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  There is a sign outside aMuse Toys that states “You buy local or say goodbye to local.” Owner Claudia Towels notes the sign sums up how critical it is for folks to spend their money at small, locally owned ...

In August 2019, Sheila Bindon left her job as director of HR technology and analytics at McCormick & Company. She calls the transition a mid-life calling to do something different. During the fall and holiday season, she started doing craft ...

Jennifer Eyre, a registered assistant at Harford Financial Group, was selected to join Cambridge Investment Research’s national Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Council. Eyre is a registered representative of Cambridge Investment Research Inc., a broker-dealer member FINRA/SIPC. Cambridge and Harford Financial ...

FREDERICK — Janice Smith got her first job when she was 14, sweeping up hair and washing the windows at a salon in Walkersville. She feels she had no other choice. Smith, now a 44-year-old single mother of three, used ...

Five Maryland business owners will receive support from American Express through its “100 for 100” program, which will provide 100 Black women entrepreneurs nationwide with grants of $25,000 and 100 days of business resources, including business education, mentorship, marketing, virtual ...

Vickie Mazer has joined McDaniel College as the new dean of graduate and professional studies following a national search. At McDaniel, she is responsible for providing leadership and support of the college’s more than 20 master’s degree and certificate programs. ...

In 2018, the nation elected 127 women – and 48 women of color – to the House and Senate. Next Jan. 3, at least 141 women, including 51 women of color will be sworn in. Eight races involving women had ...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to head the Pentagon for the first time, shattering one of the few remaining barriers to women in the department and the presidential Cabinet. ...

MIAMI — Kim Ng started her Major League Baseball career as an intern, and three decades later she’s still on the rise while shattering ceilings. Ng became the majors’ highest-ranking woman in baseball operations when she was hired Friday as ...

DETROIT — When Ashley Richardson-George’s 5-year-old daughter saw Kamala Harris wearing a white suffragette suit during her prime-time victory speech on Saturday, she ran into her room and came back minutes later wearing a white dress and sweater. Not only ...