January 23, 2014March 23, 2014events, U-M Honored to participate This past Monday, Martin Luther King Day 2014, I was asked to deliver the keynote “reflections” address at the U-M North Campus […] ShareRead more
January 20, 2014February 8, 2014education, family, provinggroundbook On MLK Day — Lest We Forget A few months ago, we were moving my mother out of her condo, and I came across her nursing school diploma. I […] ShareRead more
December 10, 2013March 3, 2014provinggroundbook, Uncategorized Remembering Mandela In the late 1980s, I was the young CEO of my own company, Telecom Analysis Systems, and Nelson Mandela had been languishing […] ShareRead more
November 24, 2013March 3, 2014BBUM, education, entrepreneurship, provinggroundbook, U-M #BBUM: Being Black at University of Michigan I have been watching with much interest the twitter posts of students, faculty, and administration under the #BBUM hashtag. Why? Because I […] ShareRead more
November 5, 2013March 3, 2014music, travel My favorite performance Sometimes we experience something that is so special it seems divine, preordained. I had just such an experience in Jamaica back in […] ShareRead more
October 31, 2013March 3, 2014entrepreneurship, provinggroundbook, technology 1983 – the year I lost my mind At least that’s what many of my friends and colleagues thought. Thirty years ago this month, in October 1983, I left AT&T […] ShareRead more
