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Marcus Jones (Image: File)Georgia native and current Detroit resident Marcus Jones, 27, found an opportunity to help get Detroiters back to work as co-founder and director of Detroit Training Center.  Jones, originally from Atlanta, moved to Detroit, Michigan after attending graduate school at Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan. He fell in...

Louis B. Lynn’s family tree is rooted in entrepreneurship. His grandfather owned a grocery store and his father ran a butcher shop.“My father was businessman of the year back in the ’60s. Last year, we won the Ronald H. Brown Leadership Award,” says the president and chief horticulturalist of ENVIRO AgScience Inc. (No. 84 on the be indus...

McKissack & McKissack President and CEO Deryl McKissack (Image: Courtesy of Subject)This week on The Urban Business Roundtable, Dywaine Betts Jr., speaks with Deryl McKissack, the president and CEO of McKissack & McKissack, a company specializing in architecture and interiors, program and construction management, and planning and...

Arch527, a group of African-American Harlem architects, claims that its members were shut out of Columbia University’s recent $6.3 billion campus expansion into West Harlem.While members of the group have backgrounds that include working with world-famous architectural firms, as well as the highest certifications in the...

This week on Black Enterprise's, 'The Urban Business Roundtable,' UBR Contributor Dywaine Betts Jr. talks with Frank Kendrick and Tim Jackson, partners and co-founders of Lakeland, Fla.-based NuJak Construction, one of Florida’s fastest growing construction and property management companies and the 2010 Black Enterprise Small Business of the Year.Kappa Alpha Psi...

Ed Gardner, the 87-year-old founder of Soft Sheen hair care products, met with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel this week to discuss the lack of African-American construction workers on jobs around the city....