Just in case you’ve missed some of the news content we published this week, we’ve got you covered. Here’s a roundup of some of the biggest black business stories on BlackEnterprise.com
- Byron Allen’s company acquires the Weather Channel for $300 million.
- Beyoncé and Gucci team up to provide 120,000 women and children in East Africa with clean water.
- Former Eli Lilly CFO Derica Rice named the new president of CVS’ Pharmacy Benefit Business.
- Calls to end gun violence cross racial lines with ‘March For Our Lives‘ rally.
- JPMorgan Chase will invest $1 million in women entrepreneurs.
- Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix called his black potential clients “n***ers” in leaked emails.
- 7 best books for entrepreneurs of color.
- Best Buy appoints former eBay executive to board of directors.
- 10 takeaways from Donna Brazile at The Women of Power Summit
- Intel Corp. announced the appointment of Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, a medical doctor and professor to its board of directors.
- Jay-Z invests in the Promise app that helps people pay bail.
- This app will help you make more money on your Lyft and Uber side hustle.
- A week after Michael B. Jordan announced he was adopting the “inclusion rider” in all future projects that his Outlier Society production company takes on, two of Hollywood’s most powerful actors say they are also adopting the diversity clause.
- Thanks to his early investment in Ring, Nas will reportedly earn $40 million when Amazon finalizes the $1.1 billion acquisition of the smart doorbell security company.
- Trevor Edwards, Nike’s No. 2 who many thought would take over as CEO when Mark Parker retires in 2020 resigns, amid workplace misconduct investigation.
- An Arizona woman becomes the first fatality of autonomous vehicles in the United States.
- A new poll by the Small Business Majority found that birth control and reproductive rights are key to black women’s entrepreneurial success.
- Meet Wacoinda, the fastest-growing black group focused on economics in the black community.
- Black Panther is still selling out and breaking records.
- Could 3-D printed homes be the solution to tackling global homelessness? New Story and ICON have successfully printed the first permitted, 3-D home, built to U.S. housing standards.
- Opportunity Hub announced a massive expansion to help generate black wealth.
- New bedding lines, created by Philly Public School kids will be on sale to the public at Crate & Barrel.
- Jay-Z teaches Blue Ivy $19,000 lesson at the second annual Wearable Art Gala in Los Angeles.
- Here’s how Oklahoma’s black entrepreneurs are rebuilding “Black Wall Street.”