Harlem jazz club, once home of Renaissance poets, to close this month

C. Daniel Baker, BlackEnterprise.com

According to the New York Amsterdam News, The Lenox Lounge, located on Lenox Avenue between 124th & 125th street which has served as a venue for jazz legends such as Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane, will serve its last drink at the end of the year, marking the end of an era in Harlem.

Small Business Saturday: Try these African-American small businesses

Alexis Garrett Stodghill

theGRIO REPORT - Small Business Saturday, nestled between two more well-established savings frenzies, is still building its reputation...

theGrio's Black Friday gift guide

theGrio

theGRIO REPORT - Just in time for your holiday shopping spree, theGrio team has a few gift ideas for you...

#INTHEBLACK illuminates black buying power

Alexis Garrett Stodghill

theGRIO REPORT - In a historic show of unity, leading African-American media entities are uniting to bring awareness of black buying power to the large advertisers, brand leaders, and media planners who make ad buys through #INTHEBLACK.

Black Enterprise celebrates largest black companies

Caryn Freeman

theGRIO REPORT - Black Enterprise will celebrate their 40th year of listing Americas top earning black companies in Chicago this week. The Black Enterprise list of 100 component companies has been lauded as the foremost respected analysis and ranking of the nation’s top grossing black owned companies...

5 resources for black entrepreneurs

Lynnette Khalfani-Cox

theGRIO REPORT- Here are five resources that back entrepreneurs – and others – can use to start a business, grow a company, or even take an established operation to entirely new heights.