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Breaking Barriers: How Two Black Women are Reshaping the Corporate World with Polished Consulting  
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Breaking Barriers: How Two Black Women are Reshaping the Corporate World with Polished Consulting  

Nusaybah Al-Mansur, Contributing Writer  March 19, 2025

Two Black women breaking barriers in the corporate world, Polished Consulting is redefining organizational performance in the corporate world by bridging effective leadership and wellness. Founded by Sherica Hymes and led alongside Roquita Coleman-Williams, this boutique consulting firm guides every member of the team, from an executive to an employee, to redirect their clients to success.  

Black Girls Code and GoldieBlox Launch Program to Inspire Interest in Computer Tech 
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Black Girls Code and GoldieBlox Launch Program to Inspire Interest in Computer Tech 

Nusaybah Al-Mansur, Contributing WriterMarch 6, 2025

As AI and technology continue to reshape our world, alarming disparities remain in gender and racial representation – Black women hold 2% of technology roles and women earn only 18% of new computer science degrees. Dedicated to changing this, Black Girls Code, in partnership with GoldieBlox, has launched a new season of Code Along Jr., an initiative designed to empower the next generation of technologists with the skills and confidence needed to thrive in a field where Black women have long been underrepresented.  

From Lena Horne to Beyoncé, Universal College of Beauty School produces stylists to the stars
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From Lena Horne to Beyoncé, Universal College of Beauty School produces stylists to the stars

Ann Marsh Contributing WriterJanuary 19, 2023

Celebrity hairstylist Tiffanie Dixon grew up mingling with young Hollywood while attending Beverly Hills High School, but for lessons in glamour, fashion and style, she drove to the Crenshaw District, where she later enrolled at the historic Universal College of Beauty.  Dixon would go on to become Whitney Houston’s longtime hair stylist, graduating in the same 1991 class with Kim Kimble, whose work with stars like Beyoncé led to her own multi-season reality TV show.  For four generations, over nearly 100 years, the family-owned Universal College of Beauty has turned out star stylists and beauty gurus by teaching the art of