By Brittany Hutson Originally regarded as a gay white man’s disease in the early 1980s, nearly three decades later it is the Black community that has been hit the hardest by HIV and AIDS. Despite continuous messages of awareness and prevention, Blacks, who represent 12 percent of the U.S. population, accounted for nearly 46 percent […]
Magic gets in on Boston real estate market.
Beyond the court Earvin Johnson's entrepreneurship has kept the magic alive.
(DailyFinance.com) — Johnson, 50, has made extensive real estate investments since retiring from the Lakers in 1991 (he made a brief comeback five years later), including shopping centers, movie theaters and Starbucks coffee shops in urban, largely minority-populated areas. And he has stepped up his investments in hotels over the past few years as a […]
(Knowledge@Wharton) — Earvin “Magic” Johnson’s basketball career included five national championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and a gold medal with the “Dream Team” at the 1992 Olympics. But domination on the court meant little when Johnson began approaching investors to launch his first business venture. “Everybody wanted the autograph, but nobody wanted to invest […]
Magic Workforce Solutions is a company that looks to get urban America back to work