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Beyond the Rhetoric: Strengthening the Black Diaspora
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist The idea hit me last week during the international panel at our 22nd annual conference in Chicago. Speaking on the panel were National Black Chamber of Commerce...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Africa’s Rich Agricultural Assets
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist It reminds me of the classic Gone with the Wind. A young Scarlet O’Hara was standing in a field with her father. He picks up a handful of dirt and puts it in...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Pushing the Least Reliable Energy Sources
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Earlier this summer, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new regulations intended to reduce carbon emissions from America’s power plants. It’s now...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Preparing Family for the Inevitable
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist I have seen too many families break up following the unforeseen death of a loved one. It is especially hard on siblings after the loss of a parent. You must ask...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Fronting as a Black Business
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Minority business programs came to life as a compliance requirement for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. States and corporations were given the word...
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In Smog Battle, Industry Gets Help from Unlikely Source: Black Business Group
National Black Chamber of Commerce President Harry Alford (Courtesy Photo) (The Washington Post) – For years, the air over central Pittsburgh has ranked among the country’s dirtiest, with haze and soot...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: What You Should Know about the Great Bill Crawford – Part 1
Harry Alford says that he partnered with the late the Indiana State Representative Bill Crawford in the movement for economic equity. By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist On Friday, September 25, 2015...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Why Can’t We Win the Terrorist War?
Harry Alford says that political posturing will not make the threat of ISIS go away. By Harry C. Alford NNPA News Wire Columnist It has been two years since our President declared the ISIS movement a...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Back to Basics – Section 3 of the HUD Act, Part 2
Harry Alford says that Black chambers need to go face to face with their mayors and get their portion of the annual funding provided under the CDBGs. By Harry C. Alford NNPA News Wire Columnist...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Filthy Rich and Dangerous – Part 1
Harry Alford says that despite personal attacks his advocacy remained strong, and he purposely remained under the “radar” of the real power brokers. By Harry C. Alford NNPA News Wire Columnist My early...
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What I Learned from the Rise and Fall of the Black Panther Party
Harry Alford says that a look back at the years of the Black Panthers demands attention to other groups who equally tried to force this nation into equal rights for all, especially for Blacks. By Harry...
View ArticleBeyond the Rhetoric: The Battle over Paisley Park is Going to be One Big Mess
By Harry C. Alford (NNPA News Wire Columnist) Perhaps one of the greatest entertainers of all time suddenly left us on April 21, 2016. Kay and I were on a plane heading to Los Angeles when it came...
View ArticleBeyond the Rhetoric: There Will Never be Another Fidel Castro
By Harry C. Alford (NNPA Newswire Columnist) Born on August 13, 1926 out of wedlock on his father’s sugarcane farm in the third world nation of Cuba, Fidel Castro grew up to attend and study law at the...
View ArticleBeyond the Rhetoric: 2017 Is Going to be Fantastic!
By Harry C. Alford (NNPA Newswire Columnist) After a very tough 2016, we should all look forward to 2017. Last year’s economy was challenging. Here in Chevy Chase, Maryland, one of the wealthiest...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Juice on Only One Side of the Aisle
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist In the past, there were so many hangings, beatings, shootings and bombings. They went without justice being applied. During the past few decades we have shown...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Let’s Rebuild Detroit
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist It has been a long and rocky ride down the economic slope for the Motor City, a city I know well. Procter & Gamble hired me out of the University of Wisconsin...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Un-United Betrayal in Chicago
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Like many American cities, Indianapolis was a venue for mass discrimination against Black owned construction business. I had been working since 1989 to change that....
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Another Warrior Rises in St. Paul
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist In my travels I have met many outstanding warriors. The late Arthur A. Fletcher and Parren J. Mitchell have cultivated the nation’s landscape in terms of economic...
View ArticleBeyond the Rhetoric: Knowing the True Value of Your Business
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist Do you know the true value of your business? I doubt it as 80 percent of all business owners do not know what their business is worth. This creates a lot of...
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Beyond the Rhetoric: Cheating Our Students
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist There are very few things that are as vile and predatory than cheating young Black students out of a decent education. There are two things that quickly come to my...
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