My Mother Taught Me to Jump: What a First Dive and a First eFoil Ride in Turks & Caicos Taught Me About the Woman Who Made Me.

My Mother Taught Me to Jump: What a First Dive and a First eFoil Ride in Turks & Caicos Taught Me About the Woman Who Made Me.

By John Hope Bryant This past Mother’s Day, I did what I have done every Mother’s Day since September 10, 2023, when my mother, Ms. Juanita Murray Smith, transitioned from this life — I thought about her. I talked to her. And then I tried to live like her....
Ten Things I Want to Tell the Generation That Wants to Burn It All Down

Ten Things I Want to Tell the Generation That Wants to Burn It All Down

John Hope Bryant at the Breakfast Club, on the release of his new book ‘Capitalism for All’ I hear you. I hear the frustration, the exhaustion, the rage. I hear a generation that was told the rules were fair — and then discovered they weren’t. A...
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...