AT&T Exceeds $3 Billion Spend With Black Suppliers, Helping Those Firms Flourish
AT&T has spent $3.1 billion on goods and services from Black suppliers, eclipsing a pledge the telecommunications giant made two years ago.
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AT&T has spent $3.1 billion on goods and services from Black suppliers, eclipsing a pledge the telecommunications giant made two years ago.
Harris-Stowe State and Xavier University are bringing STEM to their campuses.
Margaret Garner, president of Broadway Consolidated Cos. Inc., a general contracting firm based in Chicago, holds a portfolio worth bragging about—nearly $10 million annually—thanks to her partnership with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. When the retail giant entered Chicago’s 37th ward around 2004 to construct its first store in an urban location, it sought assistance from local minority and women-owned businesses. Garner, whose firm is 8(a) certified, was selected to manage the project, becoming the first African American woman to construct a Walmart store.
Ames was supported by the Justice Department, the American First Legal Foundation, and the libertarian Pacific Legal Foundation.
The state accused the coffee conglomerate of correlating executive pay to the company's achievement of racial and gender-based hiring quotas.