National Black Business Conference to Celebrate 125 Years Emphasizing Power of Collaboration Across the African Diaspora

Sign up to stay connected Get the top stories of the day around the DMV. The National Business League’s National Black Business Conference is celebrating 125 years of propelling Black businesses and entrepreneurs toward prosperity, and is furthering its legacy by emphasizing the importance of working across the African diaspora. Founded by Booker T. Washington, the National Business League has always valued financial stability and progress across the diaspora. Washington’s hopes for an economically integrated and liberated African diaspora have become more feasible with each business conference, and the quasquicentennial meeting in August 2025 will further the founder’s goals. As part of the league’s 125th conference, the National Alliance for Black Businesses will host the Third Annual Pan-African Business Summit, in order to empower and transform entrepreneurs by promoting growth, collaboration, and innovation. @media ( min-width: 300px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 100px;}}@media ( min-width: 400px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 100px;}}@media ( min-width: 640px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 100px;}}@media ( min-width: 728px ){.newspack_global_ad.scaip-1{min-height: 100px;}} Recently, the alliance, co-founded in part by the league, recently appointed three co-chairs for next year’s summit who further the mission of working across the African diaspora: Dr. Djibril Diallo, Dr. Georgette Fraser-Moore and Curtis Smith Jr. “Their combined global entrepreneurial insights and leadership will be...