Today in Global Small Business: MLK Day and Inauguration Day 2025

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• What to know about the federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr.
• When is the last time Inauguration Day and MLK Day fell on the same day?
• Quote of the week: “We will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope." – Martin Luther King Jr, from his "I Have a Dream" speech, August 1963
• What's open and closed on MLK Day and DT Inauguration Day.
• What to expect as the new USA President is sworn in.
• Here's what to know about Donald Trump's inauguration.

Today in Global Small Business: Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• "He Did His Own Eulogy": An Eyewitness Recalls Dr. King's Final Speech.
• Celebrate the life, legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Metro Detroit, Michigan.
• The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s name first appeared in the Chicago Tribune in early 1956, for his leadership of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott.
• Quote of the week:  "We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools." – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Singing the black birthday song (Stevie Wonder).
• 13 must-see films to honor Martin Luther King Jr.

Today in Global Small Business: The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Martin Luther King III wants no "empty promises."
• Martin Luther King's 'I've Been to the Mountaintop' speech excerpts.
• Watch the 'Ice Moon' rise on Martin Luther King Jr. day.
• Quote of the week: "I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." –  Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Facts about the Martin Luther King monument.
• What we know and don't know about Martin Luther King.

Today in Global Small Business: Black Lives Matter

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Think white privilege doesn't exist?  Wakeup.  Basic analysis here (from 2001). 
• The official #BlackLivesMatter Global Network builds power to bring justice, healing, and freedom to Black people across the globe.
• Quote of the week:  “Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Peaceful protests and demonstrations about the death of George Floyd go global.
• The enormous scale of this important movement.
• Are Americans letting their guard down to protest the killing of George Floyd by police?

Today in Global Small Business: Unrest in America

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Tens of thousands of people took to the streets for a fifth night on Saturday to protest the death of George Floyd and other African Americans at the hands of the police, resulting in violent clashes between law enforcement and demonstrators while fires raged across the country. Tragic.  Heartbreaking.  Unnecessary. 
• George Floyd protests spread nationwide.
• Quote of the week:  “A riot is the language of the unheard.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
• George Floyd protests timeline (might require registration).
• George Floyd couldn't breathe.  Now all black America can't either.
• What George Floyd deserves.

Today in Global Small Business: World's Biggest Food Company Now Makes Vegan Sausages

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. – the importance of keeping his legacy alive.
• Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, will stop using their primary royal titles, give up state funding and repay at least $3 million in taxpayer money used to refurbish their official residence at Windsor Castle under an agreement announced by Buckingham Palace.  How does that impact you and your business?  Your guess is as good as ours.
• What U.S. farmers make of Trump's trade deal.
• Quote of the week: “Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January. – Mark Zuckerberg
• Forbidden Bike Company gets its global groove with a new global marketing and UK sales appointment to Olly Forster.
• The Women's March 2020 – a fight against good and evil.
• World's biggest food company is now making vegan sausages.

Today in Global Small Business: My Dream Is

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Think you are too small to be hacked?  Think again, at least if you are a Hong Kong SME.
• Listen to Laurel Delaney's Global Trade Trends Report 2019 and find out what will be booming and what will not.  It's free -- 2-second sign-in.
• How a diverse workforce can help company performance.
• Quote of the week:  "Success is fine, but success is fleeting.  Significance is lasting.” — Beth Brooke, Global Vice Chair of Public Policy, EY
• Global e-commerce sales grow 18% in 2018 -- should be near $6 trillion by 2022.
• Join Jacqueline Smith, CEO, Kiesque on her weggchat™where she will discuss how to startup and take a personal care product global.  It's free and all you need is a Twitter account.  Go here to find out why you should join the chat and how to do it.
• Honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on this day. My dream is ...

Only Love Can Drive Out Hate

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

Today in Global Small Business: Imagine a World Without Hate

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Illinois wins $850,000 for small business exports.
• How can you grow your social media presence globally?  Easy.  Right here.
• Here's a hint on how to create jobs in a rapidly changing global economy.
• The UK is it for Snapchat who bucks the trend on its selection for international HQ.
• Will the UK be forced to change economic model if single market access denied?
• A revisit of digital globalization in the new era of global flows.
• Imagine a world without hate ... a tribute and in memory of Martin Luther King Jr.

Global Celebration of the Life of Martin Luther King

"I Have a Dream"

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If Martin Luther King, Jr. were still alive today, his dream of racial equality would be more relevant than ever and global in reach.

Today, in honor of Dr. King, I will be out of my office learning all I can about what inspired him, and for those worldwide who wish to know more about his dream, visit here.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I Have A Dream.