Join In The Bacchanalia
“Indicator left … indicator right … indicator left … indicator right.” The lyrics of one of the season’s hottest Calypso songs pipe through oversized speakers installed on flatbed trucks as...
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Cicely Tyson to be Honored at Women of Power Awards
Black Enterprise will present the Legacy Awards, its highest recognition of women's achievement, at the 2014 Women of Power Summit in Boca Raton, Fla
Stevie Wonder, Alvin Ailey Among Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients
Award-winning songwriter Stevie Wonder, Choreographer Alvin Ailey, and professional golfer Charles Sifford are three African American honorees among nineteen named recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. They join a...
How to Prepare Your Business for Succession
When their father died in 2008, Jessica and Charles Johnson Jr. were left with the question of whether to make payroll or close the doors of their family-owned business. The security firm had been started by their grandparents nearly five decades ago in the Bronx, New York. “We could have disbanded the company and sold the assets,†says Charles Jr., who is a shareholder at Johnson Security Bureau Inc. “We would have been okay. However, we knew that many families were depending on us for employment, so we chose to keep it going.â€