by Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Eric Morrissette

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE—-“I have often made the point that to foster the economic status and pride of members of our minority groups, we must seek to involve them more fully in our private enterprise system… To do this, we need to remove commercial obstacles that have too often stood in their way—obstacles such as the unavailability of credit, insurance, and technical assistance.”

Those were the words that gave rise to the first iteration of what would become the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)—spoken by Republican President Richard Nixon. More than fifty years later, those words ring hollow as the Trump administration races to dismantle the agency, hollowing out the small staff that remained after earlier rounds of downsizing—ju

See Full Page