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According to journalist Antony Loewenstein from TRTWorld, a Turkish international news channel, the founder of notorious private military company Blackwater is looking to monetize a war-torn Afghanistan by extracting and mining the country’s minerals.

During the AFROPUNK Brooklyn Festivallast week, a Black couple was thrown out of a VIP area for wearing a shirt that stated, “Afropunk sold out for white consumption.” Today, Afropunk’s editor-in-chief, Lou Constant-Desportes, lended credence to the couple’s controversial observation when he resigned over claims the company utilizes “performative activism” and mistreats of employees.

GEO Group is the largest for-profit prison company in Florida and the single largest contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). GEO Group has an estimate of over $400 million invested in local prisons. As the Trump administration continues to detain and separate families, the company has become a notorious target for many anti-ICE groups. […]

On Sunday, a 49 year old woman was struck and killed in Tempe, Arizona by an Uber vehicle that was doing testing of its autonomous mode. Reports from BBC indicate that there was a human monitor behind the wheel, but according to Tempe Police Elaine Herzberg was not using a crosswalk when the Uber car struck […]

Artist-entrepreneur father and son pair Will and Jaden Smith’s want to use their resources and reach to help the people of Flint, Michigan. Papa and Son Smith, through their company Just Water, are providing Flint residents with water fit for human consumption. So far, Just Water has donated 9,200 bottles of water to a community […]

A group of former and current NFL players are using their millions to invest in the future while also making smart business decisions. Together, nearly a dozen NFL vets got together and invested $810,000 into Me & The Bees Lemonade, a start-up run by 12-year-old Mikaila Ulmer. 

WT Stevens, a Black-owned construction company based in Flint, has been announced as “one of just four companies recently contracted—under a court order—to replace more than 18,000 lead corroded pipes,” according to the Network Journal.

Mo’s Bows is a success story that only gets more inspiring as time goes on. At only the age of 11, Moziah “Mo” Bridges and his mother appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank looking for an investor for their company that sold neck and bowties. They didn’t walk away with an investor, but they did leave with a […]

According to Mic., the GEO Group has won the first federal contract for a new immigrant detention center in Texas. The contract is worth $110 million and will house 1000 beds for undocumented immigrants or those accused of committing a crime.

Ursula Burns started her career at Xerox as an intern in 1980, according to New York Mag. In 2009, she was named as CEO of the company and has held the position since. However, it was recently announced that the company will be separating into two publicly traded corporations in an attempt to restructure and Burns […]

  The company says that their project has nothing to do with race. That seems willfully ignorant and social media has called them out. They’ve released an explanation but critics are not having it.     RE: Seasalt & Co. Lynch Art I guess I take everything back. I respect their “lively hoods” and “fighting […]

  Marvel Studios announced several new films set to debut over the next couple of years, and one of them features its very first black superhero. 42 and Get On Up actor Chadwick Boseman has been tapped for the lead role.