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Financial Watch: Unemployment Rates Remain Low, Existing Home Sales Take a Slight Dip

  Last Week’s Headlines The unemployment rate continued to inch downward, hitting 7.2% in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the lowest unemployment rate since November 2008. However, the 148,000 jobs added during the month was lower than the monthly average for the past year, and including underemployed and discouraged workers would […]

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Entrepreneur Spotlight: Margie Cattouse, Creates BIG Hair Shower Caps

Let’s just be real, when wearing a BIG Fro, Dreads, Braids or any other natural hair style, getting our hair wet daily from the shower is challenging to maintain. That’s no longer a problem thanks to one  determined woman who has found the solution. Margie Cattouse (pronounced Cuh-touse), a 59-year-old from Queens, NY, says that

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Financial Watch

Last Week’s Headlines Global growth this year is expected to be more sluggish than previously thought, according to the International Monetary Fund’s latest report. The new 2.9% figure for 2013 is lower than the 3.2% forecast in July and would be the slowest growth in four years. The IMF cited as key threats the potential

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‘45th NAACP Image Awards’ to Air Live on TV One and online in 2014

Via Press Release – LOS ANGELES, CA (October,  7, 2013) – The NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization and home of the prestigious NAACP Image Awards, has partnered with the TV One network in a new multi-media five year agreement. Under the five-year contract, TV One becomes the television home for the association’s awards

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Paula Deen Enlists Judy Smith: Inspiration Behind the Hit TV Series Scandal

Paula Deen has enlisted Judy Smith, the crisis-management expert who inspired ABC’s hit drama Scandal. The show features Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, a Washington, D.C., publicist who specializes in media and crisis management for high profile clients and high-ranking officials. Her firm has advised such notable people as actor, Wesley Snipes, Monica Lewinsky, NFL

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Oprah Winfrey Set to Donate $12 million to Smithsonian’s African American museum

    Media Mogul Oprah Winfrey, is set to donate $12 million to a planned Washington, D.C., museum that will document African American history. Items from her talk show could be part of its exhibits. “I am so proud of African American history and its contributions to our nation as a whole,” Winfrey said in

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