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Innovative new program pairs first-of-their-kind BOLD IncubatorSM events with the power of Wyndham to address development challenges unique to the Black community  Stonecrest Resorts CEO Vaughn Irons joins as BOLD's inaugural member, unveils plans for a new 110-room TRYP® by Wyndham hotel in Atlanta's Stonecrest suburb Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world's largest hotel franchising company with more than 8,900 hotels in 95+ countries, announced today BOLD by Wyndham, a new program designed to engage and advance more Black entrepreneurs on their path to hotel ownership. [...]

Morgan State U African-American, Science Complex - Maryland Board of Public Works Approves Agreement with Moody Nolan to Begin Design Services Following contract approval by the Maryland Board of Public Works during the board’s first meeting of the new fiscal year, Morgan State University (MSU) today announced its official selection of the nation’s largest African-American-owned architecture firm — Moody Nolan, Inc. — to lead the creative vision for a new, innovative, state-of-the-art science complex. The agreement, valued at approximately $20.1 million, allows the firm to provide complete professional design services for all design phases of the project. [...]

Black-owned, natural hair Pixie Puff Doll Collection available this Fall Exclusively at Walmart Purpose Toys, one of the largest Black-owned toy start-ups, announced their new forthcoming Tightly-Coiled Natural-Hair Fashion Doll line, Pixie Puff Collection, a celebration of short and chic natural hairstyles, this past National CROWN Day on Instagram @MyNaturalistas. Natural Curly Hair Styles CROWN Day is a holiday that celebrates the first signing of the CROWN Act into legislation in California, on July 3, 2019. [...]

Have you ever wondered how small businesses start up? What gives them the courage to start up the process? How do they take that first step, and what encourages them to keep it going? Here I break it down. Frustration I want to start a business but have no ideas I started my business radiofacts.com 27 years ago from frustration. I was frustrated with how Radio was going in my career, and I felt like my voice wasn't being heard. [...]

What Elon Musk's $44B Buyout of Twitter Means for The Popular Social Media Platform So Elon Musk bought Twitter, now what? After only a week of being Twitter's largest shareholder, the multi-billionaire and CEO and chief of SpaceX, Elon Musk, decided to outright buy the company for $44 billion and break the internet in one fell swoop. What the billionaire may do to the social media platform is anyone's guess, but based on a statement released after the deal was reached where Musk called Twitter “the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated” [...]

Dame Dash may not be the most loved entrepreneur, but he does spit facts. On a new episode of Fox Sport's Club Shay Shay, Shannon Sharpe and Dame Dash covered various topics from Dash's childhood, his success in the industry, and his feelings on Kanye West and Kevin Hart's accolades. As an outspoken entrepreneur, he gave what most people expected: his raw, insightful, and honest thoughts on the music industry. Many respond to death through the normal grieving process: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. [...]

In the early hours of the morning, the popular stock and crypto trading giant Robinhood quietly added a few more tokens to its offerings, rounding it out to 11. Included in the new offerings are the ever-progressing innovator Solana (SOL), the Ethereum-based token and technological platform Polygon (MATIC), the beloved, dog-themed meme-coin Shiba Inu (SHIB), and the original defi token Compound (COMP). Robinhood's support of these 4 tokens has had an immediate effect on stocks, with SHIB rising almost 25% an hour (5:00 AM EST) following the news and the others rising just as rapidly. Robinhood Making [...]

From Rags to Riches: How Nigerian-Born Tope Awotona Became One of America's Richest and Most Savvy Immigrants with a 1.4B Networth Calendly, a scheduling platform for the modern man, has solved the logistical nightmare that setting up a meeting can be. The Calendly website advertises it as something that takes, "the busywork of scheduling off your to-do list so you can get more done. Thousands of teams across the globe use Calendly to make millions of 1-click meetings every week. [...]