiambu County, Kenya, rediscovered...
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Bronx gets a free vending machine filled with quality groceries to feed families
A new vending machine, stocked with quality groceries, has been launched in The Bronx by the New York City STEM nonprofit, Change Food For Good. This initiative directly addresses a critical need for families...
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Inspired by tragedy, founder develops device that can detect pathogens on surfaces within minutes
Darrell Marshall, a Detroit native, discovered his passion for science at just five years old. Growing up in the challenging environment of 1980s and 1990s Detroit, raised by a single mother, he identified...
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How a 20-year-old student started a nonprofit that feeds over half a million schoolchildren in Kenya a day
Wawira Njiru founded Food4Education, a nonprofit that has served over 100 million meals to students in Kenya since its inception. Started in 2012 by feeding just 25 students daily, Food4Education has grown...
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Ex-athlete Darrick Johnson strikes gold in AI-powered sports management platform after sleeping in his car
Darrick Johnson, the architect of a new sports-centered software platform, began his journey to creating this innovative tool in South Central Los Angeles, where technology was an early and familiar influence. ...
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With no investors, Shaina Rainford turns homemade scalp oil into a multimillion-dollar brand – here’s how
A family crisis changed everything for Shaina Rainford, a board-certified nurse practitioner focused on her healthcare career, who had no initial aspirations of becoming a beauty mogul. Today,...
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Virginia landlord surprises tenants with free rent for the holidays: ‘I know exactly how it feels’
In a kind and impressive show of holiday spirit, a Virginia landlord, Travis Johnson, has done far more than expected. He surprised his tenants with a big break from money worries just as the holidays...
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Haitian designer Pierre Laborde stuns fashion world with rare, handmade, unique handbags
Francis Pierre Laborde, a Haitian-born designer, is the creative force behind a line of coveted, hard-to-find luxury handbags that are becoming a sensation, especially in New York City’s street style...
