The first issue of Black Executive Journal — The Magazine brings ownership, business history, and capital into focus through reporting across the Black diaspora.
Inside the inaugural issue
The Board Seat Problem: Following BET.com’s deletion of a decade of Black journalism on 4 September 2026, this feature traces the ownership structure up the org chart to the family holding 77.5% of the votes. It also examines the alternatives built by Cathy Hughes, Morgan DeBaun, Byron Allen, and Roland Martin.
Frank McWorter: A business story about the man who bought his pregnant wife’s freedom two years before his own, then platted the first town in America registered by a Black man to help pay for the freedom of the rest of his family.
PIDG and the Blended Finance Playbook: How first-loss capital turns “too risky” into bankable, and what community development financial institutions can borrow from the approach.
More in this issue
A twenty-five-year timeline, an ownership chart, and forty signals from the wire across Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora round out the inaugural edition.
Format
This is a physical magazine shipped to you, not a digital download. Begin your Black Executive Journal magazine collection with the inaugural issue.
