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The truest Blues – Can it be revived in the Black community?
His voice might crack like a granddaddy?s from tune to tune, but his fingers retain the swiftness of a teenage...
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Managing Customer Relations – Small businesses turn to technology and TAMI
A few years ago, software application vendors overlooked small businesses, lining up, instead, outside the doors of larger enterprises willing...
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An Artificial Poverty – Time to commercialize the creative industries
At the beginning of June, delegates from some 45 countries were preparing to descend on London for London Calling, one...
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In Search of Our Future – Who will speak for the common good?
We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We...
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The 125th Street Vote – Councilwoman Dickens versus the Coalition to Save Harlem
Inside Melba?s, a restaurant in Harlem, such city notables as Kenneth J. Knuckles (Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone), C. Virginia Fields...
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Put On Your Red Dress – It?s time to craft your own identity
As we begin the 21st century, the question of Black women crafting their own identities is crucial. How we define...
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The African Street Carnival – At 35, it?s an increasingly reliable revenue stream
Billed as one of the oldest and largest cultural events in the country, New York?s International African Arts Festival (IAAF)...
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Unapologetic Recruiting – Filling professional jobs with diasporan talent
It?s an often repeated?and robustly denied?complaint that goes like this: For all their rhetoric about involving the African diaspora in...
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The Future of HBCUs – Greatness lies in preparing teachers
It?s well known and widely appreciated that [historically Black Colleges and Universities] have graduated many military officers, physicians, teachers, attorneys,...