Boards of directors at leading U.S. companies are becoming more diverse. A 2021 survey conducted by leadership consulting firm Spencer Stuart, published this past January, found that 19.1% of new board directors at S&P 500 technology companies were African American, compared to just 2.9% in 2020. Gender representation has also

The Underground Railroad Monument in Windsor, Ontario in Canada by jodelli, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. In April 2022, Detroit-born environmentalist Zwena Gray began hiking the Bruce Trail, a 559-mile trail that represents the oldest and longest marked continuous Underground Railroad passage in Canada. The hike took around six

A scene from the 2019 production of Bohuslav Martinu’s “Julietta” at Carnegie Hall” by Peter Matthews is licensed under CC BY 2.0 African American and Latino people represent just 1.8% and 2.5% of classical musicians in U.S. orchestras, according to the League of American Orchestras. Increasing diversity within classical music is critically important,

Morehouse College, a prominent Historically Black College and University (HBCU) and the country’s only private liberal arts college for men, recently inspired a new clothing collection by Polo Ralph Lauren as part of the company’s renewed approach to racial equity. In 2020, Ralph Lauren Corporation re-examined their approaches to representation

As a philanthropist and advocate for the Black community, Robert F. Smith has a long-standing commitment to preserving African American history and culture. In fact, a guiding principle of Fund II Foundation, in which Smith is founding director and President, is to preserve the African-American experience, and the charitable foundation

In 1930, William Grant Still conducted his Symphony no. 1 “Afro-American” with the New York Philharmonic becoming the first Black composer “to have a symphony performed by a professional orchestra in the U.S.” The classical music industry was less diverse then than it is today, and yet African Americans and