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In 1992, when Rebecca Williams began working as a paralegal, she had every intention of becoming a lawyer. But a friend who lauded the growing opportunities in information technology piqued her interest in the field.
If you haven’t noticed, the brave new, digital world has arrived. All I have to do is gauge the activity in my own household as confirmation. My children, ages 14 through 19, have never purchased a single CD (they download music on their iPods). They communicate with friends through a series of text messages and iChats instead of phone calls and watch their favorite programs on laptops instead of television.
When Earnest Ryals filed a $3.5 million racial discrimination lawsuit against his former employer back in November 2007, the surprising fact about the lawsuit was that he and the owner of the accused company are both African American. A few weeks later, Clifford Smith, also a black employee, filed a similar complaint against St. Louis, Missouri-based World Wide Technology Inc. (No.1 on the B.E. Industrial/Service 100 list with $2.5 billion in sales). Separate trials were slated to go before juries this month after a U.S. District Court judge denied World Wide Technology's motion to dismiss Ryals' case. Now, the disputes have been settled out of court.
Founded by Timothy J. Adams in 1989, Systems Application Technology Inc. is the fifth largest minority-owned company in Maryland. Systems Application Technology provides an array of technical services to the...
New Technology Steel L.L.C., operational until January 2009, was the largest minority- and woman-owned steel processing service center in the U.S. The Southfield, Michigan-based firm specializes in slitting, pickling, and...
