Jamaican billionaire Michael Lee-Chin, has received the final award from the UNCITRAL Arbitral Tribunal pertaining to the Caricom-DR Free Trade Agreement. The tribunal recently reached a decision in the treaty dispute between the Dominican Republic and Lee-Chin…
Although the US Department of Agriculture stopped using the term “food desert” about a decade ago, the phenomenon of communities and towns lacking access to healthy food repositories is still a worrying tend in the…
Ham Serunjogi and Majid Moujaled are from Uganda and Ghana respectively, and they are founders of Chipper Cash, a Silicon Valley unicorn fintech that allows Africans to receive money from outside the continent and to…
Byron Allen has placed a $3.5 billion offer to purchase BET Media Group from Paramount Global. This is a renewed offer that follows an earlier bid of $2.7 billion in mid-2023. Around the time of…
NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has named a new building after its first Black manager, Dorothy Vaughan. Building 12 was named the “Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo” in honor…
Track and field star Allyson Felix has received a $20 million grant from Melinda French Gates to support Black maternal health organizations. The donation is a part of a broader $1 billion commitment to support…
The Essence Festival of Culture recently held at the Caesars Superdome generated a windfall of over $300 million for New Orleans, according to the city’s mayor. The festival, which celebrates African American culture, blends music…
Ghanaian doctor Nancy Abu-Bonsrah has made history, becoming the first Black woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins University’s neurosurgery program. She pursued her clinical interests in neurosurgery, neurotrauma and neurosurgical capacity building in low-and-middle-income countries.…
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