Perry told Forbes he adopted that business strategy on the advice of fellow Black billionaire Oprah Winfrey. Shawn Carter, better known as Jay-Z, may be hip hop's first billionaire, but he didn't make his fortune off his music career alone. After a years-long campaign by West to get added to the magazine's annual Billionaires List, Forbes declared Kanye West a billionaire in April. Jordan, 57, is the highest-paid athlete of all time, but not because of his salary from the Chicago Bulls.
Born to a single mother in rural Mississippi, Winfrey started out as a news anchor before spending 25 years hosting "The Oprah Winfrey Show. She became a billionaire in , according to the Los Angeles Times. She owns Steward, 68, serves as the company's chairman. The Missouri-based billionaire still has a majority stake in the company. A Cornell graduate and former Goldman Sachs executive, Smith built his multibillion-dollar fortune running private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, Business Insider previously reported.
Smith became the first African American to sign The Giving Pledge in , an invitation-only alliance of billionaires who have pledged to give away the majority of their fortunes. Smith is perhaps best known for his philanthropy. Smith later expanded the gift to cover the graduates' parents' educational debt. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. Click here to read more about Alicia Boler Davis journey to joining Amazon's senior team.
In November , Noah Harris, a junior from Hattiesburg, Mississippi became the first Black man elected to serve as Harvard's student body president in the school's year history. It's a title Harris says he is grateful to have earned. When asked about the Black leaders he feels paved the way for him, Harris points to Fentrice Driskell, who was the first Black woman to serve as Harvard's student body president and currently serves in the Florida House of Representatives — as well as W.
Du Bois. Of course, he is one of the most amazing leaders in Black political thought in history. And so to have him literally paved the way for people like me is pretty special," says Harris. After graduation, the junior hopes to attend Harvard law but for now, he says "I'm really just trying to make my fellow students proud. Click here to read more about Noah Harris' journey to becoming student body president at Harvard. When she officially steps into the role in March, she will be the first Black woman to hold this position.
The youngest of six children, Hobson was raised by a single mother in Chicago and credits her financially poor upbringing for driving her into the career she's in today. Hobson, who graduated from Princeton University in , first joined Ariel Investments as a college intern and spent nearly two decades as the firm's president before being named co-CEO in In addition to being the incoming chair of Starbucks board, Hobson serves as a director on JPMorgan Chase's board and is a chairman of After School Matters, a Chicago non-profit that provides local teens with high-quality, after school programs.
Hobson College, tentatively scheduled to open in the fall of , will be the university's first residential college named after a Black woman. In the U. Naval Academy's year history, there has never been a Black woman to serve as a brigade commander.
But all of that changed this January when Midshipman Sydney Barber stepped into the role. Barber, who grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois, says she was inspired by her dad, who graduated from the academy in , to attend the institution. Barber explains that like many other Black attendees who walked through the academy's doors before her, her dad experienced racism during his tenure as a midshipman.
Knowing her dad's experience and the experience of countless other diverse leaders, the year-old says she's "extremely humbled" by her new opportunity and she doesn't take the responsibilities of her role lightly. Janie Mines is another one of my mentors. She's the first Black female graduate of the Naval Academy," Barber says. And she talks about how, at her time at the Academy, she wasn't even acknowledged or recognized by her peers being that it was a predominantly White male institution.
Click here to read more about Sydney Barber's journey to becoming the U. Naval Academy's first Black female brigade commander.
Roughly million people tune into the Super Bowl and its halftime show in a given year. In , the most-watched TV concert headlined by The Weeknd will have Jesse Collins at the helm, making him the first Black executive producer of the Super Bowl halftime show.
Collins began his year career in TV writing, which eventually led to producing and becoming founder and CEO of his eponymous entertainment company. He's known for producing some of the most memorable moments in awards show history, including his Emmy-nominated work for the 61st Grammy Awards in , as well as scripted series, competition shows and news specials like last summer's "John Lewis: Celebrating A Hero.
Through the agreement, Collins will produce theatrical films for the first time. He sees his work as bolstering the current renaissance of Black art, he told Indiewire in June — a movement he aims to make long-lasting. So, from a business standpoint, it's going to make sense, and I think that we might look back at this 20 years from now and say, 'This was a pivotal moment. When Disney's Marvel Studios tapped Nia DaCosta last year to direct the upcoming "Captain Marvel" sequel due to hit theaters in , she became the first Black woman director to tackle the Marvel Universe.
Yet when Marvel handed DaCosta the keys to its billion-dollar franchise, the year-old had only released one movie in theaters. DaCosta later expanded that into her first feature film in , winning the Tribeca Film Festival's Nora Ephron award for the best woman writer-director and catching the eye of Academy Award-winner Jordan Peele. Calling DaCosta a "bold new talent," Peele hired her to direct and co-write his much-anticipated horror sequel "Candyman.
It's a beautiful, beautiful movie. Coming off "Candyman," DaCosta had to mull over the idea of directing another big film like "Captain Marvel 2" when she heard she was being considered for the job, she told The Wall Street Journal.
But by the time Marvel made the offer, it was "an immediate yes. When Aicha Evans agreed to become the new CEO of autonomous vehicle start-up Zoox in , she made history as the first Black woman to run a self-driving car company. Now Evans is working with Amazon to realize Zoox's vision of an autonomous ride-hailing service with its own fleet of fully self-driving electric cars. Evans, who was born in Senegal and has a computer engineering degree from The George Washington University, previously spent 12 years at Intel.
She's "had to overcome a lot" as a Black woman in tech, she told the Financial Times — it's an industry along with the auto industry known for poor representation of women of color. But Evans has also seen opportunity, especially in her ability to bring a different perspective and different ideas, she said. In joining Zoox, Evans was drawn to the opportunity to "challenge the status quo" with an "autonomous mobility system built from the ground up," and at a time when the auto industry is at an inflection point with self-driving technology.
At 38, Wright is also currently the youngest president of an NFL team. He came into the position with intimate knowledge of the league, having spent seven years as a running back with the Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns and Arizona Cardinals. With the Washington team, one of his biggest challenges will be to fix the franchise's culture, which includes handling allegations of sexual harassment and leaving behind the legacy of the team's racist former name.
It's a tall order, but Wright is optimistic. He spent his earliest days on the job meeting with employees, gathering facts and developing a plan of attack. He's committed to making changes and says the team's owner, Dan Snyder, has given him the leeway to do what he sees fit. That includes creating a human resources department and making the "psychological and emotional well-being" of his employees his No.
For Wright, this position is "an opportunity to bring together my two worlds in a really unique way," he said on Good Morning America. In her own words, Dana Canedy's career path "represents the inclusive progress that many people think is now in peril in America.
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