Steven Bartlett is candid about his humble beginnings. He attributes the inadequacy he felt growing poor as the driving force in his life. “I wanted money, because my family didn’t have any,” he once said.…
Sophia Strother, 43, is the founder of a multimillion dollar delivery company called L2E Industries in Austin, Texas, and two other impact-driven ventures. Strother started L2E Industries in 2020 with $10,000, and within one year,…
Literature serves as a reflection of humanity and a means by which people understand each other. This is why the scarcity of Black women writers before 20th-century American literary archives is a troublesome reminder of…
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a unmissable impact on the civil rights movement. In many ways, it was a drawback for many Black people who saw in Dr. King a young…
Peggy Marie Alford is a highly accomplished executive who was most recently the Executive Vice President, Global Sales at PayPal. She oversaw the global sales and distribution of PayPal’s products and services and led the…
It is perhaps an indictment of a system where we can only greet anecdotes and isolated successes with glee. But on the brighter side, the progress of Black men and women in corporate America is…
Sheila Johnson is the co-founder of Black Entertainment Television (BET) and founder and owner of Salamander Hotels & Resorts, and remarkably, the third richest Black woman in the United States. The entertainment and hospitality magnate…
Celebrities, athletes, musicians rappers, and actors lose their money so often that it is no longer shocking. But bouncing back from the ruin, more so in a completely different industry is rare. Stanley Kirk Burrell,…
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