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The Black CEO Leading Downtown DC's Once in a Century Comeback
Gerren Price and the DowntownDC BID are behind a 400 million dollar plan to reimagine the District's core, with culture and inclusion at the center.
Posh Standard Team
Aug 33 min read
SirDavis Is Now 100 Percent Black Owned and Beyonce Did Not Need a Partner to Do It
Moet Hennessy sold its stake in the whisky brand it co-launched with Beyonce in 2024. She now owns every percent of a brand named for her great-grandfather, a Prohibition era moonshiner.
Posh Standard Team
Jul 302 min read
Wall Street Has Been Buying Up Black Neighborhoods. A Georgia Senator Just Made It Law to Stop
Senator Raphael Warnock's ban on private equity firms mass-purchasing single-family homes is now federal law.
Posh Standard Team
Jul 282 min read
A Decade in the Making: Rich Grillz Opens in Washington
The DMV's best known custom grillz house expanded from its Maryland roots into a new Northeast DC shop at 2201 Channing Street NE.
The Posh Standard Team
Jul 192 min read
She Was Told Her Idea Was Too Generic to Protect. KIN Apparel Just Won the Trademark
After two rejections from the Patent and Trademark Office, Philomina Kane announced that Satin-Lined Hoodie is now a registered trademark owned by her brand, KIN Apparel.
The Posh Standard Team
Jul 152 min read
Before You Repost That Fawn Weaver Headline, Know the Whole Story
A Black founder built one of America's fastest-growing whiskey brands. Her fight with a lender is real, and it is more complicated than any caption.
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Jul 144 min read
Howard Just Gave Black Entrepreneurs Something Most of Us Never Get. Right Here in DC
Howard University and PNC held the 2026 HBCU Entrepreneurship Empowerment Summit to equip Black entrepreneurs.
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Jul 122 min read
CHAMPAGNE REIGN BRINGS BLACK FOUNDERS, CREATIVES, AND COMMUNITY LEADERS TOGETHER TO BUILD SOMETHING BIGGER
MelaninCon hosted the inaugural Champagne Reign on
Sunday, June 28, 2026, at Realm Rooftop Bar and Lounge in the Shaw neighborhood,
bringing together hundreds of Black entrepreneurs, creatives, and community leaders for an afternoon centered on a shared belief: the resources our community needs already exist among us, and the work is placing those resources into one another’s hands.
Posh Standard Team
Jul 23 min read
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