Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa Plan To Introduce Plans For A New Innovative Currency
There have been talks of a new world currency coming our way.
Benzinga reports the BRICS alliance is exploring the idea of an innovative currency and plans to share proposals at the upcoming summit in South Africa. BRICS is an acronym standing for five leading emerging economies—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Deputy Chairman of Russia’s parliament, Alexander Babakov, claims the plan will initially transition from using domestic currencies in transactions to introducing and circulating a digital or “alternative form of a groundbreaking currency in the near future.”
He’s hoping the summit, scheduled for August this year, will show how ready BRICS is to implement this initiative. During the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum event in New Delhi, India, Babakov stressed the importance of both nations working toward a new form of payment, saying that digital payments could be the most promising and viable. According to Cointelegraph, he feels the currency could benefit China and other BRICS members.
“Its composition should be based on inducting new monetary ties established on a strategy that does not defend the U.S.’s dollar or euro, but rather forms a new currency competent of benefiting our shared objectives.”
While it’s tentatively set to be announced this year, this plan has been in motion for quite a while. Back in 2019, members of the bloc were discussing the creation of a new digital currency for a unified payments system. China is already ahead of the game with its central bank digital currency project, and Brazil is right behind them with crypto adoption and legalizing it as a payment method.
Meanwhile, the United States continues its war on cryptocurrency, with finance regulators closing in on the embryonic industry.
BRICS will likely become stronger as other nations, such as Argentina, Iran, Indonesia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, intend to become part of this economic bloc.
Mother, Two Sons Open Chicago’s First Black-Owned Cannabis Dispensary — Laced In Generational Wealth
The Grasshopper Club is more than just a dispensary. It is a Chicago-based, Black-owned business, blazing the trail as the Windy City’s first independent, Black-owned dispensary, ABC 7 Chicago reported.
What started with a family from the South Side and their vision to create a local dispensary beyond merely selling flowers is now serving as a vehicle for a more diverse ecosystem in the industry.
In doing so, the Grasshopper Club represents what’s possible for many people of color looking to break into the majority-white industry. They offer job opportunities and a wide assortment of edibles, smokeable flower, vape pens. and other THC products.
Diane Brewer and her sons, Matthew Brewer and Chuck Brewer, are the masterminds behind the enterprise. Diane handles accounting, Matthew manages the business, and Chuck leads the daily operations. The Grasshopper Club is situated at 2551 N. Milwaukee Ave. in the Logan Square building, which dates back to the early 1920s.
This family affair, rooted in heritage and legacy, comes full circle for Chuck.
Growing up, Chuck found himself on the other side of the law after being arrested several times for marijuana possession.
“For me to be doing this legally with my brother and my mother, it’s priceless,” he told the news outlet.
In 2019, Gov. JB Pritzker signed an equity-centric law to legalize adult-use cannabis in Illinois, which officially began on Jan. 1, 2020. House Bill 1438 “promotes equity and invests in the communities that suffered through the war on drugs, serving as a model for the legalization and decriminalization of cannabis,” according to a press release.
The Brewer trio jumped at the opportunity back in 2019 to secure a social equity license from Illinois to open the dispensary. But they had to pause planning due to COVID-19-induced delays and other factors.
Matthew, who handles the company’s business side, had already been involved in the cannabis industry since 2014, when Illinois legalized medical marijuana. According to Book Club Chicago, it took a long time for the commercial litigation attorney to “lock up properties” when he eventually received the award in mid-2020.
“It was this opportunity for wealth creation, generational for my mother and my brother,” Matthew said, per the outlet. “This isn’t like banking or engineering where the experts have been doing it for decades and have all of this experience under their belt. This is an industry where people haven’t been doing it a lot longer than you have, so there’s a chance to get in early.”
Supreme Court Preserves Broad Access to Abortion Pill
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blocked new restrictions set by lower courts on a widely used abortion pill, a decision welcomed by President Joe Biden as his administration defends broad access to the drug in the latest fierce legal battle over reproductive rights in the United States.
The justices, in a brief order, granted emergency requests by the Justice Department and the pill’s manufacturer Danco Laboratories to put on hold an April 7 preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas. The judge’s order would have greatly limited the availability of mifepristone while litigation proceeds in a challenge by anti-abortion groups to the pill’s federal regulatory approval.
“As a result of the Supreme Court’s stay, mifepristone remains available and approved for safe and effective use while we continue this fight in the courts,” Biden said in a statement issued by the White House.
Used boxes of Mifepristone, the first pill in a medical abortion, line a trash can at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Carbondale, Illinois, U.S., April 20, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
“The stakes could not be higher for women across America. I will continue to fight politically driven attacks on women’s health,” Biden added.
Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito publicly dissented from the decision. Alito, in a brief opinion, wrote that the administration and Danco did not show that they were likely to suffer “irreparable harm.”
Biden’s administration is seeking to defend mifepristone in the face of mounting abortion bans and restrictions enacted by Republican-led states since the Supreme Court in June 2022 overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized the procedure nationwide. Alito authored that ruling.
The current case now returns to the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is set to hear arguments on May 17. The losing side after the 5th Circuit rules could appeal the case back to the Supreme Court.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. agency that signs off on the safety of food products, drugs and medical devices, approved mifepristone in 2000. The challengers contend that the FDA illegally approved mifepristone and then removed critical safeguards on what they call a dangerous drug.
Mifepristone is taken with another drug called misoprostol to perform medication abortion, which accounts for more than half of all U.S. abortions. The drug has other uses including management of miscarriages.
Erik Baptist, an attorney for the conservative religious rights group Alliance Defending Freedom representing the pill’s challengers, said, “Our case seeking to put women’s health above politics continues on an expedited basis in the lower courts.”
The case could undercut federal regulatory authority over drug safety.
“I continue to stand by FDA’s evidence-based approval of mifepristone, and my administration will continue to defend FDA’s independent, expert authority to review, approve and regulate a wide range of prescription drugs,” Biden said.
An attorney for Danco, Jessica Ellsworth, said the Supreme Court’s decision “preserves crucial access to a drug relied on by millions of patients” after lower courts had caused “widespread chaos.”
The 5th Circuit on April 12 declined to block the curbs ordered by Kacsmaryk but did halt a part of the judge’s order that would have suspended FDA approval of mifepristone and effectively pulled it off the market.
The Supreme Court acted just hours before its self-imposed deadline of 11:59 p.m. EDT on Friday (0359 GMT on Saturday) before Kacsmaryk’s mifepristone restrictions would have taken effect. Alito, who handles emergency matters arising from a group of states including Texas, last week issued a temporary pause of Kacsmaryk’s injunction until Wednesday and then extended it two more days.
A former Christian legal activist appointed to the bench by former President Donald Trump, Kacsmaryk had a long track record of opposing abortion before the U.S. Senate confirmed him in 2019 to a life-tenured position as a federal judge.
A CHALLENGE TO THE FDA
Anti-abortion groups led by the recently formed Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and four anti-abortion doctors sued the FDA in November.
The FDA has called mifepristone safe and effective as demonstrated over decades of use by millions of Americans, with adverse effects exceedingly rare.
Abortion rights groups praised the Supreme Court’s decision on Friday but noted the case is ongoing.
“We’re not out of the woods yet,” Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup said.
The restrictions, if they had taken effect, would have rolled back FDA actions in recent years to make it easier to access mifepristone. Those actions include in 2021 allowing distribution by mail, and in 2016 approving its use up to 10 weeks of pregnancy instead of seven weeks, reducing the dosage required and cutting the number of in-person doctor visits from three to one.
Current drug labels for mifepristone would have had to be adjusted to account for the restored limits on its use in what could have been a months-long process, the Justice Department and Danco had said.
In his dissent, Alito pushed back against that possibility, saying it would not occur “unless the FDA elected to use its enforcement discretion to stop Danco, and the applicants’ papers do not provide any reason to believe the FDA would make that choice.”
The restrictions also would have suspended the approval of the pill’s generic version made by GenBioPro Inc.
Since last year’s Supreme Court decision, 12 U.S. states have put in place outright bans while many others prohibit abortion after a certain length of pregnancy. The latest Republican-led move came in Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis on April 13 signed a law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
9 Year Old Child Genius Stuns NASA Scientists While Visiting The Space Telescope Science Institute
Child protégée, David Balogun, continues to shock the world with his incredible genius. Now he’s shocked the minds at NASA.
The nine-year-old is one of the youngest high school graduates, receiving his diploma from Reach Cyber Charter School in Harrisburg, PA. After graduation, Balogun was invited by NASA and the Maryland-based Space Telescope Science Institute to visit the James Webb Space Telescope Mission Operations Center in Baltimore. His story made headlines and Hannah Braun, the institute’s spokesperson, said the team just had to meet him.
“I had actually seen David’s story all over social media and thought, ‘Wow, I’d bet he’d find a trip to Webb’s Mission Operations Center exciting!'” Braun said to Atlanta Black Star.
What they didn’t know was that he was going to teach them a thing or two, all without being on this earth for even 10 years yet. “We don’t have children visit the center really, besides families of employees on occasion, so the crew didn’t quite know what to expect with David.”
In his orange NASA space suit, the scientists, who provided the tour, were instantly impressed with the child’s knowledge of the science. In the Flight Control Room, Balogun watched them do a “mock-up for the soundcheck,” a process done with astronauts before they take off. Described as “inquisitive,” the young genius started talking about something they had never heard of before – Super Saturn. “What’s that?” Braun recalled asking. “So then we got to Googling.”
Balogun already has his career plans set, with his eyes set on being an astrophysicist, chemist, engineer, and software designer. But before that, he is prepping for college. BLACK ENTERPRISEreported that most would think Balogun would go to Harvard, but his father, Henry Balogun, is doing research on what the best fit will be. “Am I going to throw my nine-year-old into Harvard while I’m living in Pennsylvania? No.”
Activists Gather for Earth Day Today, Urge Action to Avoid ‘Dystopian’ Future
Climate change campaigners gathered outside Britain’s parliament building ahead of Earth Day to urge action on global warming, while volunteers worldwide geared up to plant trees and clear trash to mark the 54th annual celebration of the environment.
Earth Day this year, officially on Saturday (today), follows weeks of extreme weather with temperatures soaring to record highs in Thailand and a punishing heatwave in India, where at least 13 people died of heatstroke at a ceremony last weekend.
Average global temperatures could hit all-time highs in 2023 or 2024, climate scientists have warned.
Pope Francis, who has championed green causes since his election in 2013, urged people to look after the environment.
Peru’s shamans perform a traditional ritual and make an offer to “Pachamama” (Mother Earth) on the eve of “Earth Day”, in Lima, Peru April 21, 2023. REUTERS/Sebastian Castaneda
“The Book of Genesis tells us that the Lord entrusted human beings with the responsibility of being stewards of creation (Gen 2:15). Care for the Earth, then, is a moral obligation for all men and women as children of God #EarthDay,” he tweeted on Saturday.
“Climate impacts are here,” Areeba Hamid, co-executive director of Greenpeace UK, said on Friday as climate change activists walked down the street outside parliament in London, some dressed in green costumes and green paint.
Hamid said when she now visits her hometown of Delhi, it feels like “putting your head in the oven” and that London’s 2022 heatwave was like “a dystopian film”.
“We can’t afford that anymore.”
Activists led by the Extinction Rebellion group have gathered in London to kick off a four-day action, billed “The Big One”, to coincide with Earth Day.
About 30,000 people have signed up for family-friendly rallies and marches, marking a change in strategy for a group known for its disruptive tactics, including blocking roads, throwing paint and smashing windows.
CLEAN-UPS AND RITUALS
Globally, there was a flurry of activity in the run-up to Earth Day, with events being planned in Rome and Boston and major clean-up campaigns at Lake Dal in India’s Srinagar and Florida’s hurricane-hit Cape Coral.
In Peru, shamans on Friday made an offering to the “Pachamama”, or Mother Earth. Holding yellow flowers and rattles, the shamans walked around a papier-mache globe as they performed a cleansing ritual.
The ancestral rituals – whose origins lie in the Indigenous cultures of Peru – are done to thank the Earth and build awareness of the planet, said Walter Alarcon, the president of the Healing Shamans of Peru International Organization.
In San Francisco on Friday, dozens of demonstrators danced, marched and chanted in the streets as they called on California Governor Gavin Newsom to reduce the state’s fossil fuel usage.
Some carried banners reading “No drilling where we’re living” and “Newsom, divest California from fossil fuels.”
Earlier in the week, U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to increase funding to help developing countries fight climate change and curb deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest during a meeting with top world leaders.
Governments have fallen far short of pledges in the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit heating of the climate by shifting off fossil fuels, amid crises including COVID-19, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, food shortages and strained ties between China and the U.S., the top two greenhouse gas emitters.
A report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says the planet is on track to warm beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times – a key threshold for even more damaging impacts – between 2030 and 2035.
“There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all,” the IPCC has said. “The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years.”
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Earns Gold Certification for Commitment to Sustainability and Community Impact
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (“Jazz Fest”) presented by Shell, one of North America’s leading cultural events, has been newly awarded Gold certification by the Council for Responsible Sport, earning the festival distinction for their outstanding approach to social, environmental, economic and community impact.
Jazz Fest which hosted some 475,000 visitors across 7 days, including more than 700 artists and participants successfully developed a comprehensive approach to minimizing the environmental footprint of the festival, while increasing the inclusivity, economic and social benefits of the 53-year-old New Orleans institution.
New Orleans street jazz musician playing jazz in the french quarter.
The achievement of Gold certification from the independent Council For Responsible Sport (“Council”) recognizes not only the commitment of Jazz Fest to a broad range of sustainability and impact goals but also the work to embed these approaches into day-to-day activity and then track and measure performance consistently. It also means that the Jazz Fest becomes the largest cultural festival to receive certification under the Council’s framework.
“This is an outstanding achievement for such a large and diverse event, we congratulate the Jazz Fest team, and their long-time presenting partner Shell USA for the focus and work of all involved to reach this milestone,” said Kevin Phelan, Board Member, Council for Responsible Sport. “The work on waste-diversion, carbon footprinting, the extensive inclusion of local vendors and diverse community engagement were some highlights of the systematic approach taken by the organizers.”
“On behalf of everyone at Jazz Fest, we’re honored to have the Festival receive Gold certification from the Council,” said Quint Davis, Producer/Director of the event. “Thanks to our partnership with Shell, the Festival has been able to develop a robust sustainability campaign, which is an important complement to our longstanding commitment to the cultural and socio-economic wellbeing of our community.”
Some of the highlights of the 2022 Jazz Fest included:
17.56 metric tons of recycling diverted from landfill and 4.37 metric tons of food waste composted
1.13 metric tons of hard-to-recycle plastics collected – waste being sent to a Nexus facility in Atlanta as part of Shell’s “Plastics Circularity Project”
Recycled 2,500 gallons of cooking oil which is turned into fuel for local shrimping boats
2022 was the first year for Shell’s Recycle Rewards program, which rewarded festival goers for recycling plastic bottles or aluminum cans
The Shell team used the fair market value of the materials recycled to calculate a $16,000 donation made to local non-profits to fund continued waste-reduction benefits in the local community.
[The completion of a carbon footprint study, including the offsetting of 7,098 mt of Scope 1 and some Scope 3 emissions]
The NOLA Supplier Impact Program which will strengthen the business sustainability and continuity of Black Female Suppliers in the Greater New Orleans area focused on an increased understanding of how to maintain business continuity and sustainability even in times of uncertainty and provide productive networking and increased connections within the Women’s Business community.
All these efforts were assessed in adherence to the Council’s rigorous certification standards using the cloud-based ReScore platform that enables sporting event organizers to measure, track, report, and verify their progress on a broad range of environmental and social indicators. It simplifies the approach for organizers who want to meet the increasing expectations of fans, visitors, artists, sponsors, and host communities that large-scale cultural and sporting events be more sustainable and socially inclusive.
Colette Hirstius, Shell SVP Gulf of Mexico, commented: “In our partnership with Jazz Fest, Shell is enhancing the festival through a range of programs that support sustainability, both for the event and raising awareness among the 475,000+ people who attend. The review and assessment undertaken by the Council highlight the progress made, as well as continued opportunities for improvement. We continue to be honored to be the presenting sponsor for this legendary event and expand the recycling program further.”
The initial 2-year certification of Jazz Fest took place in May 2022.
Maryland Entrepreneur Buys Laundromat, Already Making $24K a Month
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Christian Sanya is the owner of The Laundry Room, the newest Black-owned laundromat in PG County, Maryland.
She was able to buy the business after just a few years of saving up enough money from her side hustle doing on-demand laundry with a company called SudShare. Not even a year has passed, and the business is already earning up to $24,000 monthly revenue.
In 2019, Sanya, who also works as a Medical Laboratory Technologist, started looking for a side job after her then-6-year-old daughter was diagnosed with autism and she lost her full-time job, and eventually stumbled upon the on-demand laundry platform, SudShare.
Sanya found that the side hustle is indeed lucrative. She usually fulfilled about 12 hours of laundry requests per day and just last year, she made $46,000. Even though she returned to work as a medical professional in March 2020, she continued her side hustle.
Sanya and her husband decided to buy the laundromat she was eyeing for 8 years prior. It has always been Sanya’s dream since they got married but it was held off due to lack of funds. When the laundromat went back on the market in March 2022, they bought it outright for $200,000, using a using a large portion of her earnings from SudShare.
After nearly 6 months of renovating, they opened the doors to The Laundry Room. Sanya spends 2 to 3 hours in the laundromat daily, while her husband runs the business with four employees.
“You have to sacrifice a lot to know that where you’re going, the endpoint, is going to pay off,” Sanya told CNBC.
“I’ve given up family time, I’ve given up my date nights. I’ve given up a lot for SudShare at this point.”
Sanya dreams of turning The Laundry Room into a known laundry brand by opening more locations. She and her husband are currently working on their second location.
“I refuse to accept that you can’t have good service in our community,” she says. “I’m ready to change that and that’s what I’m doing, one laundromat at a time.”
‘Change Your Hair, Change Your Life,’ This Emmy Award-Winning Celebrity Hairstylist Is Teaching Financial Literacy to Beauty Professionals
Meet Kiyah Wright, a renowned celebrity hairstylist who has earned two Emmy Awards for her exceptional work in the field.
Her ingenuity has set a benchmark for image-making and revolutionized the appearance of confident, successful, and alluring women worldwide. Transforming the looks of celebrated personalities like Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum, Taraji P. Henson, Kerry Washington, Halsey, Ciara, and many more, Wright’s hair innovations have graced popular TV shows such as Pose, Power, Black-Ish, America’s Next Top Model, and more.
As a highly sought-after trendsetter in the beauty industry, Wright has received numerous accolades, including the Hollywood Beauty Award and the Golden Scissor Award. After securing two Emmys and becoming a hairstylist to the stars, most would stick to styling the A-listers. But, Wright still sees herself as a salon hairstylist at heart and enjoys performing makeovers on the everyday woman at her Beverly Hills salon.
“The love for making women, and men, feel beautiful and look their best, especially when they are going out into their everyday lives bossing up every day,” Wright told BLACK ENTERPRISE of continuing to work at her salon.
“I really love being able to service them, be creative and just work with inspiring people every day.”
Courtesy of Kiyah Wright
Wright firmly believes that “when you change your hair, you change your life.” When not catering to celebrity clients and managing her salon, she focuses on growing her custom hair brand, Muze|Hair.
Through her haircare company, Wright provides a customized collection of hair extensions, wigs, hair maintenance products, and salon services designed by the veteran hairstylist to cater to the needs of the curly, kinky, and textured haircare market.
“Because hair is directly connected to a woman’s self-esteem, Muze|Hair was all about me being inspired by everyday women and beautiful styles that make them feel pretty, but also these women inspire me to create,” she said of her haircare line.
“I want Muze|Hair to be the people’s brand.”
Her ultimate goal is to become the go-to brand for textured hair, just like Paul Mitchell is for traditional hair types.
“Paul Mitchell was my biggest inspiration as it relates to how far you can go as a stylist, products, and branding,” she said.
Courtesy of Kiyah Wright
With her new book, From Beauty to Business, Wright shares financial keys to success with the next generation of beauty professionals.
“Financial literacy was not taught to me or even in my family or household, which later in life made me more aware of how important it was to know and understand,” she explained.
“I wrote From Beauty to Business to really help beauty professionals understand the importance of having their finances together and how to ensure that their business is in order. It’s one thing to be a celebrity hairstylist, but it’s another thing when you think about everything you’ve accomplished 25 years down the road, and you have not even considered your finances.”
Wright has built an entire business and brand around her model of being “unapologetically beautiful every day” and offered some words of wisdom to those looking to do the same.
“Caring about yourself is more work than it sounds,” she said. “I think that the secret to a woman being unapologetically beautiful every day is truly caring about yourself and showing up for yourself every day.”
Morgan State And Howard University Team Up With PNC For Black Business Hub
Morgan State University and Howard University have joined forces with the PNC Foundation to help expand Black-owned businesses.
According to CBS, a new business hub and pop-up market aims to encourage students to display their from-the-ground-up business skills.
Morgan State University’s Dr. Mary Foster underscored the resources in today’s culture that can level the playing field for potential Black business owners.
“There are many rich resources already out there, so we want to not reinvent the wheel, not duplicate things,” Foster said to CBS. “We want to create new things that are needed to help reduce those disparities for Black entrepreneurs.”
The new program also includes novice business owners. Owner of Nobel Gems Community Health Services, Cierra Jones, recently completed Morgan State and PNC’s business hub.
“It’s deeper than a Google search, it’s deeper than what you can find in a dictionary or encyclopedia, right, or even a newspaper, but it’s about having access directly handed to you or having those direct relationships with the most important people that can bring you those resources and direct you to the right opportunity,” Jones said to CBS.com.
Howard University is also partnering with PNC for the business hub. Anthony Wilburn, dean of Howard University School of Business, said the collaboration would have long-term effects on Blacks in the business space and the overall Black community.
“Entrepreneurship is the engine of this nation. Our students and alumni are entrepreneurs by nature and really embrace the concepts of what it means to start up and run a business,” said Willburn, cited by PNC.com. “Some of our students go on to become entrepreneurs themselves, while others find entrepreneurship concepts useful within corporate jobs. We’ve been trying to support their passion and interest in entrepreneurship as much as possible, and it is very much a part of what we do at Howard University.”
PNC Foundation will host its conference for Black entrepreneurship from June 14–16 in Washington, DC.
Kandi Burruss Secures Yet Another Bag With New KFC Commercial Ad
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss has parlayed her love of fried chicken into a KFC commercial ad that features her 7-year-old son Ace Tucker. The commercial capitalizes on a Season 14 episode of Bravo’s popular reality TV show where Burruss settles differences with fellow housewife Marlo Hampton over some good ole’ Kentucky Fried Chicken. While the ad pokes fun at Burruss’ weakness for deep-fried poultry, it is her son’s cuteness and counsel against pettiness that steals the show, as he entices his mom with KFC “nuggets of wisdom.”
Having stepped on the scene in the 1990s as a member of the girl group Xscape, Burruss has built her wealth as singer/songwriter. The Atlanta native is credited for penning mega-hits like Destiny Child’s “Bills, Bills, Bills” and “Bug a Boo”; “No Scrubs” by TLC and “X-Girlfriend” by Mariah Carey, to name a few. Burruss added restaurateur to her portfolio, owning Blaze Steakhouse and two OLG (Old Lady Gang) locations in metro Atlanta—and she’s behind the boudoir in Bedroom Kandi, a line of sex-related niceties and services.
To put it plainly, Kandi Lenice Burruss Tucker has been about that chicken—and her bread. As the newly-released KFC promo made its rounds, social media users took the opportunity to chime in. Instagram profile The Neighborhood Talk posted a clip of the ad and captioned, “Kandi going to find a way to get a check,” and included flame and laughing emojis
