Going Beyond Black History Month With Our State Of Black Entrepreneurship Project

Plus: 10 Standout Black Small Business Owners From The Next 1000

“Black entrepreneurs, nobody did us no favors / Nobody gave us s**t, we made US!” - Jay-Z, “I Did It My Way”

It’s a big day for For(bes) The Culture. Today we launched our State of Black Entrepreneurship hub. Throughout the year, we’ll feature historical profiles on forgotten Black entrepreneurs as part of our CultureX: The Forgotten series, plus data and new forms of storytelling to assess the state of Black entrepreneurship, and where it’s headed.

Stay tuned for updates. In the meantime, check out our first CultureX: The Forgotten profile on Joseph Lee, one of Boston’s most successful hospitality entrepreneurs in the late 1800s and early 1900s who invented machines that transformed industrial breadmaking for the next century.

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