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Paving Your Road to Silicon Valley

Paving Your Road to Silicon Valley

Think strategically about what you have to offer the industry, no matter the discipline, and how can you best articulate that. That goes across the board, from the first glance of a resume to how you present yourself in an interview. How can you add value and solve your boss and department and company’s biggest issues?

Reputation Equals Profits

Soul Food: 52 Principles of Black Entrepreneurial Success by Robert L. Wallace is a motivational book designed to help today’s business owners succeed in this dog-eat-dog world of commercial exchange....

Don’t Believe Me, Just Watch

Don’t Believe Me, Just Watch

From the big screen to the smallest, the entertainment landscape has been disrupted. A new crop of young, black, and bold creatives and executives are leading the charge to create diverse and dynamic content for global audiences.

The HBCU Debate: Are Black Colleges & Universities Still Needed?

The HBCU Debate: Are Black Colleges & Universities Still Needed?

Critics have called them a race-based anachronism. Others have said worse: They’re inferior, they’re in need of a new mission, or should be managed by for-profit entities. Yet, the data show that historically black colleges and universities contribute significantly to the black middle class and the nation’s economy, and with fewer resources graduate impressive numbers of majors in education and in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Although most have a majority black student body, the faculty at many HBCUs is strikingly diverse, sometimes more than 50% nonblack. Moreover, these institutions have never discriminated on the basis of race. But, in an age of increasing racial and ethnic diversity in the U.S., do we still need HBCUs?

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