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What Rich Paul Understood About Player Empowerment Before the Sports Industry Did

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...

The Best States in America for Black-Owned Startups in 2026

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...

From Lab Technician to Fortune 500 CEO, Roz Brewer Never Stopped Rising

Roz Brewer didn’t climb some neat corporate ladder. She kept jumping into messier, bigger problems on purpose. Twenty-two years at Kimberly-Clark. Started as a scientist. Ended up running the Global...

Instead of Reinventing Lowe’s, Marvin Ellison Fixed the Fundamentals 

When Ellison stepped in as CEO back in July 2018, Lowe’s was making money, but it was all over the place. Home Depot was beating them on sales. Core retail tech was falling behind. Activist investors...

The Best Time of Day to Apply for Jobs Online (And Why Most Get It Wrong)

You’ve spent hours perfecting your resume, tailoring your cover letter, checked for typos, saved your files as PDFs, and finally hit “Submit.” And then… crickets. You’re...

10 Real-World Rules for Black Entrepreneurs Launching in the US

Starting a business as a Black founder in America isn’t a one-size-fits-all deal. Everyone brings different tools, budgets, and ambitions to the table. There’s no secret playbook. ...

Why Beyoncé’s SirDavis Buyout Marks a New Era for Luxury Liquor

Beyoncé launched SirDavis American Whisky in 2024 with Moët Hennessy as her partner. Made sense at the time. Pair a celebrity with that kind of cultural pull to LVMH’s distribution machine, and...

Inside the Race to Build 100,000 Black Millionaires

In America, where the median wealth of White households remains several times higher than that of Black households, closing the racial wealth gap has become one of the country’s toughest...

The $1.27 Billion Blueprint: What the Optus-M&F Merger Really Means for Black-Owned Banking

Something worth paying attention to just happened in the Carolinas. Optus Financial Corporation, based in Columbia, South Carolina, and M&F Bancorp out of Durham, North Carolina, have signed a...