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Getting smart on surety bonds
June 25, 2012
I was dumb enough to quit a lifetime-guaranteed job with the government to start my own business. I was dumb enough to think, as an African American woman, I could compete with huge corporations for government contracts. Turns out I was smart enough after all. Smart enough to get contracts and smart enough to find people who knew what I did not know.
We CAN put Blacks back to work
April 28, 2010
Unemployment in the African-American community is double and in some places triple the national average. You know it doesn’t have to be that way.
New SBA loans can make Black businesses bloom
June 17, 2009
“We should own and operate and control the economy of our community,” said Malcolm X. To make that happen, businesses in the hood should grab the new ARC loans: no-interest loans with no payments due for a year, offered beginning June 15 by the U.S. Small Business Administration, revitalized by President Obama. Merchants and residents who hire and trade with each other build peace and prosperity in the hood.