National Black Business Month: Uplifting Communities

When Frederick E. Jordan, Sr. tried to start his engineering firm in San Francisco in 1969, he couldn’t get financing. He ran F.E. Jordan Associates part-time out of his home for its first six months, taking on whatever work he could until the business had...

Black Entrepreneurship: Progress and Legacy

February 2026 marks a historic milestone. It has been 100 years since the first national observance of Black history, launched in 1926 by historian Carter G. Woodson through the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the organization that...