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JULY 5 WEDNESDAY $10,000 Best Pitch Contest, 1-5 p.m., Slover Library, 235 E. Plume St., Norfolk. Black BRAND is hosting a pitch contest for B-Force Accelerator graduates to help with funding to execute their business ideas. Thirty businesses have the chance to pitch. Blackbrand.biz. JULY 11 TUESDAY Retailpreneur Series, 8:30-9:45 a.m., Zoom. The Retail Alliance is hosting Nichole Payne, vice ...

Inside Business listed 60 power players from various backgrounds and sectors for this year's Power List.

Inside Business listed 60 power players from various backgrounds and sectors for this year's Power List.

The initiative is an intensive 12-week training program that offers financial and organizational planning, as well as free legal, marketing, and accounting resources.

Black BRAND, the Black Chamber of Commerce for Hampton Roads, will receive two grants totaling $125,000 to help sustain local minority-owned businesses in Norfolk and Portsmouth.

Governor Ralph Northam, 73rd Governor of Virginia

Thirty entrepreneurs will be selected for the program that begins mid-June.

The new program includes months of free rent and rent assistance at Bloom Coworking in Portsmouth and Percolator in Norfolk.

and last updated 2021-02-21 22:38:39-05 HAMPTON ROADS, Va. – When Ann-Marie Stephens left her job in corporate America to chase her dreams of starting her own business, she didn’t realize the same struggles she faced as a Black, hardworking, woman would follow 30 years later. “We were trying to get recognition; we were trying to feel equitably valued that our contributions were assessed on the same scale,” Stephens said. “It is almost for me, like a reliving of the same...