Inspired Performers
This year, we celebrate a group of entrepreneurs who were inspired to turn their innovative solutions into successful businesses. The winners of the Black Enterprise Small Business Awards will be...
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Mental Health Non-Profit The Confess Project Teams Up with Killer Mike’s The Swag Shop for Mental Health Training and Talk
Cut to the chase — The Confess Project and Killer Mike's The Swag Shop team up to teach barbers how to navigate mental health talks with clients.
Inside Tavis Smiley Inc.
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.
What’s Love Got to Do With It?
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.
Get Off the Sidelines and Find Your Job
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.