Edwards has created an innovative shoe that solves multiple problems. Dr. D’Wayne Edwards, shoe designer, founder and president of Pensole Lewis College, a Detroit HBCU, has teamed up with Target to ...

Dr. D’Wayne Edwards is joining the advisory board of the nonprofit Shoes That Fit. Dr. Edwards, who currently serves as president at Pensole Lewis College, Michigan’s only HBCU (Historically Black ...

Lots of industries acknowledge they have a diversity problem. Maybe it's with age or gender or race. Our Planet Money podcast wondered, how exactly does an industry begin to change itself? And ...

One-hundred and forty years since biracial inventor Jan Ernst Matzeliger patented the automated shoe laster, less than 3 percent of footwear designers and fewer than 1 percent of brand owners today ...