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Oprah finds many ways to Give Back
A little-known statistic even the most altruistic don’t realize until they wade into heavy-duty giving: The majority of philanthropic initiatives don’t work; 75% close...
Top 5 Trends in Ending Hunger and Poverty in 2012
This year saw a continuation and expansion of many of the positive trends in last year’s list: civil society consultation, gender mainstreaming, transparency, small...
Barbados economy to receive US$300 million Stimulus
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Tuesday March 19, 2013 – The Barbados government says it intends to invest BDS$600 million (One BDS dollar = US$0.50 cents) as part...
Black-Owned Businesses Are Powering Detroit’s Resurgence
Black-Owned Businesses Are Quietly Powering Detroit's Resurgence, But No One's Talking About It. So says Kate Abbey-Lambertz of the Huffington Post.
Detroit will mark the...
Parental Involvement By Black Parents Helps Sons Succeed
Parents banded together recently to help a group of eighteen young black men to achieve exceptional success in their high school years. Their efforts...
Help for the African-American IT Entrepreneurs–Interview with Boyd Stephens
Starting a business comes with many challenges. Information Technology professionals have their own unique hurdles to surmount when striking out on their own. TNJ.com...
Cassandra Mills Introduces Makeup Line ‘Haute Face’
Cassandra Mills is a seasoned businesswoman. She had a successful career as a music industry executive, having worked for the likes of Time Warner...
Black Economic Empowerment Gets R16bn Kumba Boost
Black Economic Empowerment Gets R16bn Kumba Boost
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – South Africa’s black economic-empowerment (BEE) effort has been given a whopping boost by the exemplary...
Kisha Holt: Black Female Entrepreneur Fills Void in Children’s Marketplace
A friend of mine likes to tell the story of how when she was growing up, if there was a baby shower or a...
African Nations Get Up to Speed Technologically
With Broadband, Internet service is not only faster but less expensive allowing more people to jump onboard the Web Express. And now the African...
African American Business Owners Give Back
The true measure of wealth in a community is in its ability to produce those willing to "be" the return on the investments that...
Who is the wealthiest black women of them all?
Who is the wealthiest black women in the world? It might not be whom you think it is. The Wealthiest black women currently is...
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THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR II ON AFRICA
The second world war of 1939-1945 was a result of the German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler’s plans to take control of Europe. Hitler also wanted...
The Roots of African Independence Movements after WWII
The First World War, and particularly the Second World War, disrupted European holdings in Africa. After losing World War I, Germany was forced to...
THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR I ON AFRICA
Introduction
The First World War, which lasted from 1914 to 1918, was mainly a struggle for supremacy among the European powers. Africans participated in this...
High Spending on Arms in Africa
THE north-eastern Nigerian town of Chibok is spared little. Earlier this year fighters from the extremist group, Boko Haram, abducted more than 200 local...
The Economic Consequences of Ebola
The Economic Consequences of Ebola
While African countries are rolling out measures to stop Ebola from spreading, their double digit Economic Growth has been slowed....
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