Moments: John Hope Bryant Speaks at 50th Anniversary of Dr. King’s Sanitation Workers Strike in Memphis.

On March 24th, 2018, I was honored to travel to Memphis, TN as the guest of the City of Memphis and the Mayor, as the official keynote speaker on the 50th anniversary of the Sanitation Workers Strike there.  The I AM A MAN Honors Ceremony where I spoke that evening...

100+ HOPE Inside Locations and Growing for Operation HOPE

As we move to Scale our movement for Operation HOPE on-the-ground, both urban and rural, across the country, I am excited to report that Operation HOPE and our partners are scaling up and expanding a signature initiative within Project 5117 — it’s called...

My Word for 2018: Scale

Every year I pick a special Word that symbolizes and frames my work, activities, focus and time commitments — for that next 12 years. In years past, my ‘Word’ has been (to execute) Strength (2017), (to) Curate (2016), Intentionality (2015), and...

End of Year Reflections – 2017

2017 has been my most transformational year ever. More than 500,000 airline miles traveled, and more than 2,000 meetings held this year alone. My Word for 2017 was Execution, as in to ‘execute’ on my vision, and execute we did. * In 2017, Operation HOPE reached a...