Shakara Ledard Not Only Models Clothes, She Designs Them

Shakara Ledard’s label “ROXS” offers a new brand of luxury street clothing, all sporting her wildly original trademark style. With its rock, punk, funk and urban influences, ROXS (pronounced “rocks”) is aimed at hip younger women, aged 22 to 35, who are more interested in creating their own style than following fashion. The clothes are [...]

Her Love of Horses Turned into a Successful Retail usiness

Chloe Giles runs Gee Gee Images, which specialises in Equestrian Event Photography and Equestrian Themed Jewellery. She operates an online shop which allows customers to purchase additional photos, bespoke personalised photo art products, and her equestrian themed jewellery. Read more about Gee Gee Images and a special offer for everywoman members.
Chloe GilesChloe has always had [...]

From Nursing Needs To Big Business

The Go! Pillow is quickly becoming a well known product amongst many parents. Made by a mom who was just looking to solve her own needs, she soon found that their was a market out there for her nursing pillow and got the help she needed to become the business she is today. Sold under [...]

Jay-Z With His Fashion Emporium

Rocawear Apparel LLC sells urban and upscale clothing for men, women, teens, and children including jeans, jerseys, footwear, outerwear, headwear, sportswear, jewelry, accessories, and loungewear. Once part of the entertainment empire known as The Roc, Rocawear underwent a change in ownership in late 2005 when Damon Dash sold his interest to partners including rap superstar [...]

International Food Company

Reginald Francis Lewis
TLC Beatrice International Holdings, Inc.
Reginald F. Lewis (December 7, 1942 - January 19, 1993), an African American born in Baltimore, Maryland, was one of the most successful business leaders during the 1980s. He grew up in a middle class Baltimore neighborhood. He won a football scholarship to Virginia State College (now Virginia State [...]

She Found The Perfect Mixture of Hair Products

Jasmine Lawrence lost all of her hair at age 11 after a bad relaxing perm. Jasmine vowed to never use harsh chemicals on her hair again and started researching how to create her own all-natural hair products. In less than a year, Jasmine found the perfect mixture of hair products. After attending a camp [...]

Christopher Paul Gardner - Pursuit of Happiness

Christopher Paul Gardner is a self-made millionaire, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and philanthropist who, during the early 1980s, struggled with homelessness in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco California while raising his toddler son, Christopher. Gardner’s personal struggle of establishing himself as a stockbroker while managing fatherhood and homelessness is portrayed in the 2006 major motion [...]

Ervin “Magic” Johnson – Magic Johnson Enterprises

After retiring his jersey from basketball, Magic Johnson has went on to develop many enterprises across the United States. Some of his ventures include: a record label, a movie production company, coffee houses, restaurants and entertainment complexes. Magic also started a foundation called the Magic Foundation. Magic Johnson gives a new meaning to the word [...]

Berry Gordy – Founder Of Motown Records

The Motown story is the story of Berry Gordy, Jr., who was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 28, 1929. His father ran a plastering contracting business and his mother sold insurance and real estate. When Berry got out of the Army 1953, he opened a jazz-oriented record store called the 3-D Record Mart that [...]

Tyler Perry Productions

Tyler Perry is a 34-year-old African-American - new-school playwright, who has, he says, made over $50 million writing and producing plays for the urban theater circuit. It wasn’t always that way for Perry. In 1992, Perry saved $12,000, rented out a theater, wrote, directed, promoted and starred in his own production of I Know I’ve [...]

Bad Boy Entertainment - P. Diddy

Sean “Puffy” Combs, also known as P. Diddy, is a hip-hop performer, producer and businessman known for hit records (Bad Boy Entertainment), and his clothing line Sean John. Sean John is now a $400+ Million Dollar per year company.

Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment Group [BBWWEG] is one of the world’s pre-eminent urban entertainment companies, encompassing [...]

Russell Simmons – Def Jam Records / Phat Farm Clothing

Russell Simmons didn’t invent rap, but he is, perhaps more than any other individual, responsible for the music’s astonishing success.The amazing thing is that Simmons — at the helm of Rush Communications, a conglomerate that includes a record label (Def Jam), a management company (Rush Artist Management), a clothier (Phat Farm), a movie production house [...]

MARK’s Design Studio Inc

MARK’s Design Studio Inc. is a group of professional, dedicated freelance graphic designers, desktop publishers and printing consultants. Together we specialize in helping non-profit and religious organizations as well as small businesses. We provide Graphic Design/DTP Services for business cards, letterhead, brochures, photo enhancement, custom greeting cards, framed gift art, specialty items, and more.
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Oprah The Most Successful Businesswomen Around

Oprah Winfrey was born in the South and though she had a fairly traumatic childhood, rose up to become a prominent talk show host and businesswoman. Through her company, HARPO (Oprah spelled backwards), she has expanded her stable of investments from the Oprah Winfrey Show, to O Magazine and Oxygen Cable Network.
She was born in [...]