In 2019 I attended a conference in Washington DC for African Americans in the Footwear industry. The sea of black talent in one a single room wa...

Back in the olden days a rite of passage was getting a check book for your bank account. I was officially a teenager and my mother wanted me to le...

As a design director at Nike I fully understood my role. There were shoes to design, branding to maintain, expense reports to sign and marketing...

Without question there will be 6,453 versions of everything that happened at Nike at any given point. 72% of these stories are true. It’s all pe...

That’s my grandfather on the far right. He was part of a semi-pro Negro League team sponsored by National Cash Register. This photo was taken duri...

Ugly shoes and skinny jeans had the same cycle as retro shoes and expensive denim. Large waves start out as small ripples with a lot of pushback...