DC Cherry Blossom Festival 2010

“Stories Matter.  Many Stories Matter” - Chimamanda Adichie, Nigerian best selling author.
“Y’all know how we do it!!  Wrap your arms around yourself and squeeeeeeeeeeeze real tight - We’ve all, just been hugged and we love you for free sugars” - Mo’nique (Weeknights on BET)
WASHINGTON DC APRIL 2010: The 2010 National Cherry Blossom Festival® will [...]

Blizzard Pummels DC Metro

“There is time for everything”
WASHINGTON DC - It has been snowing continuously in the DC Metro area over the last 10 days.  BH’s photojournalist TFLASH took some pictures during the blizzard for your viewing and enjoyment.
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Martin Luther King Day 2010

WASHINGTON DC - January 18, 2010 - Today  is Martin Luther King Day and we are proud to bring you the text of the speech he made to a civil rights rally on the National Mall in Washington in 1963.
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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as [...]

Happy New Year!!!

Dear friends, it is a new day and it is a new year.    It is the beginning of a new dawn and in 2010 Black Herald wishes you all the best that the new year can bring..more joy, more happiness, more money, good health etc.  2009 was a good year but 2010 is even going [...]

Tupac’s Song “Changes” Selected for Vatican Playlist.

“Instead of war on poverty, they gat war on drugz so that the police can bother me” - Tupac Amaru Shakur in one of his songs - Changes.
WASHINGTON DC - One of Tupac Amaru Shakur’s songs was selected by the Vatican for its playlist on Myspace.   It is actually a welcome development because I have [...]


Can Africa continue to grow?

A panel of regional business leaders discusses its prospects.
Gross corruption, constant wars, and irrational economics long made Africa a poor, troubled continent where natural-resource companies were almost the only multinationals that dared or cared to do business. But in the 1990s, the picture improved. The wars started subsiding. Many governments balanced [...]

Announcement - African Banker Awards 2010

The African Banker Awards 2010,  will take place on the 8th of October in Washington DC.  Bringing together key players engaged in Africa’s banking industry and financial sectors, the African Banker Awards is a landmark annual event, that takes place every year during the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings.
The African Banker Awards is by invitation [...]

Adebayo Ogunlesi (Nigerian) Buys Gatwick Airport

The man set to become the new owner of Gatwick Airport, tells Sky News how he is going to shake-up Britain’s airport business. In an exclusive interview with Jeff Randall, Adebayo Ogunlesi, chairman of Global Infrastructure Partners, said he is going “to make Gatwick a truly first class experience”.
However he cautioned it would take [...]

FAS 133 for Dummies - Accounting for Equity Swaps (Part II)

“There are two types of people in this world -  the taker and the taken.  The taker who takes the most is the richest. “ - P. Diddy in the ABC Drama, A Raisin in the Sun.
NEWENTRY llc entered into a 2 year fixed-rate equity swap as follows:

The aim of this exercise is to illustrate [...]

Winners of the African Banker Awards 2009 announced

LONDON, UNITED KINGDON - October 6, 2009 - Africa’s top bankers, ministers of finance, governors of central banks and industry leaders came together on the 6th of October at the Four Seasons Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, to recognize the continent’s successes in banking at an unforgettable awards ceremony and gala dinner.
Bankers from Nigeria, Morocco, Kenya, [...]


List of Richest Black Men in the World 2010

“To everything there is only a season” - King Solomon.
WASHINGTON DC, MARCH 2010 -  Mohammed Al Amoudi (Ethiopian & Saudi Arabian) -  is the richest black man in the world with a networth of $10B - though sometimes considered an Arab, as far as race is concerned, he is a black man (Yemeni father and [...]

Chris Abani Muses on Humanity

“The only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me” - Ubuntu.
” Did you know that before the genocide in Rwanda, the word for rape and the word for marriage were the same ?” - Chris Abani.

WASHINGTON DC - Chris Abani tells stories of people: People [...]

The danger of a single story - By Chimamanda Adichie .

“We cannot solve problems using the same mindsets that created them” - Albert Einstein.

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk [...]

Introducing Jelani Aliyu - Lead Creative Designer General Motors.

“Seest thou a man diligent in his work?  He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men” - Holy Bible (King James Version).
“As a man thinketh, so is he” - Proverbs 23.
It is our pleasure to introduce Jelani Aliyu - Senior Creative Designer General Motors.  He is a testimony to the fact [...]

Inaugurating Hope and Pausing for Nightmares

As a human being, it is hard not to feel excited about the events of this week.  As a black person, it is impossible not to feel giddy and light-headed with a thousand iconic images streaming out of Washington, DC.  Beginning with an improbable journey on the steps of the Old Capitol in Springfield, Illinois [...]