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Janice Bryant Howroyd, 65, is founder and chief executive of Act 1 Group, an employment agency that also provides consulting and business services, including background checks and screening. She’s the first African-American woman to operate a company that generates more than $1 billion in annual revenue, according to Black Enterprise Magazine.

With an estimated 99.95 percent of small business owners and entrepreneurs opting for debt financing, knowing how to prepare your business for a loan application is a must.Among the documents that a lender will review, your personal credit, as well as your business credit are criteria that play an important role—both can either...

The homeownership rate in the Black community was at nearly 50 percent a dozen years ago. Today, the figure stands at 41.5 percent and could get worse, experts warn....

Time really is money, so don't take too much of it getting rich....

For marketers in any industry, tremendous opportunities lie with becoming a trusted brand marketing to the Latina segment....

Affluence is no antidote to foreclosure....

No matter how you define rich, this is the only way to get there. Want to be remarkably successful? Want to get really rich? (While there are many ways to feel "rich," in this case we're talking about monetary wealth.) Then check out this little gem of an investment opportunity.It's a simple investment. You only have to invest almost all of your...

In 2015 African Americans yielded $1.1 trillion in spending. But that thirteen-figure power should be used to invest in not only patronizing black-owned businesses but starting black-owned businesses, says Congressman Donald Payne Jr. (D, NJ), who won a special election in 2012 following the death of his father, representative Donald Payne Sr....

theGRIO REPORT - Diddy tops this year’s Forbes' list of hip-hop’s wealthiest artists -- and is joined by some of the genre's other big cash kings......

A new study shows Americans under 40 have saved less than previous generations. What might that mean for those who hope to own a business?According to a report released today by the Urban Institute, a Washington D.C. independent research center, Americans under 40-years-old have amassed less wealth than their parents when they were the same age....