Next year, that number is set to drop to three. What happened to progress toward diversifying corporations’ highest ranks?
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NAACP Elects New President, Will Assume More Political Non-Profit Tax Status | NPR
The organization announced its new president and CEO and its intention to alter its tax status to a non-profit category that permits more aggressive political lobbying.
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Novelist Jesmyn Ward ‘Overjoyed’ by MacArthur Win | Atlanta Black Star
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An African-American novelist praised for her raw and powerful depictions of poor African-Americans confronting racial and economic inequalities in the rural South said Wednesday that winning a MacArthur fellowship gives her time and freedom.
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Thelonious Monk’s Quiet, Slow Conquest of the World | The Atlantic
For decades a respected but somewhat eccentric figure even within the jazz scene, the pianist and composer is at the peak of his influence as he reaches his centennial this month.
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Lionel Richie to Produce Biopic About Curtis Mayfield’s Extraordinary Life | The Root
Lionel Richie just secured the rights to bring Curtis Mayfield’s life to the big screen.
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Tech Start-Up Founder Kristina Jones Becomes 14th Black Woman to Raise $1M In Outside Capital | Atlanta Black Star
“You have to do some digging to really strike gold,” she said.
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Can an All-Boys, Afrocentric Education Close the Achievement Gap? | The Root
“There is so much fear in the average black male growing up in a city that is covered up as bravado….”
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Lorraine and Eugene Williams: A civil rights power couple | The Daily Progress
Lorraine and Eugene Williams, the Charlottesville couple whose civil rights work helped desegregate city schools and whose business focused on fair and affordable housing, are the recipients of the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 award for diversity.
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This black father won equal education for his daughter, 100 years before the Supreme Court’s ruling | Timeline
Absalom Boston was an affluent whaling captain in Massachusetts.
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Online Roundtable: Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming | Black Perspectives
Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Africana Religions* to host an online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld‘s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration (New York University Press, 2017).
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