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IMPACT-Magazine page is about being the change we want to see in the world! It is more than us talking about it...we highlight people who are being about it! We are bringing about a social change through the power of words and pictures. In 2012, after celebrating five years in publication, IMPACT released its sister publication, "Flawless IMPACT"! Flawless aims to depict the understanding that beauty is in the eye of the beholder! If you are comfortable with the skin you are in, you will exude a magnificent power to the world! Flawless highlights the movers and shakers in the beauty and display undiscovered beauties in our "Flawless Fresh Face" monthly issues.

09/17/2026

There is a particular kind of becoming that happens when a woman understands that who she is cannot be separated from what she believes. Values stop being ideas and begin determining the choices she makes, including the choices that may cost her something.

Karla Mosley became that woman. During her time as Maya Avant on The Bold and the Beautiful, Mosley helped build a groundbreaking character and a significant chapter of her own career, but as the story evolved, so did Karla.

She began to believe that a transgender character should be portrayed by a transgender actor. Walking away from Maya meant releasing a role she had invested years of herself into, and she did it. Not because the work no longer mattered, but because what she had come to understand mattered more.

That is where becoming becomes visible. It is easy to pursue an opportunity when it aligns with what we want. It takes something different to recognize when our growth has changed what we are willing to accept, represent, or participate in.

Today, Karla is unfolding into another chapter as Dani Dupree on Beyond the Gates, while standing inside a historic moment as a 2026 Daytime Emmy nominee. She and Tamara Tunie made history as the first two Black actresses nominated in the same lead-actress category in the awards’ history.

But this moment is not the destination. It is evidence of the woman who kept becoming. The woman who learned that success is not simply about what you can obtain, but what you are willing to stand for.

That is why The Only IMPACT Magazine™ is honoring Karla Mosley during Daytime Emmy’s Week at our Black Women Defining Television Experience. We are honoring the woman she became through her choices, her convictions, and her courage to allow her life to keep unfolding.

Karla Mosley, we can’t wait to see and celebrate you on the terrace.

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09/16/2026

When the labor market stopped recognizing what Keisha McCotry had spent more than two decades building, she faced a choice: wait for another company to choose her, or build what she needed herself; she chose to build.

After navigating her own ADHD journey, Keisha M. recognized something missing. The tools available often focused on productivity, focus, and task management. She wanted something that addressed what happens emotionally.

So she built Zelmwell, an app designed to help adults navigate emotional overwhelm, rejection sensitivity, triggers, reflection, and emotional regulation.

The process was anything but simple. McCotry had never founded a software company. She taught herself product development, used AI as a development partner, worked with technical experts, rebuilt the onboarding experience, created 18 versions, and faced six rejected App Store submissions before Zelmwell was approved.
She didn’t wait for another opportunity to arrive, she built one.

Read Keisha McCotry’s story at IMPACT Magazine ——> www.theimpactmagazine.com or click the link in our Stories.

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09/15/2026

In 2017, Colin colin kaepernick career in the NFL ended. No team signed him. No team called.

The most visible act of Black protest in professional sports since Muhammad Ali had made power uncomfortable, and the response was familiar: removal. Kaepernick did not disappear, he built.

In 2018, he founded Know Your Rights Camp, creating free education, legal resources, and direct support for Black and Brown communities. Then the work went deeper. When families received death rulings that raised questions, Know Your Rights Camp helped fund independent autopsies.

When investigations closed before families had answers, the organization helped create another path toward the truth. The system could reach a conclusion. Kaepernick helped build infrastructure that allowed families to keep asking questions.

Today, that infrastructure has supported 150 independent autopsies (including Nolan Wells), hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal grants and bail relief, and another $1 million pledged to community organizations.

Ten years after taking a knee, Kaepernick is telling the story in his own words. His memoir, The Perilous Fight, arrives tomorrow September 15. But the book is not simply about the protest. It is about what happened after the protest. It is about losing a career and discovering that a life’s work can become larger than the institution that removed you. It is about fatherhood, responsibility, leadership, sacrifice, and what it means to keep building when the world expects you to stop.

Kaepernick, 38 says, his daughter helped him understand he has unfinished business in his life and cause. Being a dad “increases the responsibility and urgency of the work we’re doing,” he says in a NBC News article. He doesn’t want his daughter, or anyone else, to think he stopped fighting or that the fight was not worth it. “I don’t want my community to watch me and have the takeaway be that if you fight for Black folks, it’s over for you,” he writes in his book.

The Perilous Fight by Colin Kaepernick, September 15.

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09/12/2026

Some legacies are written into institutions. Others remain in the people who knew us, the communities we served, and the objects that carry pieces of our lives forward.

For Cameron Williams, one of those objects was a 1970 gold Chevy Nova SS. Before the car became the centerpiece of a community fundraiser, it belonged to Cameron. It was part of his life, part of what he loved, and eventually, part of the story his family would have to learn how to carry after his sudden passing.

Cameron was a respected leader in Utah’s technology and business communities. People knew him for his professional accomplishments, yet those who knew him understood that his impact extended beyond his work. Service mattered to him. So did generosity and family. His commitment to strengthening the lives of others was not an accessory to his success. It was part of how he understood responsibility.

That commitment was taking him toward another chapter of service. Utah Foster Care had looked forward to welcoming Cameron to its Board of Directors, where his professional experience and philanthropic perspective could contribute to an organization working on behalf of children in foster care and the families who care for them.

Then Cameron died unexpectedly from complications following brain surgery. The appointment never happened, and the conversations never continued. The work he intended to contribute could have ended there, but his family chose otherwise.

Cameron’s parents, Brenda Russell Williams and Phillip, found a way to keep his name moving through the community by placing something unmistakably his at the center of the effort: his beloved gold Chevy Nova SS.

Through Utah Foster Care’s Driven by Legacy project, the car became more than a cherished family possession. It became a mechanism for service. The organization turned Cameron’s Nova into the centerpiece of a national sweepstakes designed to raise awareness and support for children in foster care and foster families.

This quest takes to the road on Sunday, Sept 13. The Legacy Drive will bring Utah’s car community together for a 4-hour driving experience. Enter the Driven by Legacy Sweepstakes from the link in our stories.

09/11/2026

Becoming rarely happens all at once. It begins with a willingness to learn before anyone calls you an expert. To build before there is proof. To recognize an opportunity before the world has agreed that it exists.

For Torrance Hill, that journey began with teaching himself software engineering. It continued through a career in financial technology, leadership in the global casino gaming industry, entrepreneurship, investment, and the creation of new opportunities through Executive Life. Each chapter became a foundation for the next.

That spirit of becoming is at the heart of IMPACT Magazine’s partnership with Executive Life for the Black Women Defining Television Beauty Lounge & Luncheon Experience.

On October 28, during Daytime Emmy Week, approximately 40 invited guests, honorees, industry leaders, and featured Black-owned brands will gather at the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, in Beverly Hills.

Executive Life will sponsor the Garden Lounge, an intimate setting where honorees and featured guests will be interviewed during the luncheon. It will be a space for conversation, reflection, and storytelling; an opportunity to look beyond the recognition and hear more about the journeys that made it possible.

This year’s gathering arrives at a significant moment for Black women and Black storytelling in daytime television, as Beyond the Gates enters the 2026 Daytime Emmy conversation with 15 nominations.

The nominations mark a milestone. The luncheon will honor the becoming behind it. The years of preparation. The risks taken. The doors opened. The stories carried forward. The continued decision to create, lead, and define television on one’s own terms.

Torrance Hill’s journey reflects that same movement; from self-taught software engineer to technology executive, entrepreneur, investor, and builder of opportunities.

It is a journey rooted in the belief that becoming is not a destination. It is a practice.

Welcome to the terrace, Executive Life.

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09/10/2026

Long before Beyond the Gates and her 2026 Daytime Emmy nomination, there was a young woman at Harvard University developing the intellectual discipline that would inform a career built far beyond a single profession. Acting became her entry point, but it never became her limitation, that distinction matters.

Jasmine Burke has spent nearly two decades building a body of work that moves across film, television, production, writing, music, mentorship, and cultural storytelling. From Daddy’s Little Girls and The Secret Life of Bees to The Vampire Diaries, Army Wives, Star, and Saints & Sinners, she learned the demands of the actor’s life while simultaneously becoming someone capable of creating beyond the role.

That kind of career does not happen by accident. It requires the discipline to keep learning after you have become good at something. It requires enough self-awareness to understand that talent will open a door, but preparation determines what you can do once you walk through it. It requires the willingness to become a student again when the world has already decided you are an expert.

Jasmine kept becoming; she moved into leading roles, stepped behind the camera, co-produced and starred in Skinned, using storytelling to confront the complicated realities of colorism and skin whitening. She became an author, a songstress, a filmmaker, and a mentor to young people.

None of those identities erased the actress. They revealed the woman being built behind her. That is the part of Jasmine’s story worth examining now, because when she arrived as June on Beyond the Gates, she did not arrive empty-handed. She brought years of artistic development, intellectual curiosity, creative risk, and an understanding that a career can be constructed rather than simply received.

This is why The Only IMPACT Magazine™ is honoring Jasmine Burke on October 28th, during Daytime Emmy Week in Los Angeles, at the BLACK WOMEN DEFINING TELEVISION: A Beauty Lounge & Luncheon Experience on the Grand Terrace of the Beverly Wilshire. We’re not just interested in the woman the world already knows, but documenting and celebrating the woman becoming.

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09/09/2026

Lamman Rucker Official returns to the role that introduced audiences to Troy nearly two decades ago. But this time, Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married, Again? is less about returning to a familiar character and more about what happens when people, and the relationships they have built, change.

In conversation with Tunisha C. Brown | Founder & Publisher, the Founder and Publisher of The Only IMPACT Magazine™, Rucker reflects on Troy’s evolution from the man on the outside of Sheila’s life to the husband who has built a life with her, while exploring the larger truth that relationships cannot remain fixed as the people inside them evolve. Marriages and parenthood changes. Children become adults. The responsibility is not simply to love people as they were, but to keep learning who they are becoming.

Rucker also opens up about Black manhood, empathy, discipline, service, and the responsibility that comes with influence. For him, impact is not measured simply by what a person achieves or how visible they become. It is measured by whether their work carries substance, purpose, and service.

The result is a conversation that reaches beyond the return of a beloved character. It asks a more enduring question: What does it require of us to keep building with the people, relationships, and purpose that continue to evolve?

Read the latest digital issue of IMPACT Magazine at www.theimpactmagazine.com or click the link in the bio.

09/08/2026

Fashion has never been only about clothing; It shapes ideas about beauty, value, desirability, and visibility. Bethann Hardison understood that decades ago. She entered fashion as a model during the 1960s, when the dominant image of beauty left little room for Black women with dark skin and natural hair.

She did not simply find a place within the industry, she engineered the change of it. Her career moved from modeling to creative direction, management, production, and advocacy. She represented talent including Whitney Houston and Tyson Beckford. She co-founded the Black Girls Coalition with Iman. She challenged the lack of Black representation in advertising and on runways. She helped bring Vogue Italia’s historic “All Black” issue to life and later launched the Diversity Coalition with Iman and Naomi Campbell.

Her work reveals something important about representation, being visible matters. Having influence over who becomes visible matters more.
That is the distinction between visibility and sovereignty. Hardison saw a fashion system whose standards of beauty had been constructed with Black people too often positioned outside the frame.

She challenged the structure, built organizations, created opportunities, confronted decision makers, and made room for others to enter. That is Building From Truth; truth reveals structure. Once you see the structure, you can decide what needs to change.

So the question is not simply whether Black people are represented. Who controls the frame through which we are represented?

Bethann Hardison opens Week 1 of IMPACT Magazine’s Building From Truth series. Read the full analysis at www.theimpactmagazine@com." rel="ugc" target="_blank">www.theimpactmagazine@com.

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09/05/2026

A new report from Virginia State University asks us to look at the economic state of Black men and boys differently. Led by Dr. Wes Bellamy, Executive Director of the Virginia State University John Mercer Langston Institute for African American Political Leadership, The Economic State of Black Men and Boys in the United States establishes a national baseline for understanding what is happening across education, employment, earnings, wealth, and economic mobility; but this isn’t another story about Black men “struggling,” it is a story about infrastructure.

What happens in K–12 education doesn’t stay in K–12. Education affects access to higher education. Higher education affects employment. Employment affects the home. Having a home affects wealth. Wealth affects family stability and what can be transferred to the next generation.

The pipeline is connected.

The inaugural report finds that Black men’s share of enrollment at historically Black colleges and universities has declined to 26 percent. Black workers continue to experience the nation’s highest unemployment rate among major racial and ethnic groups, while Black men earn approximately 77 cents for every dollar earned by White men.

Those numbers are not a verdict on Black men. They are evidence that we need to examine the structures surrounding Black boys long before they become Black men. Dr. Bellamy puts the responsibility where it belongs: on the systems and institutions capable of changing the conditions. “Communities cannot solve what they do not measure.”

That may be the significance of this report. For the first time, this research series establishes a benchmark that can be tracked over time; giving policymakers, educators, employers, nonprofits, and communities a way to measure whether opportunity is actually expanding.

The question isn’t: “What’s wrong with Black boys?” The better question is: “What happens when an entire generation reaches adulthood without the economic infrastructure they need?” Perhaps the question that follows is even more important: What would become possible if we built the pipeline differently?

Read the full analysis at IMPACT Magazine.

Photography: Michael Nicholls-Pierce

09/04/2026

Thasunda Brown Duckett Brown Duckett leads TIAA, an institution with $1.5 trillion in assets under management, serving millions of people and thousands of institutions; but the number isn’t the story.

The power is in what that capital can make possible. Duckett’s career has taken her from 17 years at JPMorganChase, including serving as CEO of the Consumer Bank and Auto Finance, to becoming TIAA’s CEO and the first African American named to JPMorganChase’s operating committee.

She didn’t simply break through the corporate ceiling, she moved into the architecture of decision-making. From there, the questions become bigger: Who has access to financial security? Who gets to build retirement wealth?
Where does institutional capital flow? Who gets prepared for the future of work? Who gets a voice in designing it?

Under Duckett’s leadership, TIAA is expanding its mission beyond higher education to reach all Americans saving for retirement. In 2026, she was also named a co-chair of New York’s FutureWorks Commission, examining how artificial intelligence will affect workers and the economy.

That is governance of corporate leadership, because representation asks: Who is in the room?
Institutional leadership asks: What changes because they’re there?

Thasunda Brown Duckett is operating at the intersection of capital, corporate governance, financial inclusion, technology, and generational opportunity.

That is the distinction IMPACT is interested in. We aren’t only looking at Black leaders who have reached the top. We’re examining what they do with the authority once they get there.

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