Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...

Torrey Davis, the Florida defensive tackle knifing in on the fourth and goal stand there, is not dead, booted off the team, bolted at the ankle to a tutor, or any other such foolishness as you may have heard. According to Jeremy Fowler of the Orlando Sentinel, Florida is not giving up on Davis, even...

[hit play, then read on for maximum effect] If you’re of orange-and-white extraction and a relative young’un like me, you’ve enjoyed respectable if not notable football success for most of your cognizant life. You are also threatened by change, and you may not know what to make of ...

Mitch Albom’s very favorite pose–as a sportswriter of repute* for a major paper** in one of America’s premier cities***, and author of such books as The First Five People You Meet in Heaven and A Project Chick under his pen name, Nikki Turner–remains that of chiding rabbi. He...

By CHRISTOPHER QUINN The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Tuesday, February 03, 2009 Millard Fuller, the visionary Christian with a single-minded, some say stubborn, focus that resulted in more than 300,000 houses built for the poor, died unexpectedly Monday night. Fuller, 74, was the driving force in f...

Oh, you picky, picky bitches at the public editor’s desk. You first take away our beloved Jayson Blair; then you tell us tales of “girls romancing each other” may just be the unverified, undocumented, and possibly fictitious ramblings of an over-recruited college athlete. Orangeblo...

Rick Reilly hates us, and that’s fine. If no one hates you you’re either doing something wrong, or you’re Willie Nelson, who everyone loves because he’s fuzzy, contantly high, and still wearing the same headband he put on in 1974. (Because there’s weed in it..) Since th...

While on retreat with my family in Maui, one of the books I am reading is a book by Malcolm Caldwell, author of the book OUTLIERS, and before that the landmark book (which everyone should read) THE TIPPING POINT. In the book Gladwell made a point which struck me like a ton of books, as it relates di...

The following is amended text from a letter I recently sent to a pre-imminent leader on the global stage, about "what I believe comes next." It is now an open letter to you, the pre-imminent leader in your own life. By John Hope Bryant These days people feel, rightly so, increasingly burned by what ...

Dear friends of HOPE,   "How did we get here," you might be asking yourself about right now. Well, it is a rather simple explanation. Here it goes.   "If you are financially illiterate, and you didn't understand the language of money, then in good times 'no problem;' the prosperity will paper ove...