JAY Z vs BYRON ALLEN: A tale of two Billionaires

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JAY-Z & NFL Reveal Plans for New Clothing Line & Music Premiere Initiative
JAY-Z’s first moves as “live music entertainment strategist.”
By Patrick Montes

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Earlier this month, the NFL hired JAY-Z as the outfit’s new “live music entertainment strategist” role, stirring up a mixed bag of reactions. Now, in what appears to be JAY-Z’s first round of publicized moves as the NFL’s “live music entertainment strategist,” the NYC legend’s Roc Nation company and the NFL are revealing plans for a series of programs to push and promote the latter entity’s Inspire Change nonprofit outlet, which works to provide resources for other organizations that foster and promote “education and economic empowerment,” healthier relations between law enforcement and the communities they service and criminal justice reform.

Specifically, the NFL, JAY-Z and Roc Nation will be releasing a new clothing collection to benefit and bring more attention to Inspire Change. Although the merch line’s specific wares have yet to be unveiled, expect to learn more about the Inspire Change apparel — and see official images of the specific pieces — in the coming months.

For another, music-related endeavor, JAY-Z and NFL are introducing Songs of the Season, an initiative that aims to aid recording artists by debuting their new records during NFL’s television programs. Meek Mill, Rapsody and Meghan Trainor have been selected to be that program’s first stars, and are booked to hit the stage at Chicago’s NFL Kickoff Experience event on September 5. All proceeds from Songs of the Season will go to Inspire Change.

This week’s announcement concerning the NFL’s newfound association with JAY-Z and Roc Nation holds true to the original news regarding the partnership’s specifics, which include the recruitment of “high-profile entertainers” for events. During a conversation for The New York Times‘ piece on his new role with the NFL, JAY-Z said that the organization had a “great big platform” and noted that the NFL’s higher-ups were open and willing to making changes to move their league’s entertainment and social initiatives forward.

We will continue to keep you informed as JAY-Z’s tenure as a live music entertainment strategist for the NFL develops.

Although this latest news does reveal that JAY-Z now carries some pull within the NFL, recent rumors concerning his “partial ownership” of a team are false.

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Supreme Court to hear Comcast appeal in Byron Allen racial bias suit

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Andrew Chung
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear cable television operator Comcast Corp’s bid to throw out comedian and producer Byron Allen’s racial bias lawsuit accusing the company of discriminating against black-owned channels.


FILE PHOTO: The Comcast NBC logo is shown on a building in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 13, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake
The justices will review a decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that cleared the way for a $20 billion civil rights lawsuit against Comcast to proceed. At issue in the litigation is the refusal by Comcast to carry channels operated by Entertainment Studios Networks, owned by Byron Allen, who is black.

The justices did not act on a similar appeal by Charter Communications involving claims by Allen after the company also declined to carry his channels. That case likely will be guided by the outcome in Comcast’s appeal.

Comcast and Charter have said their business decisions were based on capacity constraints, not race, and that Allen’s channels, including JusticeCentral.TV, Cars.TV, Pets.TV and Comedy.TV, did not show sufficient promise or customer demand to merit distribution. Other television distributors, including Verizon, AT&T and DirecTV, carry some of Allen’s programming, court papers said.

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“Comcast has an outstanding record of supporting and fostering diverse programming, including programming from African-American owned channels, two more of which we launched earlier this year,” the company said in a statement, adding that it hopes the Supreme Court will bring the case to an end.

Allen disputed the statement, saying the channels Comcast mentioned are not wholly owned by African Americans. Comcast, Allen said, “will continue to lose this case, and the American people who stand against racial discrimination will win.”

Entertainment Studios Networks sued in Los Angeles federal court, accusing the cable companies of violating the Civil Rights Act of 1866, a post-Civil War law that forbids racial discrimination in business contracts.

The suits brought by Allen pinned the rejections primarily on racial discrimination, accusing cable executives of giving insincere or invalid excuses and granting contracts to carry white-owned networks during the same period.

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The lawsuits also alleged that the companies’ commitments to diversity are a sham and that they have used outside civil rights groups, such as Reverend Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, to provide cover for empty promises. Comcast called those accusations “outlandish.”

Both Comcast and Charter called the lawsuits a “scam” and sought to have the cases dismissed. But the 9th Circuit last year allowed the litigation to proceed.

At the heart of the case is the question of whether individuals who are refused a business contract can sue under the civil rights law without ruling out reasons other than discrimination for the denial. The 9th Circuit said lawsuits can proceed to trial if plaintiffs can show that discriminatory intent was one factor among others in the denial of a contract.

Reporting by Andrew Chung; Editing by Will Dunham - Reuters

 

[EBK String]

Jay-Z isnt really a billionaire.
Byron Allen is really a billionaire.

 

[Koba St]

Jay is not a billionaire you fat c00n.

 

[TRY GOD]

TL/DR

Jay-Z isnt really a billionaire.
Byron Allen is really a billionaire.

 

[TRY GOD]

“live music entertainment strategist.”



Sounds like a job

 

[Vilify]

Neither one is a billionaire

 

[TRY GOD]

Neither one is a billionaire

Umm, Byron Allen is an actual billionaire

 

[Freedman]

"Entertain me N-word" A tale of making it in America while black

 

[Piff Perkins]

Jay-Z isnt really a billionaire.
Byron Allen is really a billionaire.

And neither are doing a damn thing to help black people outside of donations to charity or black organizations. Brehs need to stop expecting elite rich black people to save them in this economy. That's not how this works, for anybody.

Allen's lawsuit doesn't even make sense on the merits, id those channels are as unpopular as I think they are...

 

[gho3st]

A couple posts and no mention of Byron Allen’s wife....thecoli turning over a new leaf

 

[BlackDiBiase]

bro if i told you beyonce makes more money than jay you'd think im bullshytting but thats a better public image unless she would tank down even further. the biggest star in the world is taylor swift imagine that, should have been beyonce.

its a strategic game to monopolize, a good look over all but beyonce is really caking the most.

 

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And neither are doing a damn thing to help black people outside of donations to charity or black organizations. Brehs need to stop expecting elite rich black people to save them in this economy. That's not how this works, for anybody.

Allen's lawsuit doesn't even make sense on the merits, id those channels are as unpopular as I think they are...

Said like a true fakkit. Are you black? Are you a descendant of American chattel slavery?

Byron Allen's case is already won, by the way. He got paid by comcast. Comcast is making it so that nobody can win a case like Byron Allen. Byron Allen is putting the bread up so that the supreme Court upholds his decision.


BYRON DOESN'T HAVE TO DO shyt. HE COULD JUST LET ALL nikkaS SUFFER AND LET COMCAST AND THE SUPREME COURT TAKE YOUR RIGHTS.

 

[jackson35]

these two men are not billionares. they are not free to do what they want with that money. they have too many expensive white folks on the payroll

 

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Shoutouts to Robert F. Smith



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