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Saturday, June 20, 2026
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”
Entrepreneur of the Day
Victor Hugo Green
He was a Harlem letter carrier who spent his lunch breaks compiling a list of safe places for Black Americans to eat, sleep, and fill their gas tanks across a country that was trying to make their travel dangerous. He published it every year for thirty years.
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Vertical of the Day
Roots
The foundation: Black economic history from the first patent to the structures that still shape today's wealth gap.
Historical Spotlight
Historical Spotlight
Anthony Johnson
The first documented Black landowner and entrepreneur in colonial America — and an enslaver
Johnson's 1651 land claim is the earliest documented instance of a Black person building wealth through ownership in colonial America.
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