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BYRON ALLEN  ENTERTAINMENT STUDIOS; ALLEN MEDIA GROUP  EST. 1993 & 2018  Media mogul Allen is in perpetual motion, closing deals to expand his empire. Allen

SEAN COMBS  BAD BOY ENTERTAINMENT; REVOLT  EST. 1993 & 2013  Combs launched his music production company, Bad Boy Entertainment, in 1993, and worked with artists

DAYMOND JOHN  FUBU  EST. 1992  Launching his urban clothing line in his mother’s home in the Hollis section of Queens, New York, John made FUBU–For

MICHAEL LEE-CHIN  PORTLAND HOLDINGS INC.  EST. 1991  Founder and chairman of Portland Holdings Inc., a privately held investment company in Burlington, Ontario, Jamaican-born Lee-Chin started

RICHELIEU DENNIS  SUNDIAL BRANDS; ESSENCE VENTURES  EST. 1991 & 2018  In the early 1990s, Liberian immigrant Dennis and his partners at Sundial Brands hawked their

DAVID STEWARD  WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY  EST. 1990  Through continuous innovation and forging partnerships with Cisco, Dell EMC, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, and other tech giants,

WILLIAM PICKARD  GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE ALLIANCE CORP.  EST. 1989  As founder, chairman, and CEO of Global Automo-tive Alliance, Pickard created the first Black-owned group of plastic-parts

EARVIN “MAGIC” JOHNSON  MAGIC JOHSON ENTERPRISES  EST. 1987  The former basketball superstar scored in business, developing partnerships with Sony Corp. (Magic Johnson Theaters), TGI Friday’s

OPRAH WINFREY  HARPO INC.  EST. 1986  Winfrey is among the shrewdest entrepreneurs and one of the most ubiquitous global brands, influencing the buying decisions of

RUSSELL SIMMONS  DEF JAM; PHAT FASHIONS L.L.C.  EST. 1984 & 1992  Simmons didn’t just open a business when he created Rush Communications, he gave birth