Video: West Philly Bed And Breakfast Offers A Special Philly Twist.

Amid scarce diversity in the hospitality industry, on the ownership level, the bed-and-breakfast inn's opening in Philadelphia "urges people to invest in equity and to move forward rather than stand still."

As soon as I rounded the corner on to Baring Street on Wednesday afternoon, the jazz-infused notes of Teddy Pendergrass’ “When Somebody Loves You Back,” woke up my groove thing...

Monique Greenwood, the CEO — or chief enjoyment officer — of Akwaaba Bed & Breakfast Inns arrived on the West Philly premises. She immediately started plotting.

Monique Greenwood, CEO of Akwaaba Bed and Breakfast Inns, is expanding her 23-year-old hospitality brand to Philadelphia, opening her sixth East Coast location in the city.

Monique Greenwood is some kind of Renaissance woman. The 54-year-old wife and mother is the doyenne of bed and breakfast, owning five Akwaaba properties on the East Coast…

The owner of a Bed-Stuy bed and breakfast brought home a $25,000 prize after winning the top spot on the Travel Channel’s “Hotel Showdown” besting glitzy lodgings in Long Island City, Times Square and Midtown.

Rejuvenate with a restful weekend in the middle of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. It may sound like a paradox—until you see the Akwaaba Mansion Inn on a historic block of Stuyvesant Heights. Originally owned by wealthy beer barons,

Opened in 1995, the Akwaaba Mansion was and continues to be the only bed and breakfast in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Moreover, it is the only black-owned b&b in New York City and one of the few black-owned inns in the entire...

Would you leave a jet-set career in publishing to open a chain of B&Bs? Monique Greenwood, owner of Akwaaba Inns is shaking up the industry in a BIG way! I spoke with her for this week’s Glambition...

Monique Greenwood went from the Editor-in-Chief of ESSENCE Magazine to preparing breakfast every morning at her Bed & Breakfast. Start-Up TV finds out how this decision became the key to her true happiness.

The next time you're in Washington, D.C., skip the Marriott and stay at the capital's newest bed & breakfast, Akwaaba. Located just blocks from the White House, the turn-of-the-century mansion was restored...

The Akwaaba D.C., the third bed-and-breakfast operated by Monique Greenwood, is a booklover's paradise and a writer's haven. The five-story, 1920s brownstone-conveniently located near...

Accomplished author, entrepreneur and former Essence editor in chief Monique Greenwood offers up a touch of paradise in her most recent venture, Akwaaba by the Sea, a bed & breakfast inn in Cape May, New Jersey.

Across the street from the Atwells is a 1860s Italianate that opened in 1995 as the Akwaaba Inn. Monique Greenwood and her husband Glenn Pogue bought the place as an abandoned ruin and transformed it into a bed...

Every May since 1996, Ieola Bakr her two sisters and their mother have enjoyed a weekend getaway at the Akwaaba Mansion. The four-room inn, in a quaint Italian villa-style home, offers a peaceful retreat...

It's only dawn, but Monique Greenwood and her husband, Glenn Pogue, are already up and at it. In the hours ahead, Greenwood will nurse someone's sunburn, cook breakfast for 10, and spread out refreshments...

In Ghana, "Akwaaba" means "welcome". For guests of Akwaaba D.C., the term conveys a special welcome: Monique Greenwood chose a literary theme for her Washington D.C., bed and breakfast and devoted...

Monique Greenwood, the editor-in-chief of Essence, is also the proprietor of the Akwaaba Mansion Bed and Breakfast in Brooklyn's historic black community of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Audrey Edwards...

A rainy Sunday in DC turned into one of the best stops on my entrepreneurial journey. While tweeting late one evening, Kathy Korman Frey suggested that I attend a Tea...

If you’re visiting New York City for concrete canyons and neon lights, Manhattan is the place to be. But if you want the hippest shops and restaurants and the feel of a real neighborhood, get thee across the river to Brooklyn.

I became infatuated with bed-and-breakfasts the first time I stayed in one, because they combine all my personal passions: decorating, entertaining, and real estate. I bought an old house in my Brooklyn neighborhood...

Looking to have a romantic getaway weekend without having to even leave the borough in which you live? We suggest making a reservation at the Akwaaba Mansion...

For those seeking a peaceful escape, or travelers tired of impersonal chain hotels, the bed-and-breakfast inn is an intriguing blend of comfort and elegance.

n the Akan language of Ghana, akwaaba means welcome, and that is exactly what guests receive at the Akwaaba Mansion bed-and-breakfast in the heart of Brooklyn, N.Y...

Eight new telephones, that's what she needs today. People are arriving later in the afternoon, so there's only a two-hour window. She's in the car, at the electronics store, and back just in time to greet...