FLORIDA COURIER — According to the Small Business Administration (SBA): “The federal government’s goal is to award at least five percent of all federal contracting dollars...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Both sides, Democrats and Republicans, are at fault here. Republicans had control of both congressional chambers and the White House for two years....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — There has been so much confusion on just what this program is about. Fortunately, we have discovered one of the best explanations on...
Presidents Trump and Kenyatta are in a “groove.” I guess it is about the “art of the deal.” Kenya and the U.S. are engaged in business...
By Harry C. Alford (NNPA Newswire Columnist) After a very tough 2016, we should all look forward to 2017. Last year’s economy was challenging. Here in...
By Harry C. Alford (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Born on August 13, 1926 out of wedlock on his father’s sugarcane farm in the third world nation of...
By Harry C. Alford (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Perhaps one of the greatest entertainers of all time suddenly left us on April 21, 2016. Kay and...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA News Wire Columnist Oh yes, those were troubled times during the decades of the 1960’s and 1970’s. When Beyoncé gave tribute...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA News Wire Columnist My early days of being an activist seem so simple now. A hot head reporter or radio personality...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA News Wire Columnist Billions of dollars and thousands of jobs have passed us by due to the noncompliance of Section 3...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA News Wire Columnist It has been two years since our President declared the ISIS movement a “JV” team. He implied this...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist On Friday, September 25, 2015 America lost a special leader. I have had the pleasure of working with three of...
(The Washington Post) – For years, the air over central Pittsburgh has ranked among the country’s dirtiest, with haze and soot that regularly trigger spikes in...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Minority business programs came to life as a compliance requirement for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I have seen too many families break up following the unforeseen death of a loved one. It is especially...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Earlier this summer, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new regulations intended to reduce carbon emissions from America’s power...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist It reminds me of the classic Gone with the Wind. A young Scarlet O’Hara was standing in a field with her...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The idea hit me last week during the international panel at our 22nd annual conference in Chicago. Speaking on the...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist It appears nearly impossible for our nation to have an orderly and simple immigration program. It should be quite easy...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist We first visited Cuba in 2000. There was so much to see that we visited twice that year (August and...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Presidential Program for the Development of the Afro-Colombian Population – that is the name of the program to empower...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Capital Access has become more elusive than ever. Why? Because of a kneejerk reaction in 2010 by Congress responding to...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) always had a shady purpose. Its origin lies with the presidency Richard M. Nixon, who...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist My time in Washington has given me a real primer on the phrase “flavor of the week.” This week, all...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Once again, the federal government has been caught making up numbers, this time to support its efforts to put career...
