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Last week that career change paid off in a spectacular fashion. Lewis struck a single deal that will transform his investment firm, TLC Group, into the largest black-owned business in the U.S. Beating out such rival bidders as Citicorp, Pillsbury and Shearson Lehman Bros., Manhattan-based TLC (stands for "The Lewis Company") signed an agreement to make a $985 million acquisition of Beatrice's International Food division, a profitable hodgepodge of 64 companies in 31 countries that manufacture everything from ice cream to sausages...
...money from the high-rolling Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm. When the takeover is completed, TLC is expected to rake in $2 billion in annual revenues -- far more than the $173.5 million reported last year by Johnson Publishing (Ebony magazine), which topped Black Enterprise magazine's list of the largest black-owned companies. Says Lewis of his new stature: "I like to stretch myself. I like to face challenges...
...hardworking black families remain, nearly a third of the residents depend on public assistance. In some neighborhoods more than three-quarters of the families are on the dole, many for the third or fourth generation. Newark has few rivals in percentage of substandard housing and, though only the 48th largest U.S. city, ranks fourth in incidence of murders. In many ways, Newark has never really recovered from the 1967 riots...
Such writers are frightened--and rightfully so--by our sluggish economy, our losses in international trade, and our rapid transformation from the world's largest creditor to the world's largest debtor in the space of a few years. They have watched the United States' share of the world economy drop from nearly half to close to a quarter. They observe the growing power of the Japanese and Germans, and they say the decline is unstoppable. They chart the failures of our military power in Vietnam and now the Gulf, and they cry "Uncle...
...been active in a number of local causes. He founded a group called Toxic Alert which he says chased Arthur D. Little Co. out of the nerve gas business. He has opposed the Seabrook Nuclear Plant. Currently, he is the director of the Community of Elders, the city's largest service organization for the elderly. In short, he's a community activist who's been around the neighborhood for a decade...