(Philly.com) — Supporters of Superintendent Arlene Ackerman crowded inside the school district’s auditorium yesterday to commend her efforts to increase minority business in the district and condemn the Inquirer‘s coverage of her decision to switch contractors for security-related work at dangerous city schools. Dozens of elected officials, community activists, retired school personnel and others praised her […]
(The Business Review) — Using a downtown Buffalo coffee shop that’s owned by an African-American woman, New York Gov. David Paterson signed a new bill into law that encourages more investment in minority and women-owned businesses across the state. The bill, championed by Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes, D-Buffalo, now ensures that minority and women-owned businesses will have an […]
(Washington Post) — Google has filed a lawsuit against the Interior Department claiming that the agency favored competitor Microsoft when considering bids for a new Web-based e-mail system. In an action filed with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on Friday, Google asked the court to halt the Interior Department’s bidding process, which it says is […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Despite unprecedented community outreach, African-American businesses got a seven percent sliver of Chicago’s $1 billion spending pie through Aug.31, down from eight percent a year ago, re-igniting a perennial political controversy. “Why do we keep backsliding?…It really gets tiresome singing the same song every year…..We have to do better,” said Ald. […]
(Black America Web) — Civil rights groups on Thursday accused the U.S. Census Bureau of discrimination in its hiring of more than a million temporary workers to conduct the 2010 census, saying it ignored a warning from a federal agency that its hiring practices might violate the Civil Rights Act. Read More…
(Washington Business Journal) — Sinclair Skinner, Mayor Adrian Fenty’s close friend and magnet for controversy, employed no one in his engineering firm, including himself, who was qualified to perform the work on the D.C. recreation projects for which the company was hired, Skinner said Thursday in long-awaited testimony before the D.C. Council. Skinner owns Liberty […]