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Small Business Myths: Are You Sabotaging Your Business?

Black Business Advice
Written by Roxanne Ravenel
Monday, 31 July 2006
Roxanne Ravenel We live in a do-it-yourself society. With the constantly fluctuating and obscene price of gasoline, who can blame us? Yet, there are certain times when doing things ourselves just doesn’t make good business sense; even worse we may be sabotaging our businesses. Read More Add Comment (0) Hits: 331

Streets University: Community-Focused Future Making

Our Community
Written by Lawrence Spearman
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Lawrence Spearman With the widespread, poverty, homelessness, unemployment, underemployment, unhealthiness and criminality in the Black community, a new model of entrepreneurship needs to emerge. Read More Add Comment (0) Hits: 377

How America Made Niggas!!! (Part Four of Four: False Hope and Despair)

Our Community
Written by Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD
Tuesday, 04 July 2006
Anthony Samad Niggerism is just not an invention of sub-human capacity, it’s a circumstance that many Blacks, in most cases, choose not to overcome. Many of our people act a certain way and call being it “hard” or “keeping it real,” but only become examples of how the media and mainstream wants to portray the whole race. Read More Add Comment (1) Hits: 470

How America Made Niggas!!! (Part III of Four: Greed and Jealousy)

Our Community
Written by Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, PhD
Thursday, 29 June 2006
Anthony Samad No matter what you think (or how you think) about this discussion on eradicating these words (and according to your e-mail responses, the discussion is now a national one), we cannot deny what African Americans, as a people, have become as a result of a four hundred year effort to frame Blacks in a sub-human context and marginalize their equality. Read More Add Comment (0) Hits: 340