2010 Salute to Minority Business Owners

It has become custom in technology circles to dismiss the Y2K scare as the alchemy of hyper-active minds and conspiracy theorists. But for Daniel and Marie Fowler, owners of American Technologies Inc., it warranted a total business model overhaul and family relocation, to boot. Read more ...

The time and money professionals often spend on primping is staggering. Similarly, the time and money said professionals spend on primping in an unsavory environment ought to give one pause. It did for Aarika Dillard, who, in September of 2009, opened the doors of Solo Haven in Marietta, Ga., to raise the bar for the way that women and men, alike, go about sprucing up. Read more ...

2010 Top 25 Black Business Preview

If ever there was a year to separate the wheat from the chaff -- last year was it. For this reason, this year's Top 25 coverage has a particularly technological bent. Beyond the mainstay companies that continue to exemplify the soundest of business practices, we sought out innovators, envelope-pushers and forward-thinkers. We looked for direct and positive correlations between a company's usage of technology and spiked revenue, expanded customer bases and increased core service offerings. Our research revealed companies that have found the key to thriving in a landscape cluttered with the residue of stale ideals and stagnant progress: Simply innovation.

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Best of Atlanta 2009
By Katrice L. Mines

Well, we've finally done it ... a whole issue devoted to putting the finest in metro Atlanta's minority businesses at your fingertips -- literally. Every so often, each of us at Atlanta Tribune finds ourselves trying to recall a company we've featured or entrepreneur we've met in passing for some who needs that particular individual's expertise. After all, why shouldn't you come to us -- Atlanta's leading source of information for your business lifestyle needs?

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Unsettled Land: A Closer Look at Black Farmers in America
By Kamille D. Whittaker

In Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine’s coverage on the true power structure in black America, Dr. Rufus G.W. Sanders asked — in terms of wealth and power — ’who owns the land?’ In this two-part feature, we continue to excavate the African-American consciousness to explore the root of our wealth, and the convoluted web of opportunity and peril it finds itself in. Given the current status of African-American farmers' settlement claims with U.S. Congress, the subject matter remains timely.

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