One of the most closely followed Black owned beauty brands is shutting down. Adwoa Beauty, founded by Julian Addo in 2017 with an initial $80,000 investment, is now moving through Chapter 7 liquidation proceedings following a legal dispute with lender Aurous Financial.
The brand had built an impressive retail presence, earning shelf space at Sephora…
Darrell Spencer, a 29-year-old black business owner from Chicago, secured a $500,000 investment on Shark Tank this week for his men's grooming brand, Crowned Skin. The brand has already generated more than $30 million in lifetime revenue, built around a product line that includes body butters and oil colognes made from natural ingredients including shea…
In 2009, Cameka Smith was 29 years old, held a master's degree, and had just been laid off from Chicago Public Schools. The obvious next step for most people would have been to dust off a résumé and move on. Smith chose a different path entirely.
She gave herself one year to figure it out.…

