Category: Business
Lenore Trammell took a very unlikely path to become the general counsel and the chief administrator at Big River Steel. She told Arkansas Black Vitality that from an early age she wanted to be a lawyer. The concept of justice fascinated her. And then a chance encounter after college led her to the steel industry. […]
Little Rock-based Windstream, the privately held communications and software company and spin-off from the former Alltel Corp., recently named Genesis White vice president of investor relations. White will manage the company’s interactions with the investment community. She has served in various leadership roles within Windstream over the last 14 years, including financial planning and analysis, […]
Like many college students looking to get their college degrees speedily, LaTasha Moore chose Spanish as an elective class in high school and college in hopes of getting an easy grade. Little did “Tasha” know that her collegiate ruse would eventually guide this proper southern-speaking Black woman into her chosen profession as a non-native Spanish-speaking […]
New research from the National Institutes of Health shows that the economic burden of health disparities in the United States remains unacceptably high. The study, funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the NIH, revealed that in 2018, racial and ethnic health disparities cost the U.S. economy $451 […]