Nigerian buys London?s Gatwick Airport
A high-flying Nigerian entrepreneur and former executive at Credit Suisse First Boston Bank is the leader of a new investment...
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For one woman, a different kind of WC dream
Cecilia Dube’s dream has taken her from dust-choked building sites to university classrooms, from the rubble of demolished food stands...
Height hatmaker still going at 90
Ninety-year-old Vanilla Beane is a milliner who knows that a hat can be so much more than mere headgear. Look...
A Billion Dollar Bang
As the president and owner of ZeroChaos–one the largest African-American owned companies in the country, Harold Mills, clearly, knows how...
NYC team to help house earthquake survivors
A team of New York architects is flying to Haiti this week with prototypes of an octagonal vinyl structure they...
The long road to owning her media relations company
Armed with a bachelor?s degree in communications from George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., and a passion for public relations,...
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Firms to entrepreneurs: Come on down
Small-business people who want to license or sell their inventions have traditionally received the slammed-door treatment from big companies. But...
Mean streets of Nth Philly made Bernard Hopkins and helped him escape
Bernard Hopkins is there, leaning against a waist-high concrete wall that all but encloses the courtyard where he once played....
Authentic African fashions growing in popularity
Looking back, Yewande Sole can see that leaving Hampton was a bad business move. After spending years gradually developing her...