He became the first black partner at a big law firm, and drafted many agreements for mining ventures. It was while he was drafting mining contracts that he spotted an opportunity in mining, and then ventured into the business. Today he is the first black billionaire in South Africa; and a...
The channel was a hit, and Johnson became the first Black billionaire when he sold his company to Viacom in 2001. The BET division of Viacom today is the most widely received network for African American audiences, with the paid channel reaching about 88,255,000 American households. Lisa Te...
Winfrey is the first Black woman billionaire, with deep attention paid to strategic financial partnerships and enterprises. Her immense monetary wealth aside, Winfrey has spent her career fostering creative projects that have elevated her standing as an American icon among fans. Here’s a sampling of...
Television executive and American entrepreneur, Robert Louis Johnson became the first African-American billionaire in 2001, when he sold his cable television network BET for $3 billion to Viacom. Since then only a handful African business people have risen to the occasion. Here are 10 black billi...
So I found these comments by Robert Johnson, founder of BET and America's first black billionaire interesting. “Look, the people who are basically tearing down statues, trying to make a statement are basically borderline anarchists, the way I look at it,” Johnson t...
“we believe in our clients and seek to hold black accountable.” black’s personal and professional lives have been in a tailspin since january 2021, when the billionaire announced he was stepping down as ceo of private-equity giant apollo following the emergence of his ties to epstein...
Motsepe, the founder and chairman of African Rainbow Minerals, became a billionaire in 2008 – the first black African on the Forbes list. In 2016, he launched a new private equity firm, African Rainbow Capital, focused on investing in Africa. Motsepe also has a stake in Sanlam, a listed ...
The world’s richest Black man is the first Black entry on the Forbes billionaire list. African billionaire Aliko Dangote comes in with an impressive $14 billion net worth. Just last week, it was announced that he opened a 3-million-tonne fertilizer plant at a cost of $2.5...
Stacker compiled a list of 25 billionaires who live in some of America's smallest towns, using Forbes' real-time billionaire list and
The first youngest billionaire in the world to be featured on our list is Julio Mario Santa Domingo, III. Julio is one of four heirs to his grandfathers Columbian beer empire and is a stakeholder in both Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller. ...