Finding hip-hop music online is easy. There are literally hundreds of blogs and sites dedicated to the genre and it’s myriad sub-genres but when it comes to R&B it’s a different story. As popular as the genre is there are very few sites that cater to the niche. Sure there are...

The Cravings Truck owners Johnathon Sellers and Kianta Key pose outside of their mobile restaurant in Tallahassee, Florida (Image: Source) Like most recent graduates, Kianta Key, 25, and Johnathon Sellers, 28, were focused on their next steps. After watching a Travel Channel special on food...

Young entrepreneurs are the future of an American economy in dire need of recovery. But how can enterprising young people make their business dreams come true when they’re saddled with record amounts of student loan debt? Scott D. Gerber, founder and president of the Young Entrepreneur...

For all of his fame, Kasseem “Swizz Beatz” Dean is enigmatic as he is ubiquitous. Yes, we know that his wife is superstar Alicia Keys and the 33-year-old’s music is all over the radio and probably your iPod too. In fact, his image, in TV and print ads, helped bring...

In business, it’s important to know your target market intimately, and Carmyn Robey certainly does. By age 14, she weighed 260 pounds and was a size 24. “One day I made up my mind that I was tired of being depressed,” says Robey. “I started researching information about nutrition. Over...

As a growing number of people are motivated to start their own businesses, it’s no wonder so many people turned out for the Black Enterprise 16th Annual Entrepreneurs Conference + Expo hosted by Nationwide in Atlanta. More than 1,400 entrepreneurs, professionals, and other small business...

The name Troy Carter may not be familiar to you but, more than likely the name Lady Gaga is.  Carter is Gaga’s manager and the business mind who parlayed her celebrity into relationships with companies like Google and Amazon. The 38-year-old founder and CEO of the Coalition Media...

Some say print media is as dead as disco; but don’t tell that to Brittany K. Earls. Taking her best shot at magazine mogulhood at a time when many publications are slashing staff or shutting down, Earls, now 25, launched Genesis in October 2009—and has never looked back. Well, for the...

“As a teenage mother with no higher education and very few resources to start a business, I had every reason to quit. Instead, I chose to lead a life of faith and leave a legacy that screams, ‘No excuses!” ~Sirena Moore Today, Sirena Moore’s Bristol, Pennsylvania-based...

I know it’s cliché but I’m telling you the truth: Time flies.  It seems like just yesterday that I was in college; yet that was 10 long years ago.  I wish someone had given me a proper perspective and sound strategies on personal finances and entrepreneurial success when I was a...