Arlan 👊🏾
Founder of investment firm @Backstage_Cap, author IT’S ABOUT DAMN TIME, host of podcast YOUR FIRST MILLION, fan @GeneralHospital, MARRIED to @queergermangirl😍
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John Lewis: Good Trouble | A Magnolia Pictures Film | In Theaters and on Demand July 3rd
Using interviews and rare archival footage, JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day...
A Conference About Empowering Equity & Justice • Intermitten, August 7th
Intermitten is a 1-day conference about empowering equity and justice in our workplaces, communities, & entrepreneurial ecosystems. Join us to explore how diverse communities of change makers can connect and create to make the world a more just...
Meet the computer scientist and activist who got Big Tech to stand down
Joy Buolamwini’s research helped persuade Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft to put a hold on facial recognition technology. Through her nonprofit Algorithmic Justice League, she’s now battling AI bias in other realms.
'It's A Disaster': German Expats Love U.S. But Not Its Handling Of Coronavirus
Germany has flattened its curve, and unemployment has barely budged. Some Germans living in the U.S. are mystified by how politicized the pandemic has become here.
How To Start A VC: Interview With Maya Horgan Famodu, Founder, Ingressive Capital
Maya Horgan Famodu's $10M venture fund, Ingressive Capital, may be the largest first-time tech fund raised by a solo Black female GP in all of venture; it's surely the 1st VC firm run by a solo female GP in Nigeria. She talks about her fundraise &...
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Arlan 👊🏾
Proud early LP investor in this fund. It shouldn’t have been as difficult to raise, but we all know how that goes. Maya has incredible deal flow, rapport w/founders, perseverance and the chops to back it up. I have no doubt she’ll lap my achievements soon.
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Vinyl Devotion
Selling used, rare and collectible records
Arlan 👊🏾
My good friend & exec assistant @jaimiebriggz has this awesome side hustle w/her husband. They have a personal collection of 1200 vinyl records that they’ve meticulously curated. Now, they’ve opened up a @Shopify store that sells the rarest of the bunch🔥 vinyldevotion.fm pic.twitter.com/4bIiuuFVCi
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Bandwagon: Community Post
Once a month, we at Bandwagon will share with you who we are.
Danielle Brooks To Star In 'The Mahalia Jackson Story' At Lifetime
Tony nominee and Grammy winner Danielle Brooks is set to...
Episode 348: The Color of Money in VC
Jason Henrichs speaks with Backstage Capital Founder and Managing Partner Arlan Hamilton & Mike Asem, Partner at M25, and board member with BLCK VC.
47. Raheem.Ai Ending Police Brutality. Your First Million
Brandon D. Anderson, Founder & CEO, founded Raheem after police killed his partner during a routine traffic stop. He is a U.S. army veteran, 2019 TED Fellow, and Smithsonian Ingenuity Award Nominee. Brandon graduated from Georgetown University in...
Trump, Please Quit Before You’re Fired
By walking away, he can save the lives of supporters who have listened to his lethal quackery.
Administration wants $377M for West Wing remodel in virus relief bill
The Trump administration wants $377 million in the next coronavirus relief bill for a long-delayed modernization of the West Wing, but the timetable for construction is yet to be determined.
Victoria declares 'state of disaster,' locking down millions in Melbourne
The premier of Victoria plunged the region into a "state of disaster" on Sunday, announcing even stricter lockdown measures, introducing a nightly curfew and banning virtually all trips outdoors after Australia's second largest state recorded 671...
Where Latinx Founders Can Find Funding, Resources, and More
Latinx founder numbers are growing at a faster rate than any other group and we’re expected to yield $1.4 Trillion in US GDP.
A School Reopens, and the Coronavirus Creeps In
As more schools abandon plans for in-person classes, one that opened in Indiana this week had to quarantine students within hours.
Joe Biden May Delay VP Running Mate Decision For Another Week
Joe Biden’s choice of running mate has been the subject of massive speculation over the last week. But even though the presumptive Democratic nominee said he would announce his vice president…
How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”
This spring, a team working under the president's son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control. So why did the White House spike it in favor of a shambolic...