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There are many different sectors under the fashion and retail industry that need better representation across their marketing channels. In the eyewear market, many businesses are largely owned by white and non-Black...

Black female-owned businesses are among the fastest-growing in America right now, data shows. The number of Black women-owned businesses grew 50% from 2014 to 2019, compared to 21% for women-owned businesses, according...

Think about this: The global eyewear market was valued at approximately $131.32 billion in 2018. And in the U.S. it is a multi-billion market. Yet there are less than a...

Launching a new business is not easy, never mind bringing to market an entirely new product or service. In this series of articles, we gathered 100+ successful female entrepreneurs to...

Two long-time friends Tracy Vontélle Green and Nancey Harris have started their own luxury eyewear brand after they realized African Americans are underrepresented in the multi-billion industry. Coincidentally, it took...

According to Nancey Harris and Tracy Vontélle Green, “African American consumers spend billions of dollars on eyewear from  luxury name brands, but they are not owned (designed and manufactured) by Black-owned fashion houses...

NEW YORK—In 1915, Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson and minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), known today as the Association...

Startup eyewear manufacturer Vontélle, LLC is launching a unique brand into the luxury eyewear space, offering awe-striking, ethnic patterns reflecting African, Caribbean, and Latin cultures.   Nancey Harris, Co-Founder said: "Our eyewear is original,...

When friends Nancey Harris and Tracy Green compared notes and discovered they’d each lost their expensive glasses within a year of getting them, it was the eureka moment that led...

Episode Description The concept for Vontélle was born out of a need of both the founders, who each lost their expensive eyewear within the same year and decided to focus...

Vontélle means “there she goes,” or “you go” in French.   Inspired by African textile designs (including mud cloth and kente cloth), Ankara prints, and newly created trademarked Vontélle textile designs, the goal...

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