Hope Wiseman, CEO and co-founder of Mary and Main, is a trailblazing entrepreneur in the cannabis industry. Along with her mother, Dr. Octavia Simkins-Wiseman, she established a Black-owned dispensary ...
For the ESSENCE Best & Black Owned series, Work & Money Editor Marquita K. Harris and her team learn about the ups, downs, and in-betweens of running a business. While some twentysomethings are still ...
The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...
Mary and Main, owned by Hope Wiseman, 26, her mother Dr. Octavia Simkins-Wiseman, and co-founders, Dr. Larry Bryant and Dexter Parker, is the first African American owned medical marijuana dispensary ...