‪#AboutLastNight: Still on cloud-9 about @kweliTV winning Harvard African Business Conference Venture Competition! #HBSABC2017 #humbled ‬ In late February, kweliTV won the Harvard African Business Club’s New Venture Pitch Competition during their annual conference. More than 130 companies applied and 1o of us were lucky enough be selected to do a 5-minute pitch at the […]

Halcyon Kickoff – kweliTV from S&R Foundation on Vimeo. I, along with my five other cohort fellows, did a 2-minute pitch as part of the Halcyon Kick-off event. Fun times!

Two years ago, I was on cloud nine. I had just left my local bank to create a business account and deposit the $20,000 business grant I had just received a week prior from Unity Journalists. I opened my laptop and mapped out a simple, 12-month plan for kweliTV with the funds I just received: […]

It’s not just a new administration coming to our nation’s capital: seven of the most promising social enterprises in the world are moving to Washington D.C. in 2017. Today, Halcyon Incubator announces the selection of its sixth cohort for one of the nation’s premier incubators for early-stage social entrepreneurs. The seven social enterprises will bring […]

From midnight to dawn, on October 12th men and women gather in Bahia, Brazil with tambourines, traditional songs, and fervent prayers to celebrate Brazil’s patron saint, Our Lady Aparecida. Robust with passed-down tales from the 19th century, the short documentary “Escravos E Santos (Of Slaves and Saints)” illustrates the connection between Brazilian spirituality and slavery […]

Recently, I stopped by Sirius XM to talk about kweliTV to radio host and journalist Maggie Linton.

For many members of the SheStarts community, like for so many others, yesterday was a difficult day after the election. It seemed as though the values we hold dear — diversity, inclusion, gender equity, innovation — were rejected by much of our country. But a sold out-crowd representing the full spectrum of diversity showed up to stand strong for […]

Moments before 40-year-old Terence Crutcher was gunned down with his hands up in the air by a white police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, another law enforcement officer looking below from a helicopter said that Crutcher — a father of four who was in route home after taking a class at a community college before his car broke […]

Building a tech start up is much like riding a big roller coaster over and over again every day. And as a child, I was deathly afraid of roller coasters. There was a small amusement park in my hometown of Memphis, Tenn., called Libertyland. Its main attractions were the Zippin’ Pippin’, a wooden roller coaster, […]