Out of more than 3,400 billionaires in the United States, fewer than thirty are Black – and only four are women. These are their stories.
In this video, we count down the ten richest Black women in America – from a whiskey brand built around the forgotten man who taught Jack Daniel his craft, to the woman who turned owning her own master tapes into a $3.2 billion fortune.
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📌 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS VIDEO
The untold story behind Uncle Nearest Whiskey and its founder
How Emma Grede built an 8% stake in a $5 billion shapewear empire
Why Serena Williams’s biggest win might be the one after tennis
How Sheila Johnson became the first Black woman billionaire in history
Why Oprah Winfrey’s real fortune came from one negotiation in 1986
The Black woman who became a billionaire without releasing an album in nearly a decade
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 – Introduction
0:46 – Fawn Weaver – The Whiskey Queen
02:20 – Emma Grede – The Billion-Dollar Brand Builder
04:15 – Serena Williams – From the Court to the Capital Game
06:06 – Janice Bryant Howroyd – The Billion-Dollar Staffing Queen
07:20 – Sheila Johnson – The Queen of Reinvention
08:57 – Beyoncé Knowles-Carter – The Artist Who Became a Billion-Dollar Infrastructure
10:27 – Rihanna – The Businesswoman Who Accidentally Became a Billionaire
11:37 – Rosalind Brewer – The CEO Who Built Doors
12:47 – Oprah Winfrey – The Woman Who Turned Her Story Into a Business
14:55 – Outro
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