The Uncomfortable Truth: Why Black Women Keep Getting Shut Out Of Venture Capital

Essence Magazine:

By Kimberly Wilson ·Updated November 9, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…

Antonia Dean spent one summer as a law associate at a Washington D.C. firm after graduating from Harvard Law School and realized corporate law just wasn’t for her. 

It simply wasn’t sparking any joy (editor’s note: as a law school graduate myself, I completely relate), so on her last day as a summer associate, she did what any reasonable

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