The executives are a study in contrasts. One is a brash risk-taker who bootstrapped his way from an Alabama cotton farm to one of Wall Street’s largest brokerage firms. The other made his mark as a consensus builder who leveraged ties to one of America’s most powerful families to eventually lead the world’s largest media company. Click to continue at NYTimes.com
Following a fifteen year trend, non-Caucasian performers made
incremental gains over the past two years, although mostly represented
in supporting roles, according to the latest casting data collected and
analyzed by Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in 2005 and 2006. Click to continue at BlackTalentNews.com
Merrill Lynch & Co. has filed a trademark lawsuit
against an unidentified person whom the brokerage firm alleges is sending
racially insensitive emails to its employees and to civil-rights activist Rev.
Al Sharpton in the guise of a Merrill Lynch manager. Click to continue at CNN.com
The executives are a study in contrasts. One is a brash risk-taker who
bootstrapped his way from an Alabama cotton farm to one of Wall
Street's largest brokerage firms. The other made his mark as a
consensus-builder who leveraged ties to one of America's most powerful
families to eventually lead the world's largest media company. Click to continue at IHT.com
Appropriately titled “Africa: Entering the Door to Opportunities,” The Corporate Council on Africa 2007 U.S.-Africa Business Summit will provide a forum for some of the world’s top global business leaders to discuss trade and investment opportunities in Africa, best practices, and how best to increase trade and investment in ways that will help engender sustainable growth on the continent.
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