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*The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) is affirmed on July 16, 1993. Incorporated as The National Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc., it is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian organization dedicated to the economic empowerment of African American communities.
The NBCC is a very young national organization when compared to the NAACP and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). NBCC was founded by Harry C. Alford and his wife, Kay DeBow. Alford, who serves as the first President and CEO, is also a member of the board of the United States Chamber of Commerce. In an interview reported in Human Events, Mr. Alford identified with the Booker T. Washington approach to African American self-empowerment and sees the approach of W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP (whom he calls enemies of Washington) as primarily political. Additionally, the organization states that it represents the views of its members on economic and political policy issues, both domestically and internationally.
It has at least 190 chapters within the United States. The NBCC also has international chapters in the Bahamas, Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, and Jamaica. As with all Chambers of Commerce, affiliate branches are committed to carrying out the goals of the main Chamber within their areas. However, the organization is primarily funded by white businesses on behalf of whose interests it often lobbies, such as the fossil fuel, telecommunications, and tobacco industries. It has sometimes been accused of being a front group.
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