The sizable yard, well-kept bathroom and beautifully maintained hardwood floors of an older home did it for Megan Fulara.It was love at first sight when Jenny Zinkel walked into the wood-framed, windo
Industry Focus
African-Americans who dream of owning a home or commercial property are finding it harder to realize that dream as soaring mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures force air out of the real estate ball
BY Antoine B. Craigwell
Michael Corley, president of Corley Realty Group Inc., insists that shopping online for property is here to stay. “The reason people are turning to the Internet is because they remember the old days
BY Antoine B. Craigwell
In an industry known for perfect pitches, jolly jingles and funny phrases, the advertising business is far less colorful in its managerial and executive ranks, a fact highlighted late last year in a w
BY Glenn Townes
Rudy Gaskins, president and chief executive officer of Push Creative, a New York design and marketing firm, says the color of his skin has little to do with his company’s achievements. “What helps
BY Antoine B. Craigwell
Vickee Jordan Adams attributes much of her professional success to being outspoken and backing up her outspokenness with hard work. In her high-powered, high-profile position of senior vice president
BY Glenn Townes
When attorney Beverlyn Grissom, former aide to New Jersey’s Acting Governor Donald DiFrancesco, and Michelle Bunting, a former executive at a pediatric day care organization, first met in 2001, both
BY Antoine B. Craigwell
More than a year after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to New Orleans, images of victims—the majority of them poor and Black—trapped on rooftops and holding aloft signs that begged for help remain em
BY Bevolyn Williams-Harold
For its 2006 annual convention, the National Coalition of Black Meeting Planners chose the theme “Table Stakes: Are You in the Game?” In line with that theme, the group designed all workshops, gen
BY Glenn Townes
As the highest-ranking African-American executive at Marriott International Inc., Norman Jenkins, senior vice president of North American lodging development, is at the forefront of the hotel chain’
BY Glenn Townes