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Reginald Lewis’ TLC Group acquires Beatrice International Foods in a $985 million leveraged buyout, the era’s largest offshore transaction that created the first Black-owned business to surpass the billion-dollar revenue threshold. Lewis became the model for generations of Black executives and entrepreneurs seeking to succeed on Wall Street—the financial arena that excluded Black participation for centuries