Integrity Is Essential
It was 1990. Two journalists had just started Washington, D.C.'s first Black women-owned public relations agency in a church basement. Gwen McKinney and her boutique public relations firm, which she started with her then-business partner Leila McDowell, had one distinct purpose-- to advance social justice and civil rights causes and issues that they cared about. It's public relations with a conscience, as she likes to describe it.
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Racial Money Divide Widens
The wealth gap between White and African American families increased more than four times between 1984-2007, and middle-income white households now own far more wealth than high-income African Americans, according to an analysis released on Monday by the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University.
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Relationships Are Vital
Mika’il DeVeaux was 22 and facing a lengthy sentence for murder in the second degree. The last thing on his mind was a relationship. “No need to involve another person in that type of ordeal,” said DeVeaux. But Wanda Best, an old friend from high school, remembered DeVeaux as a good-hearted guy.
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Old School Work Ethic
It bothers me that sometimes people make the assumption that personal achievements are the result of being born into the "right" family, by which they mean an affluent or famous lineage. Sometimes people will ask me, "Now, whose son are you?"
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Poor Became Big Business
In the midst of long-term, double-digit unemployment and millions of foreclosures, many Americas are struggling to financially. But for others, the plight of the poor is prime time for making money. In Broke USA, author Gary Rivlin shares how payday lending has become a $33 billion a year ‘poverty industry.’ With small dollar loans, some in America are getting rich off of the multitudes who are just scrimping to piece together a modest living for themselves and their families.
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