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BY: Wall Street Journal RAY A SMITH :Write to Ray A. Smith at ray.smith@wsj.com
Claudia Coleman, 56 Neiman Marcus Personal Shopper

How many times have you walked into a store, ready to buy—only to find no one there to help, or even take your money? Or could you see the sales associates but they couldn’t seem [...]

Source: ecclesio.com
President Barack Obama has been a good president! Of course, there are areas where I disagree with his policy choices, but overall he has been a good president under challenging times. He forewarned the American people in his inaugural address of January 2009 that the United States faced a crisis. He stated:
That we are [...]

The Root.com
By: Nsenga Burton | Posted: November 9, 2011

News One is reporting that black buying power is expected to reach $1.1 trillion by 2015, according to “The State of the African-American Consumer Report.” The report, the first of annual installments in a three-year alliance between Nielsen and the National Newspaper Publishers Association, showcases [...]

Before I moved to Michigan, my job was regional manager of 7 picture frame/ art galleries in the Philadelphia area for the 10,000 Picture Frame chain. I was also taking a class at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and met a young lady that needed some work. She was Sande Webster’s daughter, Margie, [...]

Back in April Kai Wright,  (kaiwright.com), the Alfred Knobler Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute, and the editorial director of
ColorLines wrote this  piece on predatory lending that all our readers should be aware of. Read his piece and check out his interview on GRITtv below. Walk, bike, or drive around your ‘hood and see how [...]

Chicago Real Estate Daily.com
(Crain’s) — Residents of predominantly white neighborhoods here were more likely to get mortgage refinancing during the start of the housing bust than those in minority communities, according to a new report.
New refinancing loans in the Chicago area jumped 102% from 2008 to 2009 in predominantly white neighborhoods. During the same time [...]

Source: IT News Africa
In a bold move to foster business growth in Africa, Google announced the launch of it’s new technology incubator; Umbono. In keeping with its ongoing commitment to foster innovation in Africa, Umbono will bring together seed capital, Google mentorship, angel investors, local tech stars, entrepreneurs and business leaders. [...]

The problem of cheap exploitable labor confronts the entire world. African laborers on the African continent are still some of the poorest paid laborers in the world. Therefore, various African men from North and West Africa have illegally migrated to parts of Europe in search of work. These poorly paid laborers migrate from their homes [...]

By Trish Regan
The story of marijuana’s growing acceptance in America begins in the Colorado Rockies, where cannabis is meeting capitalism head-on.

Once a month, at his downtown Denver restaurant, chef Scott Durrah teaches a cooking class. It’s well attended, mostly by retired and affluent boomers. It’s exactly the market Durrah and his wife and business partner [...]

Wal-Mart bid may bring the crowds to African safari
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Wal-Mart’s $4-billion bid for South African retailer Massmart could be just the first step by global players jockeying for a strong position in the fast-growing continent. Wal-Mart_WikiArthurJacob
A Wal-Mart supercenter in São Paulo, Brazil
The move by the world’s biggest retailer to buy Massmart, South Africa’s [...]