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The Challenges of Black Entrepreneurship

NPR

Published August 4, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Tavis Smiley talks to corporate attorney Isaac Vaughn, hailed by Black Enterprise magazine as one of America's top black lawyers, about overcoming the challenges people of color often face when they seek to own their own businesses.

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