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1. World Wide Technology Inc.
Coming in at No. 1 on the BE Industrial/Service Companies list for the sixth consecutive year, World Wide Technology Inc. continues to stand out as the nation’s top-grossing black-owned business. Since ...
World Wide Technology Settles Discrimination Suit
When Earnest Ryals filed a $3.5 million racial discrimination lawsuit against his former employer back in November 2007, the surprising fact about the lawsuit was that he and the owner of the accused company are both African American. A few weeks later, Clifford Smith, also a black employee, filed a similar complaint against St. Louis, Missouri-based World Wide Technology Inc. (No.1 on the B.E. Industrial/Service 100 list with $2.5 billion in sales). Separate trials were slated to go before juries this month after a U.S. District Court judge denied World Wide Technology's motion to dismiss Ryals' case. Now, the disputes have been settled out of court.
UBR Spotlight: World Wide Technology Chairman David Steward
This week on The Urban Business Roundtable, UBR Contributor Renita D. Young talks with David L. Steward, the founder and chairman of Maryland Heights, Mo.-based World Wide Technology Inc. (WWT), the nation's largest black-owned business. Also speaker, author and life coach Pamela Mitchell of The Reinvention Institute.
19-Year-Old Black Sailor Identified 80 Years After Death During Pearl Harbor Attack
According to the American Battle Monuments Commission, when a soldier is accounted for, a rosette marks the names of those who have been identified and accounted for.