• Business, Miscellaneous

    Posted on July 21st, 2009

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    Harvard’s Gates in Handcuffs Sounds Familiar Note to Black Men

    Harvard’s Gates in Handcuffs Sounds Familiar Note to Black Men

    The arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard University’s top expert on African-American history and culture, sounded a familiar note to professors and social scientists, who said black men at all levels of U.S. society are vulnerable to similar treatment.
    The Cambridge Police Department in Massachusetts dropped a disorderly conduct charge against Gates, calling his arrest [...]

  • Business, Entertainment

    Posted on June 17th, 2009

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    American Airlines, Steve Harvey are trying to attract African American aviators

    American Airlines, Steve Harvey are trying to attract African American aviators

    A good way to interest kids into an aviation career is to have someone really cool explain it to them. American Airlines is participating in such an effort.
    Working with the CRP Future Pilot Flight School in Dallas, American and comedian Steve Harvey have put together an event this weekend to promote aviation among young African [...]

  • Business, Personal Finance

    Posted on June 17th, 2009

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    23rd Annual 100 Black Men of America Conference Draws Record Numbers

    23rd Annual 100 Black Men of America Conference Draws Record Numbers

    Global leaders, celebrities and business executives recently convened in New York City for the 23rd Annual 100 Black Men of America, Inc., Conference that focused on education in the African-American community. More than 3,000 attendees participated in the four-day conference that drew notable leaders such as: U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, New York Governor [...]

  • Business

    Posted on May 31st, 2009

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    Oldest African-American newspaper notes 125th anniversary

    Oldest African-American newspaper notes 125th anniversary

    When Christopher J. Perry launched The Philadelphia Tribune, he faced a readership problem that makes today’s newspaper industry woes seem trivial.
    The Tribune was founded in 1884, when the city had only 108,000 African Americans, few of them literate.
    Blacks “were forbidden to learn to read and write,” said Robert W. Bogle, current publisher of the nation’s [...]

  • Business

    Posted on May 31st, 2009

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    GM to file for bankruptcy, Chrysler sale cleared

    GM to file for bankruptcy, Chrysler sale cleared

    General Motors Corp will file for bankruptcy later on Monday, U.S. officials said, forcing the 100-year-old automaker once seen as a symbol of American economic might and dynamism into a new and uncertain era of government ownership.
    The planned filing, confirmed by Obama administration officials, would be the third-largest in U.S. history and the largest-ever [...]

  • Business

    Posted on May 11th, 2009

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    Jackson says NAACP must help save auto industry

    Jackson says NAACP must help save auto industry

    The Rev. Jesse Jackson says helping Detroit’s ailing auto industry is part of the NAACP’s new role.
    The civil rights activist said Sunday that blacks are disproportionately suffering in the current economic downturn and car companies’ failures.
    The reverend is scheduled to deliver the keynote address later Sunday at the 54th Detroit NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund [...]

  • Business, Featured, Personal Finance

    Posted on May 7th, 2009

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    How to Turn Your Financial Troubles Around

    How to Turn Your Financial Troubles Around

    “How am I going to pay my phone bill?” “My lights are almost two months behind.” “The rent is due.” A mind that is cluttered with money worries may be flooded with one or two or all of these thoughts at one time or another.

  • Business

    Posted on April 30th, 2009

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    Chrysler files for bankruptcy

    Chrysler files for bankruptcy

    Chrysler LLC filed for bankruptcy on Thursday after talks to restructure its debt with lenders broke down. Despite intense negotiations over the past few weeks, Chrysler failed to gain the full support from its lenders to avoid the first-ever bankruptcy filing by a major U.S. automaker. At the same time, Chrysler as expected entered [...]

  • Business

    Posted on April 21st, 2009

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    King family charges nearly $800,000 for use of their father’s name and image

    King family charges nearly $800,000 for use of their father’s name and image

    The children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have charged the foundation building a monument to the civil rights leader on the National Mall about $800,000 for the use of his words and image in marketing materials, reports the Associated Press.
    The arrangement, according to one leading [...]

  • Business, Miscellaneous

    Posted on April 21st, 2009

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    Playwright Lynn Nottage wins Pulitzer Prize

    Playwright Lynn Nottage wins Pulitzer Prize

    Stories of race and gender prevailed at this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, with “Ruined,” Lynn Nottage’s harrowing tale of survival set against the backdrop of an African civil war, winning for drama Monday and books about slavery, civil rights and Andrew Jackson also receiving awards.
    In a rare victory for the short story, Elizabeth Strout’s “Olive Kitteridge,” [...]

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