Martin H. Nesbitt

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Martin H. Nesbitt

Martin H. Nesbitt is Co-Chief Executive Officer and founder of Vistria Group, LLC. In this role, he shares the leadership role of the Chicago-based investment company focused on education, healthcare and financial services industries.

Prior to co-founding Vistria, Nesbitt was Chief Executive Officer of The Parking Spot, an owner and operator of off-airport parking facilities. Nesbitt conceptualized and co-founded The Parking Spot and was responsible for running all its strategic and operating aspects.

Nesbitt’s approach to the off-airport parking business was heralded by industry insiders as extremely innovative and has been recognized in national publications like The New York Times, USA Today, and Fortune Small Business Magazine. Nesbitt is a former Board member of the Chicago 2016 Olympic Committee.

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COVID-19: WHO warns of virus acceleration in Africa

Major African stats: June 11 at 7:00

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Laurel J. Richie

Laurel J. Richie was President of the Women’s National Basketball Association, LLC (WNBA).In this role, Richie led the WNBA from 2011 to

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Anthony Welters

Anthony Welters is Executive Chairman of the BlackIvy Group, LLC. Welters is also Senior Adviser to the Office of the CEO of UnitedHealth Group. Prior to this appointment, Welters was Executive Vice President and a Member of the Office of the CEO of UnitedHealth Group. Welters joined UHG upon its

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MultiChoice shrugs off Netflix threat, delivers strong full-year results

MultiChoice Group CEO Calvo Mawela

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Source: TechCentral

Recovering from COVID crisis, higher education should retool around Texas' needs

While the pandemic and related economic fallout have created unique challenges for our colleges and universities, these institutions offer a bridge to a better future for individual Texans and for our state’s economic

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Source: The Dallas Examiner

Paula A. Sneed is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Phelps Prescott Group, LLC. In this role, Sneed leads Phelps Prescott’s work as a strategy and management consulting

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Pierre E. Leroy

Pierre E. Leroy was President of both the Worldwide Construction & Forestry Division and the Global Parts Division at Deere & Company. At Deere, Leroy served in numerous financial positions such as Director of Finance for Europe, Africa and the Middle East; Vice President and

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Africa: COVID-19 & Africa SMEs - Refocus, Reimagine, Regionalize & Revamp-Financing!

More Africa nations should consider creating small business ministries, so that SME support is not subsumed under broader ministries like trade or

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Source: allAfrica.com

Angola: President Appoints Mineral Resources Agency Board

Luanda — Angolan head of State João Lourenço appointed Wednesday the Board of directors of the National Agency of Mineral

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Amid Movement To Defund Police, Biden Wants To Give Them More Money

Every single police department should have the money they need to institute real reforms like adopting a national use of force standard, buying body cameras, and recruiting more diverse police

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MTN shares dip on new allegations it paid terrorist groups

MTN Group CEO Rob Shuter

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Source: TechCentral

Jewell D. Hoover

Jewell D. Hoover is President and Principal of Hoover and Associates, LLC. Hoover worked at the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for 28 years prior to starting her own company. Hoover joined the OCC in 1975 as a National Bank Examiner and, at various times, supervised banks in the Northeast and

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WhatsApp gets a raw deal in payments

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg entered the fray two years ago by enabling the popular messaging service WhatsApp to send and receive money in

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Source: TechCentral

What's Going on | New York Carib News

The David Gelles 6/7 NYT essay, “Corporate American Has Failed Black America,” with comments and insights by “elite Black executives” like Darren Walker, Ford Foundation; Mellody Hobson, Ariel Investments; Ursula Burns, former Xerox CEO/Chair; billionaire Robert Smith, Class of 2019 Morehouse

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Source: The New York Carib News

Oprah to Host ‘OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?’ with Black Thought-Leaders

The Oprah Winfrey Network has announced that Oprah Winfrey will host a two-night special titled OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Rwanda: Kagame, Canadian Premier Hold Discussion Over COVID-19

Kagame expressed gratitude to the Canadian Premier for his country's support towards Rwanda's Covid-19 fight and other areas in which Canada supports

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Source: allAfrica.com

4 Ways Racial Inequity Harms American Schoolchildren

"Our students of color are treated differently in our schools," Kim Ellison, who chairs the Minneapolis Board of Education, told NPR earlier this

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Source: Stories About Black History

CAT Set To Increase Operating Hours on June 15

Chatham Area Transit is planning to increase the operating hours for most fixed-route buses and CAT Mobility paratransit services on June 15, while retaining safety measures put in place to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19

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Source: The Savannah Tribune

10 Elected Officials Of Color Send Letter To Mayor Durkan And Chief Best

On Mon., U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) and nine city, county and state elected officials of color who represent the Seattle community sent a letter to Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best that urged them to enact meaningful and transformative changes to the very nature of

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Source: https://seattlemedium.com

Quit Playin’: Who’s Lootin’ You??

“Mini-Me” Mnuchin tooled a foreclosure machine and looted the taxpayers for no less than $200 million, according to a Huffington Post 2017

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Black America speaks. America should listen.

30th March 1965: American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a black voting rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital in

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Source: theGrio

Tesla nears historic milestone of world's most valuable car maker

The surge in Tesla’s shares so far this month moved Elon Musk’s company even closer to displacing Toyota as the world’s most valuable car

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Source: TechCentral

Terrence Howard

Thanks to the buzz over his films Crash and Hustle & Flow, Terrence Howard had a career breakthrough in 2005 after more than a decade of stand-out performances in television and feature films. Howard began getting small roles in TV shows in the early 1990s. His appearances in feature films such

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Kerry Washington

Actress Kerry Washington is probably best known for her Emmy-nominated role in the cable TV series Scandal -- she plays Olivia Pope, a business fixer in Washington, D.C. politics. A native of New York, she studied liberal arts at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and graduated in

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Jackie Robinson Foundation Announces Honorees for 2016 Awards Dinner

The Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) announced that it will honor cosmetics industry pioneer Bobbi Brown with its ROBIE Humanitarian Award, Pittsburgh Steelers Chairman Ambassador Dan Rooney with JRF’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and Vista Equity Partners Founder and CEO Robert F. Smith with the

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Television Show ‘Cops’ Has Been Canceled In Wake of Protests – Your Black World

Cops, a popular TV series in the U.S., has been

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Source: Your Black World

End load shedding: 'Do in energy what's been done in telecoms'

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