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13 Dec

These Black-Owned FemTech Corporations Brought Retail Innovation To Essence

These Black-Owned FemTech Corporations Brought Retail Innovation To Essence
Big data has long had an enormous inclusivity problem. Often, AI algorithms are built with systems that may contain racial and gender biases that leave a big group of individuals unseen and unheard. That’s what led Jessica Couch and Brittany Hicks to found consumer insights and consulting firm Fayetteville Road–the name is a play on their North Carolina roots. Graduates of North Carolina State University andNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University respectively, they each learned in regards to the inner working of retail management and recognized a number of the blind spots. “I worked in tech as a product manager for several years for numerous retail tech firms, and I had also gotten my experience for data and...
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10 Dec

The Son Of Black-Owned Grocery Store Brokerage Founders Created

The Son Of Black-Owned Grocery Store Brokerage Founders Created
Take a go searching the following time you’re at your local food market. Have you ever ever thought of who’s behind ensuring those shelves are continually stocked? How the produce arrives perfectly ripe to your picking? Brandon Hill can answer that: his parents, and folks like them. For greater than 40 years, his mother and father worked within the grocery industry–each in the company sector and eventually as owners of their very own grocer brokerage–one in every of the few Black founders to achieve this. Like many others within the food distribution business, Hill’s parents experienced the ups and downs of the key economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, namely supply chain disruptions. Data shows that short supply could cause...
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8 Dec

Meet The Black-Owned Label Reshaping The Luxury Bag –

Meet The Black-Owned Label Reshaping The Luxury Bag –
Black people invented luxury, let’s be honest. And as an industry estimated to be price 297 billion by 2026, it’s no surprise that Black entrepreneurs are continuing to make their mark on the luxurious market, proving once and for all we’re here to remain. Continuing that trend is Archyn Orijin, Founder and Executive Creative Director of the eponymous brand that sells handbags and accessories.  On the intersection of culture, travel, and design, ORIJIN CULTURE is creating signature pieces that carry the culture — and the continent — in all places they go.  And already, his Africa purses are in all places, after going viral for his or her powerful design representing the diaspora and the worldwide influence of Black culture.  But Archyn didn’t start...
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4 Dec

3 Black-Owned Hair Brands Helping to Redefine “French Girl

3 Black-Owned Hair Brands Helping to Redefine “French Girl
While you consider so-called quintessential French girl beauty, does a girl rocking an Afro or Bantu knots come to mind? Probably not — but there are people working to vary the misperception that each French woman is born with effortless waves and a penchant for minimalistic makeup. The natural hair space — also often called the "nappy" movement in Francewhere the word doesn't have the identical historical connotations because it does within the U.S. —  has been gaining momentum over the past decade and shows no signs of slowing down. Just like the American natural hair movement, it goes beyond higher products and more readily-available styling suggestions — it’s about self-acceptance and an unwavering sense of pride. The movement is now...
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