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Killer Mike’s Digital Banking Platform, Greenwood, Raises Nearly $40 million in Funding From Investors
[Photo: Killer Mike, Andrew Young, Ryan Glover via bankgreenwood.com] Greenwood, the digital banking platform introduced last year by co-founders activist/rapper Michael “Killer Mike” Render and Bounce TV President Ryan Glover, has raised almost $40 million in...
Morehouse College and Spelman College Co-Create Center for Black Entrepreneurship with $10 Million in Funding from Bank of America
According to jbhe.com, the Black Economic Alliance Foundation, HBCUs Spelman College, Morehouse College and Bank of America have announced plans to develop the Center for Black Entrepreneurship, the first-ever academic center to assemble, educate, and...
Goldman Sachs Commits More Than $10 Billion in Investment and Philanthropic Capital to One Million Black Women Initiative
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. announced a new investment initiative yesterday of more than $10 billion to advance racial equity and economic opportunity by investing in Black women. The initiative, One Million Black Women, is named for and guided by the goal of...
Artist Sonya Clark’s “Tatter, Bristle, and Mend” Exhibition on View at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in D.C. from March 3 to May 31
[Above image: Sonya Clark, Nap, 2012; Glass beads and board, 16 x 20 x 5 in.; On loan from the artist; © Sonya Clark; Photo by Taylor Dabney] Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend will be on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington D.C....
Artist Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola’s “Magic City” Installation at John Michael Kohler Arts Center Opens Online Feb. 19
[Image: Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola: Magic City installation (detail) at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2021.] A Cadillac Escalade that morphs into a pulsating sound sculpture. Murray’s Pomade cans as minimalist totems. Durags that replace oil paint as a medium...
Harriet Tubman Inducted into Military Intelligence Corps Hall of Fame; Back on Track to Grace the $20 Bill
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) On Veteran’s Day in 2018, I posted the following to the Good Black News Facebook Page with the photo above: This is Harriet Tubman in her later years. She lived into her early 90s and of course is best known for leading over...
Apple Launches New Racial Equity and Justice Initiative Projects Nationwide
[Photo courtesy apple.com: Jared Bailey, a senior at Morehouse College, has integrated Apple’s coding and creativity curricula into his public health and community service work as part of the school’s partnership with Apple, a collaboration that is expanding further...
Black LA firm Lendistry selected by California to Disburse $500 million in COVID Relief Funds
[Photo: Everett K. Sands, Lendistry Founder and CEO via Lendistry.com] The state of California has selected Lendistry, a Black-led-and-operated financial firm in Los Angeles, to administer the disbursement of $500 million in COVID-19 grants to California small...