At the age of 10, Keith Beauchamp came face-to-face with the ugliness of racial hatred. He saw an old Jet magazine photo of a young boy much like himself. But this boy, Emmett Till, was dead in a cask
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Luther T. Clark, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P.Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, professor of Clinical Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center; chief, Cardiology Services,
According to the National Association of Law Placement, 43 percent of all U.S. law firms do not have a single partner of color. Among the 7,846 attorneys practicing at five of the top law firms in th
Mellody Hobson was on stage and the audience was hanging on every word she spoke. “One of my missions is to make the stock market a topic of conversation at the dinner table in Black America,” dec
BY Salome Kilkenny
Ron Jordan is banking on his reputation as a skilled recruiter for the legal industry to change the world. He is a founding principal of Carter-White & Shaw LLC, an attorney placement and diversit
BY Ines Bebea
Walking into the headquarters of City National Bank in Newark, N.J., memories of my first bank experience with my father came to mind: a qu
As the Black community rallies to the aid of victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf Coast region, professionals and business owners outside the six hurricane-ravaged states are assessing t
Babies are big business. Baby care alone is a $5 billion industry, according to Packaged Facts, a leading consumer goods and market research firm. New parents rank among the top consumer groups in the
BY Ann Brown
When Alexander B. Cummings Jr. addresses The Executive Leadership Council’s Mid-Level Managers Symposium dinner in Washington, D.C., this month, he will tell those who do not see Africa on their ca
Hip-hop entrepreneurs have successfully maneuvered the genre’s appeal into multimillion-dollar enterprises, but now they are at a crossroads. Will they continue to simply feed America’s obsession