Monica LaBiche Brown is a native of Seychelles, a group of African islands in the Indian Ocean. At a very young age, Monica’s family moved to Uganda for her father’s work. “When I was six months old, my father got a job in Uganda, and so our family moved,” Brown says....
Maurice Wade was born in Greenwood, Missouri in 1948. He grew up in Muskegon Heights, Michigan where at a young age, he bonded with family by watching old western films every weekend. It was through those shared times that his admiration for cowboys grew, and how his...
Carolyn Love was born and raised in the heart of the Midwest: Gary, Indiana. A city rich in African American culture, it was a place to “love the skin you’re in” and support your neighbors as if they were family. “Gary was a town filled with people who were caring,...
Life has a way of leading us to the paths we are destined for, even if these paths are different from the ones we started on. Sid Wilson, a Brooklyn, New York native, found himself at a crossroads when at 50, his company of 14 years started to downsize. He decided to...
Like many baby sisters, Rosalind “Roz” Alston looked up to her big brother. So much so that when it was time to go off to college, the Columbia, Tennessee native followed in her brother’s footsteps and studied computer programming. The training prepared her for a...
