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50 Companies Founded by Black Entrepreneurs By Peter Richman, Stacker News On 2/26/21 at 8:00 PM EST The entrepreneurial spirit is a cornerstone of American culture, but history books too often leave out the extensive contributions of minorities and women. In honor of Black History Month, Stacker is shining a light on 50 Black entrepreneurs who made a lasting influence on the business world—and, often in the process, civil rights—from the Revolutionary War to today. The abrupt end to slavery in 1865 following the conclusion of the Civil War freed about 4 million people but left them wi...

Provided Charles “Chuck” H. James III, who chaired one of the nation’s oldest Black-owned businesses, has died at 62. Mr. James, who lived in the Chicago area for extended periods, died last month at his Atlanta home as a result of heart problems, according to his sister Sarah Irby. The fourth generation in his family to run C.H. James & Co., a Charleston, West Virginia, company founded by his great-grandfather in the 1880s, Mr. James oversaw a business that supplied produce to many restaurants, schools, grocery stores and hospitals in the Mountain State. He was credited with diversifyi...