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No More Excuses: The 2025 Mandate for Real Impact
As of April 2025, we are living through overlapping emergencies. According to Oxfam, the wealthiest 1% burned through their entire annual carbon budget in…
o15 Capital Partners Closes Inaugural Fund at $370 Million
by Tony O. Lawson o15 Capital Partners, an alternative investment firm focused on providing growth capital to undercapitalized companies and communities, announced the closing of…
Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” Deal: A Paradigm Shift for Creative Ownership in Hollywood
When Ryan Coogler’s Sinners—a genre-blending horror-thriller set in Jim Crow-era Mississippi—sparked a studio bidding war in early 2024, the director’s negotiation terms became as…
Functional Fluidics: Advancing Solutions for Sickle Cell Disease
For Dr. Patrick Hines, the path to innovation began in the ICU. As a pediatric critical care physician and researcher, he witnessed firsthand how…
Why Edenesque’s Plant-Based Milk Is About More Than Ingredients
For many founders, business is personal. For Leslie Woodard, it’s rooted in lived experience and the healing power of food. A Le Cordon Bleu-trained…
1,000 Units, One Mission: Gateway’s $350M Vision for Orange, NJ
When Terrence Murray co-founded Gateway Merchant Banking with longtime friend and college classmate Charles Frazier, their mission was clear: bring institutional-quality development to communities…