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Tadanori Yokoo, Illustrations from Genka, 1975

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Mellody Hobson (born April 3, 1969) is a businesswoman who is President and co-CEO of Ariel Investments and the chairwoman of Starbucks Corporation, the first African American woman to be chairperson of an S&P 500 company. She is the former chairwoman of DreamWorks Animation, having stepped down after negotiating the acquisition of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc., by NBCUniversal. She became the first African-American woman to head The Economic Club of Chicago.

As of 2020, she is listed as #94 on the Forbes list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.

The youngest in a family of six children, she graduated from St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago and from Princeton University. She was a member of the Cottage Club.

After graduation, she joined Ariel Investments, a Chicago investment firm that manages nearly $13 billion in assets as an intern. She rose to become the firm’s senior vice president and director of marketing. In 2000, she ascended to become the company’s president. It is one of the largest African-American-owned money management and mutual fund companies in the US. She was a contributor to financial segments on Good Morning America for many years. She is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Ariel Investment Trust. She is a regular contributor on financial issues on CBS This Morning and was formerly a spokesperson for the annual Ariel/Schwab Black Investor Survey. She was a regular contributor on financial matters on the Tom Joyner Morning Show.

She serves on the board of many organizations, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., the Chicago Public Education Fund, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and the Sundance Institute. She has been acclaimed in selections such as Time’s 2015 Time 100 List, Ebony magazine’s “20 Leaders of the Future”, Working Women Magazine’s “20 Under 30”, the World Economic Forum’s “Global Leaders of Tomorrow”, Esquire’s “America’s Best and Brightest”, The Wall Street Journal’s 50 “Women to Watch”.

On June 7, 2022, she became part owner of the Denver Broncos.

She married George Lucas (2013) and they have one child. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphakappaalpha

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Place your iron hand inside a bedazzled glove.

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Green is my color. Go figure.

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July 13, 1931 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941) originally published: 1953

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MARIAH CAREY — "OBSESSED" 2009