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Black History Month 2023 Entrepreneurship

The Resilience of Henry G. Parks Jr: Leading One of the Nation’s Most Profitable Black-Owned Food Manufacturers

Atiya JordanFebruary 26, 2023February 24, 2023

by Atiya JordanFebruary 26, 2023February 24, 20231773

28 Days: Celebrating Black Business Icons Past and Present: Do you remember the “More Park Sausages, Mom!" commercial? Read the story about the visionary behind...

Business

Black Boardroom Power 2022: Momentum to Increase Black Directors Continues but Challenges to Significantly Boost Black Corporate Leadership Persists

Jeffrey McKinneySeptember 26, 2022November 6, 2022

by Jeffrey McKinneySeptember 26, 2022November 6, 20222477

Black corporate board representation increased but there's still more work to do....

Business Leadership Politics

New California Law Will Require Racial Diversity on Corporate Boards

Derek MajorOctober 2, 2020October 2, 2020

by Derek MajorOctober 2, 2020October 2, 20202598

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law requiring publicly traded corporations to have corporate board members from underrepresented communities....

Career Leadership Lifestyle

Serena Williams Serves Up Another Directorship: She Joins Poshmark’s Board of Directors

Lisa FraserFebruary 21, 2019February 22, 2019

by Lisa FraserFebruary 21, 2019February 22, 20193076

Serena Williams is flexing her influential muscles by adding another directorship under her belt—she has joined the board of directors of online social retail and...

Career Leadership

The Only Black Woman CEO in the Fortune 1,000 Shares How She Did It

Alisa GumbsSeptember 13, 2018October 2, 2018

by Alisa GumbsSeptember 13, 2018October 2, 20183625

The only black woman CEO of the Fortune 1,000, Lisa Wardell head of Adtalem Global Education, talk about breaking into the C-suite and onto corporate...

Career

What It’s Really Like For Young Black Women On Boards

Alisa GumbsSeptember 12, 2018September 12, 2018

by Alisa GumbsSeptember 12, 2018September 12, 20188053

Find out what it's really like for young black women on boards from Tracey Travis, CFO at Estee Lauder and a corporate director for Accenture...

Entrepreneurship

Publisher’s Page: With Board Service Comes Responsibility

Earl G. Graves, Sr.September 10, 2017March 23, 2018

by Earl G. Graves, Sr.September 10, 2017March 23, 2018812

I'm here to challenge all black board members with the specific responsibility to voice issues of concern that affect African Americans across the board....

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Black Directors: Be Prepared To Walk In Harmâ€™s Way

Earl G. Graves, Sr.August 13, 2014September 28, 2017

by Earl G. Graves, Sr.August 13, 2014September 28, 2017625

Let me be blunt: You are a board director who happens to be black; you werenâ€™t invited to join a board because major corporations ran...

Career

Black Enterprise Publishes Exclusive Registry Of African Americans On Corporate Boards

Black EnterpriseAugust 4, 2014March 26, 2015

by Black EnterpriseAugust 4, 2014March 26, 20151551

BLACK ENTERPRISE (BE) has released its latest exclusive report on African American representation on the corporate boards of 250 of Americaâ€™s largest publicly traded companies...