Pretty much every great soul and R&B artist came out for Cornelius at one time or another, including James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, and Michael Jackson. In the 70s, without Oprah or BET or Shonda Rhimes or Dick Parsons, blacks didn’t have a...

Chairman Dick Parsons is “considering stepping down” from the board, according to the Wall Street Journal, and so are the other directors who remain from the pre-bailout era, Alain Belda and Judith Rodin. Not to put too fine a point on it, but to quote...

Obama's move was more than suave, it was symbolic. Just over ten years ago, the Apollo was in dire straits. In 1998, The Daily News led an effort to rescue landmark. The Apollo Foundation board is now led by businessman Dick Parsons. It has assets of...

The SEC says, for instance, that at the end of 2006, Fannie didn’t include $43.3 billion of so-called expanded approval mortgages in its subprime exposure and $201 billion of mortgages with reduced documentation in its Alt-A exposure. In Freddie’s case,...

Senator Jack Martins and State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos recently met with Citigroup Chairman and former AOL Time Warner Chair Dick Parsons to talk job creation and economic development. The luncheon took the form of a question and answer forum...