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[…] associate, Billie Jordan and Che “Rhymefest” Smith below. His intimate performance complimented the evenings’ main event, a five year documentary of two young men, Krishaun Branch and Robert Henderson, as they journeyed to and through college – from the slums of Chicago. Interchanging between acappela rhymes and monologues, the rapper discussed world events. He […]

[…] Lovie Smith after 1 year. Using 2 Black Head Coaches to tank and then firing them after 1 year shouldn’t sit right with anyone,” former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III tweeted Sunday, when news of Smith’s firing broke. On ESPN, Stephen A. Smith and NFL Hall of Famer Michael Irvin also condemned the decision. […]

Reuters *Billionaire Robert F. Smith is calling on large corporations to invest 2% of their annual net income over the next decade to help empower Black communities.  Smith’s proposal is part of his new “2% Solution,” which “calls on big banks to capitalize the financial institutions that service Black-owned businesses and minority-run entrepreneurial ventures,” per Minority Business […]

Robert F. Smith / Reuters *Billionaire investor Robert Smith has boosted his private equity firm’s revenue. Smith’s Vista Equity Partners plans to sell Apptio to IBM for $4.6 billion, Markets Insider reports. The sale of the software maker has doubled the firm’s money after acquiring it for $1.9 billion back in 2019. As AfroTech reports, […]

*Billionaire Robert F. Smith announced to the May graduating class at Morehouse College in Atlanta that he planned to pay off the entirety of their student debt. Now Smith is expanding the gift to include their parents. On Friday, Morehouse announced that Smith will cover the educational loans taken out by the parents of the 2019 […]

*Uh oh. It looks like billionaire Robert F. Smith has caught the attention of the feds who are looking at him for potential tax crimes according to a report from Bloomberg. Smith, by the way, made headlines last year when he committed to paying off the student debt of the entire Morehouse College 2019 graduating class. […]

[…] Mike “Scribz” Riley, Seandrea Sledge, Hue Strother, Asa Taccone, Tiara Thomas, Bryson Tiller, Daniel James Traynor, Brendan Walsh, Nicholas Warwar, Jabrile Hashim Willliams, Michael L. Williams II, Robert Williams & Kelvin Wooten, songwriters; Dave Kutch & Colin Leonard, mastering engineers Montero Lil Nas X Miley Cyrus, Doja Cat, Jack Harlow, Elton John & Megan […]

[…] Me” — Adele Adkins & Greg Kurstin, songwriters (Adele) “GOD DID” — Tarik Azzouz, E. Blackmon, Khaled Khaled, F. LeBlanc, Shawn Carter, John Stephens, Dwayne Carter, William Roberts & Nicholas Warwar, songwriters (DJ Khaled Featuring Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend &Fridayy) “The Heart Part 5” — Jake Kosich, Johnny Kosich, Kendrick Lamar […]

*Billionaire Robert F. Smith made headlines in May after announcing he would pay off the student loans of the graduating class at historically Black college Morehouse in Atlanta.  Smith is one of five Black billionaires in America, the others being: Jay-Z, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, and David Steward. Smith is also among the first Black Americans […]

Robert F. Smith speaks to 2019 graduating class of Morehouse *The annual season of college commencements have a unique way of bringing together multiple generations of families in celebration. For the 135th graduating class of Atlanta’s Morehouse College, commencement marked another event that was as unexpected as it was generous. Robert F. Smith, the event’s […]

Dr. Robert H. Smith Sr. *A 99-year-old Mississippi man, born the son of a sharecropper on a plantation, is reminding all of us about the importance of exercising the right to vote. Dr. Robert H. Smith Sr., of Jackson, Mississippi wore a face mask while dropping off his absentee ballot in October and donning […]

[…] community figures, from educators to politicians, businessmen to religious leaders. Of course, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds is in there too, alongside William “Bill” Mays and Supreme Court Justice Robert D. Rucker. Smith chose to utilize younger boys in the representations in order to inspire other young folks. “Some of these men grew up in neighborhoods […]

David J. Roberts *(Brooklyn, NY) – 651 ARTS, Brooklyn’s premier organization for the African Diasporic arts, today announced the appointment of seasoned nonprofit arts leader David J. Roberts as the renowned institution’s new Executive Director. The selection of Roberts follows an extensive nationwide search led by cultural consulting firm CJAM Consulting, LLC and 651’s […]

[…] Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Oklahoma City Thunder during the 2016 NBA Playoffs at ORACLE Arena on May 30, 2016 in Oakland, California.  (Source: Robert Reiners/Getty Images North America) *Stephen A. Smith is on his way to becoming the highest-paid on-air person at ESPN should he score a salary increase of […]

*Back in 2016, African-American billionaire Robert F. Smith, founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, made a big bet when he paid $1.8 billion for the cloud-service company, Marketo. Well, that bet has significantly paid off… because he just sold Marketo to Adobe Systems, Inc. for $4.75 billion, which has earned him a profit of just […]