Minority Owned Businesses

Comcast To Start New Minority-Owned Cable Channels

AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 04.22.2012

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NEW YORK — Comcast will launch four minority-owned networks on its cable-TV systems in the next two years, including channels spearheaded by mus...

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Green Energy, Jobs and Minority Businesses: Wall Street Is Paying Attention

David Kirby | Posted 12.28.2011

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David Kirby

Last week in New York, for the first time ever in the same room, Fortune 500 Corporations, some 200 minority owned small businesses and more than 40 p...

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Obama Sneaks Job-Killing, Anti-Minority Small-Business Policy Past Mainstream Media

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 11.19.2011

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Lloyd Chapman

One day after President Obama announced the American Jobs Act, his administration quietly announced plans to dismantle one of the nation's most successful programs to create jobs in minority communities from coast to coast.

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The Onus Is on Large Companies to Help Minority-Owned Small Businesses Get Bigger: It's in Everyone's Interest

James H. Lowry | Posted 11.12.2011

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James H. Lowry

Black-owned small businesses have the fastest new jobs growth rate, according to the Department of Commerce. Still, fewer than5 percent of black-owned businesses employ more than five people.

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High-Speed Rail Projects: A Fast Track To Nowhere For Minority-Owned Businesses?

Diana LaCome | Posted 05.25.2011

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Diana LaCome

As federal infrastructure projects get underway, this massive infusion of federal money appears to be bypassing the very businesses that help bolster our local economies -- small and minority-owned businesses.

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Meeks: Hispanics, Asians, Women Not Minorities, Shouldn't Get City Help

Posted 05.25.2011

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State Senator James Meeks, a reverend at a South Side church and a candidate for mayor of Chicago, was trying to talk about his education policy yeste...

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Media Diversity Not an All-Or-Nothing Game

Will Griffin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Will Griffin

It's a big mistake to limit the notion of diversity to media that are 100 percent minority. That's myopic. It attempts to measure African-American media ownership with a protractor, when what is truly needed is a compass.

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Women and Minorities Bit Players, But Gaining in Selling to America's Biggest Customer -- the Federal Government

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011

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Esther J. Cepeda

When it comes to stimulus-related government contracts for small business, women's business, and minority-owned businesses, there are but few happy campers.

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