When it comes to race, one of the defining moments in Mellody Hobson's life was when she was mistaken for a member of the wait staff at a 2006 luncheon she was throwing for a friend who was ...

The term “color brave” was either coined or popularized by Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, who used it at a TED [Technology, Entertainment and Design] conference talk in May of ...

At Starbucks' annual shareholders meeting on March 18 in Seattle, Ariel Investments' Mellody Hobson reminds the audience that they can choose to include people of a variety of races and cultures ...

This term comes from Mellody Hobson’s 2014 TED talk, “Color Blind or Color Brave.” Hobson’s idea is that we need to talk about race–even though it makes us extraordinarily uncomfortable.

Mellody Hobson, the president of Ariel Investments, tells CNN’s Poppy Harlow that being color-blind in a the workplace is a cop out, executives need to be “color brave” instead.