Digital Healthcare Platform HUED Lands $1.6M in Funding from Serena Williams and Others

by Good Black News | Aug 10, 2021 | Community, Finance | 0 comments

The digital health start-up HUED, founded in 2018 by Kimberly Wilson with the aim of connecting patients with Black and Latinx healthcare providers, recently raised $1.6 million in seed funding led by women venture capitalists. According to thegrio.com,...

Films with Higher Percentages of Cast Diversity Earn Top Box Office Dollars in 2020 While Films with Lowest Diversity Earn the Least

by Good Black News | Apr 22, 2021 | Community, Finance | 0 comments

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) According to UCLA’s annual Hollywood Diversity Report, U.S. audiences spent more money to see films comprised of diverse casts. Although the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted movie releases in theaters for the majority of 2020,...

Killer Mike’s Digital Banking Platform, Greenwood, Raises Nearly $40 million in Funding From Investors

by Good Black News | Mar 29, 2021 | Community, Finance | 0 comments

[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...

Goldman Sachs Commits More Than $10 Billion in Investment and Philanthropic Capital to One Million Black Women Initiative

by Good Black News | Mar 11, 2021 | Community, Finance, Politics | 0 comments

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...

Apple Launches New Racial Equity and Justice Initiative Projects Nationwide

by Good Black News | Jan 13, 2021 | Community, Finance | 0 comments

[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...

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