The result is an African-American city without African-American-owned businesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [How a City Lost Its Soul] Reference

Moreover, this is a project in the telecommunications sector and involves a Maryland-based African-American-owned business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fact Sheet On Us And Nigeria Expanding Trade And Investment] Reference

Mr. Rogers is chairman of Chicago-based Ariel Investments, the largest African-American-owned investment firm in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fund Manager Has Obama's Ear] Reference

One company that is benefiting is Williams Capital Group LP, an African-American-owned broker-dealer and asset manager in New York.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Minority Firms, Crisis Opens Doors] Reference

The company, known today as Atlanta Life Financial Group, became one of the largest African-American-owned companies in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [With an Eye to the Past,] Reference

Williams Capital Group LP, an African-American-owned broker-dealer and asset manager in New York, joined a team assembled by Investco.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inupiat Eskimos Jump Into PPIP] Reference

And Mr. Dudley -- the guy who owns one of the few African-American-owned hair-product companies -- I met him at an Obama campaign function.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Comic's 'Good Hair' Day] Reference

GORE: ... to vote against affirmative action to help expand the number of African-American-owned broadcasting outlets, radio stations and TV stations.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Is George Bush Playing Politics With Presidential Debates? - September 5, 2000] Reference

GORE: ... to vote against affirmative action to help expand the number of African-American-owned broadcasting outlets -- radio stations and TV stations.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Harlem's Apollo Theater - February 21, 2000] Reference

On the other: minority business owners who say that language would hurt the ability of smaller, African-American-owned contractors to get a piece of the action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democrats Abandon Blacks] Reference

Ms. Waters and her husband, Sidney Williams, were investors in two African-American-owned California banks that merged with other lenders in 2002 to form OneUnited.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waters Says Help to Bank Was Proper] Reference

So nurturing and growing African-American-owned businesses is such an important way to grow jobs right in the communities, and that's a focus that we've decided to take.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2007] Reference

The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting piece this week about the competition African-American-owned hair salons are experiencing from their Dominican-headed counterparts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Katt Williams Arrested; “Sheneneh & Wanda: The Movie;” “Three Men A Baby” Sequel; And More Afternoon Crunch Crumbs] Reference

That begins with a strong, job-creating economy -- one that leaves no one behind, keeps interest rates low, and does even more to help African-American-owned businesses invest and grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By Vice President On Naacp Detroit Metro Chapter] Reference

Before there was Harlem, there was U Street -- the nerve center of Washington's black community, alive with music, theater and African-American-owned businesses, churches and social institutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Neighborhood to Explore] Reference

Stacie informs us that Sugarleaf is the only African-American-owned vineyard on the East Coast (this appears to be true), and that the White House served a Sugarleaf wine at a National Governor's Association dinner (true; 'twas their 2008 Petit Manseng).    From Wordnik.com.  ["This looks a little bit staged": D.C. "Housewives" recap and fact-check (#3, Aug. 19)] Reference

He now estimates that 60 percent of the businesses are African-American-owned, 15 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clog] Reference

Stevenson lives on one of the oldest African-American-owned working ranches in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts: News] Reference

In Minneapolis and Pittsburgh, food editors had only seen it in African-American-owned restaurants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brownsville Herald :] Reference

His client, Opa-locka Flightline, is the only African-American-owned and operated FBO in the nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

The Gloucester Township course is the oldest African-American-owned 18-hole course in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [CourierPostOnline.com - News] Reference

African-American-owned businesses and that it's a problem that only 7 percent of city work goes to black firms.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

That's why I'm always heartened to see another at least partially African-American-owned fried-chicken business.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

He was an ex-Army man who had one of the first African-American-owned insurance agencies in Dallas and was very successful.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Nationally, "over 90 percent of dollars spent by African Americans do not go to African-American-owned companies," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winging It] Reference

Through a series of acquisitions, OneUnited grew to become what it says is the largest African-American-owned bank in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [WSJ.com: What's News US] Reference

The Wilson's were former slaves, and started the first African-American-owned business in Texas after the Emancipation Proclamation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gazette-Enterprise: News] Reference

It owns stations in Atlanta, Buffalo, and Birmingham and is a majority owner in the nation's only African-American-owned radio network, American Urban Radio Networks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pittsburgh Indymedia] Reference

Fields says that Hawkins, who is black, told the SEC in August 2009 that Petro America will be the first African-American-owned oil company to go public in the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

The low-priced homes, African-American-owned nightclubs and palpable presence of African-American culture helped convince Muse and others to live in the neighborhood, she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Bay Area Most Viewed] Reference

And Ebony's woes would appear to dash hopes that African-American-owned or - oriented media would see a big lift in the marketplace with the election of Barack Obama, the nation's first African-American president.    From Wordnik.com.  [MultiCultClassics] Reference

• Amyre Makupson, who anchored Big City News for America's first African-American-owned television station, Detroit's WGPR-TV, but is best known for her 27 years at WKBD (Channel 50), 17 as lead anchor of the city's pioneering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metro Times] Reference

"We believe we're the largest African-American-owned construction company west of the Missisippi and" between 10th and 15th largest for all contractors, "Copeland said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Ephron Lewis co-founded Lewis & Sons Rice Processing -- the only African-American-owned rice processing company in the country -- with his father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fact Sheet On Eight Years Of Peace Progress And Prosperity] Reference