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Black Capitalists Newsletter

This newsletter tracks my journey to write and publish my debut book, Black Capitalists - to be published by Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in June 2025.

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  1. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    On Whose Terms (opens the original)

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    From September 8 to 10, more than 300 investors, policymakers, founders, and cultural leaders gathered at the Westin Charlotte for the Global Africa Summit, convened by Jane Reindorf-Osei and the Africa Investment Network. The theme was Beyond Partnerships: Trade, Investment & Private Capital as Tools of Global Resilience.The setting mattered. Charlotte is the second-largest banking center in the United States, and the summit took place during North Carolina’s

  2. Issue · Sep 8, 2026

    They Finally Drew Us to Scale (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Sep 1, 2026

    The Vineyard Convening (opens the original)

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    Martha’s Vineyard is at its fullest in August. The ferries run heavy, the island fills with people who have come for the season, and everything is in motion. On the seventeenth, out of all that motion, we drew a room together and sat down to talk about money, and about what it means for money to pass through Black hands.This was the first Black Capitalists: The Vineyard Convening, an evening I intend to hold each year, on an island that has held generations of Black aspiration, leisure, and weal

  4. Issue · Jul 21, 2026

    A Signature, and What It Signs Us Up For (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Jul 9, 2026

    The Air Was Less Charged: New Orleans, ESSENCE, and the World After the Payback (opens the original)

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