The MetLife Foundation announced Tuesday that 24 nonprofits will benefit from its two-year, $10 million Accelerating Commitment to Equity Innovation Fund (ACE Innovation Fund) — including a Durham-based initiative from Forward Cities focused on Black Wall Street, plus three more Triangle-based initiatives. Learn more.
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Several events have been announced across North Carolina for the month of September. Here’s our guide.
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Our latest exclusive events wrapup summarizes the must-attend happenings across the Triangle in February, including a handful of industry-specific meetups, informative workshops, conferences, panels, and more.
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Art of Cool Fest picked up where it left off on Friday during day two Saturday, wrapping up a week focusing in large part on the African American entrepreneurial community.
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The Art of Cool Festival kicked off Friday, celebrating its five-year anniversary in downtown Durham. Each year, the festival brings a unique energy to the city and this year was no exception.
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Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamilton, who went from broke and homeless to heading a $36M venture fund, talked candidly about her journey at the Black Wall Street event Thursday.
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In the heart of Durham’s historically African-American Walltown neighborhood just north of Duke University’s East Campus, a non-descript, white-painted brick building with a rich and varied history will soon be the city’s newest entrepreneurship and innovation hub
Read MoreBack with its fourth annual program, Black Wall Street Homecoming returns to downtown Durham this week for three days of panels, keynotes, presentations and networking mixers for Durham’s startup community.
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“This has grown into a truly international program welcoming black startup leaders from across the country and around the globe,” says Doug Speight, executive director of AU. Here’s a preview.
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