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Prince Gyasi Went From Shooting On An iPhone To Designing A Davido Cognac Bottle Sold In Africa And The US

Prince Gyasi, the Ghanaian visual artist who built his career shooting on an iPhone, designed a new limited-edition cognac bottle featuring Davido.

Oct 29, 2026

Chef Stikxz Says Caribbean Food’s Big Moment Won’t Build Wealth Without Ownership As She's Named To Adidas’ NYC Creative Class

Caribbean food has more attention in New York City than ever, and Chef Stikxz wants Caribbean chefs to turn that attention into ownership.

Oct 27, 2026

Stephan James Is Credited For Having 'I Play Rocky' Premiere In His Hometown Of Toronto: Here's How He Studied Carl Weathers’ Career Playbook

The Amazon MGM Studios film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, and Farrelly told AfroTech Culture that was James’ doing. The team had discussed debuting it in Europe until James, a Toronto native, reached out.

Oct 26, 2026

Stacey Rusch Broke A Barrier In Virginia’s Cannabis Industry, And Now She’s Scaling Her Brand Into New Markets

Stacey Rusch spent years selling other companies’ products on QVC. Now she’s focused on her own. 'The Real Housewives of Potomac' star is the founder of Shayo, a cannabis-infused wellness brand that launched in Virginia’s medical cannabis market

Oct 15, 2026

Naomi Ackie On Why Modestly-Budgeted Superhero Movies Like ‘Clayface’ Make Business Sense: ‘The Payback Could Be More’

DC Studios has spent hundreds of millions on its biggest superhero movies. 'Clayface' is going a different route, and Naomi Ackie thinks that’s to its advantage.

Oct 14, 2026

Tia Glover Left Image Consulting for Real Estate, And 3 Years In, She’s Building Her Business One Client At A Time

Tia Glover has a platform as one of the newer faces on 'The Real Housewives of Potomac,' but she’s quick to point out that being on television doesn’t mean the real estate deals come easy.

Oct 12, 2026

As 'The Social Reckoning' Drops, Is Another Tech Reckoning Already Brewing With AI?

The events behind The Social Reckoning happened only five years ago, but the conversation around Big Tech may have already moved on to something bigger.

Oct 5, 2026

Major Deals Keep Coming During Olivia Miles' Rookie Of The Year Run, Now With Adidas

Olivia Miles has signed with adidas Basketball, capping a rookie season that has turned the Minnesota Lynx guard into one of the most marketable young players in the WNBA.

Sep 28, 2026

Unrivaled Lands Its Biggest Apparel Deal Yet As League Hits $650 Million Valuation

Unrivaled has a new uniform partner heading into its third season. The deal comes a month after Unrivaled closed an oversubscribed Series C round of more than $100 million, led by Ten Pillars Sports Fund.

Sep 24, 2026

Angela Bassett Created A Space For Black Talent At Yale In 1979. Now, Her Son Is Helping Revive It For Gen Z Creatives

Slater Vance, son of actress Angela Bassett, has revived the Black student theater group his mother founded at Yale University in 1979.

Sep 24, 2026

Petiri Reed On His Corporate Layoff And How Reality TV Prepared Him To Pivot In Public

Reed sat down with AfroTech Culture to talk about the day he learned his role was being eliminated, why he's been transparent about unemployment when so many people aren't, and what it actually means to pivot in 2026.

Sep 22, 2026

Anthony Edwards Turns His Ongoing Adidas Partnership Into A Sketch Comedy Series, Adding To His Off-The-Court Portfolio

Anthony Edwards is expanding his adidas partnership into a sketch comedy series. "They always said your commercials are like TV shows, so I went and made one," he said.

Sep 22, 2026

MACRO Acquires Streamer ALLBLK From AMC Global Media

MACRO, the entertainment company from Charles D. King, has acquired the Black-centric streamer, Allblk, from AMC Global Media.

Sep 17, 2026

Elegance Bratton On What Changes (And What Doesn't) When You Go From Indie To Major Studio Budget

'By Any Means' moves Elegance Bratton into different territory: a Paramount studio release with the budget, crew size and star power of a major production behind it.

Sep 4, 2026

Jonathan Daviss And Carlacia Grant Say 'Outer Banks' Taught Them How To Build Careers That Last

Jonathan Daviss and Carlacia Grant are two of the Black actors at the center of Netflix’s Outer Banks , and both are using the show’s final season to talk about what five years on set taught them about building a career, not just booking a role. Every project is a classroom Daviss, who plays Pope Heyward, told AFROTECH™ Culture he treats every project as a classroom. “I compare it to college in a way, it was just a teaching experience,” he said. “I was learning how to be on set, learning how to come to work prepared, learning how to expand my range as an actor, learning the things I was good at, learning the things I, more importantly, wasn’t good at and could get better at.” That’s the standard he said he now holds every new project to. “I think that’s what I want with every project, I want everybody, every project I go on, I want to learn something new,” he said. “I want to feel like I’m expanding myself. I want to feel like I’m coming to set a student. That’s been my biggest...

Aug 20, 2026