WV Living Magazine: How Brad and Alys Smith are reshaping the future of West Virginia.

WV Living Magazine: How Brad and Alys Smith are reshaping the future of West Virginia.

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...
Paying Respect: With Ambassador Andrew Young, Honoring Reverend Jesse Jackson

Paying Respect: With Ambassador Andrew Young, Honoring Reverend Jesse Jackson

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...
A Standing Ovation for Doug McMillon: A Leader Who Put Financial Dignity on the National Agenda

A Standing Ovation for Doug McMillon: A Leader Who Put Financial Dignity on the National Agenda

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...
Honored by Black Enterprise at the 2025 XCEL Summit for Men

Honored by Black Enterprise at the 2025 XCEL Summit for Men

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...