On Monday, the White House launched a new site focused on President Obama and the African-American community. Featuring the headline “Winning the Future,” the site is designed to directly engage the African-American community. Read more at www.blackweb20.com See this Amp at http://amplify.com/u/byz4u Related articles Is black America stronger with Obama? (thegrio.com)
Dr. Boyce Watkins of Syracuse certainly has his concerns. Check out this quote from his recent article on Black Athlete.net: Most of the media companies (as well as other institutions) in America are owned by people who don’t look like us,and this embarrassing disparity of ownership is all rooted in slavery and Jim Crow, during [...]
A recent article from theGrio.com revisits the dearth of healthy options for the African American woman’s hair. Whether women choose to chemically straighten their hair out of personal preference or image concerns, the negative health effects of these products are too alarming to ignore. Black beauty products have steadily grown into a multi-billion dollar industry, [...]
Author Dante Lee, the entrepreneur behind noted website BlackNews.com, has released Black Business Secrets: 500 Tips, Strategies, and Resources for the African American Entrepreneur. The work chronicles his decades of experience in business and marketing within the African American community, and is published by Tavis Smiley’s own SmileyBooks. “The astonishing growth in the number of [...]
Image of Dante Lee DanteLee.com Blog: Black Enterprise Accepting Nominations For 2010 Small Business Awards. Dante Lee has posted an update on a special awards luncheon hosted by Black Enterprise to provide recognition to African American Entrepreneurs. Award entries are due by March 16, 2010 for an awards luncheon in Atlanta on May 17, 2010. [...]
1stFriday.com, Inc. announces the launch of “Connections,” touted as “a social and professional networking site spun off the national offline First Fridays phenomenon.” The intention of the site is to create strong online Black communities in local markets across the United States. The Connections platform is driven by technology from Leverage Software Inc. “We believe [...]
Here’s an excerpt from the Blogging While Brown website about the 2010 conference in Washington, DC: Planning is underway for the 2010 Blogging While Brown Conference. Blogging While Brown (www.bloggingwhilebrown.com) is scheduled for June 18-19, 2010 in Washington, D.C.: Blogging While Brown promotes intellectual, social, and cultural development of the blogging community by bringing bloggers [...]
Black is the New Green: Marketing to Afluent African Americans is a new book providing perspective on the Black community’s growing market share. Authored by Andrea Hoffman and Len Burnett, the release date is scheduled for March 16. According to the authors, the total number of affluent ethnic households in the United States in now estimated at over [...]
Black History Month is upon us, and is without doubt a meaningful time to celebrate the ancestors who provided for our present day success and opportunity. Yet in the information age, we often forget the flesh and blood peers among us who are not only making history, but also writing our future. Entrepreneur Wayne Sutton’s [...]
On Jan. 27 BTV247, Inc. announced the launch of www.blacktv247.com, touted as the single largest internet destination exclusively focused on Black-inspired programming. Visitors to the site will find an extensive directory of well-known TV favorites from past and present, including: the Dave Chappelle Show, Sanford & Son, Tavis Smiley, Boondocks, Tyra Banks and the Jefferson’s, [...]
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