Blessed are the toilers, some say, especially those who are able to put their own feet to their faith and bring their dreams to life.

At 92, Dudley Thompson, Esq., is perhaps the oldest Pan-African activist still active. Born in Jamaica, where he held several ministerial positions and holds the Order of Jamaica, the nation’s highest honor, Thompson was a friend and colleague of renowned 20th-century Pan-Africanists.

All of your teenager’s friends are going to college. Harvard, Howard, a couple to the state U., small private colleges. They’re going to become doctors and teachers, programmers and biologists. But your child has decided that college isn’t the right choice. She always loved welding. He wants to work construction.

Investing in developing markets is not for the fainthearted. So it should come as no surprise that Afro-Caribbean equities took a step back from mid-June to mid-July after modest gains in the second quarter.

Americans deserve an honest discourse on how to fix their health-care system. That’s not what they’ve gotten on the notion of a public insurance plan.

To succeed as an entrepreneur after a successful career in corporate America, you have to grow a new skin — more precisely, a new way of looking at the world.

Jeff Henderson’s love affair with food and cooking began in a most unlikely setting: a federal prison. At 24, Henderson was sentenced to 10 years for selling crack cocaine. Soon, he was trading his culinary creations (chicken-and-cinnamon rolls, for example) with other inmates for shirts and whatever else he needed.

If you own a credit card, you know that the issuer of that card can do as it wants with your account. Millions of cardholders have witnessed just how much control the issuer has, from arbitrarily increasing interest rates to slashing credit limits.

The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance opens for the 2009-2010 school year with a curriculum focused on finance, financial literacy and the tools for succeeding in business.

Until relatively recently, only the technologically savvy, curious and ultrasophisticated human resources professional was comfortable with online recruitment. Today, online recruiting is an indispensable tool for locating talent for every job level, with some recruiters and hiring companies relying solely on online portals.

At CareerNation’s 2009 Africa Brain Gain Conference, two panelists representing health services organizations openly vied for the attention of a job candidate with a master’s degree in public health.

Bigger is better when it comes to paychecks, contracts and football players, but it doesn’t work that way when it comes to high-tech business tools. As technology progresses, devices — and their price tags — shrink even as they become more sophisticated.

Southern African home cooking sounds comforting: samp, a chunky corn concoction; pap, a filling porridge; mogodu, boiled tripe. OK, the last sounded better before the translation.

A diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol could lead to similar changes in substances in the brain that are also seen in the development of Alzheimer’s, according to a new study.

Who would have thought that a Black man born in Rogers, Texas, in 1931, not only had the vision to create a world-renowned modern dance company, but also gave life to that vision?