National Black Business Month
Only 14 Gulf spill contracts to black-owned firms
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Blackmoney.com reports that 14 contracts have been awarded to nine African-American owned companies, only one based in the Gulf States, from federal agencies for work related to the Gulf of Mexico
Meek Center promotes entrepreneurial education at Miami Dade North campus
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
One of the key ingredients of growth for African-American entrepreneurship is the availability of culturally-responsive training environments.
Since 1989, the Carrie P. Meek Entrepreneurial
Print, eat, paint
Saturday, August 21, 2010
We featured the 51-year-old Sam Jordan's in the initial issue of BlackRestaurant.Net because we wanted to highlight the historic preservation potential of thousands of similar family-run eateries
Sen. Johnson supports Oklahoma black businesses
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Sen. Constance Johnson, D-Oklahoma City, is among the legislative leaders who are seizing the opportunity of National Black Business Month to urge improvements in the environment for black-owned
Fighting the "myth of absense"
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Invoking a 1756 African-American woman who successfully sued for back wages from those who had sought to enslave her, Bernard and Shirley Kinsey said their massive book and exhibition is intended to
Arts and economic development
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
No one has demonstrated how to reindustrialize a black neighborhood more successfully than Bernard Kinsey, during his time with Rebuild L.A. after the early 1990s civil disturbances gutted south Los
Singin' Sam's legacy alive in Bayview/Hunters Point
Monday, August 16, 2010
The first edition of the weekly newsletter BlackRestaurant.Net focuses on the enduring values of families which have operated community eateries for as many as five decades along Third Street in San
Restaurants part of our cultural legacy
Sunday, August 15, 2010
When I was the first black intern at WBTV-TV in Charlotte, N.C. in 1974, only seven years had passed since desegregating a junior high school and the pressure was pretty intense to come in as a
Aim for long-term national priorities
NBBM co-founders John William Templeton and Frederick E. Jordan receive autographed copy of July Black Enterprise from Rep. Barbara Lee and campaign aide.
The co-founder of National Black Business Month urged the 1.9 million African-Americans firms to follow the money by analyzing the major economic shifts created by legislation in the past two years
Lee: Caucus, President need grassroots help
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-CA and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, said the 43-member Caucus and President Obama need help to implement the goals of the most productive session of Congress in a
How do you find a black restaurant?
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Celebrity chefs, the presence of acknowledged “foodies” in the White House and the airwaves make African-American restaurants one of the quickest ways to stimulate economic activity in underserved
Five years after Katrina and now the Spill
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Lieutenant General (Retired) Russel Honore and former Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, participated in a panel discussion entitled "5 Years After
National Bar, Blacks in Government meet
Monday, August 9, 2010
This week's conference of the National Bar Association is bringing 5,000 attendees to New Orleans through Aug. 13, another demonstration of the strength of the African-American convention and
Lee featured in NBBM legislative tribute
Friday, August 6, 2010
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-CA and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, is featured in a legislative tribute to National Black Business Month Sunday, Aug. 8 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Sheba Piano Lounge
Maryland ranked friendliest state to black-owned businesses in Where's Our Stimulus: State of Black Business, seventh edition.
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