Comerica Bank has been named one of Black Enterprise magazine's "40 Best Companies for Diversity." The list appears in BE's July 2009 edition.

Detroit’s own Marion Hayden is among the many Java & Jazz fan favorites.  Photo- Michigan Chronicle archives

Trumpeter extraordinaire Marcus Belgrave has performed and recorded with some of the giants of the music industry, including Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Charles Mingus and B.B. King.

She may not be a household name, yet, but Ursula Burns made news of international significance July 1, when she assumed the CEO position for Xerox Corp., making her the first African- American female CEO of a Fortune 500 Company. She succeeds Ann Mulcahy, who remains chairman of the Xerox board.

"A mind is a terrible thing to waste."

These words, long associated with the United Negro College Fund, are as relevant today as perhaps any time in our nation's history. And that is why hundreds of people throughout the community are expected to gather Aug. 15 on the Detroit River Walk for the 21st annual UNCF Walk for Education.

"Change the World with a Giving Heart" was the theme of the 17th annual National Philanthropy Day and among the committed community members honored was Comerica Bank's own Deborah Hardison Hill.

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."