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Skilled, cost effective and experienced. That sums up our team of African American attorneys serving the entire United States, Washington D.C. & Puerto Rico. The African American attorneys in our nationwide network have been providing excellent comprehensive legal services to businesses, families and individuals throughout the country for several decades. When you are facing any type of legal issue you should not go through the situation alone no matter how minor the case may seem. You absolutely need the legal services provided by our skilled African American attorneys. They handle all types ...

MsMotivation, a certified HR Professional shares motivating tools and inspiring tips on professional development skills specialized for African Americans yet applicable to all. The practical advice* provided during these podcasts are sure to help you reach new heights if you believe in and apply yourself. With MsMotivation behind you, you can't lose!*Disclaimer: Seek your own legal advice and adhere to your company/organization's policies and procedures before taking any advice mentioned in any of MsMotivation's podcasts. Laws and polices/procedures vary per state and company/organization. ...

Owning a financially successful business is the surest way to build wealth. Each Thursday, join Ron Escoffery, a serial entrepreneur, real estate investor, speaker and author as he interviews African American Business Owners who are on the path to Building True Wealth! If you are a business owner who wants financial security, less stress operating your business and be able to exit your business on your own terms, This Podcast Is For YOU!

Celebrate the contributions African Americans have made throughout history and learn how Black and Brown people across America have helped shape, impact, and enrich the world in which we live in, because Black history is history.

MsMotivation, a certified HR Professional for over 20 years shares motivating tools and inspirational tips on professional development skills tailored towards African Americans (Black people) yet applicable to all. The practical advice provided during these episodes are sure to help you reach new heights if you believe in and apply yourself. With MsMotivation's encouragement, you can't lose!New episodes every Monday and Wednesday.*Disclaimer: Seek your own legal advice and adhere to your company/organization's policies and procedures before taking any advice mentioned in any of MsMotivation's ...

Are you ready to fill your life with more peace, power, and joy? We Should All Be Millionaires details a realistic, achievable, step-by-step path to creating the support, confidence, and plan you need to own your success and become the millionaire the world needs you to be. Only 10 percent of...

A podcast outlining careers in the green economy to enhance dialogue between South African and American youth! Hosted by Janavi Da Silva, Human Capacity Development Specialist for the Green Economy. This podcast was funded by a grant from the United States Department of State. The opinions, findings and conclusions stated herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Department of State.”

The classic, “gripping” (New York Times) history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the Sidney Hillman Prize “A stinging indictment of slavery...

A “fascinating” and “rare” (National Review) biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America’s most influential conservative thinkers Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books, covering...

The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium “Stayed On Freedom” podcast engages foot soldiers, leaders, scholars and ‘extraordinary ordinary’ people who are “stayed on freedom.” We remember to remember how the history and continuing legacy of the Black freedom movement and our Civil Rights Heritage Sites have transformed communities and changed the world!

Marketing For The Culture powered by the African-American Marketing Association interviews marketing leaders on the latest insights and best practices in the industry.

If we face America’s racial history squarely, will it mean that the American project is a failure? Conversely, if we think the American project is a worthy endeavor, do we have to lie, downplay, or equivocate about our past? In this book, we use the classical liberal lens to ask Americans on the political right to seriously reckon with America’s deep racial pain—much of which arises from violations of rights that conservatives say they deeply value.

Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured—until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present.

This groundbreaking book tracks the massive wealth amassed from slavery from pre-Civil War to today, showing how our modern economy was built on the backs of enslaved Black people—and lays out a clear argument for reparations that shows exactly what was stolen, who stole it, and to whom it is...

A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project gathers an accomplished interdisciplinary team of scholars—members of the Reparations Planning Committee—who have considered the issues pertinent to making reparations happen. This book will be an essential resource in the national conversation going forward.

A sweeping examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American--and a heartfelt look at how these deep wounds might begin to heal. Compared to other industrialized nations, the United States is losing...

Drawing from stratification economics, intersectionality, and respectability politics, The Love Jones Cohort centers on the voices and lifestyles of members of the Black middle class who are single and living alone (SALA). While much has been written about both the Black middle class and the rise of singlehood, this book represents a first foray into bridging these two concepts.

Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction, when the US government temporarily implemented a major redistribution of land from former slaveholders to the newly emancipated enslaved.

Based on a seven-year study of 1,000 of the wealthiest African Americans, The Wealth Choice offers a trove of sound and surprising advice about climbing the economic ladder, even when the odds seem stacked against you. Listeners will learn about how business leaders, entrepreneurs, and celebrities like Bob Johnson, Spike Lee, L. A. Reid, Herman Cain, T. D. Jakes, and Tyrese Gibson found their paths to wealth; what they did or didn't learn about money early on; what they had to sacrifice to get to the top; and the role of discipline in managing their success.

Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald's have long symbolized capitalism's villainous effects on our nation's most vulnerable communities. But how did fast food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the first place? In Franchise, acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast food companies, black capitalists, and civil rights leaders, who believed they found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality.