Business experts are calling for immediate preventive measures to address the growing disparity between minority-owned businesses and those owned by non-minorities. Too many minority-o
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Few annual events in New York City are as anticipated as Harlem Week. A generation ago, it was quite accurate to refer to the festive occasion that began in 1974 as Harlem Day. It was a one-day tribut
The team from the Buffalo PREP Program that competed in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2007 National Science Bowl did not win top honors, but it nonetheless made history as the first all-girl, all-
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 landmark Supreme Court case that declared all laws prohibiting interracial marriage unconstitutional. To mark the anniversary, the
BY Robert Acquaye
BizFilings, a Madison, Wisc., firm that helps business owners to set up corporations, limited liability companies and non-profits, and the National Federa-tion of Independent Business Young Entreprene
BY Robert Acquaye
New Jersey utility company Public Service Electric and Gas in October named Rodney Dickens vice president of asset management and centralized services—making him the highest-ranking Af-rican-America
By all accounts, African-American women have made great gains in recent years with regard to securing employment. A closer look at those gains, however, reveals few African-American women in top posit
BY Feona Sharhran Huff
The National Minority Business Council Inc. has called on New York Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer to establish a permanent commission on minority and women business affairs that would be dedicated to th
BY Robert Acquaye
The news is hardly encouraging. The state of Harlem’s small business economy has not changed from last year, or the year before that. When the names of Harlem businesses forced to close within the p
BY Theresa Racine
When Walter Geier first mentioned to his wife his idea of a training program to educate minorities in business, the chief executive of Walter Geier Co., a sales and management training provider to For
BY Katherine Adu