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Financial Fitness Contest Winner No. 84

Jennifer Little is a go-getter. But right now, even she admits that she’s pushing the limits–she hopes that it’s not too far, too fast. This summer she planned to get...

  • Entrepreneurship

Hennessy Touts Black Icons in Business and Arts

Fab Five” Freddy Braithwaite discusses Hennessy’s ascent to becoming a fixture of hip-hop culture in Hennessy: A Toast to the World’s Preeminent Spirit is a new coffee table book that explores the brand’s 250+ year legacy, featuring classic cocktail recipes, never-before-seen imagery from Hennessy’s archives, and interviews with cultural luminaries including Olympic medalist & Jesse Owens mentee, Herb Douglas, on becoming the “The Godfather of Hennessy’s African American Community.”

  • Arts and Culture

Now Read This: Brainwashed, Challenging Black Inferiority

A couple of weeks ago, I happened to share with my followers on Twitter that I had begun reading Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell. (You’re not following me? Why not? Go to www.twitter.com/alfrededmondjr.) One of my followers enthusiastically responded that she had just read the book and that, among other things, it moved her to more actively regulate the television programming she allows her children to watch. Then she tweeted a question that I felt was premature at the time: “What is the most important book you’ve read this year?”

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