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NAACP Economic Reciprocity Initiative E-mail
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
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
 
More black women taking care of business (video) E-mail
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
 
Minorities hit hardest by housing crisis E-mail
Monday, 26 November 2007
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
 
Harvard's Gates Refines Genetic-Ancestry Searches for Blacks - Scholar Founds Firm E-mail
Thursday, 15 November 2007
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
 
The Nation's First African-American-Owned Private Swim Club Announces $5 Million Expansion Plan E-mail
Thursday, 15 November 2007
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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