Zondra Hughes

Steed Society's Female Success Factor: The Digital S.H.E., a free event sponsored by U.S. Cellular, took place over the weekend at Chicago's Society Art Gallery.

This was the first year that I hosted this national event, and in a nutshell, female executives...

Life is a dream when you love your job and it's a nightmare when you hate it.

So what can you do if you are living a nightmare? Leave that job behind, according to two young entrepreneurs who found their passions in their second careers.

On Friday, the panel of influencers seated at Chevrolet's Table of Brotherhood Project in Washington, D.C., addressed controversial topics that spanned from tolerance to chronic unemployment.

These conversations at the Table of Brotherhood symbolized the unity Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worked for, and more important, a cross-cultural awakening...

The current economic slump many African-American niche industries face is evident as Black-on-Black Love, Black Pride, Black History Month, and Black media -- all traditions, slogans, feel good celebrations, and niche industries in the African-American community, are gradually going the way of affirmative...

The future was now. And the revolution has been Tweeted. The mainstream print industry is under a digital assault, so what's to become of Black publications?

"There's no such thing as real-time, there's only the millisecond," states Munson Steed, publisher of Rolling...

The new hip-hop generation -- a generation that thrives on respect -- should demand it from the corporations that they patronize, says Munson Steed, CEO of Steed Media Group, a multimedia company that includes Rolling Out, a national urban weekly.

(Full disclosure: Steed is my boss, but...

As we know, when a corrupt government loses control of its people, the first plan of attack is to silence the rebels and sequester the suffering. The government desires complete control and complete obedience to the injustice.

And to no one's surprise, some governments are even willing to kill for...

Hello My Darlings,

As you may soon realize, there will be a rash of breakups around Valentine's Day, as with every holiday that requires our lovers to fork over gifts, and/or prove their fidelity by sticking around the entire night.

Here, then, are seven ways for...

A LinkedIn pal invited me to her ultra conservative book club and I was thrilled to attend.

I read the book selection, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot, as thoroughly as I could.

But I wasn't invited to the book club to discuss Immortal Life,...

The barbaric murder of Fenger honor roll student Derrion Albert compelled Michael Dolan and Brian Dinsmore, executive producers of A Plate Apart to develop a reality show that would highlight positive inner-city teens and offer them a ticket to a brighter future via the culinary arts.

It didn't take much to fall in love with Teena Marie's music.

She was a natural soul performer who swam upstream to find her success in the (then) segregated music industry.

And she was no autotune diva, Teena Marie was a White girl with rhythm and blues in...

With 2011 right around the corner, chances are that you'd like to try something new. One thing that holds true in these times is that creativity is key, and it's never too late to make your mark. Here are a few folks with fantasy careers that I've happened upon; perhaps...

As we count down the final days of 2010, it's evident that Chicagoans are connected to several of the biggest stories to hit the airwaves this year.
Here's a roundup of the top 10 stories that we won't forget.

Hello My Darlings,

The holiday shopping season is upon us and, if you're unsure that your relationship will see the New Year, your best bet is to disengage before it's time to exchange gifts. Now, there's a special VIP section in hell for those who dump their lovers during the...

Ebony magazine is moving, folks.

So, here's my little tour of the company's editorial departments, ripped from my memory (1999-2006). Full disclosure: I worked on the Ebony floor -- aka The Plantation -- for seven years, until I got canned. Ha!

For starters, the moniker "The...

The recent velvet rope snub of Chicago Bears players (race-fueled or not) has brought back a few bad memories of Chicago's segregated nightclub scene during the decades of decadence (the 80s and 90s.)

Race discrimination on the club scene isn't new, but Black social clubs gradually diversified the...

Let JL King tell it: the greatest man lie ever told is "I'll be faithful."

"Men are whores and women are desperate," huffs King during our phone interview.

Six years ago, JL King sent shock waves through Black America with his revealing look at men...

If you didn't know her, you wouldn't suspect that she's an institution, who has built institutions. You wouldn't suspect that she's been involved with nearly every major art program or establishment in the state...

Jonathan Jackson, National Spokesman for the Rainbow Push Coalition, says hope is not lost, and that the trust between the cops and the community can be restored.

And just like his civil rights activist father, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, this Mr. Jackson has an agenda to...

The ax is swinging hard in Corporate America, and, regretfully, some workerbees are employing nasty war tactics to keep their jobs.

No matter what it takes, the ruthless one--usually the office sociopath--is determined to be the last man standing.

And on an island he will stand, as...