Top 100 Black Businesses in America

However, there is no more Johnson Publishing Company, Johnson Hair Products, Soft Sheen Hair Products, Independence Bank, Seaway Bank, Highland Bank, Sayers Group, LLC., Al Johnson Cadillac, Brooks Sausage Company, Sengstacke Enterprises, Travis Realty, R.L. Dukes Oldsmobile or Harpo Studios in Chicago.  As Black businesses left Chicago, unemployment for Black people sky-rocketed and violence has exploded. 

Chicago now has more Black elected officials than any big city in America, including three previous U.S. Senators and the first Black President of the U.S. This has not translated into lower Black unemployment rates, improved Black schools, lessened Black incarceration rates, better housing and healthcare options, nor has it helped to reduce violence among Black youth. 

Black America lost between 1/2 trillion and one trillion dollars during the recent mortgage foreclosure debacle between 2007 and 2011. Black Chicago and all of Black America were decimated! Any solution that does not work to put that lost one trillion dollars back into the pockets of Black Americans is no solution at all.” 

20 Top Black Businesses in the U.S. 2016

(Listing from the October 2016 Black Enterprise Magazine)

                                                                          Sales                                                                                 in         Rank  Name of Company    City/State    Staff    millions

1 World Wide Technology Inc. St. Louis, MO 4,000 7,500.00
2 ACT-1 Group Torrance, CA 2,600 2,400.00
3 Bridgewater Interiors L.L.C. Detroit, MI 2,000 2,100.00
4 Modular Assembly Innovations L.L.C. Dublin, OH 320 1,213.81
5 Piston Automotive L.L.C. Redford, MI 563 930.8
6 Manna Inc. Louisville, KY 18,000 814
7 The Anderson-DuBose Co. Lordstown, OH 501 648.708
8 Thompson Hospitality Corp. Reston, VA 4,950 560
9 Radio One Inc. Silver Spring, MD 962 450.861
10 Global Automotive Alliance L.L.C. Detroit, MI 1,508 415.4
11 Millennium Steel Service L.L.C. Princeton, IN 61 287.888
12 Fair Oaks Farms L.L.C. Pleasant Prairie, WI 250 258.487
13 H. J. Russell & Co. Atlanta, GA 1,340 241.95
14 Adams Communication & Engineering Technology Inc. Waldorf, MD 700 232.081
15 Hightowers Petroleum Co. Middletown, OH 39 232
16 Millennium Steel of Texas San Antonio, TX 74 209.195
17 TV One L.L.C. Silver Spring, MD 115 184
18 Baldwin Richardson Foods Co. Oakbrook Terrace, IL 298 182.184
19 Health Resources Inc. Owings Mills, MD 72 171.765
20 The Gourmet Cos. Atlanta, GA 1,100 170

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