By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
With nearly five decades in visual and performance media, Dale Bell had earned an Academy Award (Woodstock), two Emmy’s, and a Peabody. His longtime colleague, Harry Wiland, had an Emmy-award winning career as a television producer/director and a reputation as a...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After helping run his family’s successful automotive parts manufacturing business for 25 years, Kenneth Lehman came away believing strongly that employment practices that put people first are the key to small business success. Research funded by the Lehman...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Jim Lientz Jr., a former banker, had been retired for a year when Georgia’s incoming governor called on him to become the state’s first chief operating officer. Taking the role in 2003, Lientz quickly realized that the state government had not been acting as a good...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
As a black man who survived prostate cancer, McRae had beaten the odds. In the United States, African American men have the highest mortality rate for that form of cancer of any racial or ethnic group. (They die at a rate 2.4 times higher than their white...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
African American women are dying at rates that are greater than any other group of women in the United States — and most of these deaths are preventable. That fact inspired Marilyn Gaston (left) and Gayle Porter (right), both accomplished health professionals to...
