Long before Shaquille O’Neal became one of the world’s most recognizable athletes and businessmen, he was a child growing up in a low-income household, moving frequently as his stepfather served in the U.S. Army. The instability could easily have defined…
Black entrepreneurship is growing faster than most headlines let on. The Kauffman Foundation found that 0.45 percent of Black adults aged 20 to 64 started a business in an average month in 2025. Census data backs that up: 194,585 Black-owned…
Most people in corporate America play it safe. You protect the brand that’s already winning. You don’t volunteer for the mess. Bozoma Saint John did the opposite, over and over. She helped revive Pepsi’s music strategy. She took the marketing…
For decades, sports worked on an unwritten rule: teams held the power, players took what they were offered. Free agency loosened that grip a little, sure. But most agents still just fought for bigger paychecks. They rarely helped clients think…
Black entrepreneurship is blowing up right now. Still, building a company you can actually scale looks wildly different depending on where you drop your pin on the map. Back in 2023, the count of Black-owned employer businesses topped 200,000. That…
