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Akon

Akon is an American Hip Hop artist who has produced several platinum albums, appeared in television and film roles, received several Grammy nominations and owns two record labels. He was born Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Bongo Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam in St. Louis, Missouri on April

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O’dell M. Owens, M.D.

O’dell M. Owens, M.D. is Medical Director for the City of Cincinnati. Previously, Owens was the President of Cincinnati State as well as holding many healthcare related leadership roles including serving as Medical Director for a major insurance company. Owens also helped launch a Cincinnati-based

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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

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Ursula Burns

Born: 9/20/1958 New York City, New YorkBurns was appointed CEO of Xerox in 2009, and over the last 5 years, she has worked tirelessly towards transforming the company’s image as a manufacturer of printers to a full-fledged services business. And it’s working well. Services now represent 57% of the

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C. Martin Harris

Martin Harris, M.D. is Chief Information Officer for the Cleveland Clinic. Harris is also a practicing physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, where he oversees the strategic development of the organization’s integrated technology infrastructure, which includes the

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Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

Born: 5/7/1905 Seattle, WashingtonLavizzo-Mourey heads the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest healthcare foundation in the U.S. She became the CEO in 2003, a position which has her overseeing an estimated 800 grants, a $10 billion endowment and annual disbursements of more than $450

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Jonathan Mariner

Jonathan Mariner served as Chief Investment Officer (CIO) for Major League Baseball (MLB). In this role, Mariner oversaw approximately $2 billion in combined league-wide pension assets and MLB’s strategic investment fund. He also served as President of BASES, the league’s captive insurance

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N. Anthony Coles

N. Anthony Coles, M.D. is Founding Investor, Chairman & CEO of Yumanity Therapeutics, a Cambridge, MA-based biotechnology company focused on transforming drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases. Previously, Coles was Chairman and CEO of Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which was acquired by

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Reginald F. Lewis

Lewis was born on this day in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1968. He was a partner in Murphy, Thorpes & Lewis, the first black law firm on Wall Street. In 1989 he became president and CEO of TLC Beatrice International food Company, Lewis became the

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Phillip R. Cox

Phillip R. Cox, for more than 40 years, has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Cox Financial Corporation, an independent financial services company he

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Benjamin, Regina Marcia (1956– )

Dr. Regina Marcia Benjamin, President Barack Obama’s nominee for Surgeon General of the United States, is an accomplished physician whose professional and personal roots are planted deeply in rural America. Dr. Benjamin was nominated for the post by the President on July 13, 2009 and unanimously

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William J. Harvey

William J. Harvey was President of DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers (P&IP), a global business unit of E. I. du Pont de Nemours

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Rhodes, J. Steven (1951- )

J. Steven Rhodes, U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on September 29, 1951. After graduating from high school he attended Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, California where he was a member of the LMU 1969 Hall of Fame football

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Jesse J. Greene

Jesse J. Greene, Jr. was Vice President Financial Management and Chief Financial Risk Officer of IBM. Currently, Greene is Executive in Residence at Columbia Business School, and an instructor in Corporate Governance, Risk Management and other areas of interest to MBA and Executive Education level

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Herman Cain

Herman Cain is an experienced American author, politician and businessman, born on December 13, 1945 in Memphis, Tennessee. Born to a cleaning woman and a domestic worker, Cain grew up in a poor family but learnt what he understood as the true meaning of success. Through his father’s hard

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Robert L. Johnson

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Nelda J. Connors

Nelda J. Connors is Founder, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Pine Grove Holdings, LLC, which operates growth oriented manufacturing companies that offer original equipment, manufactured and remanufactured products, and after market services. Previously, Connors served as President and Chief

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Ray M. Robinson

Ray M. Robinson was President of the Southern Region for AT&T. Robinson retired from his leadership position after 35 years of distinguished service. Robinson’s career spanned human resources, operations, sales, marketing strategy, customer service, international business, government

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The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: A Brief History

In the account that follows, Lawrence J. Pijeaux, Jr., the President and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute describes the museum’s origins in the powerful and poignant story of the struggle for racial justice in Alabama’s largest city in the

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Ronald A. Williams

Ronald A. Williams was Chairman and CEO of Aetna Inc., a leading diversified health care

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Organized Labor in the 21st Century: The Las Vegas Hotel and Culinary Workers Union Local 226

In February 2008, the Las Vegas Hotel and Culinary Workers Union Local 226 emerged on the national political scene with their high profile endorsement of presidential candidate Barack Obama. The union itself has a much older history that goes back to the late 1940s and is tied to the aspirations of

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Kelvin R. Westbrook

Kelvin R. Westbrook is President and Chief Executive Officer of KRW Advisors, LLC, an organization that provides strategic and general business and consulting services to companies in

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Cheryl L. Shavers

Cheryl L. Shavers currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Global Smarts, Inc. an advisory services and strategy

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Kevin E. Lofton

Kevin E. Lofton is Chief Executive Officer of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI). In this role, Lofton leads a healthcare system operating the full continuum of services from hospitals to home health agencies nationwide. Previously, Lofton served as Chief Executive Officer of the University of

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Rosalind G. Brewer

Rosalind G. Brewer is Group President and Chief Operating Officer, for Starbucks Corporation. In this role, Brewer will serve as a member of Starbucks senior leadership team and she will continue to serve on the Starbucks Board of Directors. As Group President and Chief Operating Officer, Brewer

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Egbert L. J. Perry

Egbert L.J. Perry is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Integral Group, LLC, a company with a mission to “create value in cities and (re)build the fabric of communities.” In this role, Perry is a real estate, construction and community development professional that has

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Pascal Desroches

Pascal Desroches is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Turner Broadcasting, a Time Warner

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Johnson, Robert Louis (1946 - )

Robert Louis Johnson, founder, chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Black Entertainment Television (BET), is also the majority owner of the Charlotte (North Carolina) Bobcats of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the first African American billionaire. He was born in

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Helene D. Gayle

Helene D. Gayle, M.D. was President and Chief Executive Officer of CARE USA, a nonprofit organization that implements programs that bring together varied stakeholders to address complex global social challenges. Currently, Gayle serves as CEO at McKinsey Social Initiative. An expert on global

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Lewis, Delano Eugene (1938 - )

On November 16, 1999 President William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton nominated Delano Eugene Lewis to be the United States Ambassador to South Africa. Lewis was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and served in that capacity from 1999 to 2001. Having spent much of his adult life to that point as an attorney

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