Business grants for black women

100 Great Black Britons is a poll that was first undertaken in 2003 to vote for and celebrate the greatest Black Britons of all time.
It was created in a campaign initiated by Patrick Vernon in response to a BBC search for 100 Greatest Britons, together with a television series (2002), which featured no Black Britons in the published listing.
The result of Vernon's campaign was that in February 2004 Mary Seacole was announced as having been voted the greatest Black Briton.
Following the original poll, 100 Great Black Britons was re-launched in 2020 in an updated version based on public voting, together with a book of the same title.

Black Cube is a private intelligence agency based in London, Tel Aviv and Madrid.
The company was founded in 2010 by former Israeli intelligence officers Dan Zorella and Avi Yanus.
Its employees include former members of Israeli intelligence units.
In the past, it has supported Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) activities.
Black Cube drew widespread condemnation for its work surveilling and assisting with efforts to slander the reputations of women accusing Harvey Weinstein of sexual violence and journalists reporting on them.

Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) is a policy of the South African government which aims to facilitate broader participation in the economy by black people.
A form of affirmative action, it is intended especially to redress the inequalities created by apartheid.
The policy provides incentives – especially preferential treatment in government procurement processes – to businesses which contribute to black economic empowerment according to several measurable criteria, including through partial or majority black ownership, hiring black employees, and contracting with black-owned suppliers.
The preferential procurement aspect of BEE has been viewed as paradigmatic of a sustainable procurement approach, whereby government procurement is used to advance social policy objectives.
So-called BEE deals – transactions aiming to increase black ownership of large businesses – have been conducted on a large scale, with BEE transactions concluded between 1994 and 2005 valued at between R150 billion and R285 billion.

The Black Mafia, also known as the Philadelphia Black Mafia (PBM), Black Muslim Mafia and Muslim Mob, was a Philadelphia-based African-American organized crime syndicate.
The organization began in the 1960s as a relatively small criminal collective in South Philadelphia, known for holding up neighborhood crap games and dealing in the illegal drug business, but at its height of operation in the early 1970s until about the early 1980s, it managed to consolidate power and control a large portion of criminal activity in various African-American neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, including South Jersey, Chester, and Wilmington.
In addition to drug trafficking, burglary, and armed robbery, the Black Mafia was also engaged in traditional organized crime activities such as political corruption, extortion, racketeering, prostitution, loansharking, number running, and other illegal gambling rackets.

English actress and model Elizabeth Hurley wore a black Versace dress, often referred to as THAT Dress, when she accompanied Hugh Grant to the premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral in 1994.
The dress was held together by several oversized gold safety pins.
The dress is perhaps Versace's best-known creation, and is considered by some to be largely responsible for launching Hurley onto the global media stage.

Dr.
Rae Wynn-Grant is a large-carnivore ecologist and a fellow with National Geographic Society.
She is best known for her research of the human impact on the behavior of black bears in Montana and is an advocate for women and people of color in the sciences.