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Article: Sisters in charge: innovative women entrepreneurs.
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Today's Black woman is a go-getter. Not only is she running her own business, but she is also following her life's passion. And the numbers bear it out.
The Center for Women's Business Research conservatively estimates that the 365,110 majority-owned, privately-held firms owned by African-American women in the United States generate roughly $14.5 billion in sales.
Among those leading the charge are Californian Janice Bryant Howroyd, who took a $1,500 loan and turned it into a multimillion-dollar employment agency; Deryl McKissack Greene, an architect who took a family tradition and turned it into one of the top firm's on the East Coast; Shirley L. ...