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Measuring America’s Financial Soul: What the HOPE Community Credit Score Index Reveals About Inequality, Life, and the 700-Score Threshold

by John Bryant | May 25, 2026 | Bryant on Good Capitalism, Bryant Thought Leadership, HOPE Commmunity Credit Score Index, HOPE National FICO Credit Score Index, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE

How One Nonprofit Mapped Every Zip Code in America and Discovered That Credit Scores Predict Life Expectancy, Crime Rates, and Homeownership—and Why It Matters for Policy, Practice, and American Renewal Part I: A Map of Inequality—Drawn from Home When I drive through...

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....

The Bryants Celebrate Sarah Friar, Friends of Operation HOPE Honored with the 2026 Ellis Island Medal of Honor

by John Bryant | May 18, 2026 | Bryant on Good Capitalism, Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Bryant on the Move, Bryant Traveling Man, John and Chaitra Bryant Family, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE

On an island that welcomed millions chasing the American Dream, this year’s honorees prove that dream is still very much alive Last night, Chaitra and I had the honor of standing on sacred American ground — Ellis Island — to celebrate some extraordinary people...

Emotional Moment: Forbes 250 Greatest Living Self Made Americans List

by John Bryant | May 14, 2026 | Article, Awards and Recognition, BG Digital Media LLC, Bryant Group Digital Media LLC, Bryant on Good Capitalism, Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Bryant on the Move, Capitalism for All, Entrepreneurship, Hope Is On The Way, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE, The Silver Rights Movement

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...

12,000 FUTURES, ONE SAVINGS ACCOUNT AT A TIME: How Operation HOPE, Inc., Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, and Atlanta Public Schools Are Proving That Financial Dignity Starts in Kindergarten

by John Bryant | May 10, 2026 | Bryant Writing | OpEds, Financial Literacy, HOPE Children’s Savings Account Program, Hope Is On The Way, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights

There is a statistic I carry with me everywhere I go — into boardrooms and classrooms, into city halls and community centers. It comes from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, and it is as simple as it is powerful: a child with a savings account in...

“The Get It Done Economy: A Manifesto for the Passionate Middle of America”

by John Bryant | May 7, 2026 | Bryant on Good Capitalism, Bryant Writing | OpEds, Capitalism for All, Featured, Financial Literacy, John Hope Bryant Authored, Op Ed, Silver Rights

A Manifesto for the Passionate Middle of America. Seven Principles for an Economy That Works the Way It Was Supposed To. By John Hope Bryant, from the Milken Global Conference. On Operation HOPE’s Birthday week (actual birthday anniversary was May 5th 2026), in...