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When Chicagoans John and Maggie Anderson made a pledge to spend all of their income with black-owned businesses for an entire year, they launched a movement that would eventually become The Empowerment Experiment (www.eefortomorrow.com). The story of that year, 2009, has now been told in a new book by Maggie Anderson, Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest to Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided Economy (PublicAffairs; $25.99).
Ken Louard, director of business development at Grain Management, says Grain showed affinities for business success at an early age. “I remember we were about 18 and meeting at the beach. Most of us guys were there looking for girls. David showed up with a man who was No. 3 or something at Dean Witter. He was networking while we were looking for girls.â€
Danielle Brooks is serving as the host of the first televised Black Girls Rock! Awards in five years.
Get a sneak-peek at this year's most anticipated films and learn first-hand from the film's producers and stars at the 2016 American Black Film Festival.
Kenny Leon won his first career Tony on Sunday night for best director for the Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, starring Denzel Washington....
