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Urban Co-Lab has released its inaugural 2016 report, Austin Startup Diversity. The report examines the current diversity environment in the startup community for underrepresented minorities and women, and provides successful...
At first glance, this self-made brother’s rags-to-riches story may remind you of Tyler Perry‘s. An Internet marketing rock star, who provides motivational and business-building advice to CEOs, start-ups and mom-and-pop-style...
When couples come together, they must undergo the unromantic process of figuring out how to divvy up bills, plan for retirement, identify priorities, and determine whether to combine assets, among other financial details.
TV personality Tavis Smiley and his team were feeling the heat after a series of commentaries on The Tom Joyner Show in which Smiley criticized then-Sen. Barack Obama during his historic run for U.S. president for what he viewed as Obama’s reluctance to focus on issues of race.
There isn’t a week that goes by that I don’t receive scores of phone calls and e-mails about the same issue: finding a job. Although recent reports may claim that the Great Recession has come to a close, the jobless rate is expected to reach double-digits in 2010. Moreover, the U.S. Labor Department reports that the jobless are looking for work for longer periods of time: 35.6% have been out of work for at least 27 weeks or more—the highest level since 1948. As for African Americans, the old adage still holds true that when America gets the sniffles, we contract pneumonia. The black unemployment rate stands at 15.4%, and continues to rise.
