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For The Love Of Money stars Katt Williams, LisaRaye McCoy, Keri Hilson, Rotimi, Jason Mitchell, DC Young Fly, Cedric Pendleton and Jazzy Jade. Additional feature appearances include music artists Latto, Keith Sweat and Lyfe Jennings.
The film is set to hit theaters everywhere November 24, Thanksgiving and will be distributed by Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures.
Keri Hilson plays Gigi Davis, a strong, determined, woman who insists on living her life on her own terms. From the looks of the trailer seemingly Rotimi and DC Young Fly’s characters could be potential love interest of Hilson’s character, Gigi.
In a recent statement, For The Love Of Money is described as a story of a single mother, who when pushed to her limits out of the need to protect her daughter, returns to a world she’s spent a lifetime running from.
The film directed by Leslie Small and produced by Melvin Childs Presents. Melvin Childs serves as executive producer and producer of the film, along with producer Melissa Young.
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Comedian and media mogul Byron Allen has sued McDonald’s for $10 billion in damages citing racial discrimination that is tied to the company’s advertising practices.
The New York Post details racial stereotyping that occurred in McDonald’s refusal to contract with the Allen Media Group Entertainment Studios and Weather Group. The accusations are a violation of state and federal laws.
Entertainment Studios owns 12 tv networks, while Weather Group is the owner of The Weather Channel. Allen states none of the networks have been contracted for advertising by the fast-food giant. The Weather Channel stopped receiving advertising once he acquired the network in 2018.
The lawsuit reveals McDonald’s only spends $5 million of it’s $1.6 billion annual advertising budget with Black-owned media, despite Black people representing 40 percent of their sales.
“Once we receive the complaint, we will review and respond accordingly,” McDonald’s said in a statement. “Together with our franchisees, we have doubled down on our relationships with diverse-owned partners. This includes increasing our spend with diverse-owned media from 4 percent to 10 percent and with Black-owned media from 2 percent to 5 percent of total national advertising over the next four years.”
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Diddy has weighed in on the major case that Byron Allen has against cable giant, Comcast.
On Thursday (Nov. 21), the Bad Boy head honcho took to Twitter to discuss his name being used by Comcast in court documents claiming that because they are carrying Diddy’s ‘Revolt’ network, they can’t be discriminatory.
“While it is true that we are in business with Comcast, it is not accurate to use my name or my network as an example of inclusion,” Diddy wrote. “I do not want my name to be used inaccurately so I must speak my truth.”
The monumental case, that began over four years ago, finally reached the Supreme Court last week and during the depositions is when Comcast used Diddy and his Revolt network to counter Byron Allen’s argument that they are excluding African Americans from the same deals that they give white Americans; which, if proven, violates the oldest Civil Rights law in American history.
Some analysts worry the case could have repercussions for civil rights at large, as Diddy explains in a later tweet:
“Comcast is arguing that this law only applies if racial discrimination is the only factor that leads to a refusal to do business, which would be extremely hard to prove. If they are successful, it will become much harder for any victim of discrimination to seek justice in court.” Let this man speak his [peace] in front of the courts!”
Diddy went onto expound on his take of the case and why it’s an important victory for people of color overall.
“First, it’s important that people really understand what’s at stake. In its efforts to get the lawsuit filed by Byron Allen dismissed, Comcast has taken a legal approach that could weaken fundamental civil rights protections. I have a problem with this. I also want to make clear that this case is now about much more than cable distribution. It’s about the civil rights of millions of African Americans and other minorities.“
As previously reported, last week the Supreme Court justices weighed in on the $20 billion discrimination case that Byron Allen filed against Comcast for violating the nation’s oldest Civil Rights Law that prohibits businesses from discriminating against people of color in regards to contract negotiations.
Allen alleges that Comcast declined to carry three of his networks stating that they didn’t have the “bandwidth or carriage capacities” but offered carriage to “lesser-known, white-owned” networks, such as Fit TV and the Outdoor Channel, “at the same time it informed Entertainment Studios that it was at capacity.
Although it will be months before the Supreme Court makes a decision, the justices are expected to render their decision sometime in the Spring of 2020.
Check out Diddy’s full statement here or read it below.
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Music mogul Diddy is stepping forward. The hip-hop veteran has addressed a current legal war between TV executive Byron Allen and network Comcast centered on racial discrimination.
Puff Daddy went to his social media channels to address his REVOLT network being referenced by Comcast as an example of it not discriminating against blacks.
On Wednesday, the case went before the Supreme Court following publicized coverage.
At issue is whether Allen’s $20 billion lawsuit should have survived beyond the pleading stage by merely proving that his race was a “motivating factor” in Comcast’s decision to deny carriage of his company’s channels, or whether it was the sole cause, something called “but for” in legalese. The Ninth Circuit ruled in favor of Allen last year, and some of the justices found fault with the lower court’s reasoning. There also was skepticism of issuing a definitive ruling that established a lower threshold when a case is first filed, and a higher one if it reaches a trial. (Deadline)
The legal case dates back to 2015 when Allen initially sued Comcast for racial discrimination.
Allen sued Comcast and Charter Communications over racial discrimination after the cable giants refused to include his programming on their networks. Allen, Entertainment Studios chairman and CEO, owns The Weather Channel, theGriot and several television stations across the country. (Our Weekly)
Comcast is also currently going through a war with premium movie network STARZ.
The Allen-Comcast hearing also drew a handful of demonstrators urging Comcast to keep the pay TV channels group Starz on its cable systems. Comcast and Starz, which is owned by Lionsgate, have been tussling over carriage renewal terms. Starz has told its subscribers that it could go dark on Comcast systems if a deal isn’t reached by Dec. 10. Protestors at the Supreme Court focused attention on Starz as the home of “Power,” the crime drama that ranks high among the most-watched series in African-American homes. The group circulated a petition and carried professionally printed signs declaring: “Stop Comcast. Keep Starz. Sign the Petition.” (Variety)
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Media mogul Byron Allen’s four year court battle against cable titan Comcast has finally reached the Supreme Court.
According to Deadline, Supreme Court justices weighed in on the $20 billion discrimination case that Byron Allen filed against Comcast for violating the nation’s oldest Civil Rights Law that prohibits businesses from discriminating against people of color in regards to contract negotiations.
Byron alleges that Comcast declined to carry three of his networks stating that they didn’t have the “bandwidth or carriage capacities” but offered carriage to “lesser-known, white-owned” networks, such as Fit TV and the Outdoor Channel, “at the same time it informed Entertainment Studios that it was at capacity.
The district court previously dismissed the case three times, but on appeal to the Ninth Circuit, Comcast and a defendant in another of Allen’s lawsuits, Charter Communications, were advised that the judges reversed the previous decision, concluding that Allen “needed only to plausibly allege that discriminatory intent was a factor in Comcast’s refusal to contract, and not necessarily the but-for cause of that decision.”
In their decision, the justices wrote that Allen raised “sufficient allegations from which we can plausibly infer that Entertainment Studios experienced disparate treatment due to race and was thus denied the same right to contract as a white-owned company”, citing Allen’s allegations that Comcast offered carriage to “lesser-known, white-owned” networks as a credible basis.
Many following the potential landmark case as one against civil rights due to Comcast’s attempt to discredit Allen’s claim of discrimination by bolstering African American owned channels that they opted to carry, like Revolt; but many supporters of Allen view their stance and alignment with the Trump Administration as a tell tell sign to what the cable giant’s intention with taking the case to trial versus settling with Byron Allen like AT&T did. Many are accusing Comcast of trying to repeal the oldest civil rights law by seemingly making it obsolete.
Comcast maintains that they are not trying to repeal the two century old law, but instead are asking the courts to operate as before regarding their decision.
“We believe that the civil rights laws are an essential tool for protecting the rights of African-Americans and other diverse communities,” Comcast said via a statement. “We have been forced to appeal this decision to defend against a meritless $20 billion claim, but have kept our argument narrowly focused. We are not seeking to roll back any civil rights laws – all we are asking is that section 1981 in our case be interpreted the same way it has been interpreted for decades across the country.”
In addition to facing a lawsuit for allegedly violating Allen’s civil rights, Comcast is also facing members of Congress after Illinois Representative Bobby Rush called for the conglomerate to be broken up into smaller entities. According to Rush, Comcast has reached it’s prominence because of the very people they are trying to shut out and he feels that if the case is dismissed that the playing field needs to be leveled.
Comcast has enjoyed the largesse – as has the cable industry, in general – of the African American and other minority communities and has reached such prominence that it now disregard these communities with a cold, callous corporate insensitivity that is stultifying, arrogant, harmful, and intensely painful,” Rep. Bobby Rush wrote in a letter to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts.
Roberts responded calling the claim untrue before noting the contributions the network has done both momentarily and in regards to representation.
“We’ve gone above and beyond the MOUs from the NBCUniversal transaction in every case. While Byron Allen chose not to participate in the MOU process that brought four African American owned networks on to our cable lineups, entrepreneurs who started the channels ASPiRE, REVOLT, AFRO, and CLEO TV, have all launched with our support,” Roberts responded. “Our film divisions are making films like Us, Get Out, Straight Outta Compton, Harriet, Girls Trip, Little, and Queen and Slim, all with African American directors and stars. We’ve dramatically increased on air and behind the camera diversity across all of NBCUniversal.”
Since the initial filing of the case, Byron Allen’s business has bought multiple networks including The Weather Channel and 21 of regional Fox sports networks, which he purchased with Sinclair Broadcasting. If the Supreme Court decides in his favor, the fight would still be far from over. According to the process, if Allen succeeds, the case would then go back to the lower court for a set of new hurdles before the case would go to trial.
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