ActOne Group reported $1.4 billion in revenue for 2010. Its founder, Janice Bryant Howroyd, had started the staffing company in 1978 with $1,500, including a loan from her mother. Black Enterprise described her as the first Black woman to lead…
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…
Few legal scholars have changed global discussions on race and justice as significantly as Kimberlé Crenshaw. She is a professor at Columbia Law School and UCLA School of Law. So far, Crenshaw has spent over four decades examining how power,…
In the boardrooms and offices of corporate America, a quiet shift is changing who leads, innovates, and accumulates wealth. Black women, recognized as some of the most educated, resilient, and high-performing professionals in the U.S. economy, are moving away from…
A group of university students in the United States is working to incorporate the overlooked Black women’s voices into the historical record. They are using a digital humanities project to preserve and publish personal diaries from the 19th and early…
