Dec 15, 2025 | Education, Leadership
Rod Paige, an educator, coach and administrator who rolled out the nation’s landmark No Child Left Behind law as the first African American to serve as U.S. education secretary, died Tuesday. Former President George W. Bush, who tapped Paige for the nation’s top...
Dec 8, 2025 | Business, Leadership, Women
Kim Davis, president and chief executive of the Heartland Black Chamber of Commerce, has worked within the community to solve a problem that money alone cannot fix. She’s seen many Black-owned businesses launch with talent and hustle, but without the internal systems,...
Dec 8, 2025 | Arts + Culture, Leadership, Women
Leadership and operational changes at the Pew arts center are closely watched in Philadelphia’s arts and culture community since the center, along with the William Penn Foundation, accounts for some of the largest foundation giving in the area. Pew’s center, for...
Dec 8, 2025 | Church, Leadership
It was on Nov. 24, 2014, when then-Howard University student Kevin Lamár Peterman first felt a sermon rise from his belly. That was the same day that a grand jury decided not to indict a white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer, Darren Wilson, in the fatal shooting of...
Dec 1, 2025 | Books, Leadership
Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina has spent more than three decades in Congress, and he’s adamant about one point: he is not the first Black congressman to serve from his state. Eight others, largely erased from public discourse, served...
Dec 1, 2025 | Business, Leadership
This Giving Tuesday, the African American Small Business Foundation, Inc. is calling on supporters and partners to help minority-owned businesses in New York City grow and thrive in a weakened economy. On Dec. 2, Giving Tuesday, the organization is highlighting how...
