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Penny-pinching and Prudent

Surely, no one needs to tell you we’re in a crisis. It’s all around you. People are losing homes and jobs as their assets and savings decline in value. This recession is one of the worst in anyone’s memory. In an economy where staying afloat has become a challenge, we wanted to know: How are you doing? To find the answer, we posted a Financial Crisis Survey on blackenterprise.com. The numbers we gathered as part of this exclusive three-month effort tell a powerful story about how African Americans are adjusting to difficult times.

  • Entrepreneurship

News Roundup

Young adults may have to exercise a bit of creativity when it comes to earning cash this summer, according to a study released by Challenger, Gray, and Christmas Inc. this week.

  • Magazine

A Walk on the Tech Side

As a probation officer, Tony Jordan intimately understood the struggles of troubled youth and the shortcomings of the criminal justice system meant to rehabilitate them. So in 2004 with the help of his wife, DaVena, he launched All Walks of Life Inc. (AWOL; www.awolinc.org), a Savannah, Georgia-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit to create intensive after-school and summer programs serving kids who are at risk of or have tangled with the law.

  • Magazine

The Art—and Health Benefits—of a Dance

“Food is your medicine or your poison—you make the choice every time you eat.” Amen learned early on that maintaining good health could yield great rewards. Her first belly dancing teacher was her grandmother, and Amen first practiced yoga with her parents, who owned a health food store in Harlem, the first such black-owned enterprise in the state of New York. “I saw that my parents managed stress differently from my friends’ parents,” she recalls. “They maintained their weight and didn’t suffer from illnesses like cancer or heart disease.” Inspired to share the lessons of her youth with others, Amen, who studied biology as a pre-med student in college and later worked as a health columnist, became a certified naturopath in 2000. She asserts that many physicians don’t follow the advice they offer: “Your doctor tells you to exercise and eat better, but doesn’t really show you how to do it. Have you seen your doctor naked lately?”

Tom Joyner Back on Chicago Radio
  • Lifestyle

Tom Joyner Back on Chicago Radio

To many African Americans, Tom Joyner is the king of black radio. Based in Dallas with a nationally syndicated radio show reaching some 115 markets and eight million listeners across the country, Joyner is unquestionably a radio powerhouse. So when Clear Channel, the San Antonio, TX-based media conglomerate, unceremoniously announced in March that it was replacing The Tom Joyner Morning Show with the nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show at WVAZ-FM in Chicago, Joyner fans were outraged. After all, Chicago was the first market to ever carry Joyner’s show and WVAZ-FM had aired the show for 13 years. Many Chicagoans see Joyner as a part of the city’s fabric, a part of the family.

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