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Albert Black
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Albert C. Black Jr. (born July 24, 1959) is an American businessman who serves as CEO and chairman of On Target Supplies and Logistics, a company he founded in 1982. Black served as the first African American chairman of the Dallas Regional Chamber in Dallas, Texas. He traveled to 16 countries on joint trade missions with former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk. He served as chairman of the Baylor Health Care System, helping to establish the Baylor Diabetes Health & Wellness Institute. He is the current chairman of the Charles Sammons Cancer Center and the Dallas Housing Authority.
He has received three Texas Instruments Supplier Excellence Awards and is a recipient of the 30th Congressional District Award for outstanding achievement in the field of business.
Black was born in 1959, the youngest of seven children and raised in the Frazier Courts housing projects in South Dallas. As a doorman at a hotel in downtown Dallas, his father, Albert Black Sr., came to know influential city business leaders. After work, Black Sr. would return home and tell Black Jr., “I want my children to be like those leaders running the city and improving the lives of others.” Hearing these words were Black's initial inspiration to become an entrepreneur, nonprofit volunteer, and civic leader.
Black began his business career at age ten, when he and his friends borrowed a lawn mower and started Best Friends Lawn Service, charging $2 per lawn, and eventually becoming "the first in the neighborhood to get a power mower."
He attended high school in the Dallas Independent School District and after graduation, he continued his studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, graduating with a Bachelor's Degree of General Studies with a focus on business and political science. Following the completion of his studies at UTD, he enrolled at Southern Methodist University where he received an M.B.A. from the Cox School of Business.
Black co-founded On-Target Supplies & Logistics in 1982 as janitorial supplies distribution company.
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