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Many apps and online directories, such as The Nile List or Official Black Wallstreet, have emerged offering a database of African-American-owned businesses that consumers can support. Black entrepreneurs originally based in music and sports diversified to build "brand" names that made for success in the advertising and media worlds.
First African-American woman to graduate from (and to attend) the U.S. Naval Academy: Janie L. Mines, graduated in 1980 [274] [275] [276] First African-American woman to join the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live: Yvonne Hudson; First African-American-oriented cable television network: BET [277]
Reginald Francis Lewis (December 7, 1942 – January 19, 1993), was an American businessman. He was one of the richest Black American men in the 1980s, and the first African-American to build a billion-dollar company: TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc. [1]
In 2017, Hobson became the first Black chair of the Economic Club of Chicago in its 90-year history. Similarly, she made history at her alma mater, Princeton University, when the Ivy League ...
In 1954, Joan Johnson and her husband, George Johnson, founded Johnson Products, a haircare and cosmetic company that grew to become the first Black-owned business on the American Stock Exchange.
Obama became the first Black president in American history after winning the 2008 election race against John McCain. While in office, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize, worked to limit climate change ...
Madam C. J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist.Walker is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records. [1]
Robert Reed Church was born enslaved in 1839 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, as the son of Emmeline, a black American woman from Virginia.His mother was enslaved and his father was Captain Charles B. Church, a white steamship owner from Virginia who operated along the Mississippi River. [1]