Business Leaders Jacky Akbari, Charles Sueing and Julie Lilliston Join Board of Directors NASHVILLE, Tenn., – January 24, 2022 – The nation’s oldest continuously operating African American owned and operated bank, Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company, announces it has appointed three Nashville business and community leaders to its board of directors: Jacky Akbari, Founder and Managing Principal, Worthington Advisory; Charles Sueing, President,...

Today, Representative Sharice Davids (D-KS) and Representative Claudia Tenney (R-NY) introduced the Women’s Business Centers Improvement Act, which would increase access to resources and opportunities for female entrepreneurs in Kansas and across the country. Davids and Tenney are reintroducing this bill after it passed last Congress with unanimous bipartisan support. The Women’s Business Center (WBC) program was established 30 years ago to help ...

A group of 86 companies whose businesses span every sector of the U.S. economy have proudly come together as signatories to an amicus brief in the D.C. Court of Appeals in support of the certification of the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Amici believe that recognition of the Equal Rights Amendment would demonstrate the nation’s commitment to gender equality and be transformational for the American economy....