Category: July 2019 Cover Story and Articles

By Allan Younger There are a myriad of challenges that minority-owned and women-owned businesses face, some of which are being addressed. As the Small Business Center is trying to be part of the solution, here are a few things...

By Mel and Pearl Shaw As the executive director or CEO of a nonprofit, you have many responsibilities. One of those is fundraising. Too often these specific responsibilities are not spelled out until there is a financial...

By Richard L. Williams More than thirty years ago, Luellen Curry, a director at the N.C. Black Repertory Co., was at a board retreat when the organization’s founding executive director, Larry Leon Hamlin, brought up his big idea...

Put on your purple and black, the National Black Theatre Festival is back! The purple and black curtain will soon rise for the opening of the star-studded, six-day biennial theater festival that was the brainchild of Larry Leon...