Photos by Alex Tehrani
George Khaldun (left) and Geoffrey Canada met in the fall of 1970, when they were undergraduates at Bowdoin College in Maine, both part of a small, militant group of black students on campus that fought the administration at every turn. Khaldun, then known as George X, was a follower of Mao and Marx and a member of the Nation of Islam; Canada had grown up poor in the South Bronx and was a semi-reformed street fighter. Thirty-five years later, the two men manage a non-profit with an annual budget of $58 million and close allies on Wall Street and in the nation’s corporate boardrooms.