Pharrell Williams Receives Key To Miami For Championing Black Entrepreneurship

Pharrell Williams Receives Key To Miami For Championing Black Entrepreneurship

Pharrell Williams received the key to Miami-Dade County during Black Ambition Demo Day for empowering Black entrepreneurs. See how it all went down on Rap-Up.

Black Ambition awards $1 million-plus in prizes and receives key to the county

Four years ago, A.J. Addae was a scientist with a $5,000 research grant and some second-hand lab equipment. “I had nothing,” she recalled. She was driven by a problem she saw firsthand while working in the beauty industry: the research and development process itself was failing melanin-rich skin, long before any products ever hit a shelf. On Friday night at The Sacred Space Miami, the scientist-turned-entrepreneur stood on the Black Ambition sta…