Jean Riggins Former Universal Records General Manager and Executive Vice President.
Music industry insider Maria Davis was diagnosed with HIV in 1995 after unknowingly contracting the virus from the man whom she was planning to marry. She leveraged her position in the entertainment industry to educate the community about HIV by partnering with organizations such as Life Beat: Music Industry Fights HIV and BET Rap it Up Community Service, as well as serving as a keynote speaker for the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Inc.
Jamie Foster Brown is the former owner and publisher of Sister 2 Sister magazine, which ran from 1988 to 2014. Newsweek called it the “African-American version of People magazine.” Jamie Brown was a regular feature on the Joan Rivers Show and the Tom Joyner Morning Show. In 1998, she published Betty Shabazz: A Sisterfriends’ Tribute in Words and Pictures.
