Thompson Hospitality Buys Restaurant Chain
Thompson Hospitality Inc. (No. 22 on the BE INDUSTRIAL/SERVICE 100 list with $188 million in sales) has purchased all six locations of Austin Grill, a...
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Plan to Form Online Black Bank crashes
What started as a former bank executive’s dream to work with churches and to modernize the African American banking world ended in disappointment. BankBlackwell, a...
Amtrak Picks Black-Owned Ad Agency
Atlanta-based IMAGES USA (No. 12 on the BE ADVERTISING AGENCIES list with $41 million in billings) was tapped in January to handle advertising and marketing...
Black Inclusion Or GOP Delusion?
President Bush may yet go down as the first modern president to shun the NAACP during his term, but that hasn’t kept the Republican Party...
Blacks Working But Uninsured
More than 2.2 million African Americans, representing 18.5% of working black adults in the United States, live without health insurance, according to the Robert Wood...
Can you still count on the eeoc?
A member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the agency’s impending restructuring has been hastily crafted and will have disastrous consequences on its effectiveness...
Hawkins Found Guilty Of Perjury
Self-made restaurateur and politically connected millionaire La-Van Hawkins, who built an empire ranging from five-star restaurants in the Midwest to burger and pizza franchises dotting...
CBC Member Helps Blacks Gain Access To Homeland Security Contracts
A member of the Congressional Black Caucus has taken a leadership role on a key committee overseeing the Department of Homeland Security and has racial...
Health Plan Query Hurting Or Helping Us?
Managed-care plans are asking members to identify their race on forms or trying to collect the data through other means. Industry insiders say the efforts...
Reggie Fowler Agrees To Buy MN Vikings
The newest star in professional football is “six-foot-one and tons of fun.” And he’s a black man. But despite having the size of a linebacker,...