Tuesday, August 4, 2026

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
— Thomas Paine

Entrepreneur of the Day

Amanda E. Johnson

She and her co-founder identified the nude lip shade gap for darker skin tones at a Harvard Business School cocktail party and turned it into a $9 million venture-funded beauty company that was acquired in 2024.

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Vertical of the Day

Founding

The mechanics of starting: how Black entrepreneurs built new companies from nothing and created markets that didn't exist.

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Historical Spotlight

Abraham Lincoln Lewis

Insurance executive, co-founder of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company, and founder of American Beach

Lewis represents the generation of Black entrepreneurs who understood that financial institutions and physical infrastructure were inseparable.

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