Robin Smalley has given birth to two children and life to many millions more. In 2004, bereaved by the death of her mother and her best friend Karen, Robin packed up her husband, two adolescent daughters and a pair of dogs and, with very little...
Mikel was raised on a 400-acre family farm in rural South Carolina. His father left the family when Mikel was six. His mother, with only a high school diploma, went to work as a teacher’s aid and earned both a bachelors and master’s degree while...
Robert Mallett grew up in Houston, Texas one of five children surrounded by a large extended family. His parents, a steel worker and homemaker, grounded their children with a strong sense of self and showed them how to live productive and useful lives. They taught...
This month we celebrate Black History Month and American Heart Month by introducing our February Star, British A. Robinson, an African American woman working hard to change history by reverse some disheartening statistics: One in three American women die of heart disease and stroke. One...
Aiming High for LGBT Economic Empowerment If the campaign to establish National Entrepreneur’s Day on the third Tuesday of November is successful, Linda Rottenberg should be its spokesperson, as she might be responsible for the creation/support of more entrepreneurs than any other person on the planet....
Aiming High for LGBT Economic Empowerment Mark D. Gibson grew up in the foothills of the Adirondacks in the picturesque village of Ballston Spa, New York. Slight of build and frequently teased, Mark purposely accelerated his education and graduated from high school at the age of...
Igniting a Movement for Women Politicians Did you know that of the 500,000 elected offices, only 22% are held by women? If elections continue at the current pace, gender parity will not be reached for another 100 years…but not if Anne Moses has her way. Anne,...
Global Health Groundbreaker Most folk would be satisfied with the prestige of one Ivy League degree. But Eric Bing is not like most folk; he has earned degrees from Dartmouth and Harvard Medical School plus a PhD in Epidemiology from UCLA and an MBA from Duke...
Flower Girl Manikin to Human Rights Leader Derreck spent his youth in Uganda in a riot of pageantry and fragrance. His mother garlanded the house in colorful fabrics she would orchestrate into wedding gowns; his father conjured vats of bubbling oils, fats and perfumes into bars...
Making History on Broadway Once upon a time Lesley Herrmann attended a musical at the Public Theatre in NYC. The author of the book that led to the musical was in the audience and asked Lesley what she thought of the play. She told him, "I...