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A Duke graduate who returned to Durham to launch the Beyu Caffe and made the restaurant an important place of culture and community received the Distinguished Service Award at the Samuel DuBois Cook Society Awards Tuesday night.

by Donald Thompson — December 23, 2020 . Editor’s note: Veteran entrepreneur and investor Donald Thompson is a regular contributor to WRAL TechWire. His columns appear on Wednesdays. RALEIGH –  2020 has been a wild ride. Between flashes of fear, anxiety, and grief, there have been so many days where everything just felt the same. It is easy to look back at these past twelve months and see how many things went wrong, how much we have been through or gotten stuck in together and how we wan...

Paul Sableman/Flickr Originally published on December 15, 2020 10:40 am When the first wave of federal COVID-19 provisions became available to businesses in April, Black business owners received a very small amount of relief funding. And the North Carolina Business Council estimates the number of Black businesses in the state has decreased by 41 percent since the beginning of the pandemic. There are several reasons for this, including the racial wage and generational wealth gaps, both of whi...