Financial app Goalsetter recently announced its seed capital round of $3.9 million. The app, which hopes to address financial access gaps, has notable investors including NBA Stars Kevin Durant and Chris Paul, actors Sterling K. Brown (“This is Us”) and Ryan Bathe (“The First Wives Club”) along with philanthropist and

In 1908, the first National Woman’s Day was observed in the United States in honor of the garment workers’ strike in New York to protest unsafe working conditions. However, it was not until almost 70 years later that the United Nations recognized International Women’s Day as an international day honoring

In January, Robert F. Smith participated in a panel at The Davos Agenda gathering to discuss digital inequities that the past year has exposed and exacerbated. The World Economic Forum described the importance of the panel and noted our current landscape where “almost half of the global population, some 3.6

Continuing this summer’s notable $1 billion commitment to advance racial equality and economic opportunity, Bank of America recently announced an additional investment: $150 million to 40 minority-led funds based in 21 markets across the U.S. This move is part of the larger effort by the U.S. financial community and marginalized

It’s an unavoidable fact that medical science has lagged when it comes to diagnosing and treating diseases such as cancer in African American communities. A number of factors contribute to this, including a slow rebuilding of trust in medical institutions due to past mistreatment of minority community members, such as

A new Bankrate survey found that people of color pay on average more than double what white Americans pay in banking fees. When asked about fees including ATM, overdraft and routine service charges, Latinos reported paying $14 a month on average, and Black adults reported paying about $12 a month.