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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 |
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In 1996, the NAACP launched the Economic Reciprocity Initiative (ERI) as a sustained consumer movement to measure corporate America’s financial relationship with the African American community. Over the past eleven years, the ERI has expanded its scope and has continued to highlight on an annual basis the diversity efforts made in a number of leading industries. Click to continue at NAACP.org
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 |
African
American women are outpacing their male counterparts in business and
education, creating more than just economic repercussions. Rehema Ellis
reports. Click to continue at MSNBC.com
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Monday, 26 November 2007 |
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In May, Alvin Clavon received a foreclosure notice on the simple,
Spanish-style house in South Los Angeles that he shares with his wife
and three boys....Researchers agree minorities are more likely than whites to get high-cost mortgages, but analysts can't agree why. Click to continue at Reuters.com
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Thursday, 15 November 2007 |
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Dr. Gates's new company, African DNA LLC, aims to use historians and
anthropologists to explain which of various genetic possibilities
prompted by DNA traces is more historically likely. For such a search,
the new company charges $189, within the $100 to $300 range that's
typical of the genetic-ancestry industry... Click to continue at WSJ.com
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Thursday, 15 November 2007 |
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The Nile Swim Club, the nation's
first African-American-owned private swim club, today, announced that it
has launched an ambitious $5 million expansion program that will include,
among other amenities, the construction of three heated pools, an 18-hole
miniature golf course, a 150-seat banquet facility, a fitness center and
basketball and tennis courts.
The club, based in the Philadelphia suburban borough of Yeadon,
Pennsylvania, got its start in 1958, when African-American residents were
denied admission and membership to the racially exclusive, but now defunct,
Yeadon Swim Club. Click to continue at PRNewswire.com
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