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CHRISTMAS IN NEW YORK

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CCBE
THE
COUNCIL
OF
CONCERNED
BLACK
EXECUTIVES,
INC.

MINDING OUR OWN BUSINESS...

Corporate America included precious few "black executives" in 1968. On April 5th of that year - the day after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King - seven of them met to share their common grief and to form the nucleus of what is now the Council of Concerned Black Executives, Inc. CCBE has since grown and changed and diversified and grown again, but we have never stopped minding our own business. 

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