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Nestled between Baldwin Hills Estates—one of the country’s wealthiest majority African American neighborhoods—and Crenshaw—the location where the classic film Boyz n the Hood is based—is Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza. Situated on 43 acres in South Central Los Angeles, this 865,000-square-foot shopping mall may still be a diamond in the rough. However, Quintin E. Primo III considers it his crown jewel.
They oversee more than $550 million in combined revenues and employ more than 1,000 people at some of the nation’s most vibrant and fastest-growing black-owned companies. They are the executives who make up the Freshman Class of BE 100s CEOs. Their individual achievements rank them as the top execs who appear on the list for the first time—some at the head of freshly minted BE 100s companies and others taking the lead of BE 100s companies with long-standing legacies.
President Obama's Fatherhood Buzz initiative seeks to shed a positive light on America's men, with many organization joining the charge.
With the news that Gwenyth Paltrow used the N-word in a Twitpic caption, many find fault in her lapse of judgment. But with friends like Jay Z, who use the word freely in music, is she really wrong?
Lonnie Bunch’s mission includes raising $250 million in donations from corporations, foundations, and individuals for the museum, and mining the world for artifacts that will represent the “wide arc of history—slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migrations to the North and West, segregation, the civil rights movement and beyond, including issues of the 21st century.â€
