Article: Charlotte, N.C., Son Set to Reap Rewards of Reality-TV Run on the 'Apprentice'.

By Leigh Dyer, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 17--NEW YORK -- Kwame Jackson, who spent his childhood in Charlotte, became the nation's most famous runner-up job candidate when Donald Trump declined to hire him on the hit NBC show "The Apprentice" Thursday.

Jackson, 30, graduated from East Mecklenburg High School and UNC Chapel Hill before going on to earn his MBA at Harvard and work on Wall Street. In a conversation after the show, he said the loss is just the beginning of a new phase in his career -- one that combines his ambitions as a businessman with the world of reality television fame. (His comments are ...

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