Jimmie Lee Solomon has always known that he wanted to be a major player in sports. But it took some detours to show what team the multi-tooled athlete and attorney would lead the best. Under the
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Industries increasingly are being challenged to take into account the environmental ramifications of their operations as more proof of global warming comes to light. The real-estate industry is no exc
BY Inés Bebea
Embracing Leadership
This year marks the 10th anniversary of The Network Journal's annual list of "25 Influential Black Women in Business."
After 10 years of identifying and interviewing such women,
When Congressman Charles Rangel became chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in January 2007, he assumed a position of power even greater than that of the legendary Adam Clayton Powell Jr., w
Olakunle Akinboboye, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A. Founder, medical director, Laurelton Heart Specialists P.C., Laurelton, N.Y., Associate professor of medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook,
John A. Casey, M.D., M.D.M.A., O.M.D.International Health & Beauty Inc.Brooklyn, N.Y. John A. Casey hasn’t had an asthma attack in 40 years, ever since his grandmother gave him soup made of igua
BY Antoine B. Craigwell
Ijeoma Nduka-Nwosu, M.D.President & CEOComprehensive Primary Care ServicesFounder: Ejayes CharitiesBrooklyn, N.Y., Mt. Vernon N.Y., New Rochelle, N.Y.Whenever Ijeoma Nduka-Nwosu, M.D., returns to
BY Antoine B. Craigwell
The close of 2007 marks the career end—or new beginning—of a number of movers and shakers on Wall Street. Black America was shocked when E. Stanley O’Neal, the embattled chairman and chief execu
The legal profession’s dismal record on diversity shows little sign of improving at a pace commensurate with that of other professions. Since 1986, the number of partners in majority law firms has
Today’s Black fashion designers may not have as much visibility as 1970s and 1980s visionaries Stephen Burrows, Patrick Kelly, Byron Lars, Willie Smith and Gordon Henderson, but a handful of them ar
BY Cheryl Ann Wadlington