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Saturday, November 9, 2019
Electric Cars—and Irrationality—Just Might Save the Stick Shift
Friday, November 8, 2019
How Do We Bring Equality to Data Ownership and Usage?
AI Researcher Anca Dragan on Helping Robots Understand Humans
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Ben Horowitz on a Murder, Genghis Khan, and Corporate Culture
The Race to Bring Meat Alternatives to Scale
Slack's Stewart Butterfield on Making Workers More Productive—Or Not
Aaron Follins: Giving An Ovation In Celebration of Men of Color
BE Modern Man: Aaron Follins
Communications leader, author; 36; Creator, Ovation: A Celebration of H.I.M. (Healthy Images of Manhood)
Twitter: @aaronfollins; Instagram: @aaronfollins
My passion project is Ovation: A Celebration of H.I.M. (Healthy Images of Manhood.) In 2016, I created a space where annually we spotlight a dozen men of color from around the country who are not only successful in their careers but pursue philanthropy in their communities. Since its inception, we’ve been able to honor entrepreneurs, magazine editors, LGBTQ activists, youth sports coaches, and Fortune 500 executives. Even though the event is a one-night awards program, I can tell that relationships are built, lives are changed, and partnerships are formed as evidenced by the feedback I receive from participants and attendees.
WHAT ARE YOU MOST PROUD OF IN LIFE?
At the risk of sounding redundant, my Ovation project is what I’m most proud of. With every honoree, we are changing the narrative of first, how we as men of African descent living in these, the United States, see ourselves and secondly how others see us.
HOW HAVE YOU TURNED STRUGGLE INTO SUCCESS?
I’ve been able to turn struggle into success by respecting the God in me. I’m keenly aware of my shortcomings and inadequacies but I also understand that I wasn’t created to struggle. That realization gave me the needed drive to bring some of my ideas to reality. After not getting a high-profile contract I pursued and after being overlooked for a television opportunity I thought I couldn’t live without, I decided to create my own opportunity. It was then that I self-published my first book, My Type of Party: A Year Long Guide to Home Entertaining, I revamped my pop culture website, EssentialLyfe.com and this year I’ll be creating and producing original on-air content that engages, enlightens, and entertains.
WHO WAS YOUR GREATEST MALE ROLE MODEL AND WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM HIM?
Rev. Charles T. Smith. Decades before we knew what a megachurch was, Rev. Smith encouraged economic growth by empowering his parishioners to own businesses, and he charted a credit union for our members to learn how to save their earnings. Each year every graduating senior in the church was given an opportunity to be awarded over $50,000 in scholarships. Every summer as youth we got to intern at some of the top companies in the city and were paid a salary at the church’s expense. After Hurricane Katrina, the church gym became a shelter to those in need. I could go on and on but what Rev. Smith taught me was to be of service. That’s something we can all do, independent of titles, education, and class.
WHAT’S THE BEST ADVICE YOU’VE EVER RECEIVED?
Although she wasn’t speaking directly to me, I once heard Oprah say, “Let excellence be your brand. When you are excellent, you are unforgettable.”
HOW ARE YOU PAYING IT FORWARD TO SUPPORT OTHER BLACK MALES?
By making sure my 11-year-old nephew is in attendance at every Ovation event, witnessing black excellence. See questions 1 & 2.
HOW DO YOU DEFINE MANHOOD?
Ironically, the first thing that comes to mind is something that is not unique to one sex: Love. Without conditions. For years we’ve been conditioned to think that manhood is a way of looking or behavior. I’m glad some of us have evolved to understanding that knowing how to change a tire and wearing a pair of Timbs does not a man make. I don’t think you’ve achieved manhood until you can love yourself, love those around you, and love those who you don’t even know. Once you’ve mastered loving yourself, no one must force you to take care of what’s yours and what’s around you.
WHAT DO YOU LIKE MOST ABOUT BEING A BLACK MAN?
The innate swagger that we possess as black men. There’s a confident gait, a revered language that only we speak. It’s in all black men no matter the age, economic, educational or sexual background. We pay a high price for that.
BE Modern Man is an online and social media campaign designed to celebrate black men making valuable contributions in every profession, industry, community, and area of endeavor. Each year, we solicit nominations in order to select men of color for inclusion in the 100 Black Enterprise Modern Men of Distinction. Our goal is to recognize men who epitomize the BEMM credo “Extraordinary is our normal” in their day-to-day lives, presenting authentic examples of the typical black man rarely seen in mainstream media. The BE Modern Men of Distinction are celebrated annually at Black Men XCEL (www.blackenterprise.com/blackmenxcel/). Click this link to submit a nomination for BE Modern Man: https://www.blackenterprise.com/nominate/. Follow BE Modern Man on Twitter: @bemodernman and Instagram: @be_modernman.
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Drake Connects with Canopy Growth to Create Cannabis Company More Life Growth
Drake’s business empire is gaining higher ground! According to Billboard, Aubrey “Drake” Graham has entered the cannabis business. Canopy Growth Corpo. has entered into a business arrangement with actor/rapper Drake to launch the More Life Growth Co., a fully licensed producer of cannabis, based in Drake’s hometown of Toronto.
“The opportunity to partner with a world-class company like Canopy Growth on a global scale is really exciting,” said More Life Growth Co. founder Drake in a statement. “The idea of being able to build something special in an industry that is ever-growing has been inspiring. More Life and More Blessing.”
“When we first began talks with Drake, we were extremely inspired by and aligned with his vision to bring best-in-class cannabis products to the world,” said Mark Zekulin, CEO of Canopy Growth Corp. “Drake’s perspective as a culture leader and entrepreneur combined with Canopy Growth’s breadth of cannabis knowledge will allow our new company to bring an unmatched cannabis experience to global markets.”
More Life Growth is centered around wellness, discovery, and overall personal growth with the hope of facilitating connections and shared experiences across the globe. Drake holds a 60% ownership interest in the More Life Growth Co., with Canopy Growth retaining a 40% ownership.
“All in all, we couldn’t be more excited to partner with Drake to bring his vision for the More Life Growth Company to global cannabis markets,” concluded Zekulin. “We anticipate a long, successful, and mutually beneficial working relationship.”
Canopy Growth is a world-leading diversified cannabis, hemp, and cannabis device company, offering distinct brands and curated cannabis varieties in dried, oil, and Softgel capsule forms, as well as medical devices through Canopy Growth’s subsidiary, Storz & Bickel GMbH & Co. KG. From product and process innovation to market execution, Canopy Growth is driven by a passion for leadership and a commitment to building a world-class cannabis company one product, site and country at a time. Canopy Growth has operations in over a dozen countries across five continents.
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Chicago’s police superintendent Eddie Johnson has decided to retire
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson announced on Thursday he is retiring from his position.
In 2016, during a time when the city was reeling from the slaying of Black teenager, Laquan McDonald by a white cop, Jason Van Dyke, former Mayor Rahm Emanuel appointed Johnson to the top post saying the city needed someone from inside the force that could “lift the morale of Chicago’s police officers and build on the work that’s been done to restore trust and accountability” in the department, according to NBC Chicago.
Johnson, who headed up the country’s second-largest police force with roughly 13,500 officers, fulfilled the role for more than three years and said he is proud of his accomplishments. He said he is stepping down because the job has “taken its toll.”
“It’s time for someone else to pin these four stars to their shoulders,” Johnson, who was emotional, told members of the media. Johnson’s family and Mayor Lori Lightfoot stood near him. “These stars can sometimes feel like carrying the weight of the world.”
“This job has taken its toll — taken a toll on my health, my family, my friends,” Johnson added. “But my integrity has remained intact.”
On Oct. 17, Johnson, 60, was found asleep behind the wheel of his SUV by a motorist who called 911. Police did not administer a breathalyzer test although the mayor told the Chicago Sun-Times that Johnson had admitted to her that he had “a couple of drinks with dinner” beforehand.
READ MORE: Chicago top cop connected to Jussie Smollett case under investigation
At the press conference, Johnson and Lightfoot both declined to discuss the incident, however, it is currently being investigated by the city’s inspector general’s office as they try to determine why Johnson was never given a sobriety test, according to WBEZ.
Johnson said back in September while attending a memorial service for a slain Chicago cop, he nudged Lightfoot about retiring. “The mayor and I were sitting next to the waterfall, when I sat down in that seat, I leaned over her and whispered over to her ear, ‘We got to start talking about an end date for me,’” he said.
Johnson said a month later, while on vacation with his family, he determined when his end date would be.
“It made me feel normal, and I saw them and how they missed me in that kind of setting and that’s pretty much what did it,” he said, according to NBC Chicago.
He’ll serve until the end of the year.
Under Johnson’s lead, Chicago cut its murder rate down from 777 when he took over in 2016 to 565 last year, according to Chicago police data. However, Chicago’s numbers are still extremely high, especially compared to other cities like New York, which recorded 295 homicides last year and Los Angeles with 259.
READ MORE: Chicago cop arrested for inappropriately touching three women
At the news conference, Lightfoot congratulated Johnson on doing a great job as top cop.
“Chicago is better because Superintendent Eddie Johnson calls our great city home and because he dedicated his life to serving,” Lightfoot said.
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Kansas City Entrepreneur Becomes First Black-Owned Juice Bar Inside Whole Foods
Chris Goode is making history as one the first black-owned stores to be inserted in a major grocery store. Goode is the CEO and founder of Ruby Jean’s Juicery, a juice bar that promotes juice cleansing. The shop has now opened a location in Whole Foods in Kansas City, Missouri.
Goode credits his success to his late grandmother, Ruby Jean, whom he named his store after mainly because it was her state of health that gave him the idea. According to Blackbusiness.com, a friend of Goode informed him of juice cleansing, a kind of detox diet in which a person consumes fruit and vegetable juices, improving their digestive system in the process.
Goode believed this diet would be highly beneficial for his grandmother and may have even prevented her death at age 61 from Type 2 diabetes. Goode felt that if she had the knowledge of the significance of smart eating, she wouldn’t have had to suffer.
Now, he is encouraging his family to embrace the same healthy lifestyle he wished his grandmother embraced. As he said, “Once I got into juicing and health, I realized that 61 was just way too young and [I] started to switch my lifestyle and press my family to do the same. In 2014, I decided to put all I had into my passion and newfound purpose.”
His first juice bar, which he launched in 2015 in Kansas City, was listed as the top juice bar in Missouri. Pretty soon, Whole Foods caught on to Goode’s success and offered him to be a supplier, providing him a brick and mortar store inside it. Besides cold-pressed juices, Ruby Jean’s Juicery also has healthy breakfast and lunch food options for potential customers.
Goode hopes to inspire more people with his grandmother’s story about the importance of healthy eating and longevity with this store.
“We truly feel we can empower people to live healthy by way of sharing my grandma’s story. I feel there’s a Ruby Jean in every family no matter who you are.”
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Ray J is reportedly asking Trump to pardon his friend, Suge Knight
Ray J is reportedly in secret talks with the Trump administration to release Marion “Suge” Knight from prison.
Knight, 54, was sentenced to 28 years behind bars on manslaughter charges for driving his car over Terry Carter and Cle Sloan after arguing with the men at a fast food drive through. Ray J, 38, of Love & Hip Hop, has become friends and business partners with Knight and wants his friend released from prison, according to DailyMailTV.
READ MORE: Suge Knight makes major deal with Ray J for rights to tell his story
Knight initially faced 11 years in prison for the conviction, but his sentence was doubled under California’s three-strikes law because of his prior convictions. DailyMailTV reported an additional six years was also tacked on, because Knight used his car as a deadly weapon in a ‘serious and violent’ felony.
But Ray J thinks behavior like that is a thing of the past for Knight, and is hoping President Trump pardons his friend.
Ray J’s move follows that of his ex-girlfriend, Kim Kardashian, who successfully lobbied Trump to pardon Alice Johnson in 2018. Johnson was in jail on charges of drug trafficking. Kardashian, along with many other celebrities, also supported the release of Cyntonia Brown, who was serving life in jail after killing a man who paid to have sex with her when she was a teenager.
A source told DailyMailTV that Ray J is going the same route as Kardashian because of his competitive nature.
READ MORE: Ray J and Princess Love are expecting Baby #2 in 2020
“Ray J is very competitive and always has been. He saw what Kim was able to do with her work in the criminal justice system with the Trump administration and he is determined to show he can do the same,”’ the source said to DailyMailTV. “He’s adamant that he can convince Trump to pardon Suge and that people will respect him for doing so.”
Ray J reportedly entered a jail business agreement with Knight last year, according to The Blast.
“Ray J is not just a friend of mine, that’s little brother, that’s family. And I respect Ray J and his business dealings, that’s why I choose him as one of the guys to deal with the music side of the future for as Death Row Records, anything to do Death Row and it’s great to have him cause he will be putting out this incredible album and I heard it before,” Knight reportedly told The Blast in a prison phone interview.
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North Carolina marker now calls 1898 violence a ‘coup,’ not a ‘race riot’
By MARTHA WAGGONER Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The state of North Carolina is moving away from using the phrase “race riot” to describe the violent overthrow of the Wilmington government in 1898 and is instead using the word “coup” on the highway historical marker that will commemorate the dark event.
The marker, which is already in place and covered with black plastic, will be dedicated Friday in Wilmington. The heading on the marker reads “Wilmington Coup,” but the originally approved text referred to a “race riot,” which eventually was deleted.
“You don’t call it that anymore because the African Americans weren’t rioting,” said Ansley Herring Wegner, administrator of the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program. “They were being massacred.”
In 1898, white Democrats violently overthrew the fusion government of legitimately elected blacks and white Republicans in Wilmington. The Democrats burned and killed their way to power in what’s viewed as a flashpoint for the Jim Crow era of segregation and the only successful coup d’etat in American history.
The marker stands outside the Wilmington Light Infantry building, where the mob of white supremacists gathered before they marched to The Daily Record, the African American newspaper, and burned it to the ground. Alfred Moore Waddell, who led the march, took over as mayor.
The highway marker for the editor of the paper, Alex Manly, includes the phrase “race riot,” but it was dedicated 25 years ago.
The original text for the 1898 marker, approved in December 2017, included Waddell’s name and made other references that the public found offensive, Wegner said. The committee of historians that approves the language for markers went back to work and approved new text in the spring of 2018, Wegner said.
One of the people unhappy with the original text is Deborah Dicks Maxwell, president of the New Hanover County branch of the NAACP. She was especially upset that the original language said the “violence left up to 60 blacks dead” because it’s unclear how many black people died.
“We’ll never know how many people died,” she said. “Black lives didn’t matter at that time in terms of reporting or documentation.”
The highway markers, known as “history on a stick,” have strict space limits — typically five to six lines of 25 characters each for 3-inch letters. The coup marker has 1.5-inch letters to allow more text.
The revised marker deletes the names of Waddell and Manly, since he has own marker.
“When you have so few words, you’ve got to choose the best ones,” Wegner said.
Maxwell hopes the marker will help “the world to understand that it wasn’t a riot,” she said.
“We need to educate our children that this did happen — and the general public,” Maxwell said. “A lot of things that happen to African Americans are hidden swept under a rug. We need to reveal all parts of our history as a country.”
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Follow Martha Waggoner on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mjwaggonernc .
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Shaquille O’Neal Ads Help Turn Around Papa John’s Lagging Sales
The Shaq Attack seems to be working! According to ABC News, Shaquille O’Neal and his appearances in Papa John’s commercials have helped turned around lagging sales numbers.
O’Neal started appearing in ads in September. He also joined the company’s board and invested in nine restaurants in the Atlanta area.
The Louisville, Kentucky-based pizzeria chain has stated that its North American same-store sales grew for the first time in two years in the July-September period. Sales at locations open for at least a year—a key metric of a retailer’s health—were up 1%.
Papa John’s President and CEO Rob Lynch said the latest ad campaign, which also showcases the diversity of Papa John’s franchisees and employees, is paying dividends.
“I do think we’re starting to turn the corner on consumer sentiment,” Lynch said on a conference call Wednesday with investors and analysts.
AP has reported that international same-store sales rose 1.6%. Papa John’s has 5,343 restaurants in 49 countries. More than half are in North America.
Lynch said a combination of new customers, more repeat business, and higher spending per visit drove the sales increase. He said new partnerships with third-party delivery services like DoorDash are not yet contributing to that growth but remain an important part of the business. Third-quarter net income was $385,000, compared with a loss of $13.3 million in the same period a year ago.
Papa John’s announced in March that O’Neal would serve as a pitchman. The move was part of a larger effort to repair the damage left by the company’s founder and namesake, John Schnatter.
O’Neal, the four-time NBA champion, joined the Papa John’s board of directors earlier this year after the Schnatter resigned last year following reports that he used a racial slur during a company conference call and criticized NFL players kneeling in protest during an earnings call. O’Neal secured $8.5 million in cash and stock options in the deal. The NBA legend also invested in nine Papa John’s franchise restaurants in Atlanta.
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