Marcia Fudge, the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), will be stepping down from her position on March 22, she has said in a release that was posted to the department’s website…
This year’s International Women’s Day is on the theme “Investing in women: Accelerate progress”. In the 21st century, there can not be more emphatic ways for this to be possible than investing in women’s capacity…
An agency under the United States Department of Commerce has been ordered by a judge in Texas to diversify its mandate and to preclude racial profiling in its services to business owners. Judge Mark Pittman…
Economic, social and political progress made by Black America since the apogee of the civil rights era have come under threat more than ever before in the last six decades. That is according to the…
It is perhaps an indictment of a system where we can only greet anecdotes and isolated successes with glee. But on the brighter side, the progress of Black men and women in corporate America is…
Sheila Johnson is the co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) and founder and owner of Salamander Hotels & Resorts, and remarkably, the third richest Black woman in the United States. The entertainment and hospitality magnate…
Saying Shonda Rhimes has epitomized television excellence would still be an inadequate portrayal. Her involvement in the ideation and creation of nearly a dozen programs that have successfully aired for multiple seasons and garnered esteemed…
The pugilist, boxing promoter, and business tycoon Floyd Mayweather remains perhaps the only undefeated world boxing champion in history. Having competed between 1996 and 2017, he won all his 50 fights, including 15 major world…
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