Reginald F. Lewis

The late Reginald Lewis was a personal hero of mine, and a business favorite.

He was the first Black person to be featured on the Forbes 400, and for me, that milestone was definitely welcome.

Reginald Lewis swarm with the Wall Street sharks, and parlayed his business acumen into incredible financial success, paving the way for people like me to dream bigger, and more expansively.

Sadly, Lewis was felled by brain cancer in 1993 at the young age of 50.

Blaxploitation Movie of the Day: “Let’s Do It Again” (1975), starring Sidney Poitier, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, as Kansas City Mack, Jimmie Walker, Ossie Davis, Denise Nicholas, and Mel Stewart.

His book is “Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?": How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion-Dollar Business Empire

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