Black Elites

The executives and thinkers setting the standard.

Interviews, essays and reporting from the boardrooms where the next decade is being decided.

In Leadership

Tracy Morgan Donates More Than $200,000 To Fight Food Insecurity

Comedian and actor Tracy Morgan is using his platform to make a tangible impact on American families struggling with food insecurity. While promoting his upcoming Paramount+ sitcom Crutch, the...

Reggae Icon Jimmy Cliff Dies at 81 After Seizure and Pneumonia, Family Confirms

Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican singer, songwriter, and actor whose work helped carry reggae to audiences around the world, has died at 81. His wife, Latifa Chambers, confirmed in a statement on Nov. 24...

Setti Warren, Massachusetts’ First Black Elected Mayor, Dies at 55

Massachusetts is mourning the death of Setti Warren, the first Black person elected mayor of Newton and a prominent voice in public service. He was 55. Harvard University announced Warren’s passing on...

How 22-Year-Old Corey Phillips is Turning Gen Z into Investors

At 22, Illinois native Corey Phillips is making a bid to change how his generation thinks about money. As founder and CEO of Social Storm LLC, he’s turned a personal obsession with investing into a...

Marcyliena Morgan, 75, Scholar Who Brought Hip-Hop Into the Academy, Dies

Marcyliena H. Morgan, linguistic anthropologist and founding director of Harvard University’s Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, has died at 75 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. Harvard...

10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About D’angelo

D’Angelo was a defining voice of late-20th- and early-21st-century R&B, an artist whose work helped shape the sound and sensibility of neo-soul. Across three landmark albums, Brown Sugar, Voodoo...

Meet Peter Iwuh, the Black Visionary Behind the First Black-Owned NIL Marketing Agency

In the fast-changing world of sports marketing, few names embody innovation, representation, and grit like Peter Iwuh. At a time when the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) movement is transforming the...

Assata Shakur, Black Liberation Army Figure, Dies at 78

Assata Shakur, the Black Liberation Army member convicted in the 1973 killing of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, fugitive since 1979, and the first woman placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted...

Dr. Quintard Taylor, pioneering historian and BlackPast.org founder, dies at 77

Dr. Quintard Taylor, the distinguished historian of African American history and founder of BlackPast.org, has died at 77. Born in Brownsville, Tennessee, Taylor built a towering academic legacy...