This second edition provides both a history of black entrepreneurship in America throughout all periods of American history and a roadmap that explains the steps that prospective entrepreneurs must take to achieve success in business.

• Analyzes whether President Trump's legislative agenda is good for African Americans and African American businesses

• Provides an update on how the Great Recession of 2008 affected black businesses and black people in general

• Examines recent developments in black business in the areas of technology, music, social media/networking, and government contracting

• Revises all of the statistics in the book to reflect changes that have taken place since December 2009

• Expands on areas of the book that provide solutions to the economic difficulties and other challenges faced by black people and black entrepreneurs in particular

• Provides a current economic assessment of the state of black people in America in light of current and projected political, economic, legal, and sociological factors as we approach the end of the first twenty years of the twenty-first century