Black support high for Obama's race-neutral stance
The South Florida Times
AP Business Video CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) — In this banking center walloped by the Great Recession, where unemployment just hit a 20-year high and as ...
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Saying 'I do': Black marriage campaign is growing
Forbes
In a way, their marriage is evidence of the importance of marriage in the African-American community, he said. Most blacks already think that marriage is a ...
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Here's to You, Mr. Robinson! Celebrate The Legacy of Robert Culp with "I Spy ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Starring Robert Culp and Bill Cosby, the action-packed series was the first American dramatic series to feature an African-American actor in a lead role. ...
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Persistence Is the Key
Wall Street Journal
It's impossible for an African-American to get elected president. You get the picture. 2) President Obama would veto a repeal bill. Yes, he sure would. ...
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Reed: City will boost small business contracts
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Black Enterprise President & CEO Earl "Butch" Graves Jr. said African-American entrepreneurs should focus more on science, energy and technology and less on ...

CharlotteObserver.com

Ex-Bobcats owner blasts Charlotte
CharlotteObserver.com
"The thing that concerns me is that I'm just surprised that the city doesn't do more for African-American small businesses. And I don't really understand ...

Black support high for Obama's race-neutral stance
Forbes
But now, "nobody can go to Obama and say, 'This is what African-Americans want,'" said David Bositis, an expert on black politics at the Joint Center for ...
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The first Northwest Louisiana Black Business Expo at SUSLA
Bossier Press-Tribune
Southern University at Shreveport, The African American Chamber of Commerce and The Minority Business Council is proud to present the first Northwest ...
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The Atlanta Post to Target High Income African-Americans Online Black Web 2.0 How-to content will help our readers achieve their goals in small business, personal finance, and career, and coverage of successful African-American ... See all stories on this topic

News One DR. BOYCE: A Three Point Plan for a Black Agenda News One The issue will be discussed further next month when the National ActionNetwork will be holding one of the most significant forums on African American ... See all stories on this topic

JOHN BOYLE: Familiar, hopeful tune: Big plans for 'The Block,' historically ...
Asheville Citizen-Times
That was my philosophy when searching for comment on the latest proposal for “The Block,” the historically African-American business district downtown that ...
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Students' Civil Rights to Get Scrutiny
Wall Street Journal
"African-Americanstudents without disabilities are more than three times as likely to beexpelled as their white peers," Mr. Duncan plans to point out in ...
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For Michigan businesses, Obama name a mixed blessing
The Detroit News
More than a dozen Michigan firms have christened themselves after the country's first African-American president, incorporating as everything from Obama ...
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Lee says Black unemployment must be addressed; backs Rangel
Redding News Review
The unemployment rate for African American workers remains unacceptably high at 15.8 percent, up 6.8 percentage points from the start of the recession in ...
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Vanity Fair's Young Hollywood Whitewash

Magazines have a tough time getting race right, but usually they manage to do a better job than Vanity Fair did in its March issue. The magazine, …

MEDIAWEEK

African-American Mags Make Play for Marketing
MEDIAWEEK
“African-American consumers contribute quite a bit to our business overall,” said Crystal Worthem, multicultural marketing manager at Ford. ...
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Lukes counts up her hits and misses as city mayor
Worcester Telegram
Not only is Ms. Boone the first African-American to hold Worcester's top school post, but she is the first woman to hold it on a permanent basis, ...
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Afro-themed image on a magazine cover shocks industry, ignites firestorm
Daily Finance (blog)
This week, it's the magazine's cover (pictured), promoting a feature about African-American literature, that's sparking a debate in the industry. ...
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Houston Public Library Unveils The African American Library at the Gregory School
School Library Journal
... of the African American experience in Houston and its surrounding areas in all areas of life, including the arts, education, business, and sports. ...
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GlobalHue Awarded AdWeek's 'Multicultural Agency of the Decade'
PR Newswire (press release)
Today, GlobalHue is a holding company for four separate business units: GlobalHue Africanic, the largest advertising agency for the African-American market; ...
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Obama sees trend of corporate recovery without job growth
USA Today
As I said, Michelle and I have family members who are unemployed, and the African-American unemployment rate is even worse than for the general population. ...
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New York Times

In Job Hunt, Even a College Degree Can't Close the Racial Gap
New York Times
His membership, for instance, in the African-American business students association? Deleted. “If they're going to X me,” Mr. Williams said, “I'd like to at ...
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Visionary Artist Rallies Prominent African-American Entrepreneurs to Save Art ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Leveraging relationships with influential African-American entrepreneurs, best-selling authors and media personalities, Martin seeks to address two critical ...
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Emerging Atlanta-Area Artist Introduces Unique Ethnic Jigsaw Puzzle Line
WebWire (press release)
"I wanted to use my own artwork to address a void and fill the need for more diversity and availability of African American images in the form of jigsaw ...
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Are Minorities Getting Enough Out of the Stimulus?
TIME
... that would reach into predominantly African-American and other minority communities largely cut off from downtown and other employment centers. ...
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Latinos, blacks take harder hit amid recession
Boston Globe
Thursday, the Congressional Black Caucus sent a message to the White House that it wants more help for struggling African-American communities by ...
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Healthcare Comment Illustrates the Sudden Irrelevancy of Jesse Jackson
U.S. News & World Report
Jackson criticizing an African-American presidential candidate or offering bizarre anti-Semitic remarks are certainly more newsworthy that criticizing a ...
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WOMEN UNITED
Bisnow
... to only one type of business, large contractors, but it actually has six of Black Enterprise Magazines' largest African-American-owned corporations. ...
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Black Males Hit Extra Hard By Unemployment
NPR
This "he-cession," as it's sometimes called, has hit African-American men especially hard, increasing their unemployment rate to more than 17 percent last ...
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Embracing an enlightening truth about Austin
Austin American-Statesman
As the center of Austin's African American community, the area bustled with black businesses, churches, schools and homes of the well-to-do blacks as well ...
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Black power has arrived _ with some new challenges
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Ten months after Democrats took over the Capitol and the first African-American president moved into the White House, black lawmakers are in ...
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Regular meditation can reduce chances of death
Business Standard
The African Americanmen and women who were selected by the team from the Medical College inWisconsin and the Maharishi University in Iowa had an average ...
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Swearing in Wednesday of first African-American Beaumont postmaster
KFDM-TV News
Ms. Mitchell was named Postmaster for the city of Beaumont effective June 6, 2009 and is the first African American woman to be appointed to this office. ...
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How one worker survived Wall Street's downfall
CNNMoney.com
... a nonprofit that aims to assist African American, Hispanic and Native American professionals become the next generation of business leaders. ...
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Novice Film 'Angels' Took Leap of Faith With 'Precious'
Wall Street Journal
"They told us we should have instead invested in this or that fund tomake 11 different movies, that we were crazy for financing an African-American movie ...
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Chinese Dialogue on Racism Emerges Wall Street Journal At the same time, changes from abroad-such as the election of America's first black president and the growing popularity of African American basketball ... See all stories on this topic

China's fear of a black president guardian.co.uk For example, during the late summer, Luo Jing, a resident of Shanghai of mixed-race descent (her father an African-American, her mother is Chinese) appeared ... See all stories on this topic

The Associated Press

Meltdown 101: When unemployment last hit 10 pct
The Associated Press
___ AFRICAN-AMERICAN UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN 15.7 percent: Black unemployment in October 2009 19.7 percent: The rate in September 1982 ANALYSIS: While ...
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Winfrey, Perry team up to promote `Precious'
The Associated Press
AP: In an age when the world now sees images of African-American young women such as Sasha and Malia Obama, why is it still important to tell the story of ...
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ECUA plans Oct. 8 forum on minority businesses
Pensacola News Journal
The event is co-sponsored by the Gulf Coast African American Chamber of Commerce and will include presentations from the ECUA Purchasing and Human Resources ...
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United Security Bancshares, Inc. Announces Settlement Agreement ...
PR Newswire (press release)
Statistical comparisons show that First United Security's record of lending in African-American communities is equal to or better than the records of peer ...
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National Survey Shows Majority of African Americans Want Action to ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The survey of 750 African American adults found that more than half of respondents identified the issue as a "major problem," with 58 percent giving that ...
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California regulators seize struggling insurer Golden State Mutual ...
Los Angeles Times
The company, whose customers are mainly African American, is losing $200000 a month and about to run out of funds completely, officials say. ...
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Obesity Trend May Hurt Improvement in Breast Cancer Mortality
Bloomberg
The mortality rate among African-American women is 38 percent higher than among Caucasian females, according to the report. Jemal said there is a 98 percent ...
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Drycleaning's American roots revealed
National Clothesline
Accordingto the US Patent Office, Jenning's process, which he called“dryscouring,” is likely the first US patent awarded to an African-American. ...

Is Ebony for sale? Johnson not telling
Chicago Sun-Times
Johnson, the world's largest African-American owned and operated publishing company based at 820 S. Michigan Ave., is facing the same dilemma as much of the ...
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CAPITAL CULTURE: T-shirts measure Obama's success
The Associated Press
"The fact that he's the first African-American president, that's not going to change," he said. "People are buying it based on a token of history. ...
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Xerox to Acquire ACS in $6.4 Billion Deal