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The HistoryMakers
An Evening With Ursula Burns
Season 1
Episode 33
An Evening With Ursula Burns with PBS-TV journalist, Gwen Ifill, serving as the host interviewer provides an inside look into the business leader's rise to becoming the first African American CEO of a fortune 500 company.
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