According to ESPN, Jordan spent $275 million to majority own the Charlotte Hornets' NBA team. According to Forbes, the team is now worth more than $1.5 billion. (Read more...)

Motsepe is passionate about football. He owns and is President of the football club known as Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club, since 2004. (Read more...)

Avant made things happen for men and women of colour in the music and film industry, in sports, in business and in politics. (Read more...)

In Dec. 2013 Medou Badang became the first non-European leader of the Cameroonian subsidiary of the multinational Orange. (Read more...)

Mo's journey into the entertainment world began in 2006 when she left ExxonMobil, giving up a nearly 20-year career in human resources, to become a self-taught host of a daily talk show titled, Moments with Mo. (Read more...)

A woman, black woman, foreign black woman in America as Enonchong described herself in SeedStar launched her first tech company in 1999 in the United States called AppsTech. (Read more...)

Tewolde GebreMariam's rise at Ethiopian Airlines began in 1985, when he was a Transportation Agent. (Read more...)

Accepting the position of an NFL team president during a time when this organization is going through a rough time indicates that Morgan is a risk-taker and a go-getter. (Read more...)

Kenneth C. Frazier is the first African American President of Merck & Co., a pharmaceutical company in the Fortune 500 - America's 500 largest companies, by revenue. (Read more...)

In 1978, Howroyd founded a small temporary employment business in Beverly Hills called Act 1, with her $1,500 savings, a small office, a telephone, and her brother-in-law Tom Noolan as her first client. (Read more...)