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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]
Alonzo "Lon" Franklin Herndon (June 26, 1858 Walton County, Georgia – July 21, 1927) was an African-American entrepreneur and businessman in Atlanta, Georgia. Born into slavery, he became one of the first African American millionaires in the United States, first achieving success by owning and operating three large barber shops in the city ...
Hamburg based tattooist who professionalised tattooing in Germany. He supposedly was the first one to use an electric tattoo machine in Germany [11] Leo Zulueta: Born 1952: Filipino American Known as "the father of modern tribal tattooing." [6] [12] Zulueta championed all-black tattooing, called "the king of black." [6] Featured on TLC's Tattoo ...
Thirty-nine years after a man was found dead down an embankment, California authorities are hoping his distinct arm tattoos can help identify him. The man’s body, which was badly decomposed, was ...
Johnson left NCTA in 1979 to create Black Entertainment Television, the first cable television network aimed at black Americans. [12] [14] When the network launched in 1980, it only aired for two hours on Friday night. [4] [12] BET first turned a profit in 1985 and it became the first black-controlled company listed on the New York Stock ...
Emory Andrew Tate III was born on 1 December 1986 [24] [25] [26] at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. [27] He is biracial; [28] his African American father Emory Tate (1958–2015) was a chess international master, [29] while his White English mother Eileen Tate worked as a catering assistant. [30]
The expanded Child Tax Credit included in the American Rescue Plan was a game-changer for Black small business owners and their employees. Child poverty rates for Black children dropped by 17.1% ...
A man asked people what they wish they had known before getting tattoos in a now-viral TikTok post. Silk — a 27-year-old aspiring tattoo artist who posts on TikTok under the handle @silk.tattoos ...