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Frugality Adjustments

Frugality appears to be the order of the day, but African-Americans and Hispanics are making the biggest adjustments to spending, saving and work habits than any other group as a result of the economi

BY Salome Kilkenny

Global Education in Brooklyn

The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance opens for the 2009-2010 school year with a curriculum focused on finance, financial literacy and the tools for succeeding in business. From its speaker series, w

BY Inés Bebea

Behind the Numbers

In the run-up to the 2009 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week in Washington, D.C., this fall, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund is taking issue with a report by the American En

BY Aziz Gueye Adetimirin

State of Black America

In January, the nation witnessed the inauguration of Barack Obama amid one of the worst economic crises it has ever seen, making today the best of times and the worst of times for Black America, the N

BY Aziz Gueye Adetimirin

The 2010 Census

With the 2010 Census looming, tens of millions of residents in mostly dense urban areas such as Los Angeles and New York City are at high risk of being missed due to language problems and a deepening

BY Hope Yen

Pensions and Promises

A pension war is brewing and it’s likely to pit state and municipal employees against citizens who foot the bill for government pension plans with their state tax dollars. While employees of most co

BY TERRY SAVAGE

A different Marathon

Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence, a national not-for-profit provider of business resources and community support for women entrepreneurs, launched a yearlong nationwide business-growth

BY Salome Kilkenny

The NAACP at 100

In 1959, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was fifty years old. At the time, one of its preeminent founders, W.E.B. Du Bois, was 91 and traveling in China. “Beware, Afri

BY Herb Boyd

Obama’s road

On Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, Sen. Barack Obama, an Illinois democrat, was elected the 44th and first Black president of the United States. In his victory speech at Grant Park in Chicago, he describes a j

Beyond the Bailout

Concern for U.S. small businesses has taken on a stronger voice amid the hand-wringing over the country’s economic and financial turmoil. Less than a week after Congress passed and President Bush si

BY Salome Kilkenny

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