Good evening. Good evening to everyone. Thank you for coming. On behalf of our director and our staff i would like to welcome you to the institute of African American affairs at new york university. My name is joan harris and im the associate director here at the institute. Discussion is breaking the color barrier in Corporate America. It is based on the book, the real pepsi challenge by Stephanie Capparell. It is special to me personally and to the institute politically. Thanks to Stephanie Capparell , we can feel included about paying an overdue debt of gratitude. I would like to start by telling you how this came about. I am a native of philadelphia, pennsylvania. For years my godfather who lived in the about worked in new york city would drive me home to philadelphia on weekends to see my mother. My godfather is now long retired but during those years of trips i would listen to numerous ,tories about his work life what it was like to be one of the first black executives in a big co
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