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WATCH: Aldis Hodge on how he tackled his starring role in ‘Brian Banks’
Brian Banks opens nationwide today and in it. Aldis Hodge transforms into the man who was incarcerated at 16 for a rape he never committed.
The film that tells the true story of the football player who was destined for greatness before being wrongfully convicted of raping one of his classmates also stars Greg Kinnear, Sherri Shepherd, and Melanie Liburd.
Check out the official synopsis:
The inspirational true story of Brian Banks (Aldis Hodge), an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentenced to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks (Greg Kinnear) and the California Innocence Project, Banksfights to reclaim his life and fulfill his dreams of playing in the NFL.
theGrio sat down with the cast of the inspiring film directed by Tom Shadyac to find out how they tackled the true story of heartbreak, faith, and perseverance.
According to Aldis Hodge, who trained tirelessly to look more like the real-life Brian Banks, revealed that he worked to capture Banks’ undeniable light.
“I think the most pressure I had was really trying to get Brian’s light and his spirit as accurate as possible when it came to people seeing who this man was. I’m like ‘This is your life…your legacy. I want people to understand the truth of who you are the way that I see you.’ You know he’s all light and positivity and he’s truly survived and thrived from where he once started and prison. So I think that that was the biggest obstacle to really overcome was making sure that people saw who he was as a man and as a human being and not as he was attached to a situation,” explains Hodge.
Former high school football star Brian Banks exonerated on rape charges
The actor also highlighted how important it was that Banks’ accuser wasn’t portrayed as the story’s villain.
“I’ve asked Brian how does he feel about the woman who accused him and he said ‘I wish no ill will towards her. You know I want her to just go on you know live a good life. I’ve dealt with my anger. It’s in the past and it is back there in prison.’ So he’s moved on. The real villain is the judicial system the people that were in position to actually do their jobs did not do their jobs.”
Check out the full interview with Aldis Hodge and Greg Kinnear above.
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Advancing Black Pathways: A Multi-Prong Approach To Building Black Wealth
Global financial powerhouse JPMorgan Chase came to the nation’s capital earlier this year to demonstrate its new, catalytic role in bolstering African American business and economic development–efforts in building black wealth.
Managing a daylong, whirlwind schedule, dynamic CEO of Consumer Banking Thasunda Duckett, with a cadre of company officials in tow, held a roundtable at the RISE Demonstration Center in Southeast Washington to discuss community business initiatives as well as announce Chase’s $3.65 million commitment—along with $2 million from Capital Impact Partners and $1 million from A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation—to expand capital access through its Entrepreneurs of Color Fund. (Already, the institution has developed EOC funds in Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, and the South Bronx.) Next stop: A career development session with students at Howard University, featuring Carolina Panthers quarterback and entrepreneur-philanthropist Cam Newton and NBA superstar LeBron James’ business partner Maverick Carter, among other notables. The last event is an evening mixer at the impressive Newseum highlighted by an engaging discourse among former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Mellody Hobson, co-CEO of Ariel Investments (No. 1 on the BE ASSET MANAGERS List with $11.6 billion in assets under management) and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on wealth building in black communities.
Together, these activities introduced Advancing Black Pathways, the audacious initiative from the nation’s largest bank to drive prosperity for African Americans while addressing persistent racial and economic barriers to wealth creation in partnership with a range of influential companies, organizations, and leaders. In fact, the Advisory Council includes Powell, Hobson, Carter, former Secretary of State and Stanford Business School Professor Condoleezza Rice, National Urban League CEO Marc Morial, and Sundial Brands Founder and Essence Communications Owner Richelieu Dennis. In addition to designing financial management programs and career development opportunities, business expansion represents a core component of ABP. Asserts Dimon, who has mandated initiatives such as Advancing Black Leaders to promote African American talent within the firm and AdvancingCities to use public–private partnerships to rebuild urban hubs like Detroit: “One of our responsibilities as a firm is to expand opportunities for everyone. We’ve seen great success with our targeted efforts to create opportunities for women and veterans. I’m confident that Advancing Black Pathways will be equally successful and a model for other organizations.”
Dimon’s certainty is in large part due to ABP executive sponsor Duckett who has a laser-beam focus on its game-changing impact. (Sekou Kaalund serves as managing director and Head of ABP.) The following are edited excerpts of Duckett’s recent interview with BE about the program’s significance:
What has been the evolution of ABP? Heading into 2020, what does success look like in terms of goals and objectives?
You said at the very beginning, “the evolution of the program,” and that’s exactly what it is in terms of always trying to do more and challenge ourselves on how can we make more of an impact, and for this conversation, specifically within the black community. As I think about Advancing Black Pathways, it’s really the same way I think about everything that we do at Chase, and clearly, as I think about how I lead the Consumer Bank. It really starts with being intentional about what we’re looking to accomplish. As you should see when you look at our business performance, it’s with that intentionality that we are making improvements with our customer experience, delivering the results for our shareholders, or all the work we’re doing in communities.
What do you view as the major obstacles that need to be addressed?
Opportunity is not distributed equally, but we all know that talent is. Being black and really focusing on this initiative, it really rings true. I would highlight two challenges. We know that the economic wealth gap facing black Americans is stark. We also know [about] the business gap, in terms of people of color owning businesses at the same rate as whites. That outcome would mean or result in 9 million more jobs and $300 billion in worker income. So Advancing Black Pathways is really focusing on expanding economic opportunity for black Americans.
Usually, when you look at a program like this, it focuses on minorities, and depending on how that’s defined, that term can be expansive or narrow. Chase, however, seems intentional in its multipronged focus on African Americans as opposed to other ethnic groups and races.
Absolutely. And I think that’s important. Having this intentionality means that as we think about metrics and outcomes, we are not putting it all together to say collectively we made progress but looking specifically at how we’re making progress within the black community.
That is why advancing is at the top of the name. The reason why we said pathways is because we know that to make this impact, it’s not enough to have one path. So as a community, as a business, all of these different pathways and solutions have to be connected in order to advance the progress of African Americans. It’s not a straight line. Think about the work we’ve done at the firm already, like Advancing Black Leaders, the Fellowship Initiative, Entrepreneurs of Color Fund…the work that we’re doing with low- to moderate-income communities, the financial health efforts that we’re leading and are super passionate about. That’s an example of recognizing it’s not one thing that’s going to advance the economic impact for black communities. It’s all of these pathways and the intersection of them that gets you to the outcome.
What are some innovative initiatives in which black business may benefit?
We [announced] hiring 1,000 black scholars over the next several years, whether that’s through our summer internships [or] our apprenticeships. By giving them access to an earlier start, that will lead to greater opportunity for success when they enter the workforce. But I would also say it’s not just the number of interns, it’s what we’re going to do around that strategy that I think is going to be meaningful. One example is to have our interns [spend] two to three weeks supporting a black business. So it is about understanding a problem that a black business is trying to solve and taking some of the best young minds that come to JPMorgan Chase to work with that black business on a particular effort so that we’re lending our human capital, giving these interns exposure, and then ultimately, collectively demonstrating the intersection between small business and JPMorgan Chase. I’m super excited about that.
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Prosecutor admits it was a “mistake” to charge Black student with a crime in a game of dodgeball
The Wayne County, Michigan prosecutor’s office charged a 10-year-old Black boy with a crime in a playground game of dodgeball. But prosecutor Kym Worthy last week made her office drop the charges, and she’s now admitting outright that it was a mistake in the first place.
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“The charge in this case was a mistake in judgment by this office, even though it was rectified by permanently dismissing the case on July 31, 2019, prior to the first scheduled court proceeding,” Worthy wrote in a letter to Maurice Davis, the family attorney of Bryce Lindley, Yahoo reports.
Worthy continued, “To be clear, my office will not be refiling this petition, nor was it ever the intent of our office to do so. I have taken this extremely seriously, and concrete steps have already been made. I am currently reviewing the policies and procedures of our Juvenile Division and re-enforcing internal measures to prevent a similar matter from occurring in the future.”
Bryce was charged last month with aggravated assault over a school dodgeball game, for hitting another boy whose mother said he was medically fragile.
Cameishi Lindley, the mother of Bryce, says she was upset when the Wayne County Juvenile Court called her and said that he would be charged with aggravated assault for reportedly hitting another boy in the face with a ball at their school in Canton, Mich.
The incident happened on April 29th at Ruth Eriksson Elementary, and the boy struck in the face with the ball was injured. According to the injured boy’s mom, her son, whom she declined to name, has a medical condition that makes these type of head injuries particularly harmful.
—Charges dropped against Black boy charged with assault for hitting classmate during dodgeball—
Lindley hired Maurice Davis to help fight the charges.
“You cannot criminally charge a child for participating in a dodgeball game at a school,” Davis said in a statement. “If the school intends to hold this child criminally liable for a dodgeball game, then the prosecutors need to bring charges against all of the teachers and school employees that initiated the game, allowed the children to participate in the game, and supervised them during the game.”
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Cash Money rapper Blueface admits that he’s slept with 1,000 women in the last six months
Rapper Blueface is new on the hip-hop scene, and he’s making waves for more reasons than his lyrical rap skills.
Clutch your pearls because, by his own admission, the “Thotiana” rapper confessed that he has been busting it down with 1,000 ladies in the last six months.
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While Vice says it’s mathematically impossible, the rapper begs to differ and spilled the wild confession to Big Boy on Real 92.3 about his prolific sex life with thousands of hot girls across the globe.
“It’s like sometimes it might be a threesome, it might be a foursome. I done had a fivesome,” he said. “Me and four girls…it was pretty hard.”
Whose child is this?
The 22-year-old who recently covered of XXL‘s Freshmen Class issue said that he is in a polyamorous relationship with the mother of his child, and another girlfriend, even though he shares his hind parts with a boatload of others.
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His said his girlfriend and baby mom agreed on being a trio after they found out about each other.
“We can’t do it without each other. Can’t do the one without the one,” he said.
And if a woman wants to be one of his sister-wives, Blueface said she’s got to take that up with his baby momma who holds the cards to decide who make the cut into the inner circle.
Just wow.
When the news hit the internet, the internet went into a frenzy trying to figure out why.
DAMN! Blueface told @BigBoy he slept with about 1,000 women in the past 6 months!
I’m over there laughing in the back when he said “I’m a f*cker” 😂 pic.twitter.com/PJVTx4884S
— Ani Caribbean (@AniCaribbean) August 8, 2019
I seen a clip of a Blueface he was sayin he slept wit 1,000 women within 6 months….
my next question would’ve been
“Was all of them clean?” bcuz thatz 6 women a day— KhalBone 🎭 🇺🇲🏁 (@BoneNyou918) August 8, 2019
Blue face said he slept with 1,000 women in the last 6 months, so that’s about 5/6 girls a day. He’s a walking STD. Protect yourself ladies.
— AsiahW.🌹 (@fashionkillerA) August 8, 2019
Blueface really has had sex with over 1,000 women in the last 6 months. pic.twitter.com/2yii6wdBdC
— baelyssa (@JalyssaS) August 8, 2019
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