With nearly four decades of experience in investment banking, Carla Harris is one of Wall Street‘s most influential executives. She has executed multimillion-dollar transactions such as the initial public offerings for UPS, Martha Stewart Living…
If you discount the pedantic insistence on their unique geographical separation from the continent, the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales is very much European. This makes Humphrey Vaughan ap David Gething,…
Inspiring others is mostly about possibility – showing them that what they thought was unattainable, or had never dared to dream of or expect, can be achieved. It is also about change, conveying an optimistic…
Although Taurian Collins began reading at the age of two, he had hearing difficulties. His hearing sounded like he was underwater and everything sounded mumbled to him. Even his speech was mumbled. His mother consulted…
NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has named a new building after its first Black manager, Dorothy Vaughan. Building 12 was named the “Dorothy Vaughan Center in Honor of the Women of Apollo” in honor…
Track and field star Allyson Felix has received a $20 million grant from Melinda French Gates to support Black maternal health organizations. The donation is a part of a broader $1 billion commitment to support…
The Essence Festival of Culture recently held at the Caesars Superdome generated a windfall of over $300 million for New Orleans, according to the city’s mayor. The festival, which celebrates African American culture, blends music…
Ghanaian doctor Nancy Abu-Bonsrah has made history, becoming the first Black woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins University’s neurosurgery program. She pursued her clinical interests in neurosurgery, neurotrauma and neurosurgical capacity building in low-and-middle-income countries.…
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