by Simone Rixey | Feb 26, 2018 | Culture
Rosalind Brewer is an American businesswoman who is the COO of Starbucks and the former President and CEO of Sam’s Club, a division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Brewer is the first woman and the first African-American to fill the role of CEO at one of Wal-Mart...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 19, 2018 | Culture
Michelle Obama is wife of former President Barack Obama. Prior to being the U.S. First Lady, she was a lawyer, Chicago city administrator, and a community-outreach worker. The Princeton University and Harvard University graduate focused her attention on social issues...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 18, 2018 | Culture
Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist and regarded as the mother of the modern day civil rights movement in America. In 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat to a white male passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This was the catalyst for a wave of...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 17, 2018 | Culture
Dr. Patricia Bath is an American inventor, ophthalmologist and academic who has been a blazer the trail for women and African Americans in her field. Bath is the first woman to have served on the staff of the Jules Stein Eye Institute, the first women to have headed a...
by Simone Rixey | Feb 16, 2018 | Culture
Shonda Rhimes is an American television producer, screenwriter, creator and author best known for Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder. In 2007, Rhimes was named on of TIME magazine’s 100 People Who Help Shape the World. Rhimes has won the Directors...
