JOHN HOPE BRYANT: On Oprah Winfrey, the Forbes Self-Made 250, and What It Really Means to Come from Nothing

JOHN HOPE BRYANT: On Oprah Winfrey, the Forbes Self-Made 250, and What It Really Means to Come from Nothing

In Philadelphia, at the birthplace of American democracy, the woman who started with nothing stood as America’s greatest self-made success story. That is not coincidence. That is proof. I have spent my life talking about the distance between poverty and...
FREEDOM, FLUENCY, AND THE FUTURE: What I Told the Room at Carnegie Hall on Juneteenth Night

FREEDOM, FLUENCY, AND THE FUTURE: What I Told the Room at Carnegie Hall on Juneteenth Night

There is a stage inside Carnegie Hall — the Isaac Stern Auditorium, the Perelman Stage — where some of the greatest voices in American history have stood. On June 19, on Juneteenth, I stood on that stage too. Not as an entertainer. As an economic plumber, still trying...