New York BBR - frican American-owned firms accounted for about 9% of the approximately 27.6 million U.S. businesses in 2012, according to the Census Bureau. Of the nearly eight million businesses classified as minority-owned that year, 2.5 million were owned by African Americans, and 109,137 of these were employer firms with a total of 975,052 workers. The number of African American-owned...
Business Insider - Barack and Michelle Obama just dropped $11.75 million on a house on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, Julia Wells reported for the Vineyard Gazette.
Martha's Vineyard is an affluent vacation destination where the Obama family has previously spent summer vacations. Rumors have swirled about the family buying a home there since the...
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As a result of social media, small online businesses are able to thrive more than ever. Instagram and Twitter are filled with small black-owned shops that make and design their own products. However, social media makes it quite easy to steal products and ideas. Fashion companies, in particular, frequently have their product designs stolen by larger corporations.
Companies like Fashion...