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My Beef With Black Business

Our businesses leave BE and other black media hanging. When Forbes, Business Week or The Wall Street Journal overlooks our contributions, we can depend on BE to showcase them. This magazine also teaches us how economic trends affect our community. Yet, we refuse to take ownership of such a vital medium. Black businesses should be equitable ad buyers in media targeted toward black businesses and professionals, period.

Hooking Investors

Al Nelson went on the third season of ABC’s Shark Tank seeking a $150,000 investment in his Miami-based technology business, EZ VIP. A kind of combination Expedia and OpenTable for...

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.

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