The eighth National Black Business Month encourages consumers and institutions to visit at least one black owned business on each of the 31 days of August. Join us in celebrating America's newest landmark, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial.
Learn more with A Piece of the Pie: State of Black Business, eighth edition and FIND IT FAST: Local Guide to Business Inclusion. We'll describe the landscape for black business in the nation's capital and give visibility to emerging new companies with our continuing Catapult Innovation Competition.
10/18/2011 - 22:05
SAN FRANCISCO -- The ingredient of the civil rights struggle usually overlooked by historians is the financing of activism.
10/03/2011 - 02:37
WASHINGTON -- Preliminary statistics indicate that just over $6 billion of the $500 billion in federal procurement during fiscal year 2010-2011 has been awarded to black-owned companies.
09/23/2011 - 01:51
WASHINGTON – The Obama Administration today announced the winners of the $37 million Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, a multi-agency competition launched in May to support the advancement of 20 high-growth, regional industry clusters.
09/21/2011 - 03:55
WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin (25 percent), Michigan (23.9 percent), Minnesota (22 percent), Maine (21.4 percent) and Washington (21 percent) had the highest rates of black unemployment, according to a Labor Dept. study on the impact of the economic downturn on African-Americans.
09/07/2011 - 16:26
The advisors around President Obama are slow to realize that the success of his Presidency hinges on his ability to reduce African-American unemployment.
09/06/2011 - 15:41
WASHINGTON -- Community development banking institutions are three times more likely to make mortgage loans in low-and moderate-income neighborhoods, but are actually as profitable than non-CDBI institutions of comparable size, according to a new study.
09/05/2011 - 01:08
TAMPA -- A growing chain of seven sports bars is part of the legacy of Hall of Fame college and professional football player Lee Roy Selmon, who di
09/02/2011 - 17:34
WASHINGTON -- Federal civilian agencies awarded $339 million in action obligations to black-owned businesses in August. If all options are exercised, the awards could be worth $819 million.
