Ask most people to name wealthy Black Americans and they reach for the same short list — the moguls with cameras around, the billionaires whose net worth gets updated like a sports stat. The list is understandable. It’s also missing…
When X-Men ’97 arrived on Disney+ in 2024, most of the conversation was about what the show was doing: picking up the 1990s cartoon mid-stride, killing off characters people had loved since childhood, taking a Saturday-morning property seriously. With its…
For years, lists detailing Black cultural influence followed a predictable formula, grouping together musicians, actors, athletes, and billionaires alongside a politician or two to create a static snapshot of Black America. That approach is rapidly becoming obsolete as cultural influence…
Most writing about Black wealth in America centers on people: the athlete who signed the deal, the founder who exited, the mogul with the portfolio. Far less of it asks where that wealth actually lives. The answer, in a lot…
On October 2, 2024, Michael Jordan sued NASCAR. Not a rival team, not a driver, not a sponsor — NASCAR itself, the league his own team races in every weekend, along with its chairman, Jim France. The filing landed in…
By the time Michael Jordan put on a Washington Wizards uniform, his legend was already complete. Six championships, two retirements, a highlight reel that needed no help. The two Wizards seasons, 2001 to 2003, have mostly been remembered as a…
