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/PRNewswire/ -- Ladies Who Launch, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women and non-binary entrepreneurs around the world, will host...
While Black-led VC firms got less than 1% of capital investments last year, the number of Black VCs launching their own firms is on the rise.
Kathryn Finney. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the great American migration, The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabella Wilkerson tells the story of Ida Mae Gladney, who uprooted her life from Mississippi to Chicago, drawn by the idea of economic mobility and safety that the "Promised Land" had to offer. In the early 20th century, Chicago offered opportunities for paying jobs and a growing Black middle class. Though the city was segregated and brutalized by policies redlining Black neighborhoods, it offered relief from the threat of lynching. Even in the face of economic and racial barriers,...
USA TODAY Corporate America, which almost universally declared in statements that "Black lives matter" in the wake of the death of George Floyd, called the conviction Tuesday of the officer who killed him a step forward— but said much more was needed to achieve widespread justice. A jury found Derek Chauvin, 45, guilty of second- and third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for the killing of Floyd last May. The murder, in which Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, sparked protests across the U.S. and a broader social reckoning on police violence and sy...
Genius Guild Unveils Market Based Innovations to Close $16 Trillion Racial Funding Gap and End Racism Accomplished entrepreneur Kathryn Finney established business creation platform to support Black entrepreneurs News provided by Share this article Share this article ATLANTA, April 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kathryn Finney, tech entrepreneur and investor, today announced the advancement from stealth of Genius Guild, a business creation platform devoted to supporting market-driven innovations to end racism. Using a venture studio model, Genius Guild invests in Black entrepreneurs building scalab...