In March 2021, Evanston, Illinois, became the first city in the U.S. to make reparations available to its Black residents as repair for past discrimination […]

President Joe Biden will cancel an estimated $6 billion in federal student loan debt for about 200,000 borrowers who have been defrauded by their colleges. […]

One of the country’s oldest Black-owned bookstores is shutting its doors. Independent, Black-owned bookstore Eso Won Books has been a fixture on the Los Angeles book scene […]

Tennis star Naomi Osaka and basketball great LeBron James have teamed up to launch a media production company that will focus on giving a bigger […]

By Claire Ballentine and Paulina Cachero  Even as the US real estate market shows signs of cooling, inflation and higher interest rates are making it difficult for young […]

By Molly Smith US credit-card rates have soared past 20%, mortgage costs have climbed to the highest since 2008 and companies are having a harder […]

By Ashley Carman  The Obamas and their production company Higher Ground have signed a deal with Amazon.com Inc.’s Audible to make a slate of original audio […]

A group of Black celebrities have invested in a neobanking system that will serve the underbanked in the Black community. The group not only celebrates […]

A Black former Tesla worker has rejected a multi-million dollar settlement in a racial abuse case against the company. In the lawsuit filed in 2017, Owen Diaz accused several […]

By Matt Day and Spencer Soper Two of Amazon.com Inc.’s top Black executives are leaving amid a management shakeup as Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy […]

Hella Cocktail Co. is on cloud nine after celebrating a $5 million investment into their mixology company. It was founded by three entrepreneurs: Jomaree Pinkard, […]

By Sarah Rappaport After chalking up major financial victories for the families of George Floyd and other victims of police brutality, civil rights lawyer Ben Crump said […]

Americans are feeling the inflation pinch so much so that a majority of them already thing the country has entered a recession. The government has […]

Events management software company Five to Nine has raised $4.25 million in venture capital. TechCrunch reported earlier this month that the company owned by Jasmine […]

By Sonali Basak Progress over the years toward equity for Black Americans has been shaky—at best. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis […]

The city of Faribault, Minnesota, has settled a racial rental discrimination suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota over the city’s requirement […]

By Amanda L Gordon  It seems crying in Goldman Sachs offices not only happens, but can lead to good things. Gizelle George-Joseph, who accepted an […]

By Charlie Wells, Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou and Claire Ballentine The “fear of missing out” that characterized so much of the investing landscape over the past two years […]