Founder Files
Oui The People Makes Its Fragrance Debut at Sephora.
2026-07-04
The Founders of Black Wall Street.
2026-06-20
They Built It in 1947. It Is Still Standing.
2026-06-14
Mielle Organics Sold to Procter & Gamble. Monique Rodriguez Stays CEO.
2023-01-05
The Honey Pot Company Acquired for $380 Million. What Beatrice Dixon Built.
2023-03-14
Sundial Brands Sold to Unilever. The SheaMoisture Question.
2017-11-28
P&G Acquires Walker & Company. Tristan Walker Built the Exit He Designed.
2018-12-12
Cecred Is at Ulta. Six Months In, Beyonce's Hair Brand Is Proving Everyone Wrong.
2024-08-15
Black Girl Sunscreen Is at Target and Walmart. Shontay Lundy Built This Shelf Space One Store at a Time.
2022-06-01
Topicals Got Its Sephora Shelf. The Brand Did Not Ask Permission to Be There.
2023-04-12
PATTERN Beauty Is Now at Ulta. Tracee Ellis Ross Built This Brand to Last.
2021-03-01
Shontay Lundy Did Not Build Black Girl Sunscreen to Prove a Point. She Built It Because No One Else Would.
2023-07-12
The Drop
Beatrice Dixon Trusted a Dream. The Honey Pot Company Was the Result.
2023-09-05
The CROWN Act Made Natural Hair a Protected Class. The Beauty Industry Is Still Catching Up.
2022-10-18
Black Beauty Is a $9 Billion Market. Black-Owned Brands Have Never Held More of It.
2023-11-15
Why Every Major Beauty Conglomerate Wants a Black Brand Now. The Business Behind the Acquisitions.
2023-06-20
Black Beauty Founders Raise Less. The Data Is Clear. The Reasons Are Not Complicated.
2022-08-10
Brown Beauty Co-op Only Carries Black-Owned Brands. That Is the Entire Point.
2021-04-15
Thirteen Lune Is Now Inside JCPenney. The Black Beauty Retailer Just Reached 650 Stores.
2022-01-19
L'Oréal Acquires Carol's Daughter. The Acquisition That Started the Conversation.
2014-10-08
They Were Told They Wouldn't Fit In. So They Built the Convention Everyone Wants Into.
2026-07-15
Aurora James Built a Shoe Brand. Then She Built the Infrastructure Around It.
2024-03-10
Kwame Onwuachi Just Put a Black Chef on the Las Vegas Strip. That Has Never Happened Before.
2026-04-15
OneUnited Bank Has Been the Largest Black-Owned Bank in America for Decades. Here Is Why That Still Matters.
2024-09-12
Brand Moves
Sheila Johnson Built Seven Forbes Five-Star Hotels. She Is Not Done.
2024-06-05
Telfar Clemens Did Not Build a Luxury Brand. He Built a Movement That Happens to Make Bags.
2023-08-20
Gregory Gourdet Won James Beard's Best New Restaurant With Haitian Food. Read That Again.
2023-11-08
Black Founders Post Their Strongest Quarter Since 2022.
2026-06-30
Ulta's 2026 Lineup Leans Into Black-Owned Brands.
2026-06-30
Bask & Lather Is on Track to Top $100 Million.
2026-06-30
MAJENYE Debuts With a 16-Product Sensory Ritual Line.
2026-06-30
Cécred Set the Bar. $200 Million, Year One.
2026-06-30
Oui The People Makes Its Fragrance Debut at Sephora.
2026-07-04
The Founders of Black Wall Street.
2026-06-20
They Built It in 1947. It Is Still Standing.
2026-06-14
Mielle Organics Sold to Procter & Gamble. Monique Rodriguez Stays CEO.
2023-01-05
Culture
The Honey Pot Company Acquired for $380 Million. What Beatrice Dixon Built.
2023-03-14
Sundial Brands Sold to Unilever. The SheaMoisture Question.
2017-11-28
P&G Acquires Walker & Company. Tristan Walker Built the Exit He Designed.
2018-12-12
Cecred Is at Ulta. Six Months In, Beyonce's Hair Brand Is Proving Everyone Wrong.
2024-08-15
Black Girl Sunscreen Is at Target and Walmart. Shontay Lundy Built This Shelf Space One Store at a Time.
2022-06-01
Topicals Got Its Sephora Shelf. The Brand Did Not Ask Permission to Be There.
2023-04-12
PATTERN Beauty Is Now at Ulta. Tracee Ellis Ross Built This Brand to Last.
2021-03-01
Shontay Lundy Did Not Build Black Girl Sunscreen to Prove a Point. She Built It Because No One Else Would.
2023-07-12
Beatrice Dixon Trusted a Dream. The Honey Pot Company Was the Result.
2023-09-05
The CROWN Act Made Natural Hair a Protected Class. The Beauty Industry Is Still Catching Up.
2022-10-18
Black Beauty Is a $9 Billion Market. Black-Owned Brands Have Never Held More of It.
2023-11-15
Why Every Major Beauty Conglomerate Wants a Black Brand Now. The Business Behind the Acquisitions.
2023-06-20
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They Were Told They Wouldn't Fit In. So They Built the Convention Everyone Wants Into.
2026-07-15
Oui The People Makes Its Fragrance Debut at Sephora.
2026-07-04
Black Founders Post Their Strongest Quarter Since 2022.
2026-06-30
Ulta's 2026 Lineup Leans Into Black-Owned Brands.
2026-06-30The Drop
Oui The People Makes Its Fragrance Debut at Sephora.
New collections, price moves, and product releases filed as they happen.
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Founder Files
The Founders of Black Wall Street.
Inside the decisions, pivots, and breakthroughs of Black beauty founders.
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Culture
Black Beauty Is a $9 Billion Market. Black-Owned Brands Have Never Held More of It.
Beauty as a lens on identity, music, media, and what the culture is building.
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Founders
In-depth profiles on the women and men who built the Black beauty industry. Their decisions, their cities, their brands.
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Oui The People Makes Its Fragrance Debut at Sephora.
The clean beauty brand steps into fine fragrance with five eau de parfums: Sunday Lime is now at Sephora, and the full collection lives at ouithepeople.com.
2026-07-04Black Founders Post Their Strongest Quarter Since 2022.
Black-founded U.S. startups raised $643 million in Q1 2026, the highest quarterly total since Q2 2022 and nearly 70% of all 2025 funding combined. The gains rode on 34 deals. That is the catch.
2026-06-30Ulta's 2026 Lineup Leans Into Black-Owned Brands.
Pattern Beauty, Mielle, and Bread Beauty are among the Black-owned names Ulta added to its shelves this year. The retailer is treating the roster as a structural differentiator versus Sephora.
2026-06-30
Bask & Lather Is on Track to Top $100 Million.
Founder and CEO Shaina Rainford built a scalp-health and natural-hair-restoration brand to the edge of nine figures. She did it without outside investors.
2026-06-30
MAJENYE Debuts With a 16-Product Sensory Ritual Line.
Founder Yetunde Alabi launched the Black-owned beauty and lifestyle brand around a simple reframe: everyday routines as moments of grounding and luxury.
2026-06-30
Cécred Set the Bar. $200 Million, Year One.
Beyoncé's self-funded hair care venture scaled past $200 million in first-year revenue. It is now the benchmark cited when Black-founded beauty brands lead in creator-marketing performance.
2026-06-30
Exits & IPOs
The Honey Pot Company Acquired for $380 Million. What Beatrice Dixon Built.
Compass Diversified's acquisition of The Honey Pot Company closed in 2023 and valued the Black woman-founded feminine care brand at $380 million.
Mielle Organics Sold to Procter & Gamble. Monique Rodriguez Stays CEO.
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P&G Acquires Walker & Company. Tristan Walker Built the Exit He Designed.
Sundial Brands Sold to Unilever. The SheaMoisture Question.
L'Oréal Acquires Carol's Daughter. The Acquisition That Started the Conversation.
Beyond Beauty
Black ownership doesn't stop at beauty. Fashion, restaurants, music, finance, hospitality -- the same founders, the same conviction, a much bigger canvas.
They Were Told They Wouldn't Fit In. So They Built the Convention Everyone Wants Into.
Dream Con, the anime and gaming convention founded by RDCWorld's Mark Phillips and Affiong Harris, grew from 800 people in Waco to more than 32,000 in downtown Houston. It is the blueprint for what Black nerd culture looks like when it owns the room.
Kwame Onwuachi Just Put a Black Chef on the Las Vegas Strip. That Has Never Happened Before.
Maroon opened at SAHARA Las Vegas in April 2026 -- an Afro-Caribbean steakhouse named for enslaved Africans who escaped British colonialism. The Strip has never seen anything like it.
OneUnited Bank Has Been the Largest Black-Owned Bank in America for Decades. Here Is Why That Still Matters.
While fintech startups come and go, OneUnited has quietly built $650 million in assets and the first Black-owned digital bank. The institution is the infrastructure that everything else depends on.
Sheila Johnson Built Seven Forbes Five-Star Hotels. She Is Not Done.
Aurora James Built a Shoe Brand. Then She Built the Infrastructure Around It.
Gregory Gourdet Won James Beard's Best New Restaurant With Haitian Food. Read That Again.
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