John Hope Bryant and Anthony Anderson – A Dual Book Signing at Walmart in Celina, Texas, Reminded Me Why the American Dream Still Works

John Hope Bryant and Anthony Anderson – A Dual Book Signing at Walmart in Celina, Texas, Reminded Me Why the American Dream Still Works

There is something powerful about two kids from Compton, California ending up at the same table — not on a street corner, not in a courtroom, but at a book signing inside a brand-new Walmart Supercenter in one of the fastest-growing cities in America. That is exactly...
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...
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...
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...