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The Most Powerful African Americans In Corporate America

Consider them the corporate elite–an exclusive club of high-powered black executives who determine the billion-dollar bottom lines and market values of the world’s largest corporations. Just who are these dynamos?...

Young, Single, And Free Of Debt

Tiffany Hall reads a lot of articles about people who earn less money than she does, yet seem to be better off financially. “The individuals in those articles had accumulated...

A Lifetime of Giving

For Valerie Traore, giving back is a family tradition. “When most kids were in summer camp, we were volunteering,” says Traore of her summer breaks that included working in food pantries, senior centers, and tutoring, while growing up in Baltimore with her four siblings. With the importance of volunteerism instilled in her by her grandparents James and Lottie Shaw, Traore’s work with local food drives and clothing banks prepared her well. Today, the 48-year-old chief executive officer of Food Bank of South Jersey ensures approximately 101,000 people per year in a four-county coverage area (serving Camden, Burlington, Gloucester, and Salem counties) will not go hungry.

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