By Nick Jones, Abel Communications
The AFRO was named a winner of the 2023 Internal Metropolis 100 Awards, an annual designation by the Initiative for a Aggressive Internal Metropolis (“ICIC”). The IC100 acknowledges the 100 quickest rising companies in underserved communities nationwide.
AFRO management will settle for the honour on the 2023 ICIC Annual Convention in Miami the place the corporate’s official IC100 rating will likely be revealed.
By means of the IC100 awards and different occasions, the ICIC “brings collectively small enterprise homeowners, financial improvement practitioners, thought leaders, main company stakeholders, policymakers, and group companions to strengthen development methods and construct solidarity with BIPOC-, woman-, and different diverse-owned entrepreneurs throughout the U.S. and Canada.”
“We’re thrilled to obtain this distinction alongside 99 different deserving companies, and we look ahead to celebrating this great honor collectively,” mentioned Dr. Frances “Toni” Draper, CEO and writer of the AFRO. “The AFRO means extra than simply newspapers, and we’re proud to see our work acknowledged from the digitized AFRO archives, to the Digital Billboard Community, and our rising slate of digital programming. This recognition demonstrates our continued evolution as revolutionary storytellers.”
Further recognition on the 2023 convention will embrace the to-be-announced IC100 particular award winners, for which the AFRO is eligible. These particular awards are: the Enterprise Development Award, the Chevron Dorothy A. Terrell Group Influence Award, and the FedEx Champion of World Entrepreneurship.
The occasion will likely be held on the Hyatt Regency Miami, and convention tickets could be bought at https://bit.ly/ICICAnCon.
To study extra in regards to the AFRO and its award-winning storytelling, go to: https://afro.com.
Concerning the AFRO
The AFRO is the oldest Black-owned enterprise in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, and the third-oldest in the USA. For over 130 years, the AFRO has supplied a platform for photographs and tales that advance the Black group, fulfilling the imaginative and prescient of John H. Murphy Sr., a previously enslaved man who based the publication together with his spouse, Martha Howard Murphy. Right now, via the management of Murphy’s great-granddaughter, Dr. Frances “Toni” Draper, the AFRO stays the Black Media Authority, offering readers with excellent news in regards to the Black group not in any other case discovered.
About ICIC
Initiative for a Aggressive Internal Metropolis (ICIC) is the well known authority on accelerating small enterprise development in under-resourced communities. ICIC drives inclusive financial prosperity via centered technical help and world-class analysis. Based by
famend Harvard Enterprise College professor Michael Porter in 1994 as a analysis and technique group, at the moment ICIC drives inclusive financial prosperity in under-resourced communities via revolutionary analysis and applications to create jobs, revenue, and wealth for native residents.
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