The three Black leaders of Primo Partners want to use their business to dismantle white supremacy. Primo Partners was recently awarded The Big O for operational excellence.Tweet this Primo Partners recently became the first BIPOC-owned franchisee group to be named Operator of the Year by Ben & Jerry’s. It is also the ice cream company’s largest franchise group, with 10 Scoop Shops across six states. [...]

360NFT the first of its kind Black owned music NFT platform, powered by Trapchain, Inc., has collaborated with indie music artist and native Chicagoan, Willie Taylor, to drop his first NFT for his music project, “Write My Wrongs.” Taylor first gained notoriety as a contestant from MTV's “Making the Band 4,” where he was chosen by Sean Combs to be a member and one of the main vocalists for the band Day26 on August 26. 360NFT’s November 26 launch and debut NFT release commemorates the band’s popularity and success.  Headed by Chicago, IL natives, founder Casmir Patterson [...]

Yesterday, I was in the process of listening to Tavis Smiley’s Station KBLA in Los Angeles for a project. I thought I would just be listening for a few minutes but I ended up listening to an entire show with Isaiah Washington. I was pleasantly surprised at how well put together the station is in programs how tight the breaks are and how professional it sounds. This is not to say that I would not expect this from Tavis but this is not what I’m used to when it comes to talk radio. [...]

Blueprint Capital Advisors CEO & Co-Founder Jacob Walthour, Jr. [...]

 Supplier Success, a black-owned supplier finance consultancy, recently celebrated the expansion of the Facebook Invoice Fast Track program to financially support diverse-owned businesses across the United States. The program, set to relaunch on October 1, 2021, will now provide tens of thousands diverse -owned companies with immediate payment for the goods and services they've invoiced their customers for — but would otherwise have waited months to get paid. The announced expansion follows the completion of a successful pilot program with Supplier Success and its technology partner, Crowdz. [...]

Many businesses have used the "Black-owned" label to solicit additional business in the past or as a way to add credibility to their brands. Unfortunately, this has often backfired. In large part, because we (black people) don't really care. As a matter of fact, it may actually HURT your business. Perhaps the only time a business should use  "Black-owned" is when they are in the press for their success (Slutty Vegan) or there is a program that can help fund or supplement the business' mission. [...]