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Wanda James is on a mission to empower entrepreneurs from communities harmed by racial disparities in marijuana arrests.

The contract will provide an average salary increase of 11 percent, similar to what other museum workers across the country have obtained during the industry’s multiyear union push.

During the pandemic, Joanna Patchett spent 18 harrowing months in the intensive care unit. She discovered that medicine isn’t just about science — it’s also about heart.

A challenging time proved to be fertile ground for experimentation that continues to pay off.

Troubles at the restaurant chain Burgerim highlight concerns about whether franchisees need more protection in their contracts with franchisers.

Precious Price ditched her profitable business of renting home stays to tourists to combat the mounting housing crisis.

The unemployment rate for Black New Yorkers rose to 12.2 percent in the first quarter of the year, while the white unemployment rate dropped to 1.3 percent, a new report says.

A business owner’s personal story can bolster trust in a brand, experts say. But what happens when they share hardships like homelessness, addiction or incarceration in company marketing?

Hamissi Mamba, a refugee from Burundi, knew little of American culture when he arrived eight years ago and learned English watching the “Peppa Pig” cartoon. But he opened his dream restaurant, and the accolades have rolled in.

The first Black woman to serve as chief economist at the Labor Department advanced the idea that lifting up people on the margins helps everyone else, too.

Jessica Steinrock’s work on intimate scenes in film has come to prominence as the entertainment industry reels from the litany of sexual abuses brought to light by the #MeToo movement.

Companies that ramped up hiring in areas like technology over the past few years are cutting back as customers slow their spending.

For a biologist in San Francisco, Dec. 25 will bring not presents and mistletoe, but beak trims and fish guts.

The job in the Scottish region of Tayside was eliminated after a groundswell of anger that a man would be overseeing, or ‘mansplaining,’ menstruation policy.

Arvind Krishna is trying to stay in touch with the company’s roots as he confronts today’s challenges.

Mary Gundel loved managing a store in Tampa, Fla. But when she detailed its challenges on social media, the company — and fellow employees — took notice.

“What I ask myself all the time is, ‘What is a man?’” says Edoardo Beniamin, a trans man training to join his father’s profession as a gondolier.

Niren Chaudhary took over as C.E.O. just before the pandemic. He now has the company focused on climate change.

Seeking to cultivate journalism’s next generation, The New York Times Corps is a talent-pipeline program for U.S.-based college students from underrepresented groups.

Jim Weber, the chief executive of Brooks Running, was a devoted distance runner. Then came cancer.