Pepsi Announces Global Partnership with the Estate of Michael Jackson
Pepsi today announced an exclusive global partnership with the Estate of Michael Jackson as part of its new “Live for Now” campaign, which Pepsi fans around the world will experience in a variety of ways including an engaging retail campaign featuring one billion special edition Michael Jackson Bad 25 Pepsi cans, iconic music, epic live More...
HBCU Law Grads Face Tough Job Market
The career scenario painted for Ahman Airitam and his law school classmates could not have been rosier entering Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 2007. “When we came in, SMU Law pretty much pitched nothing More...
Acura Apologizes For Seeking ‘Not Too Dark’ Actor
Acura apologized for a casting document that called for an African-American actor who was “not too dark” in the car company’s Super Bowl ad. The controversial casting call document, published Wednesday More...
PG&E Engages Minority-Owned Banks to Execute $400 Million Bond Sale
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) selected Loop Capital Markets, an African American-owned investment bank headquartered in Chicago, to be one of four joint lead managers, along with Goldman Sachs, JP More...
Study: Retirement Plans of African-Americans and Hispanics Hit Especially Hard During Tough Economy
Continued economic uncertainty has led all workers to dip into their retirement savings, but minorities have been the hardest hit, according to a new study from Ariel Education Initiative and Aon Hewitt. Compared More...
America Needs More Black and Hispanic Male Teachers
The statistics have almost become cliché: Black elementary and high school students score lower on standardized tests, on average, than their white or Asian counterparts. For years, educators have searched for More...
Magic Johnson’s Group Buys LA Dodgers for $2.15 billion
Magic Johnson is about to learn $2 billion only buys you so much. Now he’ll need to bring the Los Angeles Dodgers the same success he brought the Lakers. News that Johnson and his partners agreed to purchase More...
Black Farmers File Claims in USDA Settlement
When Roy James needed money to buy equipment and dig an irrigation well for his father’s Mississippi farm, he applied for a loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture — but was turned down. The USDA said More...
McDonald’s Makes Historic Hire Of First Black CEO
For the first time in the storied history of the enterprise, fast food giant McDonald’s has appointed its first African-American CEO Don Thompson, becoming one of a handful of Black CEOs of a leading Fortune 500 More...
Job Seekers Getting Asked For Facebook Passwords
In their efforts to vet applicants, some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person’s social networking profiles and instead asking to log in as the user to have a look More...
