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Ade Ajao sold his former company for $100 Million and became a VC
January 20, 2019
Adeyemi (“Ade”) Ajao is co-founder & Managing Partner at Base10 Partners, an early-stage venture capital fund. Base10 recently made news for raising $137 million,…
Meet The Black Woman Who Created The World’s Largest Tech Conference
January 19, 2019
Social Media Week Lagos is the largest and Blackest conference that you’ve probably never heard of until now. Social Media Week features a central…
Foot Locker Invests $2 Million in Black Owned Footwear Design Academy
January 18, 2019
Foot Locker Inc. has made a $2 million investment in Pensole Inc., which operates the Pensole Footwear Design Academy, founded by former Jordan design director…
Remembering Atlantic City’s Black History and Segregated Past
January 17, 2019
Like much of the United States, Atlantic City, New Jersey, was both de facto and legally segregated throughout much of its history, until the Brown…
A Conversation with Tech Architect, Iddris Sandu
January 16, 2019
Iddris Sandu is a young visionary who landed an internship with Google at 13, received a Presidential scholar award at 14, worked on data analytics…
Assemblywoman Angela McKnight helps create laws that actually make a difference
January 15, 2019
In our collective pursuit of economic empowerment, it is important to acknowledge the role of politics. It is also important to acknowledge the public officials…