A website aimed at funneling more dollars to the nation’s Black-owned businesses has recently opened its virtual doors and hopes that making Black spending options a mere click away will encourage consumers to keep it in the community. The Black Owned Business Directory’s new website, www.BlackOwnedBiz.com, provides consumers with listings of Black-owned enterprises from around the [...]

Monrovia — The only two female heads of state in Africa, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Malawian President Joyce Banda, have just committed to using their positions to improve the lives of women across the continent. Both Sirleaf and Banda have long championed women’s rights. And on Apr. 29 in Monrovia, two years into [...]

The 2008 U.S. presidential election brought us not only a historic election but also record participation of minority voters. More than 2 million more African-American voters and an additional 2 million Latino voters cast ballots than had done so in 2004. For the very first time, African-American women had the highest turnout rate of any [...]

To celebrate the company’s 10th anniversary, Perennial, a Washington, D.C.-based family of businesses, under direction of national business leader and advocate Lamell McMorris, is launching a youth competition to encourage students to launch their own business ideas. McMorris said, “As an entrepreneur, I’m pleased to encourage young people to think big and act on their [...]