The idea of a transatlantic Chamber of Commerce for African American and African British businesses rests on a simple but powerful premise: economies grow stronger when their institutions align. Fo…

“We are not thinking deep enough to have economic impact. We think about the restaurant, we do not think about the farm, the bank that finances the supplies, delivery trucks, the silverware a…

HBCU Money’s analysis of the 2025 African American Owned Bank Directory finds that if Black America held banking assets proportional to its 13.5% population share, African American-owned bank…

TAfrican American parenting debates have imported two frameworks — gentle parenting and “tiger parenting” — that optimize for individual outcomes and stop at the household’s front…

At Spelman or Howard, we teach our students how to code, how to dissect, how to argue cases in court and analyze the nuances of Baldwin. But we rarely teach them how to build and sustain the very r…

Nigeria’s stock market closed the first half of 2026 as one of the world’s best-performing exchanges, with Ghana, Kenya, and Tunisia also ranking among global leaders. Meanwhile, the UA…

The rivalry between Rockefeller and Carnegie did not diminish either man — it built 2,509 libraries, two universities whose endowments today exceed $14 billion, and institutions that are still fili…

African American-owned credit unions hold more than $8.15 billion in assets and serve 726,929 members across 205 active institutions in 2025 — more than double the sector’s asset base from 20…

The world has never been more interconnected, yet African American children remain significantly underrepresented in transformative global educational experiences—not due to lack of access, but bec…

By William A. Foster, IV “Dear Young Black Males… Always remember to hold your head up high, and NEVER doubt who you are. Believe in yourself SO much that other people’s negative wo…

No Black-owned firm exists anywhere near the scale of a Hall and Hall — no brokerage, no in-house financing, no forestry consultancy built by and accountable to the families whose land and capital …

The receivership of Uncle Nearest is not just about whiskey or mismanagement. It is a reminder of how European American-controlled finance has long wielded financial violence against African Americ…

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…

Dr. Murrell D. Green’s appointment as permanent Executive Director of San Francisco’s African American Art & Culture Complex has been covered as a homecoming story. It is also a fin…

The near-total absence of African American men from the serious public discourse of economics, geopolitics, and institutional strategy is not a cultural accident. It is the predictable output of a …

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them. – Magic Johnson Universal Pre-K and early childhood development programs are something that is often laud…

“The African American institutional ecosystem faces a structural financing problem that no single grant cycle, federal appropriation, or celebrity donation can solve on its own. The challenge…

Elon Musk has sold an affluent consumer class the most expensive component of an unsustainable system and called it a revolution. The electric vehicle changes what a car burns. It does not change w…

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery IPO — a $40 to $50 billion multi-exchange offering set to open for subscription later in 2026 — is the largest equity offering in African capital markets history, and…

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery IPO — a $40 to $50 billion multi-exchange offering set to open for subscription later in 2026 — is the largest equity offering in African capital markets history, and…

“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.” For African American men, this verse from 1 Corinthians 13:11 is more than spiritual reflection—it is a dire…

African American cultural generosity has never been the community’s structural vulnerability. The vulnerability is the absence of institutional governance around where resources flow, where talent …

In February 1999, TLC released what would become one of the defining singles of their career, but its more lasting contribution was not musical — it was diagnostic. “No Scrubs” and the …

On a single night in January 2024, the federally mandated Point-in-Time census counted more than 240,000 Black Americans experiencing homelessness — the largest raw figure ever recorded in HUD&#821…

The soul of an HBCU has never lived solely in its buildings or branding—it lives in the people who walk its halls, teach its classes, and mentor its students with both academic rigor and cultural f…

HBCUs were founded as an act of defiance against a system that refused to invest in Black institutional capacity. The HBCU Card is an act of surrender to the same logic, branded in school colors. S…

Three African American athlete families — LeBron and Savannah James, Stephen and Ayesha Curry, and Simone and Jonathan Owens — reported combined annual earnings of approximately $241.4 million in 2…

With so many HBCU presidents resigning and retiring we thought it would be a good idea to put together a list of people we here at HBCU Money would like to see take the helm as an HBCU president. H…

“You’re not even looking at the problem.” That line from Moneyball encapsulates the crisis facing African America’s institutional ecosystem. Despite $1.6 trillion in annual consumer spending,…

In February 1999, TLC released what would become one of the defining singles of their career, but its more lasting contribution was not musical — it was diagnostic. “No Scrubs” and the …

African American-owned credit unions hold more than $8.15 billion in assets and serve 726,929 members across 205 active institutions in 2025 — more than double the sector’s asset base from 20…

Black men cite the 75 percent figure — the share of married Black men wed to Black women — as proof that the narrative of abandonment is false, and they are correct. What they do not cite, from the…

By Jarrett Carter, Sr. Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. – Jim Rohn Oprah Winfrey (pictured above) – The only African American bi…

While A’ja Wilson’s grandmother couldn’t walk on USC’s campus, she could have attended South Carolina State University—an institution systematically underfunded by $500 mill…

To return without partnership is to risk being perceived not as kin, but as conquerors in familiar skin. Africa is not a blank slate for diasporic dreams—it is a continent with sovereign institutio…

“And we’re in the business of being in business, and we’re doin’ business.” – “Monty” Brewster The 1985 film Brewster’s Millions, starring Rich…

Three African American athlete families — LeBron and Savannah James, Stephen and Ayesha Curry, and Simone and Jonathan Owens — reported combined annual earnings of approximately $241.4 million in 2…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…