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We Don’t Need Another Civil Rights Movement
Twenty states (plus Washington D.C.) have graduation rates below 50 percent. Nationwide, the non-Hispanic black male graduation rate is 47 percent. Combined with the double-digit unemployment rates in our communities and the epidemic of foreclosures, we know that we are living a crisis of epic proportions.
Doing Business In The Inner City
New Orleans native Kenneth Purcell and his wife have called 911 about 20 times in the past year to report break-ins and other crimes near their home and his business, located just three blocks apart in the city’s Warehouse District. But that hasn’t driven him from the inner city. His 25-employee software firm, iSeatz, is thriving, with sales last year of $38 million, up from $28 million in 2008. That success has been helped by what Purcell calls the “social capital” gained by creating local jobs when he moved back from Manhattan two years after Katrina.
The Tea Party, Civil Rights, Glenn Beck’s Rally on MLK Anniversary
August 28 will mark the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s seminal “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The occasion, however, will be marked by an orator of a decidedly different stripe standing at the foot of the memorial’s marble steps: Glenn Beck, frontman of the populist conservative Tea Party movement.
Getting More Hispanics To The Top
With the economic future more uncertain than ever, it is critical that our pool of potential leaders be as large and varied as possible. But it isn’t at the moment. Hispanics are greatly underrepresented. They compose nearly 16% of the total U.S. population and will account for more 60% of population growth over the next 40 years. They are younger than the general population, with an average age of 27.4 compared with 36.8 for the population as a whole.
Black Money: Last Exit In Brooklyn
Brooklyn, New York, has long been stereotyped for its hard-edged hustle, even in a city already known for its unbridled capitalism. When New Yorkers think of black people, Brooklyn and money, clockin’ dollars is the old-school vernacular that comes to mind.
P&G’s New “Gain” Targets Hispanics
The consumer products maker’s first new hand-dishwashing brand in four decades will debut with a marketing campaign led by a Hispanic ad agency.
CLICROI Hispanic Online Advertising Certified State Of Connecticut Hispanic Owned Small Minority Business Enterprise
“We go the extra mile to deliver more value to our customers,” stated Nelson Merchan, President of CLICROI (pronounced Click, R-O-I). It’s so much more than just running ads on multiple websites. We test creative and carefully monitor the ad campaigns seven days a week and can quickly increase the ads depending on their effectiveness or stop them immediately if they are not delivering the expected results.
Soledad O’Brien Brings Journalistic Excellence To CNN’s “Black in America”
Black in America 2 dedicated two shows to the examination of Tomorrow’s leaders and Today’s Pioneers impacting Black communities in the US and abroad. Soledad followed a group of 30 Bushwick, Brooklyn youth selected to participate in Journey for Change, a volunteer mission to serve impoverished and AIDS orphans in South Africa. Soledad documented her connection with the young men and women on the trip led by Malaak Compton-Rock, wife of comedian Chris Rock.
Chinese Companies Try To Solve Their India Problem
As China’s two biggest makers of telecom equipment, Huawei and ZTE, try to get New Delhi to reverse its policy prohibiting Indian companies from buying their Chinese-made products, smaller companies from China have problems of their own in India. The government late last year took steps to stop a flood of Made-in-China phones entering the [...]
Number Of Black-Owned Businesses Increased By 61%
“It is encouraging that the minority business community is growing and making progress relative to all U.S. firms, but economic parity remains elusive,” said MBDA’s National Director David A. Hinson. “While the number of minority-owned businesses continues to grow, they are still smaller in size and scale compared to non-minority-owned firms.”
New ImpreMedia CEO Monica Lozano
Lozano’s appointment signals a shift away from ImpreMedia’s previous strategy of making its publications increasingly uniform, said Jose Luis Benavides, the chairman of the journalism department at Cal State Northridge.
Latino Influence Changing The Inland Empire
A new study released Saturday by the Brookings Institution, in Washington D.C. has found that the Inland Empire had the largest increase in Latino population of any metropolitan region in the nation during the last decade.
2010 Entrepreneurs Conference: Get Money!
C. Alexander West, a senior business coach at the Kauffman Foundation’s Urban Entrepreneurs Partnership, says there are three things aspiring entrepreneurs need to keep in mind before they approach someone at a conference like this one – or just in general – about investing capital in their business.
Univision Poised For Gains, CEO Says
On Thursday, Univision Chief Executive Joe Uva told advertisers gathered at the Jazz at Lincoln Center theater in New York that Univision was poised for gains. He said the results of the 2010 census, which will be released in April 2011, should reveal that more than 50 million Latinos live in the U.S.
Urban Entrepreneurs Series Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Celebrating 10 years of economic empowerment through its MillerCoors Urban Entrepreneurs Series (MUES) and Business Plan Competition, MillerCoors has awarded $1.4 million in business grants to emerging minority businesses since 1999, targeting urban entrepreneurs ages 21-35.
On March 12, 2010, MillerCoors hosted a reception at its headquarters in Chicago honoring the winners of the 2009 MUES [...]
Luxury Brand Advertising Often Absent In Black Media
Due to the collapse of the American economy, all companies have slowed spending with advertising across the board. However, a snapshot of ad spending at 23 luxury parent companies that sell apparel, jewelry, timepieces, and accessories in the U.S. shows that most of these brands spent very little to no advertising dollars with black magazine titles.
Immigration Law Cutting Into Hispanic Hires
The new immigration law allows police to question and arrest illegal immigrants for trespassing and requires immigrants to carry work papers. The law also makes it illegal to pick up day laborers, and businesses could have their vehicles impounded if they transport undocumented workers or are driven by illegal immigrants.
India, Pakistan In Focus At South Asia summit
A meeting between the leaders is seen as crucial because it could help keep alive the idea of engagement between two players whose battle for influence in Afghanistan has a direct bearing on Western efforts to stabilise a region with 1.8 billion people.
Minority Report
Minority-owned businesses have a more difficult time getting loans than other businesses do, and the financial crisis has made this problem worse.
Coming Soon: An Online University Targeting African Americans
Jason Stoffer, a Principal at Maveron stated, “Latimer’s founding management team, Scott Royster and Brian Jones, have successful track records building African American focused brands and leading education sector enterprises,” as one of the reasons for why the firm chose to back Latimer.