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Tuesday, July 21, 2026
“We must act as though it is impossible to fail.”
Entrepreneur of the Day
Reginald Lewis
In 1987 he acquired a $985 million food distribution company with operations across 31 countries, making it the first Black-owned business to exceed $1 billion in annual revenues. He died six years later at fifty. Most Americans cannot name him.
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Vertical of the Day
Acquisition
Entrepreneurship through acquisition — buying and building established businesses instead of starting from scratch.
Historical Spotlight
Historical Spotlight
Homer B. Roberts
First Black automobile franchisee in the United States and one of the first retail shopping center developers in the country
Roberts demonstrates the inverse concealment pattern at its most structurally explicit: white dealers recruited him not despite his race but because of it.
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