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In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Pharrell was outspoken about the lack of ownership in music for Black artists.
These two college roommates just became business partners. Davonne Reaves and Jessica Myers first met in the early 2000s when the two became roommates at Georgia State University. Now, they are making history as business partners who just closed on a historic $8.3 million hotel deal. Back in college, the journalism and hospitality majors probably couldn’t have fathomed that by age 33 they’d be hotel owners. According to Black Business, the deal is said to have made them the youngest Black women to ever co-own a property in a major hotel chain. Reaves and Myers created their own hotel ownership group of mostly Millennials and partnered with Nassau Investments to acquire Home2Suites by Hilton located in El Reno, Oklahoma just about 30 miles from Oklahoma City. “I never thought by the time I was 33 that I’d be a hotel owner, but I admit that it feels great to have accomplished that at this point in my life,” Reaves said, according to Black Business. “Making history in the process, well...
Timothy Webb, Jr. started lifestyle brand — More Than A 9 To 5 — to generate more conversations around Black people’s mindset surrounding financial literacy, ownership, gentrification, and beyond. However, Webb has managed to do more than just create conversations. The 30-year-old is now actually taking problems like gentrification into his own hands through the real estate industry all while still working his day job. Outside of being in constant relationship with others, as someone who’s well-versed in the tech space, working for companies like GE and currently a company that supports cybersecurity for the federal government, he also uses his technology background to run his business. Whether it’s securing rental payments for his property through their electronic web portal or building his own website for his company, More Than A 9 To 5, Webb is equipped with the knowledge to keep things running both at the forefront and in background. “I think so many people hide behind a title...