The Network Journal's 40 Under Forty Achievement Awards Ten Years of dynamic achievers - Mastering the Art of Excellence Here we are, 10 years and 400 dynamic achievers later. We have reached this m

The Rev. Dr. DeForest Buster Soaries Jr., pastor of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, N.J., is fed up with what he calls a “culture of debt” in the African-American community. U

Connecticut’s most powerful African-American in academia, David G. Carter Sr., Ph.D., does not hesitate to recount stories of his struggles. Carter is chancellor of the Connecticut State University

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Talk about grabbing your attention! I receive a weekly e-newsletter from The Warrillow Group, a Canadian research firm focused on the small and medium-sized business (S.M.B.) market, and a recent one

Dexter Davis, Founder & CEO, D Street Media Group L.L.C.In an industry that requires decades of dues paying, Dexter Davis, a film producer and distributor and the founder and CEO of D Street Media

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As the year approached its halfway point, The Network Journal asked some of its “25 Influential Black Women in Business” honorees to describe the top three challenges to the economic wellness of A

The law authorizes a special break for home sellers. They can “exclude,” meaning escape taxes on, as much as $500,000 in profit for married couples filing jointly and $250,000 for those who file s

The team from the Buffalo PREP Program that competed in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2007 National Science Bowl did not win top honors, but it nonetheless made history as the first all-girl, all-

In May, New York State Assemblyman Carl Heastie, who represents the 83rd district in the Bronx, received an M.B.A. from Baruch College, part of the City University of New York. Not only is Heastie yet

More than 25 years after passage of the historic, albeit obscure, legislation known as the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are finally forming alliances tha

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Anthony Coley Anthony Coley was appointed by New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine as director of the governor’s Communi-cations Office. Coley served as then Sen. Corzine’s spokesman in Washington,

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Since 1998, Ghenet Restaurant, just off the corner of Mulberry and Houston streets in New York City’s trendy SoHo neighborhood, has offered diners a quiet respite from the bustle outside. Ghenet mea

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