by John Bryant | Apr 14, 2026 | Awards and Recognition, Bryant Group Ventures, Capitalism for All, Entrepreneurship, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights
The list highlights people who started with nothing and made it big. He dropped out of high school, but Tyler Perry converted 330 acres of a former Army post in southwest Atlanta into one of the largest studios in the United States. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images...
by John Bryant | Apr 14, 2026 | Awards and Recognition, Bryant Group Ventures, Capitalism for All, Operation HOPE
How these entrepreneurs and entertainers went from sleeping in cars and flopping on friends’ couches to becoming some of the most successful people in America. In 1992, struggling playwright Tyler Perry invested his $12,000 life savings into his first play, “I Know...
by John Bryant | Apr 13, 2026 | Awards and Recognition, Bryant Group Ventures, Entrepreneurship, Featured, Operation HOPE
ATLANTA, GEORGIA – OCTOBER 10: John Hope Bryant, Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Operation Hope, speaks onstage during the 2025 ForbesBLK Summit at Ray Charles Performing Arts Center Morehouse College on October 10, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras...
by John Bryant | Mar 30, 2026 | American Aspiration Tour, BG Digital Media LLC, Bryant Group Digital Media LLC, Bryant Group Ventures, Bryant on Good Capitalism, Bryant Speaks, Capitalism for All, Delivering The Memo, Entrepreneurship, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE
Foreword Authors Andrew Young, Ed Bastian, and Michael Milken to host John Hope Bryant for Tour Stops in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Operation HOPE, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping low-and moderate-income Americans thrive...
by John Bryant | Mar 30, 2026 | Bryant on Good Capitalism, Bryant on Leaders and Leadership, Global Citizenship, Hope Is On The Way, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights
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...
by John Bryant | Mar 23, 2026 | Bryant on the Move, Events & Appearances, HOPE Global Forum, John Hope Bryant Authored, Operation HOPE, Silver Rights
Tonight, I had the honor of introducing a quiet giant. At the 2nd Annual ACE Honors Awards, we celebrated the extraordinary Bill Duke—a man whose career spans more than four decades, but whose impact reaches even further. Most people know Bill Duke the actor—Predator,...
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