Emotional Moment: Forbes 250 Greatest Living Self Made Americans List

Emotional Moment: Forbes 250 Greatest Living Self Made Americans List

I’m going to be honest with you. When I held that Forbes magazine in my hands and saw Dr. Dre, another Black man from Compton, California on the cover, and me listed amongst the 250 — at number 145 on the list — I didn’t feel special. I felt...
TIME: 25 Tech Insiders on the Innovations Defining American Life Today

TIME: 25 Tech Insiders on the Innovations Defining American Life Today

Editor’s Note When TIME calls and asks you to stand alongside some of the most consequential technologists, inventors, and innovators in the world — and to answer one question about what defines America right now — you don’t hesitate. You answer with the...
Operation HOPE, Inc. and Wells Fargo Open New HOPE Inside Location in Chula Vista, California

Operation HOPE, Inc. and Wells Fargo Open New HOPE Inside Location in Chula Vista, California

When the CEO Shows Up: What the New HOPE Inside in Chula Vista Says About the Future of Financial Inclusion That is exactly what happened in Chula Vista, California, when Wells Fargo Chairman and CEO Charlie Scharf stood beside me to cut the ribbon on our newest HOPE...
A New HOPE Inside Location: When Purpose Meets Partnership. Operation HOPE, Inc. and the T.D. Jakes Foundation Open New Doors in Dallas

A New HOPE Inside Location: When Purpose Meets Partnership. Operation HOPE, Inc. and the T.D. Jakes Foundation Open New Doors in Dallas

This past weekend, I traveled to Dallas, Texas for one of those moments that reminds you why you do this work. Together with Bishop T.D. Jakes and the extraordinary team at the T.D. Jakes Foundation, we cut the ribbon on a new T.O.R.I. Community Office at The DEC...
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...