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The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) was incorporated as The National Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc., in 1993. It is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian organization dedicated to the economic empowerment of African American communities. Additionally, the organization indicates that it represents the views of its members regarding ...
The award was the first time the Texas Association of African American Chambers of Commerce named a ‘Chamber of the Year’ in its more than 100 year history.
National Black Nurses Association (NBNA): In response to being shut out of the American Nurses Association, Dr. Betty Smith Williams & Dr. Barbara Johnson, created the Council of Black Nurses in ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the term "African American" includes all individuals who identify with one or more nationalities or ethnic groups originating in any of the black racial groups of Africa. [2] The term is generally used for Americans with at least partial ancestry in any of the original peoples of sub-Saharan Africa.
The United States Chamber of Commerce (USCC) is a business association advocacy group.It is the largest lobbying group in the United States. The group was founded in April 1912 out of local chambers of commerce at the urging of President William Howard Taft and his Secretary of Commerce and Labor Charles Nagel.
January 25, 1870, letter from the governor and secretary of state of Mississippi that certified the election of Hiram Rhodes Revels to the Senate. First black senator and representatives: Sen. Hiram Revels (R-MS), Rep. Benjamin S. Turner (R-AL), Robert DeLarge (R-SC), Josiah Walls (R-FL), Jefferson Long (R-GA), Joseph Rainey and Robert B. Elliott (R-SC)
The news conference was part of the fund's first public response to the lawsuit, which alleged it unlawfully allowed only Black women small business owners to be eligible for a competition that ...
State Number of statewide executive officials U.S. Senators U.S. at-large Representatives Total Notes Arizona 1 1 Arkansas 1 1 California 5 1