1. Amazon Names First Black Exec Starbuck's Rosalind Brewer to All-White Board in Barrier-Breaking Appointment

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    Amazon Names First Black Exec Starbuck's Rosalind Brewer to All-White Board in Barrier-Breaking Appointment

    SAN FRANCISCO -- Amazon.com has named its first black director after facing growing pressure to diversify the all-white board overseeing one of the world's most powerful and valuable companies. Rosalind Brewer, chief operating officer and board director of Starbucks, is one of corporate America's most prominent women and black women executives...

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