Decades after I left hustling to become a writer, why did I seek out the man who drew me into that world? Lonnie in South Central Los Angeles in August.Credit...Wayne Lawrence for The New York Times ...

This past month, I lost my mentor, my friend, and the person who served as my career role model. Her name was Judy DeLoache, and she plucked me out of college at the ripe old age of 22 to start a ...

From a young age, I collected role models. In school, as a teenager, I tried to channel Beyoncé. In the working world, after my first big promotion in retail operations, I paid close attention to our ...