Is it possible to explore diversity and create dialogue among diverse groups through art? Can art help combat racism, discrimination and prejudice in the workplace? Can a company effectively use

Brent Williams is not your typical retired professional athlete. A financial professional with AXA Advisors LLC, the former basketball player transferred his aggressive, competitive, team-oriented wor

The Executive Leadership Council’s Third Annual Black Women’s Economic Summit ended with a panel of Wall Street’s leading Black female executives discussing the challenges they faced in their cl

The party was eight years in the making but the Internet visionaries of Africa finally got to dance. At a board meeting in Argentina in April, the Interne

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A recent survey conducted by Interland Inc., a top Internet service provider, identifies establishing “community relations” as the primary marketing s

There have been many times in my life when circumstances for my success weren’t exactly ideal. I suppose I could have let that determine where I ended up, but something kept pushing me to challenge

If you’ve been expecting the boom in American home values to fizzle any day now and you’re convinced that double-digit appreciation rates just can’t

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As a rule, the Internal Revenue Service adamantly opposes taxpayers taking a deduction for commuting costs between home and work. The agency considers those outlays to be nondeductible personal expens

September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month and Black political and community leaders are being pressed into educating their constituents about the disease that affects one out of every 400 Afri

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John R. Kirksey John R. Kirksey, a member of the Executive Leadership Council, will join AXA Financial as chief diversity officer.

Aziz and Elliot Bey are the proud proprietors of NY Perks, a “martini lounge, winebar, grill” located at 193 Smith Street, between Warren and Baltic streets, in the Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill sec

In this last of three articles on strength training, Miriam Nelson, director of the John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition at Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Policy

Going after a large client can be a daunting undertaking for a small business, but Steve Kaplan, a former top corporate executive turned entrepreneur and

SBA Plans Rejected Representatives of small business owners nationwide rejected a U.S. Small Business Administration proposal to report billions of dollars to venture capital firms, Fortune 500 compa