Time for a Black Business Marshall Plan
Black business owners have endured a history of unequal treatment. It is time for them to have the same type of Marshall Plan assistance repeatedly provided to large corporations.
Business and Politics
Color Blind Diversity Policies Push Black Businesses to the Back of the Bus
In the age of Black Live Matter, we must seriously reckon with the fact that Black firms are being pushed to the back of the bus by color blind diversity policies.
Target’s Record Sales – Latest Example of a Bipolar Economy
Food lines are getting longer while big-box retail sales zoom. In fact, big-box retailers and companies that are adept at online sales might ask themselves, […]
World Economies Grow as the U.S. Stumbles over COVID
New COVID infections in Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, and several other countries have almost disappeared. Their economies are gradually returning to normal. In comparison, U.S. infections are registering daily records, and states are pondering new lock-downs.
America’s COVID Mismanagement Hurts World Economic Recovery
When the pandemic gripped the world’s economies in March and early April, forecasters projected it would have a devastating economic effect. The April 2020 world […]
Southern Governors who Denied COVID are now Panicking
The governors of Florida and Texas were the poster children for leaders who denied COVID’s virulence to gain political favor with the President. Now their states face record spikes in infections.
Black-Lives Matter, and so does White Involvement
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” This is one of […]
Improving New York City’s Minority and Women Owned Business Program
Read our latest press release on the work that we completed for the city of New York that examined the capacity of M/WBE firms. […]
For Black-owned Firms, Government Contracting Matters
Historically, Black-owned businesses have been more dependent upon local, state and federal procurement than have businesses of other groups. However, government contractors have experienced a […]
Improving Federal Programs for Minority Businesses
Every federal program for minority businesses has a different personal disadvantage criterion. This is confusing and creates unnecessary bureaucracy and inefficiency. One uniform criterion should be created.