U.S. history, I’m afraid, was never my strong suit — until I visited Charleston, S.C. American history is omnipresent in this southern city of 107,000, where you can’t help but get a crash cours
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Nonprofit organizations that hope to survive what many now concede is an economic recession must be frugal, nimble and imbued with a keen sense of timing. At the Council of Urban Professionals, a nonp
BY Bevolyn Williams-Harold
On Sept. 26, 2007, representatives from more than 100 of the nation’s leading African-American social justice, advocacy and membership organizations assembled at Washington, D.C.’s Convention Cent
BY Aziz Gueye Adetimirin
A report on the changing demographics of senior management teams at the world’s leading corporations shows an alarming level of turnover, shortened CEO tenure and increasing difficulty in acquiring
BY Aziz Gueye Adetimirin
Hold onto your wallet, brace yourself for confusion and sour faces while boarding and get used to tighter seating in smaller planes on longer trips. Airline mergers are in the air. In fact, by the tim
BY Chris Barnett
Ana Ventura, an agent with Atlas Travel in Brooklyn, N.Y., used to book about 20 vacationers to the Caribbean every day as recently as a year ago. These days, she’s lucky to get 10 bookings. “I ho
BY George Orwel
As African-Americans mull options for their summer vacations, many will be clutching their wallets and credit cards a little tighter and putting plans for a European vacation on hold. With gas prices
BY Inez Bebea
Sports fans attending a game, watching one on television, listening to a radio announcer’s play-by-play relay, or reading about one in the newspapers, usually have no clue what takes place behind th
BY Antoine B. Craigwell
Typically, customers are unable to control the security of an e-commerce site or deception on the Internet. Here are some guidelines that small-business owners can give to their customers to help them
How secure is e-commerce?The proliferation of electronic commerce and electronic banking puts the issue of data security squarely in the spotlight. Small businesses are seeing a growing need to protec