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Roughly a year after the highly publicized incident, Ralph Baker Jr. stands before a small crowd talking about Don Imus and the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. But this isn’t...
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BE MODERN MAN: MEET ‘THE DAP KING’ BOBBY MORELLI
Meet Bobby Morelli, part of the 2018 BE Modern Man cohort. He launched the men’s grooming line “Dapper & King!” because he saw a need to create grooming products black men could be proud of and represent.
Obama Signs Order Boosting HBCU Funding
President Barack Obama signed the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, proposing $98 million in new money for these historic institutions.
FreakNik To Return This Summer As 3-Day Festival Called Freak World
Get ready for it. FreakNik is returning. This summer. The legendary Black Spring Break event in Atlanta, Georgia, will return as a three-day festival called Freak World. It will feature more...
Finding Your Fortune in Franchising
Franchising is hardly a new topic for our editors to tackle. This sector is and has been an important contributor to the U.S. economy, and if tapped into properly, it can serve as a viable avenue through which African Americans can build wealth. In our inaugural issue of Black Enterprise, in August 1970, we produced a franchising feature that included such high-profile entrepreneurs at the time as then Pittsburgh Steelers superstar Brady Keys, former astronaut Ed Dwight, and rock and roll legend Fats Domino. And 23 years ago, in our September 1987 issue, we viewed franchising as such a significant area of opportunity that we developed our black enterprise Franchise 50 to help readers identify franchise businesses that offered the lowest barriers to entry.