One of the remarkable reasons for the success of The Network Journal has been its ability to pay attention to trends and to heed the advice it often publishes.

The Network Journal was among the startups that year. While the total number of U.S. businesses has increased by 10 percent since then, from roughly 20.8 million to 23 million, the number of Black-owned businesses grew 45 percent, from 824,000 to 1.2 million.

Today’s efforts to drive workplace equality look vastly different from a generation ago. Employment policies once spurred by federal mandate and regulatory compliance are now adopted as “best practice” and “competitive advantage,” says Verna Myers, Esq., who is president of Verna Myers Consulting Group in Massachusetts.

In the past 15 years, the value of the sports industry has grown to more than $200 billion. Here’s a list of African-Americans who are in power positions:

African-Americans have made much progress in many facets of their lives in the past 15 years, but they continue to face economic challenges, as data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other academic surveys show.

The governor of The Network Journal’s home state, David Paterson, has attained two historic firsts: He is New York’s first African-American governor and the first in the nation who is legally blind.

If Du Bois, with his keen understanding of culture, politics and economics, were around today he would probably wax just as eloquently about the emergence of Sen. Barack Obama.

When I was first asked to take up the role of editor at TNJ, I declined. I had just left a long and rewarding career with a daily newspaper and was happy freelancing for a number of publications, including TNJ, writing my first novel and serving as a partner in my family firm. I liked my independence.

You’ve got to wonder why so few companies allow their workers to telecommute. As gasoline prices surpass the $4 per-gallon mark, it only makes sense that companies employ telecommuting as a way of conserving energy and reducing the financial burden of filling the gas tank on their workers.

About the matter of the voodoo doll that supposedly did in Olympic track star Lauryn Williams at the XXIX Summer Olympiad in Beijing: Anchor for the U.S. team in the 4 x 100-meter relay, Williams attributed her botched baton exchange with Torri Edwards to the likelihood that someone had hammered nails into a wooden doll and ordered up disaster for her relay performance.

You would be amazed how many times I’m asked the question: “I’d like to do more marketing online, but it seems so cold and impersonal....” A businessowner describes this dilemma below.

A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal, “Water, water; we die of thirst!” The answer from the

As if skyrocketing oil and food prices weren’t enough, Americans might soon find they’re paying more for another item on their shopping lists: imports from China.

The number of business e-mail will most likely reach more than 6 billion gigabytes this year, which is double the amount of e-mail sent in 2005, according to IDC, the global market intelligence firm. How do you go about sorting through the endless messages?

La-Verna Fountain, Brian D. Smedley, M.D., Jennifer Wider.

Polaroid is abandoning instant film, but if you’re going to miss the feel of getting a small print in your hand a minute after snapping a picture, the company has a solution: a battery-powered printer that fits in your pocket.

I was looking for a quiet, nontourist, warm-weather place; close enough to the United States for a long weekend getaway or a stretch of creative writing;  where Black visitors were genuinely, warmly welcomed.

As health groups across the country ramp up education and fundraising campaigns for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, traditionally observed in October, new research has surfaced on the occurrence and survival rates of the disease as it relates to environment, diet and economics.

If you’re looking for a place to go on a day off from work, consider a visit to the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.

Mastering the Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Nonprofit by John Pearson. The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson by Rudolph P. Byrd. The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive by Marvelyn Brown, with Courtney E. Martin.