OP-ED

It Takes A Village: Closing the STEAM Gap Requires Early Exposure to Career Choices

  We’re all familiar with the popular proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.” As a 21st century society, this still holds true, literally and figuratively. For non-millennials, who grew up in a vastly different era, there is a nostalgic mindset that a diverse community of inspiring people interacting with children has a positive and sustained life-changing impact on their developme […]

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Business

Against the odds, Black Entrepreneur signs major deal With Sam’s Club to take her Family Tea Recipe Nationwide

Detroit entrepreneur Nailah Ellis-Brown is defying the odds. At the age of 20, she started her hand-crafted tea business during the height of the Great Recession in one of the hardest hit cities in America. She should have failed. Instead, today Ellis-Brown’s business is thriving – she has her own beverage manufacturing plant and has just inked a deal that will test her family recipe for Jamaican Sweet Tea in every Sam’s Club location in the country beginning on May 16. […]

Entertainment

Breaking In

Rarely do we get a movie where a Black mom comes to the rescue to save her children.  She musters the fortitude to become “MacGyver” like, in her ingenuity to break into her digitally aged fortress of a home.

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