By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA)–The U.S. Black Chambers (USBC) and the National Association of Black Hotel Owners, Operators, and Developers (NABHOOD) are formally partnering to make sure that a significant portion of the $40 billion African Americans spend each year on travel and tourism remains in black hands. The partnership was launched […]
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA)—The growing racial wealth gap—$200 in median wealth for blacks in 2011 and $23,000 for whites—threatens national economic security in the U.S., according to a recent report by the Center for Global Policy Solutions. “When it comes to the racial gap in liquid wealth, African Americans and Latinos […]
Healthcare reform in Massachusetts? Raise the federal minimum wage? Politics has a strange way of making people speak around election time—as does pressure from small but vocal segments of the political landscape. One can’t help but wonder what would have happened in the past presidential election had Mitt Romney not found him self boxed into […]
Madame C.J. Walker (December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was the first female self-made millionaire in America.
A recent study by a team of Harvard and University of California-Berkeley researchers and others confirm that the birth lottery still rules the day.
Economic development is for naught if an area’s residents are not in a position to patronize the stores, restaurants and entertainment venues available to them.
By James Clingman—”…something I continue to lament about black people: Our failure to learn and follow through on the economic lessons of the past, especially those left by our elders.”
If you have been enslaved by either doing a crime or because you are in prison for something you did not do, why not learn how to turn your enslavement into a profit by studying to become a business owner?
Frost Illustrated Struggling To Survive After Thousands Stolen (21Alive)
A well-known newspaper that’s been around for 45 years may cease to exist. The publisher of “Frost Illustrated” says thousands of dollars were stolen, which has put the weekly newspaper in the red.
Video: Eric Hackley interviews James Redmond
James Redmond expresses frustration with Fort Wayne, Indiana Black Pastors not showing forthright, non-apologetic Black Community leadership…
Watch: First Look At Andre 3000 As Jimi Hendrix In New Biopic, All Is By My Side
The first footage from a new Jimi Hendrix biopic has been released online, featuring Andre Benjamin, aka Outkast’s Andre 3000, as Hendrix.
Video: Alice Walker—Beauty in Truth
“Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth” is the first film biography of writer and activist Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Color Purple.”
Chrome Cats “Best Life” music video
Chrome Cats officially entered Billboard’s Top 40 Indicator Charts a second time after hundreds of thousands of views this highly anticipated single “Best Life.”
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