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Antoine Moss writes: As an expert career coach, my goal is to empower young professionals to reach their full potential. And one thing I’ve learned is that young careerists fail to attain optimal success because they don’t know how to stay on top of their game after college. Consequently, they often fall into the trap…

Back to The Vow. You know the story. Car accident. Wife loses memory. Can’t remember husband. The end. Nothing remarkable there. But what does stand out to me are two sets of quotes about moments of impact: My theory is about moments, moments of impact. My theory is that these moments of impact, these flashes of…

We have all heard the dos and don’ts of networking, but lately, there’s a growing trend among business professionals: sweatworking. Coined by the New York Times , the term is exactly what it sounds like: networking while sweating it out at the gym. An increasing number of people professionals are taking advantage of the country’s…

The idea came along pretty organically for Roblé. Sensually, even. “Food and sex are the only two things that I can think that everyone likes,” he said recently, quite assured of himself. “Everybody likes food, everybody eats everyday. You put a high-quality picture with syrup dripping off of it and you’ve married the two –…

Eateria is the first digital loyalty platform that focuses on the restaurant, food and hospitality industry. The digital marketing platform gives restaurant owners the opportunity to measure the return on investment (ROI) on its social media marketing investments using unique promotions that can be tracked online, via email and social media, as well as with…

Talk about inspiring!!! As a media professional (and editor) I typically keep exclamation points to a minimum, but I just can’t contain my excitement about what I witnessed today at the National Association of Professional Women ‘s (NAPW) National Networking Conference in New York. Hundreds of power women from across the nation gathered to network…

Lance Gross has been busy! Aside from his recent release of Tyler Perry’s Temptation, and his new NBC pilot List of Demands, SoftSheen Carson recently announced its partnership with the budding actor to unveil their new digital campaign “Work Ur Magic!” The Temptation star will help men look their best while giving fans a chance…

Mercedes Ortiz has just completed a year as a Tribeca Film Fellow —a year filled with mentoring, workshops, panel discussions, traveling, and, of course, filmmaking. The 18-year-old describes herself as “a singer, a musician, a songwriter, a poet, an activist, and a filmmaker,” and has gone from almost dropping out of high school to creating…

Damon Young writes: While the vast majority of the black people I know date/marry other black people, I personally know more black women my age with white boyfriends/husbands than black men my age with white girlfriends/wives…and I bet most of you do too.  Actually, for me, using “more” is somewhat misleading because, well, I don’t…

Every April evening in the few minutes before midnight, the words of Nelson Mandela take over the billboards in Times Square. The Power of Words , a short video that displays select quotes from Mandela’s speeches, fills up select screens from 11:57 p.m. to midnight. The Power of Words is a preview of a project…