David Steward is the richest Black man in America. Forbes has released their annual Forbes 400 list, a definitive ranking of the country’s richest people. Featured individuals had to earn at least $3.3 billion, which was an increase of $400 million from the year prior. In total, the net worths totaled $5.4 trillion, which was a $1 trillion increase from 2023. Among the listed individuals is Steward, who is tied for No. 84 with a net worth of $11.4 billion. Steward leads World Wide Technology, an IT management company, as the founder and chairman. He launched the company in 1990 and today it has become a solution provider for over 80 Fortune 100 companies, its website states. Some of its partners include Cisco, NVIDIA, Verizon and the federal government. “Our expertise in AI, cloud, networking, cybersecurity, data analytics, automation, digital transformation and more allows us to deliver groundbreaking solutions that redefine businesses, revolutionize industries, transform...

We have Mark Dean to thank for being the brains behind some of the key components that brought us early computers in the 1980s. “A lot of kids growing up today aren’t told that you can be whatever you want to be,” the computer engineer once said, according to sources. “There may be obstacles, but there are no limits.”   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by AfroTech (@afro.tech) And there were certainly no limits when it came to the achievements of Dean. Upon receiving his degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tennessee in 1979, he headed to IBM, according to Our Tennessee. In the midst of his work, Dean earned a master’s degree from Florida Atlantic University and a doctorate from Stanford University in 1992. He also made history as the first Black person to become an IBM Fellow — the company’s highest distinction. “I ignored the people attempting to block my progress and had no limits to who I talked to and in sharing my opinion,” Dean said in a previous...