By Karen Stokes Pastor Aaron Robbins and his wife, Dr. Laci Coppins Robbins’, new business, A & A Services and Transportation, was conceived during a discussion around the family table, Thanksgiving 2019. “We were trying to make determinations on what our next ventures were going to be because we both have had businesses in the […]
From a Side Hustle to a Business to a Company Tiffany Miller is Scaling Up
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. To make a business succeed, it requires hard work, determination, sweat, luck, gumption and an entrepreneurial spirit that can’t be put into words. When the City of Milwaukee Health Department commissioned entrepreneur Tiffany Miller to make 36,000 face masks for its mask […]
7 Scooops by the Ice Kream Klub is by Kids for Kids, just ask their 6-year-old CEO
By Dylan Deprey If there’s one word to describe Kaliyah Wheeler, it’s vibrant. The 6-year-old smiles from ear-to-ear as she colors in designs on her tablet. Her favorite color is blue, and she loves every ice cream flavor. Her giggles are enchanting and it matches her outfit. The bright pink and blue sweat suit pairs […]
Local Activist Suits Himself By Suiting Others
by K. Barrett Bilali Urban News Service They say that clothes make the man. Kevin Livingston brings that maxim to life. When he was 15, New York City cops grabbed Livingston in Queens and arrested him for armed robbery. “Thank God for the principal of my school,” Livingston said. “He came and showed the police […]
NFTE Turns Inner-City Youths into Black Entrepreneurs, Despite Persistent Challenges
by Curtis Bunn Urban News Service “My ethnicity has been empowering and encouraging for my community,” she says. “I am the first African-American balloon artist that most children in the region have seen, especially inner-city African- American children. Oftentimes, people will book me because of my color and age. Sometimes, I am even hired to […]
Where is Today’s Madam C.J. Walker?
‘Let’s Keep Our Entrepreneurial Gene Thriving!’ by Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist Women entrepreneurs have a powerful role model when they consider Madam C.J. Walker. One of our nation’s first female self-made millionaires, her story of combining herbs to develop and manufacture a hair pomade, of empowering tens of thousands of women as sales […]
What Does It Take to be a Successful Entrepreneur?
by Armstrong Williams NNPA News Wire Columnist Time is one of those magical dimensions of the human experience. At certain instances it seems like there is not enough of it. And at others, it seems like the moment lasts forever. The intellectual and emotional experience in the passage of time is one of those unique […]
Black-led Start Up Capitalizes on Natural Gas Bonanza
by Jared Anderson Urban News Service A black entrepreneur’s “power move” on the energy sector could create hundreds of jobs in one of the the poorest communities in Texas. Houston-based businessman Phillip Franshaw is building Annova LNG, a multi-billion-dollar liquefied natural gas export facility on the Brownsville Ship Channel along the Texas Gulf Coast. If […]
Free UW Legal Clinic Gives A Hand To Local Startups
Law Students Helped 300 Clients Last Year by Parth Shah A free legal clinic for entrepreneurs has helped hundreds of Wisconsin businesses open up shop. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Law & Entrepreneurship clinic is run by a group of 20 law students. Under the mentorship of licensed attorneys, they help startups write contracts and handle […]
Jaylen Bledsoe, Teenage Millionaire Entrepreneur, Committed to Inspiring More Teens to Business Ownership
by Curtis Bunn Urban News Service Jaylen Bledsoe, 17, was astonished when a teenager told him his life’s goal was to become a drug dealer. Bledsoe, who gained national attention for creating a thriving Internet design company, could not fathom the youth’s position … at first. “That was his dream,” Bledsoe told Urban News Service […]