Jared Council

Entrepreneur Tade Oyerinde had the original idea for Campus, a national community college startup, five years ago when he met an adjunct professor who was so broke he slept on the floor of his UCLA office.

In just the last three years, ‘the funds that George Floyd built’ have transformed the city’s attitude toward funding, with a nudge from a firm cofounded by former U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.

The confetti was still falling in Dallas’ American Airlines Center on Sunday when LSU star Angel Reese had a message about the meaning of her team’s newly minted championship. “The price just went up,” Reese said.

It doesn’t take an astrophysicist to see the lack of representation in the world of scientific research, but it took one to do something about it.

The U.S. market of hair relaxers, of which Black women are 60% of the customers, is dwindling. The main culprits: evolving beauty standards and health concerns about the chemical ingredients.

The odds are very long for a Black woman tech startup founder with no coding experience to raise meaningful VC funding. But Resilia CEO Sevetri Wilson has done just that.

Leseliey Welch, a former public health official, wants to help improve birth outcomes in communities of color. She believes midwives working in free-standing childbirth centers will be key.

Black founders of EV-charging startups are trying to ensure that Black people aren’t left behind as America transitions to electric vehicles. At stake, they say, is a chance to improve health outcomes in areas with high pollution, as well as economic opportunities tied to EV adoption.

Bloomberg Philanthropies, through its Greenwood Initiative, is donating millions of dollars to an effort to collect data with the aim of bridging the yawning wealth gap between Black and white Americans.

The list is now scheduled to run in 2023. Stay tuned for updates.

Marvin Lewis, a former Cincinnati Bengals head coach, tells Forbes he “was not definitively” put in the same situations as former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores, who’s suing the NFL and 32 teams for racial discrimination.