Seeking Seed Money
Rozalia Williams recalls the day she was awarded a small business grant in 2001 from the Miami Dade Empowerment Trust. She and the other eligible competitors had given presentations and...
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Empowerment Through Self-Employment
Johnnie E. Williams III shattered his right elbow in high school and ended his dreams of playing college basketball. He knew then he’d have to work hard at something else...
Betting On ‘Blak’
Flipping through his art portfolio one day, Mark Davis inadvertently introduced a concept that would take Imajimation Studios — the startup animation business where he worked as an illustrator —...
Learning A Lesson
Clayton Banks wants everyone to know that his company’s latest project, Realizing the Dream: Nonviolence or Nonexistence, is not your typical e-learning course. Patterned after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s...
Staying Connected
Five years ago, several historically black colleges and universities invested heavily to wire their campus networks. They didn’t want their students left in the lurch of the digital divide. Today,...