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Against a sluggish recovery, a rough-and-tumble business environment, and a ferocious battle for revenue growth and market share, the CEOs who operate the BE 100s—the nation’s largest black businesses—redesigned their enterprises by venturing into new lines of business, employing the latest technology, exploring global opportunities, and creating unassailable workforces.
Raun and Christina Swafford of Clarksville, Tennessee, were thrilled when they found out they were expecting their first child. Now that their family would be expanding, the couple felt ...
“We wanted to give blacks a new sense of somebody-ness, a new sense of self-respect. We wanted to tell them who they were and what they could do.” In September ...
John H. Johnson controlled one of the nation's largest black business empires and used his wealth and power to raise the social and economic status of African Americans
By Kenneth Meeks He gave the speech of his life. With grace and confidence, a relatively unknown Illinois state senator stood before a sea of cheering delegates at Boston’s FleetCenter, ...
