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He helped popularize “I Am a Man” as a demand for respect during the 1968 strike by Black sanitation workers in Memphis.

By Sam Roberts

She was a fiery lawyer from eastern Kentucky who charged coal companies with discrimination for their refusal to hire women. Her campaign was a success.

By Adam Nossiter

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

By Joshua Needelman

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.

By Zachary Small

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.

By Alix Strauss

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

By Amy Haimerl

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

By Michael Corkery

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

By Martha C. White

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.

By Stefanos Chen

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?

By Nina Roberts

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.

By Amy Haimerl

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.

By Lydia DePillis

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.

By Jennifer Harlan

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

By Jordyn Holman

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

By Chris Colin

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.

By Emma Bubola

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

By David Gelles

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.

By Michael Corkery

“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.

By Guy Trebay and Clara Vannucci

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

By David Gelles