Category: Business
Subtitle: Southern faces unprecedented opportunity By Dwain Hebda – Southern Bancorp CEO Darrin Williams’ career sits at the crossroads of law, business and the political arena. A three-term member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, including serving as Speaker Pro Tempore of the 89th Arkansas General Assembly, he’s also served as managing partner of Carney, […]
By The Arkansas Black Vitality Staff – Little Rock-based High Street Equity Partners, Arkansas’s first Black-led venture capital firm, has received its second major investment that will go toward assisting underserved startups and tech firms seeking to scale up. On November 10, High Street announced an unspecified investment from Arkansas Capital Corp., the Little Rock […]
BCN Staff – May 1, 2022 – Chicago-based Numerator, a data and tech company serving the market research space, has released a new consumer study, Understanding the Influence of Heritage on Black Consumers. The report indicates that Black consumers, particularly with African and Caribbean family heritage identities, are deeply connected to home cooking, more likely to […]
BCN Staff – April 24, 2022 – Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS)recently announced it has committed more than $30 million to early stage startups led by Black, Latino, LGBTQIA+, and women founders as part of its new AWS Impact Accelerator. Over the three-year commitment, the Amazon Corp. subsidiary said it will provide funding and guidance for a series […]