Industry Focus

When auto industry experts told The Network Journal in last year’s report on the industry that businesses that had the foresight to prepare for the impending economic storm stood a better chance of weathering it, their comment was as applicable to the Big Three automakers as it was to small enterprises.

One month before the National Black Chamber of Commerce opened its 17th annual convention in Washington, D.C., Harry C. Alford, the chamber’s co-founder, president and CEO, sent out an eBlast in which he promised a “scrubbing” of the Department of Transportation’s disadvantaged business enterprise program during the three days of the convention.

June is Black Music Month in Britain, as it is in the United States. Britain’s Black Music Month is an initiative of Black Music Congress (BMC), whose founders wanted to create an oppor-tunity to “focus on and celebrate British Black music through performances and talks-based programs.”