Diversifying Prosperity: Philanthropists Target Education
Influential billionaires, investors, and philanthropists are speaking more openly about the history of wealth in the U.S., tackling such issues...
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Harlem School of the Arts Raises Over $1 Million at Sold-Out Gala
This week, Harlem School of the Arts held its annual gala to support its mission of providing world-class training in...
How Harvard Alum Ron Mitchell’s HR Platforms Help Job Seekers
Harvard grad Ron Mitchell has been busy since graduation. He developed the Alumni Athlete Network to help current and former...
Catching Up with Veteran Journalist (and “Black in America” Host) Soledad O’Brien
Many of us know of Soledad O’Brien’s multi-award-winning work in broadcast journalism from her days at CNN where, for five...
AKA International President Glenda Glover Initiates Funding for HBCUs
In the April 2019 article, “Historically Black Colleges Locked in Fight for Survival,” writers Kurtis Lee and Jaweed Kaleem report...
Esusu Raises $1.6M in Seed Funding for Savings and Rent Reporting Apps
Esusu founders Abbey Wemimo and Samir Goel have announced that they’ve raised $1.6 million in venture capital from several companies...
Tech CEO & Venture Capitalist Solomon Ali on Navigating “A Slanted Financial System”
When it comes to helping minorities secure their intellectual property, raise funding, form strategic partnerships, bring products to market and...
Black Philanthropy Month 2019: The Good Works of Elevate Foundation
August marks Black Philanthropy Month across the nation and to celebrate, we’re highlighting Elevate Foundation, a dynamic foundation formed between...
This Attorney’s Cosmetic Brush Made Time’s Best Inventions List!
Since corporate lawyer Adiya Dixon Wiggins created the Yubi Brush in July 2018, a beauty brush that helps women multitask,...
Lynnwood Bibbens’ Plans to Take Reach TV to New Heights
In a sea of television networks launched in recent years that have looked to create unique viewer experiences, Reach TV...
Todd Walthall Making Executive Moves at Blue Shield of California
Blue Shield of California’s Executive Vice President of Markets, Todd Walthall, is transforming customers’ experience at the not-for-profit health care...
NAACP’s HER Idea Workshop to Engage Black, Female Millennial Entrepreneurs
This year’s second annual HER Idea workshop, hosted by the NAACP Economics Department, to be held in Detroit, Michigan, at...
How the Human Resources Field Works in 2019: A Talk with HR Practitioner Jannie Pilgrim
Although some aspects of the human resources space have changed over the past year, some trends remain the same, reports...
Leadership, Inclusion and Keeping Dow on a Global Scale: A Talk with Karen S. Carter
In a recent interview with TNJ Senior Editor Sergie Willoughby, Karen S. Carter, chief human resources and inclusion officer at...
Cannabis Capital Group to Help Healthcare Professionals and Others Invest in the Cannabis Marketplace
In a 2018 post on TNJ.com, Regina L. Smith, executive director at Harlem Business Alliance, wrote that “medicinal and recreational...
Maya Pope-Chappell Hosts LinkedIn Video Series “How I Got Here”
Anyone who’s joined the workforce or is on an entrepreneurial journey knows how winding career paths can be. Just when...
5 Tips on Investing in Opportunity Zones, According to VC Marlon Nichols
Passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a bipartisan bill that created new tax incentives for investors looking...
United Negro College Fund: 75 Years of Fundraising for HBCUs and Counting
Since billionaire Robert F. Smith’s generous move to pay off the debt of Morehouse students during Morehouse’s 2019 commencement ceremony,...