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There Are Still Peaks to Reach in Corporate America

African Americans still represent only about 2% of executives at the top echelons of the nation’s leading 500 companies. The lack of representation is more apparent when you look at which executives are included in a company’s proxy statement. You’ll be hard-pressed to find more than a handful of African Americans on any corporation’s executive leadership team.

Encouragement for New Entrepreneurs

We’ve heard the numbers. For many of us, our family, friends, and colleagues are among the more than 4 million jobs lost since the recession began last year, with more than 1.3 million lost in the first two months of 2009 alone. While many of these displaced workers made finding their next job their primary focus, massive layoffs have also resulted in many people choosing a different option—the path to entrepreneurship.

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