Just a few short months following the grand opening of his luxury “good-vibes-only” hotel in Miami, Florida with business partner David Grutman, legendary producer Pharrell Williams is already setting his sights on another establishment geared towards students from low-income families. The Virginian-Pilot reported that Williams, along...

By any measure, the class of 2020 got a bum deal. Not only did many of them miss out on the normal pomp and circumstance celebrating their years of hard work, they were then thrust into an uncertain and fragile...

Are you a remote worker, who for the right opportunity will work from anywhere? Or, are you looking for a change of pace and scenery? Many cities right here in the US are offering paid incentives and relocation fees to...

Richmond, Virginia could be home to the first Black-owned casino in the United States after city administration officials chose Urban One over several other proposals. Urban One is based in Silver Spring, Maryland, and was founded in 1980. You may...

You can take the girl out of Cali, but you can’t take the Cali out of the girl. When Oakland native Tamu Curtis relocated to Charlotte, she wanted to retain a sliver of her social life back in the City...

Leave it to Diddy to always put on for the culture. The hip hop mogul has teamed up with Salesforce to create SHOP CIRCULATE, a curated digital marketplace that will allow customers to discover and buy products exclusively created and...

Shares of Oprah Winfrey-backed Oatly Group AB jumped as much as 30 per cent in their market debut on Thursday (US time), valuing the Swedish oat milk maker at about $US13 billion ($16.7 billion), as demand for plant-based food products...

I leveraged my experience in the corporate world to get started,” Diop told Business Insider. “I spent 45 days scrolling through Instagram every day, researching, following hashtags, before making my first post. It is important to look at who is...

The Universal Hip Hop Museum will pay homage to the culture-shifting genre in the place where it all started: The Bronx. The museum held its official groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday with a slew of star-studded New York rappers, including LL...

Bitski, an NFT marketplace, has raised $19 million after a Series A funding round. The round was led by Andreesen Horowitz and supported by Jay Z and Serena Williams. NFTs are booming, and Bitski is among the leading companies joining...

If the Land of Side Hustles had a queen, it would surely be 28-year-old Tyra Myricks, daughter of hip hop legend Jam Master Jay. It all began in 2009 when she launched a fashion label while still in high school...

Jay-Z is the second entrepreneur in the Carter household to tap into the fitness world. Following Beyoncé’s partnership with Peloton, the co-founder of Marcy Venture Partners has joined the investment team for CLMBR, a leader in connected fitness technology. As PRNewswire...

Here at Tech is the new Hip Hop we are very bullish on gaming and even have a Twitch Channel and following the recent news of how an artist is investing and giving attention to the ever-growing gaming industry.  Read below....

It's no secret that venture capital funding has been bias towards women and people of color who are leading some amazing start-ups. Imagine being both Black and a woman trying to navigate in the maze of silicon valley and raising...

Check out Landit Landit, the platform helping users get ahead in their careers, has ended its $13 million Series A funding round. WeWork led the funding round. Other investors include Connectivity Partners, Morgan Stanley, and Gingerbread Capital. Connectivity Partners focuses on early-stage...

NASA announced plans to rename a facility after legendary mathematician Katherine Johnson paying tribute to her lasting impact on space exploration. In a February 22 ceremony, Johnson, a West Virginia native, was presented with a building on the NASA complex in honor...

The deal could give the Obamas access to an audience of 118 million Netflix subscribers. The shows could feature inspirational stories, sources familiar with the talks said. They could be about issues that took center stage during Obama’s presidency, such...

Nas has made a name for himself in Silicon Valley. Now that Amazon has acquired the company for a whopping $1.2 billion, Nas has earned a pretty penny for his early investment in Ring, a smart doorbell company. WeBuyBlack reports the rapper has made over...

Grammy-award winning musician and one-time Chicago Public Schools student Chance the Rapper surprised dozens of fifth-graders at a South Shore school Wednesday, where he crashed a coding class and, separately, stood with executives from Google’s charitable arm to announce a $1.5 million donation to...