Bloomberg | At the turn of the 20th century, Anthony Fleming and J.R. Rooks, two Black men who had been driven off their farmland by White...
By Gregory Simpkins Although half a world apart, lower-income South Africans and Americans are facing increasing challenges to their economic wellbeing due to the influx of...
By Nigel Roberts Africa has been stereotyped as poor and politically unstable for decades, but countries like China and Russia continue to make headway into many...
By Gregory Simpkins It has been my great honor to work on the goal of connecting the elements of the African Diaspora for more than a...
By Gregory Simpkins A century ago, Jamaican Diaspora leader Marcus Garvey established what he hoped would be a global economic partnership between the Africa Diaspora in...
By Osej Serratos, Morgan Norwood, and Allie Weintraub When Dorian Bolden began expanding his coffee shop, Beyu Caffe, in Durham, North Carolina, he says the most...
A group of legislators led by Representative Cori Bush, has introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives in support of reparations. The resolution, which...
Robert F. Smith should be applauded for helping make a difference and providing hope to millions of people in underserved communities
PRNewswire | The Propel Center, the global HBCU technology and learning hub intended to level the playing field and open greater doors of opportunity for their...
AP | Carrie Meek, the grandchild of a slave and a sharecropper’s daughter who became one of the first Black Floridians elected to Congress since Reconstruction,...
Martin debuts new ad-supported digital network serving black viewers. The Black Star Network will launch a 24-hour streaming network early 2022
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that the Black Lives Matter movement is raising a “legitimate issue” about African Americans being treated unfairly in certain...
The Black Lives Matter network will skip a presidential endorsement but keep up its political activism by confronting candidates about the treatment of African Americans in...
After rising during the 1970s through the 1990s, African Americans’ participation rates in many job categories slowed or declined in the 2000s, says a report by...
(PRNewswire) – Late last month the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) helped to launch the new Bipartisan Congressional HBCU Caucus, chaired by Representatives Alma S. Adams...
(BlackPRWire) – ASPiRE, the television network that celebrates the groundbreaking achievements of African Americans, announced last week, a partnership with the White House Initiative on Historically...
For generations, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have played a key role in educating young African Americans. But facing steep declines in enrollment, HBCUs are...
African American voters The Obama administration plans to join lawsuits in Ohio and Wisconsin over Republican-backed changes to state voting laws that plaintiffs say violate the...
Black Enterprise will host its first Driving Innovation Hackathon presented by Toyota, where technology and creative minds will come together to build tools that demonstrate the...
(BlackPRWire) – Arthritis causes a surprisingly disproportionate amount of pain and limitations for African Americans. According to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control...
The axiom reads “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” So I suppose there’s no reason to be surprised that African Americans — a community known for its...
Unemployment rates fell for every major group of Americans last year, the unemployment rate in the United States also dropped to 6.7 percent, the lowest since...
As the holiday shopping season comes to a close, PurchaseBlack.com wants shoppers to continue to support the African American business community and buy black in the...
(Nationwide) – The Founder of The REDI Foundation, non-profit institute, Richard Michael Abraham, announced yesterday at The REDI Foundation’s press conference that the mission to train...
(BLACK PR WIRE) – Atlanta, Georgia – Hosted by Emmy-winning television journalist and CNN Anchor Suzanne Malveaux and featuring first-hand interviews by Political Strategist/Writer/Commentator Jamal Simmons,...
Herman Russell (pictured), is the founder and chairman of H. J. Russell & Company – one of the largest minority owned construction and real estate firms...
(PRNewswire) – AARP, one of the world’s largest member organizations with more than 37 million members and Black Enterprise, the leading small business resource for African...
Ursula Burns – CEO and Chairperson of Xerox. PHOTO/Jemal Countess/Getty Images (PRNewswire) – Late last week, Black Enterprise released its latest exclusive report on African American...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. PHOTO/File U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is in Philadelphia to discuss how voting rights could be affected by a recent Supreme...
Jerome Almon. PHOTO/BiztechAfrica U.S. war veteran and businessman Jerome Almon, is in the process of launching a US$100 billion initiative to rally the support of African...
RLJ Companies Chairman/BET Founder, Robert L. Johnson Serial entrepreneur and founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), Robert L. Johnson has revealed that he is looking to...
Contrary to a widely accepted belief, African-Americans may have a higher rather than lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis than Caucasians, according to a new study...
Recent studies point out that African American consumer spending is at an all time high. While the African American community continues to suffer the highest unemployment,...
American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images African Americans voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the White turnout...
(Press Release) – Soul Of The South Network – a 24-hour regional broadcast network targeting African American viewers in the South, and key Northern and mid-West...
Robert Johnson (PRNewswire) – Bethesda, MD. – Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), yesterday announced...
(PRNewswire-USNewswire) – Bethesda, Md., March 15, 2013 – If a screening test could not only catch cancer early but also help to prevent it, could you...
(Black PR Wire) – Washington, DC (March 2013) – Ten years ago, African Americans had no way to accurately or reliably determine where they came from...
“Spending Black and Putting Back” is the theme of the Atlanta Business League’s Sixth Annual Congress on the State of Black Business owned Business, March 19,...
Cancer patient after a scan at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. PHOTO/Jim Bourg/Reuters (Reuters) – Drops in smoking may have helped drive cancer death rates down...
Marshall Shepherd. PHOTO/University of Georgia While growing up in Canton, Ga., University of Georgia climate scientist Marshall Shepherd knew he wanted to grew to become an...
(Reuters Health) – Kidney disease patients who are African American or lack private health insurance are less likely to get matched up with a donor organ...
African American voters. PHOTO/John Gress/Getty Images African Americans voted at a higher rate this year than other minority groups and for the first time in history...
There has been much publicity this shopping season about supporting African-American-owned stores and businesses in the United States. It was made a little easier for shoppers...
Dr. Corey Hebert, CEO and co-founder Black Health TV Dr. Corey Hebert, the award-winning medical journalist and frequent contributor to the Dr. Oz. Show, is the...
Radio One CEO and President Alfred Liggins and Reach Media CEO David Kantor have announced that Radio One Inc., will increase its ownership stake in Reach...
After more than a century of delivering financial resources to under-served communities, African-American-owned banks that once offered financial credit and stability to the African American community...
President Barack Obama. PHOTO/File President Obama’s coalition came through for him big time on Election Day, and now members of the coalition want him to return...
Incidence of sudden cardiac arrest higher in Black people. IMAGE/iStockphoto In a survey released on October 17, the Heart Rhythm Society, along with Ipsos Healthcare, reported...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour Several leaders within the National Baptist Convention and the NAACP plan a rally in Atlanta to call attention to...
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. PHOTO/File (PRNewswire) — With many citing the economy as the most important issue for the...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour Members of the African American Ministers Leadership Council (AAMLC), a program of People For the American Way Foundation, spoke...
The fine line between the American Dream and the African-American Dream is becoming more distinct, according to a recent report by the Pew Charitable Trusts, a...
The South Africa Deputy Minister of International Relations Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim recently visited the San Francisco African American Chamber of Commerce to talk to potential investors...
African American voters in Maryland. PHOTO/Rich Vary/NewsHour In the late ’90s, the Internet belched forth a rumor that the Voting Rights Act was soon to expire...
Have you noticed all the current efforts to promote business opportunities in Africa? Have you wondered how now, all of a sudden, politicians are placing so...
Of the more than 1 million people in the United States infected with HIV, nearly half are African American men, women and children — even though...
By Kevin Taylor There comes a time when one ought to look into aiding their own people. With so much going on in the world today...
Alice Walker The author Alice Walker is the latest African American celebrity to condemn Israel for its treatment of Palestinians by refusing to allow an Israeli...
(PRWEB) – NBTV1.com is National Black Television: “TV that Cares!”. The Internet television network helps African-American young people and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) strive...
(PRNewswire via COMTEX) — By the National Cancer Institute Many people who fear cancer don’t realize that some types of cancer are preventable. Cancer of the...
Nest eggs are supposed to be there for when you retire. But it seems that many African Americans are dipping into their retirement savings prematurely. According...
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...
Jamal Randle, from left, Loren Cowling, and Dave Jackson fill out applications for jobs Sept. 25, 2009. PHOTO/Paul Sancya/AP Photo The benefits of the economic recovery...
Earvin “Magic” Johnson. PHOTO/File “We are the communities we serve.” That motto, asserted in the opening chapter of his 2008 book “32 Ways to Be a...
Christopher Smith, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, looks at stem cell samples through an inverted microscope in a lab at the Johns Hopkins University. PHOTO/Patrick...
Emma Chappell is the Founder of United Bank of Philadelphia where she served as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) from its...
Prominent African-American Republicans. PHOTO/NewsOne.com It’s a question that comes up every time you hit the home page of the Republican National Committee’s website: Where are all...
The Illinois Coalition of Community Blood Centers is working with the General Assembly’s Black Caucus to increase blood donations in the African-American community. The campaign is...
More and more Black Americans are realizing that the success of Black businesses relies on them. In a time of financial anguish for many, some African-Americans...
Relaxed hair Hair relaxers are used by millions of black women, possibly exposing them to various chemicals through scalp lesions and burns. Led by Lauren Wise...
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. PHOTO/File The GOP primary in Florida on January 31 highlighted a fundamental problem the Republican Party will face in...
The recession and continuing economic downturn have been devastating to the American middle class as a whole, the two and a half years since the declared...
OPINION - Stalled immigration reform -- like several other high-profile Obama campaign promises has become a proxy for frustrated political ambitions...
For centuries African Americans, like their white counterparts, have struggled with mental health problems. Things are getting better, but we’ve still got work before us. It...
