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Female entrepreneurs are denied on business loan applications more frequently than men and also often end up with lower loan amounts and higher interest rates. This disparity makes it less surprising that there is a $1.7 trillion worldwide financing gap for female founders. Despite this gap, businesses owned and controlled
I was in the hospital with a very sick relative. The rest of the floor grew quiet as visitors left and the minimal overnight staff came on shift. But then, the door opened unexpectedly, and in walked the emergency room doctor who had admitted my relative the day before. “You
Emmy-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph is proving it’s never too late to evolve — and she’s urging others to do the same. Via a video shared on Instagram by The Black Media account, the “Abbott Elementary” star issued a public service announcement to her followers “of a certain age — over 40”
Gun violence is yet again at the forefront of the national consciousness following Wednesday’s deadly high school shooting in Winder, Georgia. The tragedy that struck Apalachee High School, where four people were killed and nine others injured, has renewed calls for stricter gun laws from Democrats and gun safety advocates.
A new “gate” just dropped. Ever since a sitting president was accused of sponsoring a Washington, D.C., break-in (no, not that one), covering up a secretly recorded phone call of his attempts to interfere with a presidential election (no, not that one) and Congress filing articles of impeachment (calm down,
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve watched “The Temptations,” a mini-series that ran during my sophomore year of college in 1998 that chronicles the beginnings, successes and
R&B singer Freddie Jackson, who topped the charts in the mid-1980s with his iconic slow jams, recently announced he has been diagnosed with kidney disease. On Wednesday, Sept. 4, the R&B legend, 67, shared his recent diagnosis and his reason for going public with the news in a video posted
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California has retired Caleb Williams’ No. 13 jersey and restored Reggie Bush’s No. 5 to its place of honor among the other retired numbers displayed on the Coliseum’s peristyle. The school announced both long-expected moves on social media Thursday, two days before the
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NBA legend Charles Barkley has made the first of 10 promised donations to a New Orleans school where two of its students made mathematical history in 2023. St. Mary’s Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in the eastern part of the city, received Barkley’s $100,000 gift
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rich Homie Quan, the Atlanta rapper who gained mainstream fame through the trap singles “Type of Way” and “Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh),” has died. He was 33. Quan, whose legal name is Dequantes Devontay Lamar, died at an Atlanta hospital, the Fulton County Medical Examiner confirmed to The Associated Press.
Female entrepreneurs are denied on business loan applications more frequently than men and also often end up with lower loan amounts and higher interest rates. This disparity makes it less surprising that there is a $1.7 trillion worldwide financing gap for female founders. Despite this gap, businesses owned and controlled
I was in the hospital with a very sick relative. The rest of the floor grew quiet as visitors left and the minimal overnight staff came on shift. But then, the door opened unexpectedly, and in walked the emergency room doctor who had admitted my relative the day before. “You
Emmy-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph is proving it’s never too late to evolve — and she’s urging others to do the same. Via a video shared on Instagram by The Black Media account, the “Abbott Elementary” star issued a public service announcement to her followers “of a certain age — over 40”
Gun violence is yet again at the forefront of the national consciousness following Wednesday’s deadly high school shooting in Winder, Georgia. The tragedy that struck Apalachee High School, where four people were killed and nine others injured, has renewed calls for stricter gun laws from Democrats and gun safety advocates.
A new “gate” just dropped. Ever since a sitting president was accused of sponsoring a Washington, D.C., break-in (no, not that one), covering up a secretly recorded phone call of his attempts to interfere with a presidential election (no, not that one) and Congress filing articles of impeachment (calm down,
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve watched “The Temptations,” a mini-series that ran during my sophomore year of college in 1998 that chronicles the beginnings, successes and
R&B singer Freddie Jackson, who topped the charts in the mid-1980s with his iconic slow jams, recently announced he has been diagnosed with kidney disease. On Wednesday, Sept. 4, the R&B legend, 67, shared his recent diagnosis and his reason for going public with the news in a video posted
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California has retired Caleb Williams’ No. 13 jersey and restored Reggie Bush’s No. 5 to its place of honor among the other retired numbers displayed on the Coliseum’s peristyle. The school announced both long-expected moves on social media Thursday, two days before the
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NBA legend Charles Barkley has made the first of 10 promised donations to a New Orleans school where two of its students made mathematical history in 2023. St. Mary’s Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school in the eastern part of the city, received Barkley’s $100,000 gift
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rich Homie Quan, the Atlanta rapper who gained mainstream fame through the trap singles “Type of Way” and “Flex (Ooh, Ooh, Ooh),” has died. He was 33. Quan, whose legal name is Dequantes Devontay Lamar, died at an Atlanta hospital, the Fulton County Medical Examiner confirmed to The Associated Press.
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