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The Power of the Purse and the Polls

“You must spend less than you make and vote as much as you can. That’s the right combination. Much of our middle class is a spending middle class. We over-extend ourselves. We don’t see the value of investing and saving and getting returns. We must harness our potential, and leverage it,”

Fitting Right In

Before landing his position as director of new product initiatives at a Maine-based company, Melvin Alexander fielded questions from as many as 15 executives at a time — including the...

Black Enterprise Exclusive: Interview with President Barack Obama

On a chilly winter night, I received a call on my BlackBerry that most journalists wait for their entire career. “I’m just calling to let you know that Black Enterprise will be the first black publication to get an interview with the president,” the White House representative told me. I would later find out that be would be the first magazine to gain an exclusive with Barack Obama since he took oath on Jan. 20. “It’ll be a phoner. You’ll get 15 minutes. It’s an interview the president really wants to do.”

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