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One of the biggest challenges Black entrepreneurs face is access to capital.

We know Black people start businesses in droves (SBA’s 2024 fact sheet reported about 3.59 million Black-owned businesses), but research shows that they too often start them with less money, and with less access to capital to grow their businesses compared to white-owned businesses.

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Asthe early days of summer get underway, many Americans are looking for ways to beat the heat with modern comforts. If you’re reading this from an air-conditioned room, enjoying an ice-cold beverage from a refrigerated truck, watching your kids run through the sprinkler system on the front lawn, or joining family and friends for a scoop of ice cream, you may not realize these...

Donald Trump did not invent Donald Trump. He was assembled, piece by piece, by a family whose history reads like a manual for manufacturing a man who would treat life as a demolition derby. The Trumps were not a Norman Rockwell clan with a white picket fence and a golden retriever. They were a dynasty built on opportunism, reinvention, racial exclusion, and the unspoken rule ...

The fatal police shooting of Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old Black infant, sparked painful conversations about the value of Black lives in America. On June 14th, his mother, Vellesiya Wiley, visited a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, to pick up some diapers. As they were leaving the store, an employee stopped them and accused her friend of shoplifting. Because it had nothing to d...

I’m a straight man, but I wasn’t always so sure. This didn’t come down to desire, but how my masculinity presented. To this day, people ask about my sexuality regularly.

Richard Gadd’s work on Baby Reindeer caused a paradigm shift within me. I was forced to reflect on my beliefs about consent, desire, and masculinity. (Read about it