In 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois, the great thinker and Pan-Africanist, said this about activist educator Booker T. Washington: “Easily the most striking thing in the history of the American Negro since 18
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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, incl
BY Rosalind McLymont
Making a name for himself in private security — a market said to value hundreds of billions of dollars — was never in Michael E. Smith’s dreams. The president and chief executive officer of Gr
BY Ines Bebea
What once was a subject of discussion for old-money circles has now become the focus of individuals in search of mission-driven career paths and purpose-driven lives. The act of donating money, goods,
In February, a few weeks before he was dramatically seated as governor of New York State, David A. Paterson — then Lt. Governor — announced a program to expand the state’s minority and women-ow
Frank’s Cocktail Lounge, a popular nightclub in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, N.Y., has gone through many changes in the past 50 years. What used to be a vintage block-text front sign has giv
BY George Orwel
The 2007 edition of “Giving in Numbers: Corporate Giving Stan-dard,” published last October by the Committee Encouraging Cor-porate Philanthropy, analyzes trends in corporate philanthropy using 20
BY Salome Kilkenny
The Network Journal's 40 Under Forty Achievement Awards
40 DYNAMIC ACHEIVERS Celebrating those who are reaching for higher goals
Years from now, the 2008 class of TNJ’s “40 Under Forty Dynamic Ac
BY THE EDITORS
A slight mid-March drizzle began outside Cooper Union near the East Village section of Manhattan where inside Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois was delivering his speech on “Renewing the American Econo
Last June, the National Minority Supplier Development Council led a delegation of corporate executives and minority business owners to China, partly to help minority business enterprises become more