At 14 years old, Stacy Spikes began plotting ways he could get into the movie world. He worked in a video store as a high schooler in Houston and left Texas before leaving for California…
Shantel Williams, popularly known as the “Sassy Accountant,” is making her name as a woman to listen to on how you need to spend, save and invest your money. Boasting 15 years of professional finance…
Resourcefulness is at the core of the African American narrative. For centuries, Black people have had to work with inadequate resources, limited opportunities and under oppressive environments. They have thrived, regardless. A former slave, Junius…
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,…
Nigerian teenager Emmanuela Ilok has secured full scholarships to study Computer Science at multiple Ivy League institutions. She has received acceptance offers from MIT, Stanford, Yale, UPenn, Princeton, Columbia, Georgia Tech, Washington University, University of…
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