African American voters. PHOTO/Lynne Sladky/AP (Reuters) – High voter turnout among African Americans helped get President Barack Obama elected in 2008 but a black rights group...
Jamarlin Martin – Chairman & CEO Moguldom Media Group African-American media firm Moguldom is banking on video content to attract big brand dollars. Advertisers including General...
Jamal Randle, from left, Loren Cowling, and Dave Jackson fill out applications for positions at a new bar and restaurant in Detroit, Sept. 25, 2009. PHOTO/Paul...
Donnel Baird. PHOTO/BlocPower By fall, an organization known as BlocPower will be helping minority churches, nonprofits and small businesses nationwide reduce their energy bills with retrofit...
Rev. Fred Luter acknowledges the crowd at the Southern Baptist Convention prior to to being elected as the first African-American vice president of the organization, Tuesday,...
The Rev. Dr. Franklyn Richardson longs for the old days, when all it took was Sunday sermons by African-American ministers to fire up their flocks to...
It has been noted that more African-Americans are opting to home school their children. About two million, or 4 percent, of American children are home-schooled, according...
It’s true that skin cancer in African American (or in people of African decent) isn’t nearly as common as it is in other ethnicities. According to...
Robert L. Johnson, the renowned businessman and investor, said it best. He was speaking of the importance of the West African country of Liberia to the...
Saratoga Springs Mayor Mia Love speaks at the Republican state convention, Saturday, April 21, 2012 in Sandy, Utah. PHOTO/Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune/AP Photo Amid the...
Debra Lee – CEO BET BET has been the only real juggernaut in African-American TV programming in more than 30 years, but the network is about...
Robert Johnson. PHOTO/File Robert Johnson, the first African American billionaire, has invested in professional basketball teams, real estate, mortgage-backed securities and midsize hotels. Now he is...
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigning. PHOTO/File After a long primary season, Mitt Romney begins his contest with Barack Obama without having attracted any notable African-American...
Don Thompson McDonald’s Corp. said Wednesday that Chief Executive Officer Jim Skinner will retire later this year, handing over the responsibility of running the world’s largest...
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech at a Labor Day event sponsored by the Metro Detroit Central Labor Council September 5, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan....
Official unemployment for African-Americans exceeded 17 percent in January 2010, nearly twice that of whites and 6 points higher than the nation as a whole. As...
Dante Carver. PHOTO/Japan Today Dante Carver an New York native moved to Japan in 2005, and by 2008 had become the most popular male actor in...
In 1962, Frank Smith Jr. left Morehouse College in Atlanta and went to Mississippi as a civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In...
Cathy Nash, CEO of Citizen Bank The lawsuit against Citizens Republic Bancorp and its subsidiary Citizens Bank of Flint, Michigan, stemmed from allegations that the banks...
