Artist Amy Sherald’s Breonna Taylor Portrait on Display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

by Good Black News | Sep 9, 2021 | Community, Entertainment | 0 comments

Best known for painting the official portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama that hangs in the National Gallery, artist Amy Sherald’s painting of Breonna Taylor officially goes on display Friday at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture...

Digital Healthcare Platform HUED Lands $1.6M in Funding from Serena Williams and Others

by Good Black News | Aug 10, 2021 | Community, Finance | 0 comments

The digital health start-up HUED, founded in 2018 by Kimberly Wilson with the aim of connecting patients with Black and Latinx healthcare providers, recently raised $1.6 million in seed funding led by women venture capitalists. According to thegrio.com,...

New York Artist Tanda Francis and Others Turn Plywood from Black Lives Matter Protests into Public Art

by Good Black News | Jul 29, 2021 | Community, Entertainment, Politics | 0 comments

New York’s worthless studios, a not-for-profit space for artists, organized The Plywood Protection Project last summer in the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, with the intention of making public art that paid tribute to the racial justice movement....

Films with Higher Percentages of Cast Diversity Earn Top Box Office Dollars in 2020 While Films with Lowest Diversity Earn the Least

by Good Black News | Apr 22, 2021 | Community, Finance | 0 comments

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) According to UCLA’s annual Hollywood Diversity Report, U.S. audiences spent more money to see films comprised of diverse casts. Although the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted movie releases in theaters for the majority of 2020,...

Office of Historic Resources and Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles Announce Project to Identify and Protect African American Historic Places in City

by Good Black News | Apr 7, 2021 | Community, Entertainment | 0 comments

[St. Elmo Village, est. 1969. Photo: Elizabeth Daniels, © J. Paul Getty Trust. St. Elmo Village, an artists’ enclave of ten Craftsman bungalows in a colorful garden setting, was founded by artists Roderick and Rozell Sykes as a place where children and adults could...

Killer Mike’s Digital Banking Platform, Greenwood, Raises Nearly $40 million in Funding From Investors

by Good Black News | Mar 29, 2021 | Community, Finance | 0 comments

[Photo: Killer Mike, Andrew Young, Ryan Glover via bankgreenwood.com] Greenwood, the digital banking platform introduced last year by co-founders activist/rapper Michael “Killer Mike” Render and Bounce TV President Ryan Glover, has raised almost $40 million in...

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