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Urging Blacks to Help Themselves by Buying From Each Other |
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The shopping center sits on a small hill overlooking a struggling black neighborhood, a pocket of stores surrounded by poverty and neglect. A few shoppers strolling in oppressive afternoon heat stop to puzzle over a sign in one store's window: "Going out for business."
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Blacks outpace whites in business startups, but see less success |
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While blacks are starting businesses at a greater rate than whites, their enterprises are less likely to survive and thrive. "When it comes to entrepreneurship, African-Americans try twice as hard only to achieve half the success of whites.
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Top African American Women in Business …Other than Oprah |
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When you think of successful African American women, unless you have been living in a media-free cave for the last 20 years, Oprah springs to mind. While we acknowledge and admire the accomplishments of the talk show host, media mogul and self-made billionaire, it’s a shame that many of us are not equally familiar with other black women who have made a big impact on the world of business.
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Facts about the mass incarceration of people of color in the U.S. |
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 The United States leads the world in incarceration, with over 2.4 million people behind bars—a 500 percent increase over the past 30 years. The United States has 5 percent of the world population, yet approximately 25 percent of its prisoners. More than 60 percent of the people in prison are people of color. For black males in their twenties, one in every eight is in prison or jail on any given day. Three-fourths of all persons in prison for drug offenses are people of color.
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Texas Department of Criminal Justice |
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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) manages offenders in state prisons, state jails and private correctional facilities that contract with TDCJ. The agency also provides funding and certain oversight of community supervision (previously known as adult probation) and is responsible for the supervision of offenders released from prison on parole or mandatory supervision.
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