Some little girls play with dolls. Others take up sewing. But for a five-year-old Tia Norfleet—now 24—it was a battery-operated toy Corvette that held the most appeal. It wasn’t an obsession that was too surprising to her dad, NASCAR racing pioneer Bobby Norfleet. But now that he’s...

On May 15, First Lady Michelle Obama addressed the Class of 2011 at Spelman College, a historically black college for women in Atlanta that was one of Black Enterprise’s “Top 50 Colleges for African Americans.” Evidence of emotion and excitement about Mrs. Obama’s...