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Thrive

These four tips from Bernard Tyson, former CEO of healthcare giants Kaiser Permanente, will help advance your career

Bernard Tyson earned himself a reputation as a distinguished corporate executive and community leader. He rose from being an assistant administrator in the Outpatient Medical Records Department at the San Francisco facility to CEO of…

By Preta Peace Namasaba March 21, 2024
Innovation

Henrietta Lacks did not die with much but her cells are at the core of today’s multibillion dollar polio and cancer research

Medical exploitation of Black bodies and medical racism are part of America’s storied history. Scientific racism was invented to justify the African slave trade with European scientists of that day arguing that African men were…

News

From the trunk of his car, Diishan Imira has now built a multimillion dollar hair company

Although technology is everywhere today, it took a while for the billions of dollars of hair products marketed to Black Americans to be impacted by distribution tech. For instance, only five percent of hair salons…

By Preta Peace Namasaba March 20, 2024
Thrive

This nurse shared haircare routine on YouTube and turned it into a $100 million business

When a hair coloring experience went wrong, Courtney Adeleye tried to find the best way to fix it. She was a registered nurse at the time and sought a more natural solution. After researching ingredients…

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Robert F. Smith’s Vista Equity Partners acquires JAGGAER after raising $20 billion to invest in AI

Robert F. Smith’s Vista Equity Partners has acquired JAGGAER, a global leader in enterprise procurement and supplier collaboration software, from Cinven. The acquisition aligns with the firm’s goal of investing in artificial intelligence after raising…

By Preta Peace Namasaba September 2, 2024
Business

Slutty Vegan founder Pinky Cole gifts two longtime employees their own restaurant

To celebrate Slutty Vegan’s 6th anniversary, its founder and CEO, Pinky Cole Hayes has rewarded two of her longtime employees, Angel Barnwell and Miesha Hambrick with their own franchise. The two women have been crucial…

By Preta Peace Namasaba August 26, 2024
News

These 4 Black owned businesses generate over $1 billion in annual revenue each

Black business ownership is growing at the fastest pace in 30 years. According to data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances, the share of Black households owning a business has more than doubled,…

Thrive

Top 10 in-demand remote jobs paying at least 100k salaries

The pandemic unequivocally changed how we work. It shook up the traditional workplace setup and ushered in the remote work era. According to the Pew Research Center, approximately 22 million employed adults in the U.S.…

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