Discussions about Africa's wealthiest people occasionally revolve around the fact that the majority of the country's high-net ...

Built by former slaves, the mill was so famous that W.E.B. DuBois included pictures of the building in an exhibit at the ...

Forbes 400 list has named IT entrepreneur David Steward, the richest Black person in the US. Steward, the majority owner of ...

Warren Clay Coleman was considered “the richest Black man in America” in 1900 by opening the first Black-owned textile mill ...

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Jeff Bezos may be the richest men in the world, but they aren't the only billionaires. 11 of the world's billionaires — fewer than 1% — are black. They're ...

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi, 71, moved from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia when he was 19, and began amassing his fortune from government-contracts in real estate and construction, according to Bloomberg.

From Jay-Z to Rihanna, to Oprah Winfrey, to Tyler Perry, some of our favorite figures have inspired us with their rags-to-riches stories. While not all of them have achieved their wealth and ...

Coleman “was able to rise up and become the richest man, the richest Black man, in America as of 1900,” Concord author Norman McCullough Sr. said in a 2022 video on the city’s Facebook page.

We already met the world's richest black billionaires, so it is time to take a look at their kids. Being born into a billionaire family can certainly make life interesting. Many of these kids ...

Consequently, some argue that having more Black billionaires is crucial for redistributing wealth and fostering economic independence on the continent. Forbes’ 2025 list of the top five richest ...