
African American-owned firms accounted for about 9% of the approximately 27.6 million U.S. businesses in 2012, according to the Census Bureau. Of the nearly eight million businesses classified as minority-owned that year, 2.5 million were owned by African Americans, and 109,137 of these were employer firms with a total of 975,052 workers. The number of African […]

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