When Ursula M. Burns joined the Xerox Corporation as a summer intern, who was to know what was in her future. Fast-forward 20-plus years and today, she is the new President of Xerox Corporation and has newly been elected to the company’s board of directors.

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Growing up, most kids imagine going into outer space, but very few can actually say they’ve experienced it. Well, Joan Higginbotham fits in this small elite group.

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Coming of age during the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. William E. Spriggs, Chair and Professor of Economics at Howard University, dreamt of following in the footsteps of his hero, Thurgood Marshall. Then, another civil rights attorney made a different case for him.

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Woodrow Whitlow, Jr.

“I like to put people in the position to win awards, not necessarily to be awarded,” said Rocket Scientist Dr. Woodrow Whitlow Jr. of his recent Career Communications Group 2007 Scientist of the Year Emerald Award.

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