Category: Black Excellence
Spotlighting rising founders, creators, inventors, athletes, and tech minds reshaping the nation. A new generation of Black innovators is rewriting what success looks like in America. They are launching billion-dollar ideas, reshaping culture, building technology for the future, and inspiring millions with their brilliance. These young trailblazers aren’t just winning in their fields, they are […]
Every year, people search for stories about Tulsa, economic empowerment, and forgotten Black history. Black Wall Street was more than a neighborhood. It was a declaration, a bold, powerful message that Black America could build, thrive, and excel despite the harshest systems working against it. The Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, became one of the […]
A deep dive into generational wealth, financial barriers, and new success strategies. For decades, the conversation around Black wealth in America has circled the same painful truth: Black households continue to lag far behind their white counterparts in building and sustaining generational wealth. The gap is not closing fast enough, despite progress in education, entrepreneurship, […]
Sarah Boone (c. 1832 – October 29, 1904) was a pioneering African American inventor who transformed the way people iron clothing. Born into slavery in North Carolina, she overcame immense challenges to become one of the first Black women to receive a United States patent. Her invention, an improved design for the ironing board, became […]
When we talk about the most important Black inventors in American history, Frederick McKinley Jones deserves to be at the very top.Not just for one invention, but for dozens. Jones didn’t simply create new gadgets.He changed the way the world eats, travels, receives medical care, and even fights wars. Most people know him as the […]
