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What Berkshire Buys Next: The Five Giants That Fit Buffett’s Playbook "With over $380 billion in cash and short-term Treasuries, the conglomerate is sitting on more dry powder than most central banks."
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What Berkshire Buys Next: The Five Giants That Fit Buffett’s Playbook
With over $380 billion in cash and a trillion-dollar market cap, Berkshire Hathaway now resembles a financial nation-state in search of its next province. But in the post-Buffett era, the real ques…
https://hbcumoney.com/2025/11/16/what-berkshire-buys-next-the-five-giants-that-fit-buffetts-playbook/
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LESS: Can Minimalism Spur African American Wealth Building? "The utility of minimalism as a wealth-building mechanism is not merely philosophical it is arithmetically demonstrable."
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LESS: Can Minimalism Spur African American Wealth Building?
Minimalism, when contextualized within African America, is more than an aesthetic. It is an act of economic warfare. It is the refusal to let capitalism’s most damaging myths define Black financial…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/05/19/less-can-minimalism-spur-african-american-wealth-building/
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College: Once A Space For Human Exploration Has Been Trampled By Corporate Conditioning "There is a revealing diagnostic embedded in a question any professor can pose on the first day of class: why are you here?"
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College: Once A Space For Human Exploration Has Been Trampled By Corporate Conditioning
“Each semester I ask my students, ‘Why are you here?’ And each time, the answers echo like clockwork: ‘To get a job,’ they say. ‘To make money.’ What they don’t say—and what they’ve never been told…
https://hbcumoney.com/2025/12/16/college-once-a-space-for-human-exploration-has-been-trampled-by-corporate-conditioning/
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The Wire Reimagined: From Gangsters To HBCU Leadership "Slim Charles is chosen to be an HBCU president because of his keen strategy abilities, intelligence, foresight, adaptability, and willingness to make tough decisions."
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The Wire Reimagined: From Gangsters To HBCU Leadership
I believe your reality is what you make it, what you choose to see, and what you choose to allow yourself to do. There are possibilities all around you – magic all around you – no matte…
https://hbcumoney.com/2022/12/13/the-wire-reimagined-from-gangsters-to-hbcu-leadership/
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The Prospect Heights Empire, Part II: From Newsprint to Natural Resources — How Flavor Group Holdings Built a Vertical Integration Strategy for the Ages "Step back and consider what Flavor Group Holdings had assembled by 2015, beginning from a magazine operation and a Brooklyn brownstone in 1995."
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The Prospect Heights Empire, Part II: From Newsprint to Natural Resources — How Flavor Group Holdings Built a Vertical Integration Strategy for the Ages
Khadijah James understood something about the magazine business that most publishers learn too late: the product you sell is content, but the input you cannot live without is paper — and paper, in …
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/05/15/the-prospect-heights-empire-part-ii-from-newsprint-to-natural-resources-how-flavor-group-holdings-built-a-vertical-integration-strategy-for-the-ages/
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"Six people. Six distinct competencies. One address. The question is not whether they had what it took. The question is why no one ever suggested they combine it."
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The Prospect Heights Empire, Part I: What Khadijah James, Kyle Barker, and the Living Single Six Could Have Built Together
Between 1993 and 1998, Living Single gave Black America six young professionals living with intention and ambition in one of the most historically Black neighborhoods in the United States — and tel…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/05/12/the-prospect-heights-empire-what-khadijah-james-kyle-barker-and-the-living-single-six-could-have-built-together/
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The Seven (Internal) Barriers to Building Sustainable African American Philanthropic Infrastructure "The fourth group recognizes the need for African American institutions but believes funding them is someone else’s responsibility."
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The Seven (Internal) Barriers to Building Sustainable African American Philanthropic Infrastructure
This group fails to recognize that non-African American institutions have historically underserved Black communities and that Black-led institutions bring cultural competency, trust, and targeted i…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/03/10/the-seven-internal-barriers-to-building-sustainable-african-american-philanthropic-infrastructure/
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The Prospect Heights Empire, Part I: What Khadijah James, Kyle Barker, and the Living Single Six Could Have Built Together "To understand the magnitude of the missed opportunity, one must first inventory the human capital assembled inside that Brooklyn brownstone."
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The Prospect Heights Empire, Part I: What Khadijah James, Kyle Barker, and the Living Single Six Could Have Built Together
Between 1993 and 1998, Living Single gave Black America six young professionals living with intention and ambition in one of the most historically Black neighborhoods in the United States — and tel…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/05/12/the-prospect-heights-empire-what-khadijah-james-kyle-barker-and-the-living-single-six-could-have-built-together/
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The Endowment Edge: A Conversation With The University Of Virgin Islands’ Dr. Haldane Davies "We certainly support investments with African Diaspora investment firms as part of our overall investment strategy."
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The Endowment Edge: A Conversation With The University Of Virgin Islands’ Dr. Haldane Davies
HBCU Money’s editor-in-chief, William A. Foster, IV, sits down with the Foundation of the University of Virgin Islands’ executive director Dr. Haldane Davies. They discuss the importanc…
https://hbcumoney.com/2015/04/14/the-endowment-edge-a-conversation-with-the-university-of-virgin-islands-dr-haldane-davies/
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The Five Evergreen Acres: A Land Investment Framework for Every Stage of African American Life "Pastureland generates recurring lease income from ranchers and livestock operators with relatively low management overhead"
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The Five Evergreen Acres: A Land Investment Framework for Every Stage of African American Life
African Americans own less than 1% of all privately owned rural land in the United States — a collapse that accelerated across the 20th century through discriminatory lending, heirs’ property…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/05/08/the-five-evergreen-acres-a-land-investment-framework-for-every-stage-of-african-american-life/
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The Counter-Curriculum: How HBCUs Must Respond to a Global Infrastructure of Violence Against (Black) Women "Black adult women are six times more likely to be killed than white women, and an estimated 51 percent of Black female adult homicides are related to intimate partner violence."
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The Counter-Curriculum: How HBCUs Must Respond to a Global Infrastructure of Violence Against (Black) Women
A CNN investigation has exposed a global network of men organizing online to drug and assault their partners — a platform drawing 62 million monthly visitors, a number large enough to constitute th…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/26/the-counter-curriculum-how-hbcus-must-respond-to-a-global-infrastructure-of-violence-against-black-women/
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Broke & Dating: African Americans Cannot Afford to Date — Nor Can They Afford Not To "This is not a romantic observation. It is an institutional and economic one, and it deserves to be examined as such."
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Broke & Dating: African Americans Cannot Afford to Date — Nor Can They Afford Not To
African Americans spend a disproportionate share of their income on courtship compared to any other major demographic group in the country — yet marriage remains one of the most powerful wealth-bui…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/05/05/broke-dating-african-americans-cannot-afford-to-date-nor-can-they-afford-not-to/
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What Berkshire Buys Next: The Five Giants That Fit Buffett’s Playbook "Buffett’s philosophy has been remarkably consistent for over six decades: buy simple, cash-rich, moated businesses led by trustworthy managers."
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What Berkshire Buys Next: The Five Giants That Fit Buffett’s Playbook
With over $380 billion in cash and a trillion-dollar market cap, Berkshire Hathaway now resembles a financial nation-state in search of its next province. But in the post-Buffett era, the real ques…
https://hbcumoney.com/2025/11/16/what-berkshire-buys-next-the-five-giants-that-fit-buffetts-playbook/
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The Counter-Curriculum: How HBCUs Must Respond to a Global Infrastructure of Violence Against (Black) Women "What Black America is experiencing is not an anomaly. It is the domestic expression of a global pattern that follows Black and African-descended women across every geography..."
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The Counter-Curriculum: How HBCUs Must Respond to a Global Infrastructure of Violence Against (Black) Women
A CNN investigation has exposed a global network of men organizing online to drug and assault their partners — a platform drawing 62 million monthly visitors, a number large enough to constitute th…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/26/the-counter-curriculum-how-hbcus-must-respond-to-a-global-infrastructure-of-violence-against-black-women/
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The Case For Mergers: Marrying The Big Four HBCU Conferences Into Two "The fact that HBCUs largely lack the booster power to maintain their FCS infrastructure, largely leaning on the backs of their students to drive revenues through student fees has always been a matter of concern"
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The Case For Mergers: Marrying The Big Four HBCU Conferences Into Two
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth…
https://hbcumoney.com/2022/06/26/the-case-for-mergers-marrying-the-big-four-hbcu-conferences-into-two/
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The Myth Of The Overpaid Pro Athlete: Teachers Actually Make More Than NFL Players Athletes’ Median Salaries (based on career earnings) If Spread Out Until Age 65 NFL Players – $34,200 NBA Players – $144,000 MLB Players – $85,600 NHL Players – $81,300
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The Myth Of The Overpaid Pro Athlete: Teachers Actually Make More Than NFL Players
Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom. – Lord Byron Quick, who is the eleventh man on your favo…
https://hbcumoney.com/2014/02/12/the-myth-of-the-overpaid-pro-athlete-teachers-actually-make-more-than-nfl-players/
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The Ecosystem We Have Not Built: What the HERD Survey Tells Us About HBCU Research Infrastructure "HBCUs accounted for 0.79% of it which is less than eight-tenths of one percent of the nation’s research investment"
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The Ecosystem We Have Not Built: What the HERD Survey Tells Us About HBCU Research Infrastructure
Stanford did not produce Google by accident. It produced Google because decades of investment in research infrastructure, technology transfer capacity, and graduate talent pipelines made commercial…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/05/01/the-ecosystem-we-have-not-built-what-the-herd-survey-tells-us-about-hbcu-science-funding/
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The Gridiron Mirage: Debunking the NFL as the Engine of African American Wealth "Meanwhile, wealth in America is driven by ownership: of businesses, real estate, stocks, and institutions. The NFL offers none of these to the vast majority of its Black athletes."
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The Gridiron Mirage: Debunking the NFL as the Engine of African American Wealth
The widely held belief that the NFL has created more African American millionaires than any other institution is not only misleading—it’s dangerous. This article dismantles the myth, exposing how f…
https://hbcumoney.com/2025/08/26/the-gridiron-mirage-debunking-the-nfl-as-the-engine-of-african-american-wealth/
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Delay As Strategy: Why Democrats Must Stall The Federal Reserve Chair Confirmation Until After The 2026 Midterms "The Federal Reserve does not often feature in discussions of HBCUs. It should."
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Delay As Strategy: Why Democrats Must Stall The Federal Reserve Chair Confirmation Until After The 2026 Midterms
The Federal Reserve Chair may not stand for election, but their influence on elections is profound. From the price of bread to the size of student loan payments, the Fed’s choices shape the economi…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/29/delay-as-strategy-why-democrats-must-stall-the-federal-reserve-chair-confirmation-until-after-the-2026-midterms/
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The Forgotten Mission – HBCUs Account For Less Than One Percent Of America’s College Research Spending "HBCUs comprise approximately 2.3 percent of all colleges and universities in America. However, they make up only 0.7 percent of the research and development spending by American universities."
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The Forgotten Mission – HBCUs Account For Less Than One Percent Of America’s College Research Spending
“Many think that the principal mission of universities is to transmit knowledge; they miss the key point that teaching and research are inseparable. American universities must continue to dis…
https://hbcumoney.com/2016/11/14/the-forgotten-mission-hbcu-research/
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The Confederacy of Capital: The Texas Stock Exchange and the Risk of Southern Financial Hegemony "Texas has rapidly positioned itself as the national headquarters of the movement to strip social and governance accountability from investment and corporate decision-making."
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The Confederacy of Capital: The Texas Stock Exchange and the Risk of Southern Financial Hegemony
“The Texas Stock Exchange is not merely a new financial institution—it is a battleground disguised as a business model. Backed by billionaires and governed by the same Southern ideologies that once…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/28/the-confederacy-of-capital-the-texas-stock-exchange-and-the-risk-of-southern-financial-hegemony/
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The Counter-Curriculum: How HBCUs Must Respond to a Global Infrastructure of Violence Against (Black) Women "More than four in ten Black women experience physical violence from an intimate partner during their lifetimes — a rate higher than white women, Latinas, and Asian & Pacific Islander women."
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The Counter-Curriculum: How HBCUs Must Respond to a Global Infrastructure of Violence Against (Black) Women
A CNN investigation has exposed a global network of men organizing online to drug and assault their partners — a platform drawing 62 million monthly visitors, a number large enough to constitute th…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/26/the-counter-curriculum-how-hbcus-must-respond-to-a-global-infrastructure-of-violence-against-black-women/
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Why Do HBCUs Not Bank With Black Banks? "Meanwhile, right in Howard University’s backyard is Industrial Bank, an African American Owned Bank with $723 million in assets, meaning PNC Bank has over 760 times the amount of assets of Industrial."
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Why Do HBCUs Not Bank With Black Banks?
It could all be so simple But you’d rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle and we both end up with scars. – Lauryn Hill Something that should be so simple, HBCUs and other Afr…
https://hbcumoney.com/2023/04/15/why-do-hbcus-not-bank-with-black-banks/
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Starting a Philanthropy Club: A Collective Approach to African American Giving "It makes sense to start a philanthropy club with family, friends, or HBCU alumni because, most of the time, your values are well-aligned."
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Starting a Philanthropy Club: A Collective Approach to African American Giving
“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.” – Dr. Maya Angelou. If you’ve been considering joining or starting an philanthropy club with your …
https://hbcumoney.com/2024/12/16/starting-a-philanthropy-club-a-collective-approach-to-african-american-giving/
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Tommy Ain’t Got No Job—But He Had a Portfolio: Rewriting Financial Narratives Through Black Fictional Wealth "The more intuitive read — the one requiring no further explanation — was that Tommy must be hustling. He must be in the streets. A drug dealer felt more believable than an investor."
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Tommy Ain’t Got No Job—But He Had a Portfolio: Rewriting Financial Narratives Through Black Fictional Wealth
In a world that mocked Tommy Strawn for not having a job, few ever thought to ask if he actually needed one. Behind the backroom doors of Nipsey’s, where laughter and jazz flowed freely, Tommy pres…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/21/tommy-aint-got-no-job-but-he-had-a-portfolio-rewriting-financial-narratives-through-black-fictional-wealth/
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The Quiet Collapse of HBCU-Based Credit Unions "The trajectory is not encouraging. Even among the survivors, total membership has declined by more than seven percent since 2016, dropping from 12,467 members to 11,588."
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The Quiet Collapse of HBCU-Based Credit Unions — and What Michigan State’s $8.26 Billion Juggernaut Reveals About the Cost
The scale of the collapse: Since 2020, five of the eleven HBCU-based credit unions in the country have either closed or been acquired, cutting the number of Black university-controlled financial in…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/02/06/the-quiet-collapse-of-hbcu-based-credit-unions-and-what-michigan-states-8-26-billion-juggernaut-reveals-about-the-cost/
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Bringing New Faces to the Global Shipping Industry: A Nod to Garvey & Black Star Line "It is the physical infrastructure through which international trade operates and one of the largest, most capital-intensive industries in the world in which Black institutional investment is effectively absent."
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Bringing New Faces to the Global Shipping Industry: A Nod to Garvey & Black Star Line
As the global shipping industry faces increasing pressure to innovate and become more sustainable, it finds itself at a crossroads—seeking new solutions and diverse perspectives to address its most…
https://hbcumoney.com/2025/10/14/the-shipping-industry-has-an-age-gender-color-issue-industry-insider-samina-sadaf-mahmood-thinks-hbcus-can-help/
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LeBron James Parrots Laura Ingraham in the City Dr. King Died in Trying to Build African American Institutional Power "King came to Memphis for sanitation workers earning $1.70 an hour. He was not interested in whether the city impressed visiting athletes."
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LeBron James Parrots Laura Ingraham in the City Dr. King Died in Trying to Build African American Institutional Power
LeBron James net worth is equivalent to the assets of our largest African American owned bank. There is no other world where that would be imaginable for any other group. Elon Musk will never be wo…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/19/lebron-james-parrots-laura-ingraham-in-the-city-dr-king-died-in-trying-to-build-african-american-institutional-power/
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That Kind of Man Is Never Poor: Why Educated, Enterprising, and Ambitious Black Love Demands Mutual Support "She was describing a compatibility of spirit — the recognition that two people with aligned orientations toward growth could build something neither could build alone."
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That Kind of Man Is Never Poor: Why Educated, Enterprising, and Ambitious Black Love Demands Mutual Support
There is a reason the exchange between Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert has lived rent-free in the hearts of Black America for more than thirty years. It wasn’t the wit, though it had plenty …
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/03/that-kind-of-man-is-never-poor-why-educated-enterprising-and-ambitious-black-love-demands-mutual-support/
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HBCUs Have A $1.6 Billion Annual “Cost Of College” Deficit – And A Crisis Is Looming Because Of It "Unfortunately, because African American households are economically poor and psychologically devalue African American institutions, then being more expensive than the norm is not an option."
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HBCUs Have A $1.6 Billion Annual “Cost Of College” Deficit – And A Crisis Is Looming Because Of It
“When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.” – Magic Johnson Nobody ask African American institutions to do more with less than African Americans themselves. We a…
https://hbcumoney.com/2023/05/24/hbcus-have-a-1-6-billion-annual-cost-of-college-deficit-and-a-crisis-is-looming-because-of-it/
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Two Wrongs Do Not Make A Generational Wealth: Elvin, Sondra, The Huxtables – And A Wilderness Store "Dr. and Mrs. Huxtable, Esq.’s jobs as doctor and lawyer, respectively allows a family to build up the capital base and stability needed to take on the risk of starting a firm."
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Two Wrongs Do Not Make A Generational Wealth: Elvin, Sondra, The Huxtables – And A Wilderness Store
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. – Khalil Gibran Building wealth in this country is hard. Building African American wealth in this country feels like…
https://hbcumoney.com/2024/01/15/two-wrongs-do-not-make-a-generational-wealth-elvin-sondra-the-huxtables-and-a-wilderness-store/
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African American Tuition Valued At $64 Billion; But HBCUs Receive Less Than $6 Billion Annually "Yet when families sit down to make college decisions, often the single largest financial investment they will make outside of purchasing a home, the conversation shifts."
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African American Tuition Valued At $64 Billion; But HBCUs Receive Less Than $6 Billion Annually
The paradox is impossible to ignore: African American communities consistently champion the importance of buying Black and supporting Black-owned businesses, yet when it comes to what may be the la…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/17/african-american-tuition-valued-at-64-billion-but-hbcus-receive-less-than-6-billion-annually/
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Minding Whose Store: African America Businesses Generate Just 0.43% of U.S. Revenue "The more instructive question is not whether Black consumers will choose to spend with Black businesses. It is whether Black businesses exist that other communities have no choice but to spend with."
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Minding Whose Store: African America Businesses Generate Just 0.43% of U.S. Revenue
African American businesses generate just 0.43% of all U.S. business revenue — for a community that makes up 14.4% of the population. Fifteen individual American companies, each one by itself, out-…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/10/minding-whose-store-african-america-businesses-generate-just-0-43-of-u-s-revenue/
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The Color Line Was Never Broken: MLB’s Jackie Robinson Day and the Permanent Absence of Black Ownership "The answer, measurable across 79 years, is nothing. Because in the entire recorded history of MLB, there has never been a single African American principal owner of a franchise. Not one."
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The Color Line Was Never Broken: MLB’s Jackie Robinson Day and the Permanent Absence of Black Ownership
Every April 15th, Major League Baseball dresses itself in the iconography of racial progress — every player, coach, and umpire wearing number 42 in a league-wide act of commemorative solidarity. Bu…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/16/the-color-line-was-never-broken-mlbs-jackie-robinson-day-and-the-permanent-absence-of-black-ownership/
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FAMU Alumna & Atlanta Cigar Week Co-Founder Octavia Toliver is Adding New Flavor to the Old Boys’ Club of Cigars "I was introduced to cigars by a guy who took me on a date to a cigar bar 10 years ago. I don’t remember his name, but I remember the cigars! Lol."
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FAMU Alumna & Atlanta Cigar Week Co-Founder Octavia Toliver is Adding New Flavor to the Old Boys’ Club of Cigars
On any given day, you can find Herficionado, Octavia Toliver’s moniker, just about anywhere from the cigar shop to a rooftop terrace puffing on a cigar and planning her next move as she takes…
https://hbcumoney.com/2018/02/23/famu-alumna-atlanta-cigar-week-co-founder-octavia-toliver-is-adding-new-flavor-to-the-old-boys-club-of-cigars/
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Beyond The Deed: African American Real Estate Ownership Must Mature From Shelter to Strategy "This framing is emotionally powerful and historically resonant. It is also, from a wealth-building perspective, incomplete."
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Beyond The Deed: African American Real Estate Ownership Must Mature From Shelter to Strategy
In a real estate market valued at over $100 trillion, African Americans hold just $2.24 trillion—barely 5% of the nation’s real estate wealth. This imbalance is not merely a product of historical e…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/14/beyond-the-deed-african-american-real-estate-ownership-must-mature-from-shelter-to-strategy/
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More Than A Decade Later: New York’s Carver Bank Has Not Returned To African American Ownership "Despite all the attention, Carver’s stock remains volatile, trading below $4 per share for much of 2024. Its market capitalization hovers under $20 million—hardly a prize for large investors."
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More Than A Decade Later: New York’s Carver Bank Has Not Returned To African American Ownership
More than a decade after a Wall Street-led bailout saved Carver Federal Savings Bank from collapse, New York’s storied Black financial institution remains out of African American hands. Once a beac…
https://hbcumoney.com/2025/11/04/more-than-a-decade-later-new-yorks-carver-bank-has-not-returned-to-african-american-ownership/
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From Hillman to the World: How Whitley Gilbert-Wayne Built a Pan-African Art Empire "The Diaspora Art Investment Fund launched with $500,000 in seed capital from twenty Hillman alumni investors."
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From Hillman to the World: How Whitley Gilbert-Wayne Built a Pan-African Art Empire
When Whitley Gilbert-Wayne stood before a Nigerian artist’s work in a Tokyo gallery in the mid-1990s, she had an epiphany that would transform her from a Hillman College art history graduate …
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/02/27/from-hillman-to-the-world-how-whitley-gilbert-wayne-built-a-pan-african-art-empire/
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Mapping the Gap: The Geography of African American Banks and Credit Unions in 2025 "Louisiana stands out, with one bank and 25 credit unions, the most of any state in the credit union count."
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Mapping the Gap: The Geography of African American Banks and Credit Unions in 2025
When the geography of African American banks and credit unions is mapped together, the combined footprint spans 31 states and territories, with 17 banks carrying $6.72 billion in assets and 205 cre…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/03/21/mapping-the-gap-the-geography-of-african-american-banks-and-credit-unions-in-2025/
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2024’s Most Powerful Women in African American Owned Banks "As our institutions decrease, so then do our ability to create opportunities for our communities."
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2024’s Most Powerful Women in African American Owned Banks
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. – Mary McLeod Bethune African American…
https://hbcumoney.com/2024/07/14/2024s-most-powerful-women-in-african-american-owned-banks/
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Why Are HBCUs Not Becoming College Towns Where African American Businesses Thrive? "It is a simple question really. What good is African America’s $1.6 trillion in buying power if all of it goes into companies owned by non-African Americans?"
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Why Are HBCUs Not Becoming College Towns Where African American Businesses Thrive?
As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional – your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness ov…
https://hbcumoney.com/2023/02/02/why-are-hbcus-not-becoming-college-towns-where-african-american-businesses-thrive/
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The Africa Travel Ban Is an HBCU Problem "For HBCUs specifically, this is not a distant geopolitical event. It is a direct threat to an enrollment strategy, a revenue base, and a civilizational relationship that institutions have spent decades building."
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The Africa Travel Ban Is an HBCU Problem
The photograph of Majok Bior — a South Sudanese computer science sophomore stranded at his cousin’s home in Kampala after the Trump administration invalidated his visa — is a human document. …
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/12/the-africa-travel-ban-is-an-hbcu-problem/
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More Than Sports: HBCU Conferences Need To Create Their Own Endowment Foundations "Take the Ivy League. Its member schools may not be athletic powerhouses, but collectively they manage over $200 billion in endowment assets."
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More Than Sports: HBCU Conferences Need To Create Their Own Endowment Foundations
“In a world where capital drives credibility and control, HBCU conferences must expand their role from coordinators of sports to curators of generational wealth.”
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/07/more-than-sports-hbcu-conferences-need-to-create-their-own-endowment-foundations/
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Minding Whose Store: African America Businesses Generate Just 0.43% of U.S. Revenue "The more instructive question is not whether Black consumers will choose to spend with Black businesses. It is whether Black businesses exist that other communities have no choice but to spend with."
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Minding Whose Store: African America Businesses Generate Just 0.43% of U.S. Revenue
African American businesses generate just 0.43% of all U.S. business revenue — for a community that makes up 14.4% of the population. Fifteen individual American companies, each one by itself, out-…
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/10/minding-whose-store-african-america-businesses-generate-just-0-43-of-u-s-revenue/
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Money is no good unless it contributes something to the community, unless it builds a bridge to a better life. Any man can make money, but it takes a special kind of man to use it responsibly. - A. G. Gaston
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With So Much Oil In HBCU States – Where Are HBCU Alumni Owned Energy Firms? "But the renewable transition could offer an inflection point. The barriers to entry are lower, the policies more inclusive, and the urgency to diversify the energy economy is real."
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With So Much Oil In HBCU States – Where Are HBCU Alumni Owned Energy Firms?
It is a curious contradiction: the Southern states that dominate America’s oil and gas production — Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama — are also home to the vast majority of the nation’s Histo…
https://hbcumoney.com/2025/12/12/with-so-much-oil-in-hbcu-states-where-are-hbcu-alumni-owned-energy-firms/
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That Kind of Man Is Never Poor: Why Educated, Enterprising, and Ambitious Black Love Demands Mutual Support "The Black couple that builds a business strong enough to employ a hundred people and endow a scholarship fund is not just building a legacy for their children."
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That Kind of Man Is Never Poor: Why Educated, Enterprising, and Ambitious Black Love Demands Mutual Support
There is a reason the exchange between Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert has lived rent-free in the hearts of Black America for more than thirty years. It wasn’t the wit, though it had plenty …
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/04/03/that-kind-of-man-is-never-poor-why-educated-enterprising-and-ambitious-black-love-demands-mutual-support/
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Are New Mexico, Maine, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands the Only Social, Economic, and Politically Safe Territories for African Americans? "African American institutions (HBCUs, banks, and foundations) should view these geographies not simply as refuges but as development frontiers."
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Are New Mexico, Maine, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands the Only Social, Economic, and Politically Safe Territories for African Americans?
In an America increasingly fractured by race and politics, four places—New Mexico, Maine, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands—offer African Americans something rare: the possibility of peace w…
https://hbcumoney.com/2025/11/14/are-new-mexico-maine-puerto-rico-and-the-u-s-virgin-islands-the-only-social-economic-and-politically-safe-territories-for-african-americans/
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From Hillman to the World: How Whitley Gilbert-Wayne Built a Pan-African Art Empire "The Diaspora Art Investment Fund launched with $500,000 in seed capital from twenty Hillman alumni investors."
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From Hillman to the World: How Whitley Gilbert-Wayne Built a Pan-African Art Empire
When Whitley Gilbert-Wayne stood before a Nigerian artist’s work in a Tokyo gallery in the mid-1990s, she had an epiphany that would transform her from a Hillman College art history graduate …
https://hbcumoney.com/2026/02/27/from-hillman-to-the-world-how-whitley-gilbert-wayne-built-a-pan-african-art-empire/
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HBCUs Can Fill the Void: How America’s Retreat from Polar Research Creates an Unprecedented Opportunity for Black Academic Leadership "Imagine Howard University leading joint oceanographic research with the University of Ghana coordinating atmospheric monitoring stations across the Caribbean."
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HBCUs Can Fill the Void: How America’s Retreat from Polar Research Creates an Unprecedented Opportunity for Black Academic Leadership
Here’s an uncomfortable truth: this initiative will only succeed if HBCU alumni associations mobilize with the same intensity, pride, and financial commitment they bring to homecoming footbal…
https://hbcumoney.com/2025/12/17/hbcus-can-fill-the-void-how-americas-retreat-from-polar-research-creates-an-unprecedented-opportunity-for-black-academic-leadership/
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