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Black Woman-Owned Coffee Brand Expands Into H-E-B & Target
Ezra Coffee Ezra Coffee, a Black Woman-owned specialty coffee brand, is excited to announce that their ethically sourced, premium flavored coffee blends are now available in over 40 H-E-B retail locations and online at Target.com . Ezra Coffee Founder Jessica Taylor Ezra Coffee Co. was founded by Jessica Taylor […] Click here to view original […]
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NBA Legend-Turned-Food Entrepreneur Kevin Johnson Partners With Black-Owned Brewery To Launch Beer Line Honoring Ray Charles
Ray Charles’s impact has reverberated through culture for more than five decades, and Kevin Johnson understands this better than anybody. The NBA legend, 55th mayor of Sacrameto, CA, and owner of Fixins Soul Kitchen in LA recently announced a new collaboration with The Ray Charles Foundation to release a […] Click here to view original […]
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Couple Secures $250K Deal on Shark Tank for Black-Owned Virtual Bridal Company
Blackbusiness.com Meet Charles and Ashley Young , a married couple who are the co-founders of a virtual bridal company called Bridal Babes that designs bridesmaids’ dresses that are body-flattering catered for curvy Black women. After appearing on Shark Tank and securing a $250,000 deal, their Maryland-based company has become […] Click here to view original […]
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The BLAC List: 8 of Our Favorite Black-Owned Gin Brands
Indoggo Gin Dog Gone Smash As the spirits industry has grown, it has become increasingly important to support and promote Black-owned businesses in the field. Black-owned spirits companies have been historically underrepresented, despite the fact that Black folks have been integral to the creation and development of many of […] Click here to view original […]
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HBCU Graduates Open Black-Owned Craft Beer Bar in Harlem
“Beer is us, a part of us” — Thousands of years after beer was invented in Africa, these HBCU graduates came together to open one of NYC’s only Black-owned craft beer bars. Located in Central Harlem, Harlem Hops has become a go-to spot for “beer, booze, bites, and beats,” […] Click here to view original […]
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First Black-owned, legacy Detroit marijuana dispensary opens
Detroit — More than four years after Detroiters overwhelmingly voted to approve recreational marijuana sales, the city’s first “legacy Detroit” Black-owned recreational marijuana dispensary opened Saturday as part of the city’s social equity program. Nuggets Dispensary’s opening at 18270 Telegraph is the result of a 2018 ballot proposal that […] Click here to view original […]
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Founder of Award-Winning Black, Woman-Owned Branding Agency Makes History with Buy with Prime Partnership
(Image Blacknews) Diamond Spikes, founder and CEO of DS Creative Design Studio , an award-winning Black woman-owned branding studio, has announced an amazing partnership with Amazon’s Buy with Prime program. The partnership brings comprehensive branding workshops to Black-owned businesses, helping them to take actionable steps to grow and improve […] Click here to view original […]
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Is the Beauty Industry Finally Playing Fair With Black-Owned Brands?
Beauty and grooming rituals have long been a part of the Black experience. Historically, everything from hairstyling to body art has represented where we come from and to which community we belonged. But then we fast forward to the mid to late 20th century, when many of our beauty […] Click here to view original […]
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The List: A look at DFW’s top Black-owned businesses
The companies featured on the Dallas Business Journal ’s 2023 North Texas’ Black-Owned Businesses List brought in a combined total revenue of $216.14 million in 2022. Below is a bar graph of the companywide revenue of the individual companies from 2021 to 2022. Hover over the graphics to see […] Click here to view original […]
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Sean “Diddy” Combs Says “It’s Time For BET To Be Black-Owned Again” As Paramount Explores Stake Sale
Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images for iHeartRadio Sean “Diddy” Combs on Wednesday bolstered recent media reports that he is kicking the tires of BET Networks , which is in the early stages of being shopped by parent Paramount Global . Combs would join other interested parties in a stake sale of […] Click here to view original […]