Have We Lost Harlem?
The scenery in Harlem is changing. Take a stroll uptown and you’ll find great shopping, yellow taxicabs, and white people. “You know what?” laughs Sylvia Stephens. “People used to work...
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Oprah Means Business
For the past 15 years, Oprah Winfrey repeatedly told her team that production of her daily talk show was only the beginning. “This is the foundation of greater things to come,†she would tell her managers as she developed a dizzying array of partnerships and spin-offs — a venture with Hearst Magazines to produce her own, self-titled publication; new syndicated television shows with life coach Phil McGraw and leading chef Rachael Ray; made-for-TV movies; a reality TV show, The Big Give, for the ABC television network; theatrical film releases such as Beloved and The Great Debaters; the Broadway musical The Color Purple; a retail outlet; and a lucrative $55 million XM Satellite Radio Inc. deal. In the midst of these accomplishments, her team could only reluctantly imagine more greatness.
Oprah Means Business
For the past 15 years, Oprah Winfrey repeatedly told her team that production of her daily talk show was only the beginning. “This is the foundation of greater things to...
Preserving Your Portfolio
It seems almost everyone has benefited from the long-awaited recovery that propelled the advance of the financial markets in 2003. The 28.28% returns logged by the dow jones industrial average...
Atlantic City Community Pushes For More Black-Owned Businesses Amidst Historic Decline
Atlantic City, once a hub for Black-owned businesses, now sees a mere fraction of what it used to have, historically.