Black Business Owner Receives Racist Email From Client Demanding Refund After Discovering ‘You’re a Person of Color’

A Black woman in Portland, OR, originally started her business, Royalty’s One Stop Shop, with the hope of helping others be “pretty and safe” with a line of fashionable self-defense accessories. Yet still operating a business can come with its challenges, especially as a Black entrepreneur. Two days ago, […]

Google Fired A Black Leading AI Scientist, But Now She’s Founded Her Own Firm

Timnit Gebru, an Ethiopian with Eritrean heritage, was a leading artificial intelligence computer scientist until she was fired from Google. Recently she launched her firm that was awarded $3.7 million in funding from the MacArthur Foundation, Ford Foundation, Kapor Center, Open Society Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Illinois […]