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Mike Edwards recently launched the Black Label Cigar the first Black-owned cigar line in England. Although he’s a newcomer at the cigar industry. Edwards launched his successful male grooming brand, the UK-based Aireyys Ltd. in 2015.

Bee has shared stages with artists such as Wale, Nick Cannon and others. She was a headline performer for Michelle Obama’s Reach Higher Initiative: College Signing Day at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, to uplift and encourage high school students to pursue higher education.

As the CEO of Kingdom Social Media, an agency specializing in helping influential leaders dominate their market online through social media marketing, Simons has helped more than 20 Fortune 500 companies establish digital marketing campaigns.

Ballin’s work led her to being named the 2017 National Black Journalists Association (NABJ) Journalist of the Year (online) and a Caribbean American Thirty Under 30 Emerging Leader. She netted the NABJ Award for Best Features Series in 2017 for her project exploring the importance of a comprehensive Black history education, through a collection of essays.

Instead of pursing the studentathlete path, she had grown to know throughout her younger life, Gibson continued her education without basketball to aid her studies in Business Informatics (Analytics) at Widener University in Chester, Pa. She was honored in two academic fraternities, Phi Eta Sigma and Beta Alpha Psi.

Celebrating Philadelphia’s influential young people.

Blount is the founder of the “The Urban Thinker”, which symbolizes the connection between Black consciousness, Black philosophies and generating questions. He is the vice president of I.M.P.A.C.T (Intelligent Men of Color Purposefully Accomplishing College Together), a member of the Black Alumni Association of Arcadia University and the Association of Black Social Workers.

His parents, Oba and Idm Awan, also known as Robert and Beverly Lloyd, were pioneers of African consciousness in Cleveland, OH, where they chartered the Abundant Life Christian Academy, an African American-themed elementary school. Sankofa says he is fighting for the liberation of all people of the African Diaspora

Tempest Carter is passionate about eradicating poverty and improving the quality of life for comunities through education, community building, youth empowerment, economic development, and art. She is looking for positions that will use her skills to support the creation and maintaining of opportunity rich and culturally vibrant communities

MarjoLagah Bona is the founder and CEO of Cocorobics Workshop, an international traveling dance and fitness program which features a mixture of dance from different part of the world, mostly African, and is fused with Aerobics.