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“If a way was made for me, then I have a responsibility to make one for someone else.”Marsai Martin named her foundation...
04/08/2026

“If a way was made for me, then I have a responsibility to make one for someone else.”

Marsai Martin named her foundation after her late cousin Marsai Chari Murray, the woman she was named after.

10,000 students have come through it.

The newest piece is a fellowship that pays ten students $1,500 to learn how credit actually works, then teach it to their own campuses.

Open to two-year, four-year, and accredited trade and vocational programs.

Most people graduate having never been taught how the number that decides their rent gets built.

Applications close September 21. Send this to a student who needs it. Read more about Marsai’s Way Foundation with the link in bio.

“This is my last decision.”LeBron James said that at 41, signing for roughly what a rookie on his new team makes.The par...
03/08/2026

“This is my last decision.”

LeBron James said that at 41, signing for roughly what a rookie on his new team makes.

The part people skip is the timeline. Rich Paul was selling throwback jerseys in an airport when they met in 2002. Maverick Carter was a friend from Akron. Both of them run companies now.

That’s what making a way actually looks like. It takes twenty years to see it, and by then the people you brought with you have their own thing.

Two seasons left. What do you think he’s chasing?

“I wasn’t laid off. I was fired.”Ryan Clark said that in his own studio, on a show he co-founded four years before ESPN ...
31/07/2026

“I wasn’t laid off. I was fired.”

Ryan Clark said that in his own studio, on a show he co-founded four years before ESPN ever made the call.

Nobody gave him the room to say it.

He went undrafted in 2002 and spent eleven years at ESPN telling stories other analysts skipped. Damar Hamlin. Greg Brooks. The ones that needed someone who understood what that locker room actually feels like.

Respect to you Ryan.

Ava DuVernay says her story isn’t really about being a Black woman director.It’s about age. She didn’t pick up a camera ...
30/07/2026

Ava DuVernay says her story isn’t really about being a Black woman director.

It’s about age. She didn’t pick up a camera until she was 32, after fourteen years spent representing other people’s films as a publicist.

Ten years after her documentary 13th, Netflix just announced her next one.

There’s no clock on when the real work starts.

Grief doesn’t usually come with a business plan.Derrick and Kevin Boseman had to build one anyway.Offers tied to their b...
29/07/2026

Grief doesn’t usually come with a business plan.

Derrick and Kevin Boseman had to build one anyway.

Offers tied to their brother’s legacy never stopped arriving after 2020.

This fall, instead of taking another one-off deal, they formed Boseman Family LLC, a creative company built to develop the kind of storytelling projects Chadwick actually cared about.

Run by the two people who knew him best.

Sephora didn’t say yes right away. When Tendai Moyo first started pitching Ruka Hair, most retailers wouldn’t even take ...
28/07/2026

Sephora didn’t say yes right away.

When Tendai Moyo first started pitching Ruka Hair, most retailers wouldn’t even take the meeting. Braiding hair wasn’t something the beauty industry considered mainstream.

She built the fiber first anyway. Years of research and development before a single pitch meeting mattered.

That same fiber now shows up everywhere Black women actually wear their hair: braiding hair, clip-ins, bundles, wigs, ponytails, even hair perfume, built across textures from 3C to 4A.

Not one product for one style. A whole range for however you wear your crown.

A WayMaker doesn’t need a title. They just need to open a door.This year’s TIME100 Creators list is full of people who r...
27/07/2026

A WayMaker doesn’t need a title. They just need to open a door.

This year’s TIME100 Creators list is full of people who rarely get called that; no institutional stamp, no traditional résumé, just millions of people following what they built.

Wisdom Kaye traded an engineering degree for TikTok outfit videos and ended up on runways. De’Arra Taylor rebuilt her whole channel solo after a public breakup and kept over a million people watching.

Their contribution to culture was never quiet. The list just caught up to it.

Swipe through for lessons from those who paved the way.Their no can’t be louder than your own internal YES! Sterling Bro...
25/07/2026

Swipe through for lessons from those who paved the way.

Their no can’t be louder than your own internal YES! Sterling Brown on The Daily Show

Colman Domingo doesn’t need to pinch himself. He put in the work! 👑 Hollywood Authentic

Black women supporting Black women 🥹🤎👏🏾 Kennedy Ryan

I’m trying to be the most AI forward restaurant company that exists - Top 50 WayMaker Damola Adamolekun

Lessons learned from Victoria Monét on Vivian Tu | Your Rich BFF

Work doesn’t work without play - Shonda Rhimes

Dyon Brooks didn’t start doing comedy to build a brand.He was going through what he’s called a rough time in his life wh...
24/07/2026

Dyon Brooks didn’t start doing comedy to build a brand.

He was going through what he’s called a rough time in his life when friends kept telling him he was funny. So he started filming skits in his car and posting them.

Years later, when he thought he’d have to release his stand-up special himself, that following is exactly why he didn’t have to. The number one streaming service in the game came calling instead.

Sometimes what you build out of necessity ends up being exactly what you needed.

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