Yesterday's Architects Edith Cumbo: Free, Armed With an Account Book, and Nobody's Property In a city built on slavery, a free Black woman ran her own farm, operated her own business, took a white man to court — and won. She did it all without a husband, by design. By BEB Editor • 9 min read
Yesterday's Architects Mont Howell: The Shoemaker Who Stood His Ground in Atlanta While white mobs torched Black Atlanta in 1906, Mont Howell watched — then spent the next four decades proving they couldn't destroy what he had built. By BEB Editor • 11 min read
Yesterday's Architects Isaiah Montgomery: The Man Who Built a Nation Inside a Nation Born enslaved on Jefferson Davis' plantation, he bought his former master's land, founded the most successful all-Black town in American history — then cast the vote that disenfranchised his own people. History has never fully decided what to make of him. It shouldn't. By BEB Editor • 13 min read
The Week Ahead THE BLACK EXECUTIVE: WEEKLY MARKET WATCH The South African Rate Decision Will Tell You More Than the Fed Did | Week of March 23–27, 2026 By BEB Editor • 13 min read
Yesterday's Architects Jane Johnson Endsley: The Woman Who Brought Dallas to Its Knees — Then Fueled It Born enslaved in East Texas, she built a 100-acre farm, accidentally killed a white man who stole from her, walked free, and then built one of the largest coal and fuel businesses in Dallas history. She did all of it without ever learning to read or write. By BEB Editor • 10 min read
Today's Builders The $27 Billion Question Nobody Was Answering When the federal government allocated the largest climate investment in American history, the communities it was designed for had almost no one at the table who could actually close the deal. Trenton Allen had spent a decade making sure that changed. By BEB Editor • 9 min read
Yesterday's Architects Elizabeth A. Gloucester: The Richest Black Woman in America Nobody Taught You About She started with secondhand clothing, built a real estate empire across Brooklyn and Manhattan, funded John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and hosted Frederick Douglass in her home. The New York Times never ran her obituary — until 136 years after her death. By BEB Editor • 11 min read
Today's Builders The Man Who Held Detroit's Deals Together When Nobody Else Could For twelve years, George W. Jackson Jr. ran the organization that negotiated the transactions that kept Detroit in the game — through a financial crisis, an auto industry collapse, and the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Then he left public service and built his own firm. By BEB Editor • 9 min read
The Pulse Tinubu Goes to Downing Street, the SEC Rewrites the Crypto Taxonomy, and Treasury Wants Banks to Start Lending Again The Black Executive Journal — Afternoon Edition | Thursday, March 19, 2026 By BEB Editor • 8 min read
The Pulse Liquidity Is the New Rate Cut — And Capital Will Follow the Short End The Black Executive Journal — Morning Edition | Thursday, March 19, 2026 By BEB Editor • 8 min read
The Pulse Nigeria Rewrites Its AML Playbook, Latin America Unlocks $25 Billion in New Capital, and Ripple Bets Big on Brazil The Black Executive Journal — Afternoon Edition | Tuesday, March 17, 2026 By BEB Editor • 9 min read
News The Fed Meets, the PPI Drops, and the World Is Watching — Here Is What Moves Markets This Week The Black Executive Journal — Morning Edition | Tuesday, March 17, 2026 By BEB Editor • 7 min read
