departments 44 | Career Development 10 Key Challenges for CEOs in 2011


46: African American Males: Deciding Best Careers Choices And What Their Future Holds


48 | Education


48: HBCUs - Relevant and Necessary in 21st Century America


52: The Master of Business Administration: Is the MBA Worth the Time, Effort, and Cost? 54: PhD Project Launches New Initiative, Project Ahead, to Increase Minority Representation in Business School Admi- nistration 54: Qualifying For Black Scholarships is No Longer an Issue 55: African American Males: Deciding Best Careers Choices And What Their Future Holds


64 | Government Careers & Recruitment Microsoft Deploys New Programs to Help Veterans Get Jobs


65: US Labor Department Announces More than $5 Million in Grants to Organizations Serving Homeless Female Vete- rans and Veterans with Families


66 | Health Care TV One Special Premiering, Let’s Move With First Lady Michelle Obama, Focuses on the First Lady’s Effort to End Childhood Obesity


68 | Black History Month The First African American and the Youngest Ringmaster in the History of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey®


69: Magic Johnson Honored with AHFS First World AIDS Day Magic Award


70: The 47th Anniversary of the March on Washington


71: Martin Luther King National Memorial Revealed For First Time


72 | Subscriptions 73 | Advertiser’s Index, Community Listing


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