CHICAGO—Every day at 5 p.m., a hush falls over the lobby of The St. Regis Chicago. That’s when Deidre Dukes wheels her champagne cart forward and the atmosphere shifts. Guests pause mid-conversation.
Dorothy Butler Gilliam, the first Black woman to be hired at The Washington Post as a reporter, is giving back to the publication after its employees experienced mass layoffs in February. Gilliam ...