The inaugural Afro Vibe Festival will start today at Marina Park, showcasing the wide range of growing black-owned businesses ...

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She also understood the necessity of economic empowerment for security. In 1858, Harriet Tubman bought her home in Auburn, New York, for $1,200 to provide a safe place for her family. The Harriet ...

The two men, who have the ears of millions of African Americans, are hosting a symposium called "State of the Black Union 2006: Economic Empowerment -- Building and Leveraging Wealth in the ...

The plan is based on the Black Economic Alliance Foundation report, “Policy Agenda to Advance Black Work, Wages and Wealth” which points out that white Americans have an average wealth per ...

Harrisburg Mayor Wanda Williams will be among the speakers and stakeholders as the African-American Chamber of Commerce ...

The Black Economic Empowerment Summit at The Maryland Theatre provided connections and advice for entrepreneurs and other businesspeople.

Leon County’s Black business community has long championed economic empowerment. In the early 1990s, Charles Cyrus and Frank Williams Florida Developers Inc. of Tallahassee —one of the state ...

"The message being sent is that if you are a powerful foreign billionaire, you can sidestep South Africa’s laws, while our local businesses are forced to jump through hoops", said Nobuntu ...

And when it comes to the ownership of firms, an assessment of nearly 1,500 businesses by the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Commission found that Black ownership averaged 33.9% in 2022 ...

Kalim Johnson went before Hagerstown City Council earlier this month to request $2,000 to help offer the Black Economic Empowerment Summit 2022, which will start at 2 p.m. on March 12 at The ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he’ll appoint a council this week to advise on broad-based Black economic empowerment.. The body is being established because of inadequate progress ...