Nigerian teenager Emmanuela Ilok has secured full scholarships to study Computer Science at multiple Ivy League institutions. She has received acceptance offers from MIT, Stanford, Yale, UPenn, Princeton, Columbia, Georgia Tech, Washington University, University of…
Orlando Ashford is the Chief People Officer of Fanatics where he manages global human resources and directly oversees the HR team within Fanatics Holdings. He is the former President of Holland America Line, the first…
Observed annually on June 19, Juneteenth, also known as Black Independence Day, Emancipation Day, and Jubilee Day commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. A play on the words “June” and “nineteenth”, the…
Generational wealth represents progress over time, and it offers prospects and stability for descendants. The popular (and non-academic) discourse on generational wealth often posits that leaving a considerable amount of capital is the only way…
Peggy Marie Alford is a highly accomplished executive who was most recently the Executive Vice President, Global Sales at PayPal. She oversaw the global sales and distribution of PayPal’s products and services and led 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…
Celebrities, athletes, musicians rappers, and actors lose their money so often that it is no longer shocking. But bouncing back from the ruin, more so in a completely different industry is rare. Stanley Kirk Burrell,…
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