You may know Hollywood veteran and award-winning actress Tina Lifford as the vivacious, breakout, beloved character Aunt Vi on the critically acclaimed television drama, Queen Sugar. Or maybe you know her from one of the more than 100 characters she has...
For years, actor and voice over artist Joan Baker resisted the calling to become an entrepreneur. It wasn’t until she met her future husband and business partner, Rudy, in 1994 that she began to think differently. Together, the duo later created a series of...
For Alex Okoriji, the first glimpse of entrepreneurship came by way of a visit to a fashion accessories store with her mom in Lagos, Nigeria, when she was just 11 years old. Shortly thereafter, her mom started her own store with Alex by her side, working as a vital...
The seeds for entrepreneurship were planted in Detroit native Reagan Gomez when she was just 14 years old. It was on the set of the 1990 TV show The Parent “Hood, as the young actress observed her co-star, Robert Townsend, not only work in front of the camera,...