NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to a recent story by CNBC, there are about 2.6 million Black-owned businesses in the United States, equating to approximately 9.5 percent...
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — 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 — Among states, Georgia had the largest total number with 256,848 black-owned businesses and accounted for 9.9 percent of the nation’s black-owned businesses, according...
HUDSON VALLEY PRESS — Like anything else the weather will change from day to day, month to month, season to season.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “…technology without people and workers is useless. Housing without technology is just another housing project or Digital Desert. It is the combination that...
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...
President of the National Chamber of Commerce Harry Alford and Rep. Mike Conaway (TX-11) say that Americans in poverty should be supported by government assistance that...
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 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...
(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 Without argument the sub-prime mortgage crisis was the most devastating economic attack against Black America in history. We saw...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Lowering the ozone standard, particularly to the levels suggested by EPA, will almost certainly cause economic harm to the...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I will be 67 years old next month. For nearly half of those years my wife, Kay, and I...
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 It was the early 1970s and my mentor, the late Arthur Fletcher, received the “green light” from Secretary of...
Beyond the Rhetoric: Notes from the DR By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The weather was perfect. The facilities were clean and professionally run. All participants wore...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Oh, how I remember November 22, 1963. It was the day that ended America’s love affair. In November, 1960 we...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I was being interviewed by two French citizens whose mission is to end discrimination in France. Their mission is...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist While going through some old boxes the other day, I came upon an old video tape. It was a tribute...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist There have been times in the 20-year history of the National Black Chamber of Commerce that we had to put...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Do you know the true value of your business? I doubt it as 80 percent of all business owners...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago on this August 28, hundreds of thousands of citizens gathered in our nation’s capital to fight...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist In my travels I have met many outstanding warriors. The late Arthur A. Fletcher and Parren J. Mitchell have cultivated...
