Dow’s 2025 results left Karen S. Carter with a difficult first assignment as CEO: the company made $40 billion in sales and still lost $2.4 billion. She took over on July 1. Dow has about 34,600 employees and operates in…
For years, lists detailing Black cultural influence followed a predictable formula, grouping together musicians, actors, athletes, and billionaires alongside a politician or two to create a static snapshot of Black America. That approach is rapidly becoming obsolete as cultural influence…
John David Washington sometimes told people his father worked in construction. Other times, he said Denzel Washington was in jail. “I used to lie, saying he was a construction worker or in jail, just to have some sense of normalcy,”…
For years, Michael Archer II kept his parents’ names out of conversations he didn’t have to have. Now, for his first feature film, he’ll be answering to a different name altogether — Biggie Smalls. Universal Pictures has cast Archer, who…
Alvin Kamara was heading into a rough patch when he decided to give something back to Tennessee. At 31, the New Orleans Saints running back was working his way back from a knee injury. His 2025 season had been his…
