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 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...
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...
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...
Sears Holdings Empowers African-American Entrepreneurs
Sears Holdings will Share the Word™ of empowerment through entrepreneurship in 2012. The Share the Word™ platform was created to promote and honor the legacy of African-Americans by providing valuable resources More...
Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones Form Production Pact with Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures announced today that the studio has forged a significant three-year, first-look production agreement with Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones’ de Passe Jones Entertainment (depassejones.com). More...
Black Lawmakers Target High Urban Unemployment
Taking the microphone at a church in a predominantly black neighborhood of Miami, the Rev. Jesse Jackson asked how many in the crowd knew someone looking for a job. Most of the several hundred people in the televised More...
