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by Mary Spiller December 16, 2025 A lawsuit challenging a privately funded lending initiative has drawn national attention — and heavyweight legal backing on both sides. A legal battle unfolding in federal court is placing a Knoxville-based microloans program for Black-owned businesses under national scrutiny, pitting conservative legal advocates against
Whoopi Goldberg has one question for President Donald Trump: “Can you get any lower?” Upon the tragic news of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner’s death on Sunday, which police are calling a homicide, President Trump did not mourn the couple. Instead, he attacked Rob Reiner and called him “deranged.”
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors December 16, 2025 2024 was a rebound year for small businesses. 2024 was a rebound year for small businesses. Not only did performance exceed expectations across the board, but 79% of respondents in Bluevine’s Small Business Owner Success Survey conducted in November 2024 entered 2025 confident
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors December 16, 2025 Designed to help businesses access capital on favorable terms, SBA 7(a) loans can cover everything from working capital to real estate. Growth requires capital. Whether you’re expanding facilities, acquiring a competitor, or building a stronger balance sheet for the next quarter, businesses need
Reflecting on her relationship with the late actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, film producer Michele Singer Reiner, former First Lady Michelle Obama revealed that she was supposed to visit the Reiner family the night of their tragic deaths. Obama was a guest on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” when
Mariah Carey’s iconic holiday single “All I Want For Christmas Is You” continues to cement its place in history as the longest-running number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. The charts publication announced on Monday that the song had spent its 20th week at the top of the charts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said in a court filing Monday that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons and because a preservationists’ organization that wants it stopped has no standing to sue.The filing was in response to a lawsuit filed last
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices. The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of
The president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore is firing back against a former professor who sued for wrongful termination and accused her of plagiarizing portions of her dissertation in 1986. Heidi Anderson, who is Black, is embroiled in a lawsuit against Donna Satterlee, who labeled Anderson a “scam
WASHINGTON (AP) — The police chief in the nation’s capital pressured subordinates to manipulate department data to artificially lower the city’s crime rates, according to a report by a Republican-led congressional committee. The report, released Sunday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, found that Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela
by Mary Spiller December 16, 2025 A lawsuit challenging a privately funded lending initiative has drawn national attention — and heavyweight legal backing on both sides. A legal battle unfolding in federal court is placing a Knoxville-based microloans program for Black-owned businesses under national scrutiny, pitting conservative legal advocates against
Whoopi Goldberg has one question for President Donald Trump: “Can you get any lower?” Upon the tragic news of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner’s death on Sunday, which police are calling a homicide, President Trump did not mourn the couple. Instead, he attacked Rob Reiner and called him “deranged.”
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors December 16, 2025 2024 was a rebound year for small businesses. 2024 was a rebound year for small businesses. Not only did performance exceed expectations across the board, but 79% of respondents in Bluevine’s Small Business Owner Success Survey conducted in November 2024 entered 2025 confident
by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors December 16, 2025 Designed to help businesses access capital on favorable terms, SBA 7(a) loans can cover everything from working capital to real estate. Growth requires capital. Whether you’re expanding facilities, acquiring a competitor, or building a stronger balance sheet for the next quarter, businesses need
Reflecting on her relationship with the late actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, film producer Michele Singer Reiner, former First Lady Michelle Obama revealed that she was supposed to visit the Reiner family the night of their tragic deaths. Obama was a guest on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” when
Mariah Carey’s iconic holiday single “All I Want For Christmas Is You” continues to cement its place in history as the longest-running number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. The charts publication announced on Monday that the song had spent its 20th week at the top of the charts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said in a court filing Monday that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons and because a preservationists’ organization that wants it stopped has no standing to sue.The filing was in response to a lawsuit filed last
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices. The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of
The president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore is firing back against a former professor who sued for wrongful termination and accused her of plagiarizing portions of her dissertation in 1986. Heidi Anderson, who is Black, is embroiled in a lawsuit against Donna Satterlee, who labeled Anderson a “scam
WASHINGTON (AP) — The police chief in the nation’s capital pressured subordinates to manipulate department data to artificially lower the city’s crime rates, according to a report by a Republican-led congressional committee. The report, released Sunday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, found that Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela