Issue No. 1, October 2026. The Ownership IssueLatest issue
The Board Seat Problem
Who controls Black media, and what happens when the people who create its value do not control its future?
- Price
- $35.99
- Pages
- 40
- Format
- A4 paperback, saddle stitched, full color (8.27 × 11.69 in)
- Published
- October 11, 2026
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About this issue
The inaugural issue of Black Executive Journal — The Magazine.
On 4 September 2026, BET.com deleted a decade of Black journalism with no notice and no archive. The Board Seat Problem follows that deletion up the org chart to the family holding 77.5% of the votes — and to the four people who have already built the alternative: Cathy Hughes, Morgan DeBaun, Byron Allen and Roland Martin.
Frank McWorter bought his pregnant wife’s freedom two years before he bought his own, then platted the first town in America registered by a Black man to pay for the rest of his family. A business story, told as one.
PIDG and the Blended Finance Playbook shows how first-loss capital turns “too risky” into bankable — and what CDFIs can borrow from it.
Plus a twenty-five-year timeline, the ownership chart, and forty signals from the wire across Africa, the Caribbean and the diaspora.
Inside
- Cover story: The Board Seat Problem, by Noah Carmichael
- The Org Chart: who holds the votes (page 13)
- Yesterday’s Architects: Frank McWorter (page 15)
- PIDG and the Blended Finance Playbook
- A twenty-five-year timeline
- The Wire: forty signals from Africa, the Caribbean and the diaspora (page 29)
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