by John Bryant | Mar 30, 2026 | Bryant on Good Capitalism, Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Global Citizenship, Hope Is On The Way, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights
Editor’s Note: There are people you admire from a distance, and then there are people you know up close — whose character only deepens the closer you get. Brad D. Smith and his wife Alys are those kinds of people for me. Brad is a friend, a member of the...
by John Bryant | Mar 29, 2026 | Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Bryant on Meaning, Global Citizenship, John Hope Bryant Authored
Yesterday, March 28th, my friend Dr. Bernice A. King turned 63 years old. And while the world knows her as the youngest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King — and as the CEO of The King Center — I want to take a moment to honor the woman I...
by John Bryant | Mar 29, 2026 | Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Global Citizenship
There are love stories. And then there are love stories that feel like they were written by history itself. Thirty years ago yesterday — March 28, 1996 — Ambassador Andrew J. Young and Mrs. Carolyn McClain Young were married in Cape Town, South Africa, with Archbishop...
by John Bryant | Mar 7, 2026 | Bryant in Remembrance, Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Bryant on Meaning, Bryant on the Move, Bryant Traveling Man, Events & Appearances, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights
Rev. Jesse Jackson laying in state at the South Carolina State Capitol This past Monday, civil rights icon Ambassador Andrew Young and I traveled to the State Capitol of South Carolina to pay our final respects to a man who bent the arc of history with his bare hands...
by John Bryant | Mar 1, 2026 | Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Financial Literacy, Financial Literacy for All (FL4A), HOPE Global Forum, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights
A Salute to Doug McMillon, former CEO of Walmart There are leaders who manage organizations, and then there are leaders who move mountains. Doug McMillon is the latter. When Doug and I co-founded the Financial Literacy for All Initiative, we shared a simple but...
by John Bryant | Mar 1, 2026 | Awards and Recognition, Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Bryant on the Move, Bryant Speaks, Bryant Traveling Man, Entrepreneurship, Events & Appearances, Financial Literacy, Operation HOPE
There are moments that stop you in your tracks — not because of the award itself, but because of who is doing the honoring. Earl ‘Butch’ Graves Jr and John Hope Bryant at the Black Enterprise ECEL Summit 2025 Black Enterprise has been a cornerstone of...
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