It was never my intention to be a publisher.
In fact, I started The Network Journal in 1993 to keep me busy, after being laid off from my engineering job at Pan American World Airways.
I was passi
Features
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.
Back in 1993, on the cover of its third
BY Herb Boyd
After Andre Woolery got out of Stanford Business School two years ago, he turned down Wall Street jobs to start a tools business. Friends were stunned to see the 30-year-old Bronx native “waste” a
BY George Orwel
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 prac
BY Marcia Reed Woodard
It was fifteen years ago, the birth year of The Network Journal, that voters in New York City approved term limits. If they hadn’t, a lot of the popular politicians would still be in office.
Voters
BY Herb Boyd
At the time of his sudden passing in August, Gene Upshaw, 63, had been at the helm of the National Football League Players Association for more than 25 years. But his advocacy of players’ rights was
BY Ines Bebea
From small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies, professionals to businessowners, from Wall Street to community streets and local economies to national and global upheavals, TNJ was there. Here’s a
Kimberly Seals AllersThe Mocha Manual Co.Allers wrote for TNJ during the magazine’s Brooklyn years, while she was a journalism student at New York University. In her post-college career, she has bee
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 acade
BY George Orwel
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 blin
BY Herb Boyd