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The third annual Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit, hosted by State Farm is upon us and participants can look forward to four days of discussing success strategies, engaging in high-powered networking, and indulging in a little bit of professional and personal self-discovery. The conference commenced on Feb.13 in Palm Springs, California, with an impressive selection of high-level female executives.
Black Entertainment Television co-founder Sheila Johnson has become the first African American woman to own a stake in three professional sports teams through a partnership with Lincoln Holdings L.L.C., ...
If you’re an aspiring or established entrepreneur who can’t use $10,000, stop reading now. But if the idea of $10,000 gets your attention, you know what to do: Register for the 2010 Entrepreneurs Conference + Expo and enter the 2010 Elevator Pitch Competition. The deadline to enter the contest is Friday, April 30.
Chef Leah Chase is credited within the culinary world as bringing Creole cuisine—a blend of African, Spanish, Caribbean, and French influences—to the front burner. For more than 60 years, locals, tourists, and notables alike (including President Barack Obama) have flocked to her New Orleans restaurant, Dooky Chase, to indulge in the signature local fare and catch Chase, 86, who is still a fixture in the kitchen. Chase has worked diligently to give back to the city of New Orleans and serves on the board of the New Orleans Museum of Art. Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, she helped rebuild a number of restaurants—including her own. black enterprise sat down with the feisty “Queen of Creole Cuisine†to find out how she inspires others to feast on the arts, why the country is starving for more black entrepreneurs, and how she continues to feed her appetite for life after all these years.
