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Black Unemployment Falls to 6 Percent, Its Lowest Point of 2026, but the Gap Is Still Too Wide
The Joint Center's latest analysis shows real progress for Black men, a bumpier year for Black women and a shrinking labor force that complicates the good news.
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2 days ago2 min read
From ESPN Talent to Network Owner: Ryan Clark Is Betting on Himself With Pivot25
Months after leaving ESPN, the former NFL safety is building a media company he owns, powered by an audience he earned one episode at a time.
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2 days ago2 min read
Janeese Lewis George Is Listening, Ward by Ward
D.C.'s Democratic mayoral nominee has spent September hearing residents out in churches across the city, with education, housing and jobs at the top of the list.
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4 days ago2 min read
Ms. Rachel Sent Thousands of New Customers to a Black Owned Coffee Roaster
One post from the beloved children's entertainer turned into a flood of orders for Blended Joe, and a reminder of what intentional support can do.
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4 days ago2 min read
From 33 Days in the NBA to a $30 Million Movement: The Rise of Actively Black
A knee injury ended Lanny Smith's basketball career in a month. What he built next turned athleisure into a vehicle for Black ownership.
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6 days ago2 min read
They Sued Her for Funding Black Women. Now Arian Simone Is Telling the Whole Story in DC
The Fearless Fund CEO fought a landmark lawsuit over her grant program for Black women founders. Her Fearless Freedom Book Tour hits Washington on September 17.
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Sep 92 min read
Black Girl Ventures Comes Home: A Decade Later, the Movement Returns to the City That Raised It
A decade after it began in Southeast DC, the movement returns to the city that raised it.
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Sep 62 min read
Invest Fest Says It Isn't a Black Conference. A Black City Wants to Know Why It Should Keep Showing Up
After the Earn Your Leisure founders said Atlanta had done nothing for them, then distanced the festival from the Black label, critics are asking whether they want it both ways.
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Aug 163 min read
Civil rights groups warn ending EEOC workforce data could hide discrimination against Black workers
Civil rights groups and researchers are sounding the alarm over a Trump administration plan that would end a workplace reporting requirement in place for six decades. Their warning is simple. Without the data, discrimination against Black workers becomes much harder to see, track, and prove. The requirement in question is the annual EEO-1 report. Since 1966, private employers with at least 100 workers, along with certain federal contractors with at least 50 employees, have ha
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Aug 162 min read
Keke Keep a Job Palmer Is Not Just Working. She Built an Empire
From a $2 million hosting deal to KeyTV, a record label, a hit podcast and a run of brand partnerships, Keke Palmer has turned a childhood in front of the camera into a diversified business empire.
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Aug 162 min read
Prince George's County Just Cleared the Way for a Sphere at National Harbor, and Black Leadership Made the Deal
The Prince George's County Council voted 8-0 to create the financing district for a 14-acre, 6,000-seat Sphere near National Harbor. The project promises more than 1,200 jobs and a $1.3 billion annual economic impact, with labor still pushing for local hiring.
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Aug 162 min read
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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