Rise From Ruin

Science

The Doctor They Kept Turning Away — And the Cancer Patients Who Are Alive Because She Refused to Quit

Dr. Jane Cooke Wright was a Black woman practicing medicine in 1940s America — which meant that nearly every institution designed to advance her career worked instead to block it. She pushed through anyway, and the chemotherapy techniques she pioneered in a Harlem hospital are still saving lives today. This is the story of a breakthrough that almost never happened.

Mar 13, 2026

Business

From Mopping Floors to Moving Billions: The Man Wall Street Forgot to Fear

Reginald Lewis grew up in working-class Baltimore, scrubbing floors and dreaming bigger than anyone around him dared to imagine. He would go on to orchestrate the largest offshore leveraged buyout in American history — and do it as a Black man in an era when Wall Street's doors were barely cracked open. This is the story they don't teach in business school.

Mar 13, 2026