A team of four New York City high school students won their local “Making the Business: Youth IT Challenge” and a chance to compete for $15,000 in prizes
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Billed as one of the oldest and largest cultural events in the country, New York’s International African Arts Festival (IAAF) has become more than a showcase featuring top artists and performers fro
Getting money to grow may be about to become easier for inner-city businesses. The Inner City Economic Forum on June 1 will bring together 30 to 40 inner-city businesses and private equity managers wh
From the very beginning of his remarkable career, Gordon Parks knew that his camera was a potent weapon. He also knew that the artist could be a powerful force for social and political
One of the most baffling outcomes of the New York City transit workers’ strike that crippled the nation’s largest mass transit system this past December is the failure of nearly a third of the uni
With H.I.V./AIDS establishing itself as the modern-day leprosy, the Balm In Gilead Inc., a New York City nonprofit organization founded 17 years ago to fight the spread of the disease in the African d
Business owners from New York’s Harlem and Upper Manhattan communities gathered in late September at the Harlem State Office Building on 125th Street to seek answers to the critical issues casting a
A landmark gathering of health care, business and academic experts at St. Luke’s Hospital Conference in New York City on Sept. 19 called for greater funding of research on the use of complementary a
If you are Black and grew up in the baby boomer generation, there was one person who epitomized African-American business success. John H. Johnson was a role model to African-Americans well before the
September is National Sickle Cell Awareness Month and Black political and community leaders are being pressed into educating their constituents about the disease that affects one out of every 400 Afri
BY Robert Acquaye