It’s been more than a year since New York City Mayor Michael Bloom-berg signed off on an historic edict that requires all New York City agencies to award a reasonable number of construction and serv

All her life Cheryl McKissack has been told of the origin of her family’s business as master builders and contractors, of how the company thrived through slavery and post-slavery racism. CEO of Th

President Lenny Singletary, of Cornerstone Support Services Corp., sees his as a youthful organization with much history and big intentions for development in Central Brooklyn. A career banker, he is

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Dressing down for work is not likely to promote you up the career ladder. “The old adage about dressing for the position to which you aspire still holds true,” says Diane Domeyer, executive direct

The cover story in the December 2003/January 2004 issue of The Network Journal featured Bruce Gordon, the man who shot a lightning bolt through civil rights circles when he resigned as president of th

Kamau and Carol Austin would be the first to tell you that their business had humble beginnings—so humble, in fact, that they often used the free computers at the Montclair, N.J., public library to

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The law authorizes two ways for small businesses to write off their outlays for purchases of equipment and other kinds of personal property. One is depreciation; the other is first-year expensing. The

A stock market investor receives the following tip: “WXLYQ is trading at $0.001 and is coming out with big news today! It should go to $0.02 by the end of the trading day!  Get in now, while you st

Venture capitalists invested $25.5 billion in 3,416 deals in 2006, a 10 percent increase in deal volume and a 12 percent increase in dollar value from the previous year, according to The MoneyTree™

BizFilings, a Madison, Wisc., firm that helps business owners to set up corporations, limited liability companies and non-profits, and the National Federa-tion of Independent Business Young Entreprene

The sizable yard, well-kept bathroom and beautifully maintained hardwood floors of an older home did it for Megan Fulara.It was love at first sight when Jenny Zinkel walked into the wood-framed, windo

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Michael Corley, president of Corley Realty Group Inc., insists that shopping online for property is here to stay. “The reason people are turning to the Internet is because they remember the old days

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Walter Jones Walter Jones was appointed membership representative for the Membership Group’s Rhythm & Soul Department of the Amer-ican Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Jone

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Langston Hughes, renowned poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and songwriter, was a significant contributor to the movement known as the Harlem Renaissance that in the early part of the last century

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Empire Zones New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s economic development point men are reviewing the Pataki administration’s aid packages to businesses, as well as the planned $1.8 billion Javits Center ex