Keeping It Together
Hollins and Diana Riley and their three children may not stand on the steps of a spaceship wearing silver suits and sipping Tang, but their wireless home network in Annapolis,...
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Grabbing African Americans by the Green Collar
When many black people think of jobs that create environmental efficiency, they often think of Buck Rogers and space-age technology. That misconception could potentially keep black workers out of the green-collar industry, which is predicted to be the largest employment wave the country has seen in decades.
CBCF Forum Focuses on Challenges to Minority Business Programs
On Nov. 4, 2008, the day the nation elected its first black president, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided the case Rothe Development Corp. v. Department...
Firms Energized Over Billion-Dollar Deal
The Department of Energy has awarded a $1 billion information technology contract to Energy Enterprise Solutions L.L.C., a joint venture led by two African American contractors who are blazing their...
Making the Impossible Possible
As a 21-year-old assistant editor for black enterprise some 27 years ago, I was summoned to the office of our publisher, Earl G. Graves Sr. A bit nervous, I wondered if I was going to have to pack my bags and head back to my hometown, Norfolk, Virginia. But our company’s paterfamilias was doing what he has done for decades, taking young professionals under his wing to share his views and offer a bit of sage advice. At that meeting, he told me that there was room for hardworking, energetic young people to advance at the company. He then proceeded to reveal his vision for what be would mean to the world for decades to come: an economic and financial empowerment tool for millions of African Americans to “achieve their measure of the American dream.†This necessary guidance would be delivered, he said, through our magazine, a series of events, the airwaves, or any available medium of distribution. I can’t say he foresaw the development of the Internet, but our publisher believed in the power of technology as a transformative instrument for communication.