Wake Upand Smell the Dollars! Whose Inner City is This Anyway!

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, owner of a New York City office supply store, has written an informative guide for small black business entrepreneurs that is also a memoir, a call to action, and a how-to manual. She focuses on New York's predominantly black community of Harlem, relating how black businesses there have been victimized by gentrification and how white enterprises are flourishing now because of the emergence of the "empowerment zone," a government program that brings dollars into econom...