{"id":1809,"date":"2021-02-24T18:57:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T23:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2024-02-13T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T16:50:44","slug":"black-history-month-celebrating-black-business-leaders-and-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/blog\/black-history-month-celebrating-black-business-leaders-and-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month: Celebrating Black business leaders and entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Canada\u2019s only national non-profit offering financing, mentoring and resources to young entrepreneurs, Futurpreneur is committed to driving inclusive\u00a0<span data-contrast=\"auto\">economic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0prosperity. We strive to empower diverse young entrepreneurs across Canada to build and launch successful businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This February, in honour of Black History Month, we\u2019re shining the spotlight on Black entrepreneurship leaders across the Futurpreneur network. These small business owners, mentors and activists are making a difference in their communities and paving the way for the next wave of young Black entrepreneurs across Canada.<\/p>\n<h4>Read their stories:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/2021\/janelle-hinds-entrepreneur-mentor-and-champion-of-diversity-in-stem\/\">Janelle Hinds: Entrepreneur, mentor and champion of diversity in STEM<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/2021\/sonel-merjuste-owning-it\/\">Sonel Merjuste: &#8220;With good intentions, you can thrive&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/2021\/kaela-kay-balancing-tradition-and-modernity\/\"><strong>Kaela Kay: Balancing tradition and modernity<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/2021\/felicita-ovadje-lawyer-turned-beauty-entrepreneur\/\"><strong>Felicita Ovadje: Lawyer-turned-beauty entrepreneur<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>We will continue to update this page with new stories.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Canada\u2019s only national non-profit offering financing, mentoring and resources to young entrepreneurs, Futurpreneur is committed to driving inclusive\u00a0economic\u00a0prosperity. We strive to empower diverse young entrepreneurs across Canada to build and launch successful businesses. This February, in honour of Black History Month, we\u2019re shining the spotlight on Black entrepreneurship leaders across the Futurpreneur network. These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","category-futurpreneurs-and-partners"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurpreneur.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}