Category: Business
New Orleans Saints and Pelicans’ Owner Tom Benson Died at the Age of 90
When he was a child in New Orleans, Tom Benson used to walk to and from school a few miles from his home in the Seventh Ward, pocketing the precious few pennies his...
Forbes Five: Hip-Hop’s Wealthiest Artists 2018
Last June, when Jay-Z and Beyoncé welcomed twins to their family, they did what many couples do in the wake of a new arrival–move to a bigger home–on quite...
Women of Color have created a cannabis media company to cash in on Green Rush
Cannabis enthusiasts aim to highlight and increase minorities in the legal marijuana industry through Estrohaze. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made it no...
Black Women Are Cultivating New Ground in the Wine Industry
African American women are cultivating success and living the “grapelife” in the U.S. wine industry — a field that traditionally has lacked a diverse...
‘Black Panther’ Obliterates Movie Box Office Records and Old Hollywood Myths
The Disney-Marvel movie “Black Panther,” which finds the superheroic T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) returning to his remote African kingdom to assume the throne,...
Stock Market Defeat Wipes $114 Billion From The Fortunes of The World’s Richest
A plunge in U.S. stocks Monday cut the fortunes of the world’s 500 richest people by $114 billion as the optimism over tax cuts that fueled January’s gains gave way...
Trump declares a Twitter War with Jay-Z over the “Black Unemployment” Rate
President Donald Trump lashed out against Jay-Z on Sunday, after the rapper and entrepreneur criticized Trump’s attitude and actions regarding race. In an interview on...
The NBA wants Sports Gambling to be Legalized
The NBA is taking a gamble on sports betting. League officials on Wednesday came out in favor of legalized wagering on games — and even offered some ideas on how to...
The Future Moguls of Hip Hop: Post Malone, Cardi B And The Class of 2018
For Post Malone, the future is now. The Syracuse-born rapper-singer’s album Stoney moved more than 1.5 million album-equivalent units in 2017, best among the...
Racially Insensitive Product Image Has Cost H&M A Major Celebrity Partner
“Shocked and embarrassed” is how Abel Tesfaye — better known as Grammy award-winning artist The Weeknd — says he felt upon seeing a...
