Oprah Winfrey Community created a brand new program that Tina Knowles-Lawson govt produced titled Profiled: The Black Man, a four-part docu-series, The Chicago Tribune stories.
On her Instagram web page, Knowles-Lawson defined her position within the mission was to discredit the dangerous stereotypes about Black males.
The Discovery+ sequence press launch reads: “By means of a strong combination of historic footage, real-life testimony, and commentary from an array of famend thought leaders, Profiled: The Black Man goals to point out the difficulties Black males have confronted, each prior to now and present-day, whereas additionally highlighting and celebrating the triumphs and resilience of numerous extraordinary males.”
As well as, every episode will characteristic commentary from notable neighborhood members corresponding to govt producer Tina Knowles-Lawson, civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson, activist Tamika Mallory, hip-hop tradition icon Sway Calloway, the Grammy, Emmy and Tony award-winning Billy Porter, and extra.
Hosted by Tristan “Mack” Wilds, the primary episode highlighted a Black-owned enterprise referred to as Black Bread Firm in Chicago. The enterprise was created by three finest associates, Charles Alexander, Mark Edmond, and Jamel Lewis, who all hail from the South Facet of Chicago.
The three associates describe utilizing their firm to form “optimistic black photographs, unity, and a shift in generational success,” as acknowledged on their web site.
In early 2021, the three businessmen appeared on the “The Ellen DeGeneres Present” and got a $20,000 verify from Shutterfly to make use of in direction of their enterprise.
At present, their bread is on the market in 44 Mariano grocery shops, and they’re presently in talks with Goal shops, Edmond says to the Chicago Tribune. Prospects may also buy their loaves and buns from the corporate and ship them nationwide.
The formation of their firm stemmed from the homicide of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. The protests deeply moved the three males and expressed their views within the first Discovery+ episode of Profiled: The Black Man, titled “Black Males are Harmful.”
“For us to be on the primary episode,” Alexander mentioned to The Chicago Tribune, “it offers us a very distinctive alternative to dismantle that stereotype, to speak about if we’re harmful, we’re harmful in a approach of succeeding — harmful in a approach of overcoming stereotypes, overcoming obstacles in our present lived experiences. It’s an opportunity to combine in our lived experiences, and we’re coupling it with how we created our firm.”
“Once we first began,” continued Edmond, “we had been instructed from a gentleman that was on this business for over 40 years, that this was the primary time his individuals had been sitting down with Black individuals. To listen to these statements and understand the significance of African American enterprise … our position is to say that each one Black males are usually not harmful. Simply because we’re from Chicago, the South Facet, younger, Black males, we mechanically have this stereotype, or stigma over us, which isn’t the case.”
The lads need their clients and supporters to champion “utilizing our powers collectively to encourage creativity and guarantee generational development to maintain marginalized communities.”
