Progress Report
Black Enterprise identified past Financial Fitness Contest winners to find out if they followed our advice and that of our team of advisers, and are...
financial fitness winners
Marriage and Money: Getting on the Same Page
Lateshia Woodley, 35, and Alex Kelly, 33, of Ellenwood, Georgia, have come a long way. The young couple started out as teen parents. But the...
Taking Control
Investing for long-term goals is important to Acie. Many African Americans, regardless of age or income level, put off retirement planning and lag behind white...
Kicking Bad Money Habits
While on their honeymoon 12 years ago, Tamela and Omar Martin mapped out their lives together. They talked openly about their goals, just as they...
A 5-Step Plan for Attacking Student Loan Debt
Bryan Mitchell's student loan debt is a combination of money he used for college tuition and fees, estimated at $15,000 per semester. All together, he...
Life After Death
A death in the family is always emotionally demanding, but it can have lasting effects on a family’s finances. Jannis Briggs Milhouse of Columbia, South...
Using Wealth For Life As A Way of Life
Our results are in! Last week, we asked how you’d spend $2,000 if selected as a winner of our BLACK ENTERPRISE Financial Fitness Contest. The...
POLL: What Would You Do If B.E. Gave You $2,000?
For a decade, Black Enterprise has awarded scores of our readers $2000 to kick-start their financial lives through our Financial Fitness Contest. So far, we've...
Why Black Enterprise Gave Away A Quarter Million Dollars
As editor-in-chief of BLACK ENTERPRISE, one of the perks of my job is giving our readers thousands of dollars. It's not the result of some...
Eyes on the Prize
Friends and family aren’t likely to find April McLemore shopping in stores such as Nordstrom or Neiman Marcus. That’s because she’s probably walking the aisles...