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UNICEF Educational Campaign for Africa: Boom or Bust?

So if a picture is worth a thousand words, what do these images convey? Imagine if you were a tourist in Germany and couldn’t read the ad? What do these images stand alone convey to you?

“I’m waiting for my last day in school, the children in africa still for their first one.”
Is it inspiring? Uplifting? [...]

The Candidates and the Covenant with Black America

A Moderated Discussion with Tavis Smiley
Featured Speaker: Tavis Smiley, Host, Tavis Smiley on PBS and the Tavis Smiley Show from PRI
Moderated by: Melody Barnes, Executive Vice President for Policy, CAPAF
On Thursday, June 28 (today), Tavis Smiley will moderate the All-American Presidential Forum on PBS at Howard University , where the Democratic presidential candidates will address [...]

Revisiting the Black Arts Movement

Given the current state of affairs, we must revisit the movements of the Civil Rights, Black Power and Black Arts. Today the movement will have to be relevant to our times, but it must be down. From the issues of gentrification, leaving children behind, poverty and health care, the movement is among us.
Arts and creativity [...]

Planting Hope in Our Communities from the Gulf to Roanoke

“We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite a while. We are not moving on. We are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech … “- Nikki Giovanni, VA Tech University Distinguished Professor, poet, activist
Everyone at some point in their lives will experience a mini-Katrina. The question is what do you [...]

Do M.B.A.s Make Better Entrepreneurs?

2007 Small Business Outlook
Forbes Magazine
It’s one thing to learn how to crunch numbers for an investment bank, quite another to start the next Microsoft, Google or even a decent restaurant.
Small businesses account for a little over half the output of the U.S. economy. If trade and productivity are an economy’s twin engines of growth, entrepreneurship [...]