Tag: Commentary

Jordan’s death adds to the tally of passed civil rights leaders. But as legislators move to restrict the vote, his fight goes on. Read More

New TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett bolsters the too-thin ranks of Black women CEOs, plus diversity in the wilderness, the Equality Act for LGBTQ rights, and more. Read More

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Ford Foundation president Darren Walker say it’s time to put employees first in order to address both the pandemic and racial inequity. Read More

The failure of public systems hits people of color hardest. Plus, building an inclusive business curriculum, and the passing of Fat Boys’ Markie Dee. Read More

What you think you know about history is probably wrong – and that lies at the heart of our troubles today. Read More

A new report has devastating statistics on the state of Black women in corporate America.

The grainy security camera footage is shocking. The elderly man walking down the street in Oakland, Calif.’s Chinatown neighborhood never even sees his assailant, a man who shoves him to the ground with brutal force and walks away. The video of the attack on the 91-year-old man, recorded on January 31, became the most recent evidence in […]

Conspiracies will never end… and neither will the racial disparities in the COVID era, evidently. Sigh. With the weekend upon us, it’s time to get back some Control. But first, here’s your Q-infected week in review, in Haiku. I do not know ifwe will ever find out who“Q” is, but I do know this much: […]

This is the first question I attempted to answer when I established the race beat at Fortune exactly five years ago this month. At the time, there had been fifteen Black CEOs in the history of the Fortune 500, with five still on the job.  Today, as we wade into the grim truth-telling that is Black History Month, we are facing […]