Company:Leanna’s Inc
At 9 years old Leena launched her own line of natural hair-care products.
Moziah Bridges
Company: Mo’s Bow’s
Moziah Bridges started in Memphis, TN in 2011 at 9 years old. He couldn’t find fun and cool bow ties, so he decided to use he’s grandma’s scrap fabric to make and sell his own.
Mo says “I like to wear bow ties because they make me look good and feel good.
Designing a colorful bow tie is just part of my vision to make the world a fun and happier place”.
You might recognize him from being on Shark Tank recently where he did not get a investment deal, but did make a mentoring partnership with Daymond John, who thought he was doing well without taking on the risk of investors.
Since then, Mo’s Bow’s rakes in over $150k a year and was just picked up by Neiman Marcus to be sold in stores worldwide.
Mikaila UlmerCompany: Bee Sweet Lemonade
Mikaila Ulmer got started selling Lemonade at the age of 4 when she found her grandmother’s old recipe books which included one for Flaxseed Lemonade from the 1940s, close to this time she was also stung by a bee.
Mikaila explain that she then became fascinated with bees and learned all about what they do for her and our ecosystem. So she thought about what if she made something that helps honeybees and uses my Great Granny Helen’s recipe? And well, Bee Sweet Lemonade was born.
Mikalika sells her lemonade wherever she can and takes great pride in donating a percentage of her sales to both local and global organizations that are fighting to help save the bees.
Mikaila also appeared on Shark Tank this past season, and received a 60k investment from Daymond John and is now being sold in whole food market across the country.
Jaylen Bledsoe
Company: Bledsoe Technologies
Jaylen started his own tech company that specializes in web design and other IT services, Bledsoe Technologies, when he was just 13 years old. Now at 16 years old, Jaylen’s company has expanded and grown into a 3.5 MILLION dollar global enterprise. Jaylen has grown his company from two workers to about 150 contracted employees in order to meet demand.Maya Penn
Company: Maya’s Ideas
Penn is an entrepreneur, a technologist, a philanthropist, an artist, an author, an animator and a coder, as cited by Tech Republic.
Maya’s Ideas is a site where she sells eco-friendly clothing and accessories, like scarves, hats and hair clips.
She started the business because she liked sewing headbands, and people started asking her to make them.
She began selling them on Etsy, but quickly realized she could build a brand of her own. And, this is more than just a cute idea — Maya’s Ideas generated more than $30,000 in 2012 and has been growing since.
Chental-Song Bembry
Company: The Honey Bunch Kids
Chental-Song created the company Honeybunch Kids at 14 because she is motivated to provide books to kids between the ages of 7 and 12 that will keep them entertained but also teach them.
She also wants to launch a literacy campaign to get more kids to learn to love reading.
She sold 500 books last year and is hoping to double that this year.
The Honey Bunch Kids story tells the tale of a group of black middle-school children who become friends after they miss the bus on their first day and end up having to walk to school in the rain.
She is currently working on finishing the 3rd book in the series.
Company: Yumazu Anime Shop
Umar is the owner of his own anime store called Yumazu Anime Shop in Missouri.
His mother made a $10,000 investment for him to open the store.
It is hard to find anime stuff in stores so he is hoping to open a chain of stores that will allow people to find a cheaper alternative to buying anime collections as opposed to paying huge prices online.
Brea and Halle Holmes
Company: Sweet Dream Girlz
Now 14 and 20, their natural beauty brand has expanded to shoes and clothing.
Sweet Dream Girlz has been seen in USA Today, Bloombergs Businessweek, Girls Life Magazine and celebrity endorsed by several teen, tweens and mothers.
The body product fragrances smell almost good enough to eat. The facial products teach girls that it is essential to learn good skin care habits at their age.
Zuriel Oduwole
Filmmaker
She started at the age of 9, interviewing presidents and prime ministers in Kenya, Liberia, South Sudan and Jamaica among other countries, and celebrities, such as the Williams sisters.
And, on top of that, she is still, to date, the youngest person in the world to be featured in Forbes Africa, was named one of the world’s 100 most powerful individuals by Business Insider magazine, invited to attend the African Union’s 50th anniversary conference, selected as Global Brand Ambassador for Ethiopian Airlines, and Heritage Bank’s Financial Literacy Ambassador in Nigeria.
Her feature documentary, “A Promising Africa,” her fourth one to date, was released last November at the Film House Cinema theater chain in Lagos, and will open this month in London.
This makes her currently the youngest filmmaker in the world to have her film shown in a commercial movie theater.
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William Isiah Shakur is a force to be wrecked with in the entertainment world, as well as in the educational environment.
Why? Because at the age of 10-years old, he became the face and the inspiration, behind a series of controversial children's book based on the cartoon character Bobbee Bee "The Hater,"which appears on ww.blackathlete.net.
The cartoon character, which is based solely on his own life, is a part of his successful "Back to School With a New Attitude" literacy program, that is designed to help children like himself, deal with issues such as: divorce, disappointment, anger management, character development, academic success, and self-esteem.
Along with all of that, he also stared in his first major film entitled Bobbee Bee "The Hater," which premiered in September of 2012, in which he gave a hilarious yet powerful performance.
Now, the budding superstar is getting ready to attend North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, NC, where he will be studying Psychology along with being the face as well as part of the advertisement team for the album Pocket Full of Ghetto Poems that is due to be released in August.
