To close out Black Business Month, we look back on 7 pioneers who helped shape Black entrepreneurship into the juggernaut it's become today.

In the 80’s, Reginald F. Lewis was the nation’s richest African-American and the first to build a billion-dollar company. Although Lewis took pride in being a Black man, he didn’t like to be pigeonholed as a result of his race. Lewis was born December 7, 1942 in Baltimore, Md. Stating, in his words, that his […]