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Black Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley Do Exist
There was recently an online conversation on Twitter on the subject of diversity and Silicon Valley. It was sparked by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington’s comments from the trailer for CNN’s Black...
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GOP Education Bill Would End Minority Programs
There’s little doubt that Democrats and Republicans would like to move past President Bush’s flawed “No Child Left Behind” education reforms. One Republican congressman’s proposal includes cutting...
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Cornell William Brooks Named New NAACP President
Image: Associated Press The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has named New Jersey lawyer and activist Cornell William Brooks as the organization’s 18th president and...
View Article[REPORT] Minorities Landed More Tech Jobs in Labor Market Recovery
A new report says tech jobs are leading toward economic opportunity and upward mobility for non-Asian minorities in the U.S., but that women are being left out. [Related: Brooklyn on Tech: Millennials...
View ArticleSam’s Club Commits $13.6 Million To Help Women and Minority Business Owners
Sam’s Club and the Sam’s Club Giving Program recently announced the Small Business Economic Mobility Initiative, a five-year, multimillion-dollar philanthropic investment in small business growth...
View ArticleWells Fargo Donates $25,000 To Black Female Social Entrepreneur
Cities across the nation are celebrating the critical contributions of entrepreneurs and small business owners in America during Small Business Week (May 4-8) – specifically, the impact local business...
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African Americans Less Likely to be Dean than Director
(Image: File) African Americans and Hispanic Americans are far less likely to hold the dean’s chair at America’s leading business schools than they are to serve on the board of directors of the major...
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Is Technology the Nexus Where Civics and Student Learning Meet?
(File: Image) This post was written by Chris Berdik, a science journalist, and was produced and originally published by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on...
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[STUDY] Minority Retail Workers Earn Lower Wages Than White Colleagues
Image: File A recent study released by public policy group Demos and the NAACP found that retailers pay black and Hispanic full-time salespeople just 75 percent of what they pay white employees in the...
View ArticleChanges In Franchising Model To Hit Minorities The Hardest
Iconic names such as McDonald’s, Burger King, Pizza Hut, and Jamba Juice have attracted nearly 800,000 small business owners, who employ more than 8 million workers. These franchise owners contribute...
View ArticleMorehouse College To Increase Pool of Minority Angel Investors
The Center for Venture Research estimates that U.S. angel investors invested $24.1 billion in 73, 4000 small businesses in 2014. Many of the investments were in startup or very early stage companies....
View ArticleAre Minorities Penalized for Promoting Diversity in the Workplace?
While many companies boast about their plans to increase diversity, a recent Harvard Business Review study shows that when those demands come from non-white male executives there are penalties behind...
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These Companies Are Stepping Up To Talk About Social Issues
From the multiple shootings of unarmed black men with no police accountability and anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant rhetoric, to women’s struggle for equal pay, under-representation of minorities and...
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How Groundwork is Diversifying the Entrepreneurial Landscape [Part 1]
There have been ample conversations around minorities having access to capital, but Jason Towns, the founder of Groundwork, is actually doing something about it. Black Enterprise spoke to Towns about...
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How Groundwork is Diversifying the Entrepreneurial Landscape
Groundwork is on a mission to help diversify the venture capital landscape. In Part 1, Towns shares details specifically highlighting the types of entrepreneurs he’s focused on investing in, and why he...
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