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So You?ve Been Fired! – Here?s how to exit with dignity and move on
Getting fired is often traumatic, but there are ways to exit with dignity and as little damage as possible. ?There...
2005
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Facing the Heat When There is No Place to Hide
Open a copy of The State of Black America 2005: Prescriptions for Change and you’ll be greeted by the in-your-face...
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After Katrina – Is there justice or just us?
Hurricane Katrina appears to have signaled hip-hop?s passage from infancy to maturity. Over the years, our elders have castigated us...
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The Troubled Auto Industry – Trying to predict the road ahead
The American highway is a symbol of national progress. It?s the way west; it?s the way east. It represents mobility,...
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Globalize or Perish! Has it come to this?
In the mid-1980s, William von Raab, then commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service, exhorted customs brokers and freight forwarders to...
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John H. Johnson, Media Mogul – In appreciation of his legacy
If you are Black and grew up in the baby boomer generation, there was one person who epitomized African-American business...
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Investing in Transportation – High risk, big returns, a noticeable absence
When I was a teacher in Uganda in the early 1970s, I would travel the 200-mile distance from Kampala, the...
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The Next Phase of Hip-hop – Building a financial and political legacy
Hip-hop entrepreneurs have successfully maneuvered the genre?s appeal into multimillion-dollar enterprises, but now they are at a crossroads. Will they...
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Generating Wealth – Bad credit? Forget it!
For many Americans, bad credit is viewed only through the prism of higher interest rates, lower borrowing limits and excess...