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Here are some longevity lessons from businesses with more than ample experience.

The average American business closes shop after about 21 years. (Spare a thought for those enterprises in the back half of the bell curve, which never reach the legal drinking age.) Some businesses, though, last longer lot longer.

Kongo Gumi, established in 578 A.D., is the worlds oldest continuously operating company.

In a world where businesses come and go, a few have stood the test of centuries. Bloomberg Businessweek explores their enduring lessons

An Auburn University-led interdisciplinary research team this weekend will unveil newly enhanced high-resolution images of declassified FBI photos taken from a seminal civil rights event in Selma, Alabama, now known as “Bloody Sunday.”Photographs tak

Located at the corner of Jesse Hill Jr. Drive and Auburn Avenue, in the heart of the Sweet Auburn District, once known as the richest stretch of Black real estate in America, the three-story Atlanta State Savings Bank building still stands. But it has been boarded up for decades. Some want to preserve the historic building.

Researchers in Auburn University’s College of Architecture, Design and Construction, or CADC, and College of Liberal Arts recently received grants from the National Park Service, or NPS, to further their efforts to document and preserve African American and civil rights history.

A multidisciplinary research project involving professors from Auburn University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, recently won the People’s Choice Award at the 2022 ACCelerate Festival at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

Bloody Sunday: This group is trying to identify Selma marchers who risked everything 56 years ago today CNN 3/7/2021 By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN © Tom Lankford/The Birmingham News/AP Albert Turner and Bob Mants walk directly behind fellow civil rights stalwarts Hosea Williams and John Lewis, but most of the marchers who took part that day remain unidentified. Debra Barnes Wilson was 8 on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama. She and her grandmother, Julia Barnes, joined the v...