by Tre Baker There was a great post on the Black female consumer last year on TAP that gave all sorts of good stats regarding Black female consumption patterns and demographics. Here are a few highlights: Some marketers say 85 cents of every $1 spent by blacks last year was spent at the influence of [...]

Jay-Z has revealed that he is in support of Occupy Wall Street and says that he would be willing to pay more taxes if it meant education and the under-privileged would benefit. Perhaps inspired by friend Kanye West’sshow of goodwill when he joined protestors earlier this month in New York at the Occupy Wall Street, Jay says that [...]

(Black Enterprise) — Promet Energy works with leading energy companies to provide electricity to industrial consumers in deregulated states. Prior to launching Promet Energy in 2004, White built a management career at Commonwealth Edison. Since then, he’s led the company to consistent success, including teaming with Intergys Energy Services to become the first minority marketer [...]

Student organizer John Lewis made history in August 1963 when he, at 23, was the youngest speaker at the March on Washington, where the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Today, at 71, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is a keeper of history, a lawmaker whose fingerprints are on some [...]

(WSJ) — “Star Wars” creator George Lucas is betting millions of his own dollars that moviegoers will be drawn to an action movie about African-American fighter pilots in World War II. Mr. Lucas has self-financed a new film entitled “Red Tails” inspired by the true story of the first organized group of African-American fighter pilots in [...]

President Obama is exploiting his early lead in campaign fund-raising to bankroll a sprawling grass-roots organization and information technology apparatus in critical general election battlegrounds. He is doing so even as the Republican candidates conserve cash and jockey for position in what could become a drawn-out nominating battle.

Loving money may not be good for your love life, according to new research that finds that materialists have unhappier marriages than couples who don’t care much about possessions.The effect holds true across all levels of income, said study researcher Jason Carroll, a professor of family life at Brigham Young University. And a materialist marrying [...]

(BET) – With minority students continuing to lag in educational achievement, the federal government has targeted the nation’s second largest public school system for wide-ranging reforms. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced that, after a 19-month civil rights investigation, they found that the Los Angeles Unified School District was failing to provide equal education to English-learners and Black [...]

(Huffington Post) — Just a few days before the AIDS Walk in Los Angeles will take place on Oct. 16, the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has published a report stating that African Americans and Hispanics are the groups most affected by HIV. African Americans represent approximately 14 percent of the population in [...]

(ABC News ) – Steve Jobs would be proud. TheiPhone 4S – announced the day before he died — is hitting stores today and being shipped to those who ordered it online. And to go with it, Apple has introduced iOS 5 – its new operating system — so successfully that it was almost too successful. The Internet seemed to buckle under the [...]