There’s a powerful truth in seeing Black women thrive in business: when we rise, the whole world shifts. Black women now own an estimated 2 million businesses — that’s 14% of all women-owned firms and nearly half of all Black-owned businesses in the U.S. From 2019 to 2024, revenue among Black women-owned firms grew by 80%, with employer firms led by Black women seeing a staggering 102.8% surge in earnings.
Dawn Myers stood on business to secure her deal!
Adenah Bayoh Shares Her Journey As A Successful Businesswoman And Entrepreneur
The first-ever "Colorism No More" event will be on August 15 at the Atrium Venues in Country Club Hills, Illinois.
Zanade Mann's Black Women's Business Collective is a crowdsourcing initiative to help provide resources to Black women and Afro-Latina women business owners shaken by the COVID crisis. Her Phoenix Fund is helping them obtain the funds they need to have success.
In honor of Black History Month, Uptown Underground is hosting a For The Culture Market featuring Black women entrepreneurs. Check out the vendors for the event inside.
Between the years of 2007 and 2018, the number of businesses owned by Black women grew by a whopping 164 percent, according to the American Express 2018 State of Women-Owned Business Report. The numbers certainly were not surprising. During the past 10 years, we’ve witnessed a surge of innovation from Black women entrepreneurs in the […]
When a woman promotes her business, she’s seen as aggressive. People can say it’s inappropriate if she tries to network at a social event like a wedding. Nobody thinks that when a man does it. Nobody calls a man cocky or self-important for simply pushing his business when he sees an opportunity to do so.
Mother, beautician, entrepreneur, Kitiya King has taken the the nail care industry by storm.
Make no mistake about it: Black women continue to be the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the United States. And Rosetta Thurman, founder of Happy Black Woman, is equipping many of these women with the mindset, strategies, and tools to ensure that they don’t merely begin businesses, but build businesses that thrive and scale. […]
It’s that time of year again– when department stores are rapidly crowding and TV ads pressure you to give in to capitalism and consumerism, i.e. the foundation of American wealth (and debt.) But, lucky for us, there are plenty of strategic ways to spend our coins and celebrate the magicalness of black women entrepreneurs and keep dollars […]
This entrepreneur dishes on how she built her successful business