Jay-Z & Yo Gotti Drop Lawsuit Against Mississippi Prison After Conditions Improve
There is so much scrutiny when it comes to hip-hop stars and their lyrics but people don’t realize the power those voices have.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman was recently dropped, according to lawyers representing rappers Jay-Z and Yo Gotti.
Filed in 2020, the hip-hop gurus caught wind of the issues at the prison after the U.S. Justice Department opened an investigation. Within two years, officials found issues with broken toilets and moldy showers. Some inmates claimed certain cell doors didn’t lock, and rats and roaches ran rampant in the cell blocks.
Thanks to Team Roc Nation, conditions at the federal penitentiary have reportedly improved.
Air conditioning has been installed, bathrooms renovated, and the electrical, water, and sewer systems have been updated. Another noted improvement is the movement of inmates to other prisons for space purposes. Parchman had more than 3,000 inmates in December 2019 but now has close to 2,450 inmates this month.
However, according to The Jasmine Brand the lawsuit was dropped without prejudice, which means if conditions go down again, the suit is back on.
ABC News reports that the Justice Department issued a report saying Parchman violated inmates’ constitutional rights. The department said the prison failed to protect inmates from violence, meet their mental health needs or take proper steps for suicide prevention, relying solely on long stays in solitary confinement.
Gotti released a statement, pleased with the outcome.
“We’re pleased that Parchman has started to address the cruel and inhumane prison conditions after the Department of Justice’s investigation, but we aren’t satisfied with short-term improvements,” the Memphis rapper said in a statement. “The Mississippi Department of Corrections has neglected these torturous living conditions for decades, so we will continue to hold them accountable and ensure they commit to creating long-lasting change that safely protects their incarcerated population.”
Hopefully, Parchman keeps up the improvements as the state has a history of inhuman prison conditions and lack of security.
Just last year, ABC reports that the Justice Department found “gross understaffing” and “uncontrolled gang activity” within the prison system.
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Spatial Labs Secures $10M in Seed Funding Led by Blockchain Capital
Spatial Labs, the leading infrastructure company powering new technologies to redefine the consumer experience for the next generation, announced today a $10 million seed funding round led by Blockchain Capital, a leading venture firm in the blockchain industry.
Jay-Z’s Marcy Venture Partners has also returned to participate in this round. The close of the seed round
brings the company’s total funding to over $14 million.
“Our investment in Spatial Labs reflects our view that this technology presents an unparalleled
opportunity to solve some of the landscape’s most complex challenges,” said Bart Stephens, Founder &
Managing Partner of Blockchain Capital.
“By empowering new business models, delivering immersive experiences, and providing insights into consumer needs, Spatial Labs will continue to shape and power the future of commerce and connectivity in Web3.”
“Spatial Labs is designing next-gen technologies to connect brands to younger demographics that shop
and interact with products in completely new ways. Through our technology solutions, we provide
brands with rich consumer data and previously inaccessible revenue models,” said Iddris Sandu, Founder
of Spatial Labs.
“The consumer goods industry is at a pivotal inflection point. Partnering with ambitious,
innovative investors that align with our core ethos will enable Spatial Labs to continue to deliver the
tangible innovations that brands and consumers are asking for.”
The new capital will support efforts to scale and diversify Spatial Labs’ proprietary blockchain-enabled
tech stack, deepen the company’s footprint across the consumer goods landscape, and expand into
other industries, including media and entertainment. It will also be allocated towards a range of
technical, business, and strategic team development efforts targeting C-Suite executives. These
initiatives are intended to accelerate Spatial Lab’s consumer-centric product innovation and continued
rapid growth.
“Spatial Labs has already demonstrated incredible innovation in technology and culture. Iddris and team
have the acumen to seamlessly connect products in the physical and digital world, making products that
drive user joy,” said Larry Marcus Co-Founder and Managing Director of Marcy Venture Partners.
This marks the second investment from Marcy Ventures Partners, following a pre-seed raise of $4 million
in 2021 to support the debut of Spatial Labs and launch of LNQ, an innovative, state-of-the-art chip
platform that uses blockchain technology to authenticate products and unlock digital twins. Additional
investment came from seasoned founders and entrepreneurs, including Ron Burkle (Co-Founder of
Yucaipa Capital, Founder of Soho House group), Scooter Braun (Raised in Space VC Studio), Anthony
Tolliver (Former NBA Player, Principal at Wealthlete Private Equity), and Bobby Wagner (Seattle
Seahawks linebacker and Partner of VC Studio Fuse Venture Partners).
Founded by 25-year-old entrepreneur and business creative Iddris Sandu, Spatial Labs is committed to
creating vertically integrated hardware and software solutions that serve as a physical entry point into
the digital world – while delivering real-world utility. The LNQ One Chip, a proprietary 13mm microchip,
allows any item to be scaled into a traceable digital asset on the blockchain and provides owners with a
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The LNQ On-Chain Network is powered by Polygon, the leading blockchain development platform
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partnered in December to release their first official collaboration, ‘Orbs by Spatial Labs’ x Polygon, a
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features a generative graphic on the front and branding on the back. By scanning the Orb, users can view
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Since its inception in 2020, Spatial Labs has delivered the most innovative hardware-software
infrastructure shaping the future of commerce, consumer experience, and connectivity between brands
and the next generation. For more information on Spatial Labs, please visit slabs.one.
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ABOUT SPATIAL LABS
Spatial Labs (sLABS) is an industry-leading hardware/software infrastructure company powering the next
generation of Web3 technology. Founded by technologist and entrepreneur Iddris Sandu, Spatial Labs is
committed to driving innovation at the intersection of culture, community, connectivity, and limitless
design to revolutionize the future of the human experience. The company’s first product LNQ, an
innovative state-of-the-art blockchain-enabled hardware platform, was publicly launched in May 2022.
LNQ aims to make the Web3 more accessible and provide creators with decentralized tools to engage
with their communities through LNQ’s proprietary, real-time processing stack.
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Founded in 2013, Blockchain Capital is one of the earliest and most active investors in the blockchain
technology industry and the crypto ecosystem. Blockchain Capital has raised seven and deployed five prior venture funds, including the first ever ICO of a venture fund (BCAP) in April of 2017. The firm is
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Marcy Venture Partners (MVP) was Co-Founded by Shawn Carter (JAY-Z), Jay Brown and Larry Marcus.
MVP has a passion for building game-changing businesses and mass-market brands. The firm invests in
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Manager at Usain Bolt’s Investment Firm Admits to Stealing Funds From Clients’ Accounts
After discovering that he is missing $12.7 million from an account with a private investment firm in Jamaica, Usain Boltgave the firm 10 days to return the money to his account.
According to Nationwide News Network, a client relationship manager at the investment firm may be partly responsible for some of the theft.
Stocks & Securities Limited employee, Jean-Ann Panton gave a sworn affidavit to the Financial Services Commission detailing how she has been siphoning funds from the investment firm for over a decade. The media outlet has obtained a copy of the sworn affidavit.
The client relationship manager has been working at Stocks & Securities Limited for 25 years.
Panton reportedly informed the commission that she started stealing money from the firm back in 2010 after her father was diagnosed with cancer. She stated she started “borrowing” funds from client accounts to pay for expenses related to his medical expenses. She said she didn’t have a plan in place on how she would pay the funds back but said she only worried about taking care of her father at the time.
Panton’s father eventually passed away three years after the diagnosis. She revealed that she also took money from the firm’s client accounts to cover the funeral expenses.
She Panton claimed that she continued borrowing funds when she said that her brother had made an attempt to kill their mother.
He wound up being committed to a home and Panton said she had to cover the expense of doing so.
But the stealing and siphoning of funds did not stop there.
After the COVID-19 pandemic struck, due to her income going down at the firm, she wasn’t able to repay the “loan” she had taken from the company. She then continued to take money for “various purposes.”
Panton mentions that she has taken money from the accounts of nearly 40 people. The money she claims to have stolen totals just under $900,000 or $138 million in Jamaican Money. She says she also stole $117,000 from other accounts.
She also says that if the money remained untouched the total value of those accounts would be $4 million.
BLACK ENTERPRISEreported last week that this isn’t an isolated incident with Stocks & Securities Limited, which has its headquarters based in Kingston, Jamaica.
Panton may not be the only one involved in stealing money from the investment firm. According to CBS News, the company has stated that it uncovered the fraud earlier this year and that several other clients may also be missing millions of dollars from their accounts.
Black Woman Entrepreneur Makes History With $80M Company, Opens First Flagship Retail Store
Meet Charis Jones, the founder and CEO of Sassy Jones, the nation’s fastest-growing Black-owned privately held retailer. What began as a part-time jewelry business has turned into an $80-million-dollar company. Even more, she just opened her company’s very first flagship retail store.
The brand, which launched in her minivan where she drove across country to various trade shows after giving birth to her then 4-month old twins, is now a multimillion-dollar enterprise that designs incredibly unique jewelry, audacious ready-to-wear women’s clothes, beauty and accessories.
If you own a piece of Sassy Jones, you understand you are purchasing not only a product, but empowerment and purpose. Additionally, every purchase benefits menstrual poverty to young African girls.
“I am thrilled to open our first location where customers near and far can come for a fully immersive shopping experience,” says Charis.
“A place where the unicorns can play – it isn’t about the purchase, it’s about how each customer feels. I want the Sassy Jones woman to walk away with more than just a handbag, I want her feeling gorgeous, connected and loved. This location will be the first of many to do just that.”
Teaching women to be fearlessly unapologetic with their style choices, the success of Sassy Jones is attributed to the brand’s cult-like fanbase, which grew rapidly after a series of Sparkle Parties – the brands weekly show garnering more than 30k viewers which teaches women how to feel undeniably confident in the brand’s newest arrivals. The Sparkle Party gained popularity among celebrities like Kim Coles, Cynthia Bailey and some of The Real Housewives.
Today, the multimillion-dollar brand has scaled to three warehouses, employing a team of over 40 employees, and has amassed countless national recognitions including ranking at No. 24 on Inc. 5000’s list of fastest-growing, privately held businesses measured by revenue and growth with 12,000% growth.
Sassy Jones was also named by Forbes as a top brand that thrived during the pandemic and continues to be a lifestyle brand that caters heavily to Black women, a market that is underserved by major fashion labels.
Disabled Black Teen With No Use of His Arms Uses His Mouth to Draw
Lucas Mapheto, a disabled teenage boy from South Africa, is gaining global attention for his extraordinary talent of being able to draw amazing portraits using only his mouth.
Lucas, who is 17 years old, was born with a disability that immobilized his hands and feet. For most of his life, he has been in a wheelchair. His parents are also unable to send him to school because of their financial struggles.
However, Lucas says that art for him is his escape from depression.
“Art is the only thing that helps me keep my mind clear so I don’t overthink about my situation,” Lucas told Briefly.
Because he cannot use his hands, he uses his mouth to create beautiful works of art with a pencil. He has already drawn dozens of portraits which impressed a lot of people. His Facebook post sharing his story has so far garnered 1.5 million reactions.
Federal Judge Permits Racketeering Allegations By Black Firm Against BlackRock, New Jersey, and Others
Newark, New Jersey-based Blueprint Capital Advisors, the prominent Black-owned asset manager with $1.6 billion in assets, will get a court date on a longstanding federal lawsuit filed against multiple financial powerhouses, including asset management giant BlackRock.
Blueprint claims that BlackRock Inc., reportedly the world’s largest asset manager with just under $8 trillion in total assets as of last fall, and Owl Rock Capital, with about $65.7 billion in assets as of late September 2022, allegedly plotted with officials in the state to misappropriate its proprietary product to help public pension funds save millions on fees paid to money managers.
A federal judge in late December 2022 mostly denied a motion to dismiss Blueprint’s suit, according to the 102-page court decision.
Blueprint has alleged it submitted confidential information about its plan to New Jersey’s Division of Investment (DOI) and Cliffwater L.L.C., the agency’s outside consultant, to take the investment from them. Blueprint charges the state took the plan and colluded with BlackRock and Owl Rock alternatively, allowing the trio to benefit from the plan.
Blueprint CEO Jacob Walthour says the judge’s decision blocks the defendants’ attempt to have the suit thrown out and permits Blueprint to have the case heard in federal court. He says the discovery and depositions are in the planning stages, and Blueprint hopes a trial court date will be set shortly after those processes conclude.
He was pleased with the judge’s action. “This was not a good decision for Blueprint; it was a great decision,” he told BLACK ENTERPRISE in an exclusive interview.
BLACK ENTERPRISE was among the first to report on this story after gaining details from Walthour. Last June, Walthour told BLACK ENTERPRISE his firm was waiting for a court ruling on the suit filed in August 2020 against current and past DOI members, Cliffwater, and BlackRock Alternative Advisors, claiming racial discrimination and theft of intellectual property, among other charges.
U.S. District Judge Julien Xavier Neals stated in the order, “At this point in the litigation, the Court is satisfied that it may be inferred from the allegations that Defendants through their concerted actions engaged in a pattern of racketeering activity.” His decision came after the original 300-page complaint filed against BlackRock, Owl Rock, and several New Jersey officials, including Gov. Phil Murphy, DOI, and Cliffwater.
Generally, racketeering can involve acquiring a business through illegal activity, operating a business with illegally-derived income, or using a business to commit illegal acts or an illegitimate scheme.
In a new development, Walthour says Blueprint is now seeking more than $100 million in punitive damages tied to the racketeering charges which carry treble damages. That is more than two times the $40 million the company said it would pursue initially.
Neals discarded several claims against Murphy and the state, maintaining they were immune from the suit as government officials, Bloomberg reported.
Walthour further made allegations that the officials managing New Jersey’s pension fund have a pattern of using the state’s assets for their own personal benefit at taxpayers’ expense. “It’s time for BlackRock and Owl Rock to have to play by the rules.”
In reporting this story, BLACK ENTERPRISE reached out to BlackRock and DOI officials, but none of the phone calls had been returned at posting time. According to its website, DOI is one of the largest pension fund managers in the U.S., with an unaudited market value of $87.3 billion as of late November 2022.
When the suit was filed, a spokesperson for the New Jersey State Treasurer’s Office emailed the following comments to BLACK ENTERPRISE: “The Division unequivocally denies all of Blueprint’s material allegations and intends to defend the case vigorously. The Division maintains that there is no factual basis for Blueprint’s allegations and the claims of racial discrimination, retaliation, and misappropriation of proprietary information are without merit.”
According to the Bloomberg report, BlackRock company spokesperson Dominic McMullan stated, “We continue to believe the lawsuit has no merit and we are confident that we will prevail in this dispute.”
Blueprint claims in its complaint that BlackRock and Owl Rock benefited from an “old-boy” network in the DOI to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in investment at Blueprint’s expense.
Neals stated in the complaint that Blueprint sufficiently alleged a racketeering conspiracy by claiming BlackRock and Owl Rock worked with Cliffwater and state officials.
Moreover, Walthour hopes the case will abolish the “old-boys network” in the financial services sector and create new opportunities for diverse firms.
Teen Girl Blasts YMCA Trans Policy After Seeing a Transgender Woman Shower
A teen in San Diego is speaking out against a YMCA’s transgender inclusion policy after she encountered a naked transgender woman while showering in the women’s locker room at a San Diego location.
Earlier this month, 17-year-old Rebecca Phillips was showering at the Santee facility after her swim workout when she noticed the transgender woman, 10 News reports.
Phillips immediately went back into the shower terrified and hid behind the curtain until she was gone, she told the Santee city council on Jan. 18.
Phillips then ran into the bathroom stall to quickly change before confronting the people at the front desk about the situation.
The transgender woman at the center of the controversy, Christynne Lili Wrene Wood, 66, was baffled after learning she was the one causing concern. Wood said she’s been a regular at the YMCA and even lost post-Covid weight at the facility.
“I picked up my little doggy. I gave him the biggest hug and people, my aqua sisters, including my instructors, came out of the woodwork and said, ‘we love you, we support you, what can we do for you?’” she said after learning the 17-year-old reported her.
Shelly Mctighe-Rippengale, executive VP for the YMCA of San Diego county said that the YMCA has “options for people, all people, based on their personal preference and their need for privacy, desire for privacy.”
Phillips appeared before the Santee city council and was in tears giving her testimony.
“I could only think of my five-year-old sister who I bring to this gym during the summer to enjoy their water slides…The locker room was supposed to be her safe haven to gossip with her friends and shower and change.”
Phillips warned of potential child endangerment, noting “this is the YMCA, where hundreds of children spend their summer afternoons in child-care camps.”
YMCA personnel confirmed to her that the facility’s transgender policy allows transgender women with male parts, to shower in the women’s locker room as long as they’re not registered sex offenders, Phillips claimed.
“I was made to feel as though I had done something wrong when I talked to people at the YMCA,” she told the council members. “The indecent exposure of a male to a female minor was an inconvenience to them.”
The YMCA of San Diego County told San Diego Union-Tribunein a statement last week that it prioritizes the comfort and safety of all members who attend the gym.
“As a community-focused organization, we strive to meet the needs of all individuals. We recognize that birth and gender identity are sensitive subjects. We rely on subject matter experts, laws, and guidelines established by the State of California to ensure our policies are welcoming and respectful for all community members,” the organization said.
The YMCA pledged to review locker room floor plans across all facilities it runs with the goal of providing access to additional privacy for certain members who request it. It did not mention whether it has any plans to rescind or revise the transgender policy.
According to East County Magazine, parents with a group called SanteeParents4Choice are planning to protest the incident at a “rally for women’s and girls’ rights” at the Santee YMCA on Tuesday night. Demonstrators will demand that the YMCA protects the privacy of women and girls.
Wood said she is a woman and said she was “crushed after the rumors that a “naked man” was in the shower room started circulating.
On Monday, the YMCA of San Diego County issued a revised press release, apologizing to the child for her traumatic experience.
“We understand that the minor involved felt hurt and frustrated, and we wholeheartedly apologize for not providing her with the level of support she deserves,” the YMCA said, while affirming that it is “committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.”
In December, San Diego Council members announced a resolution declaring the city a safe space for transgender-identifying and gender-fluid children.
Judge Dismisses Former Charlottesville Police Chief’s Racial Discrimination Suit
RaShall Brackney, Charlottesville’s first Black woman police chief, and the person hired to head the department after the deadly Unite the Right rally, saw her $10 million wrongful termination lawsuit dismissed Friday by a federal judge.
The Washington Post reported that Brackney, who claimed that her 2021 termination was an act of discrimination and was because of her efforts to reform the Charlottesville Police Department, was not shocked by U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon’s decision to dismiss her $10 million lawsuit.
The dismissal came just three days after Brackney’s first permanent successor, Michael Kochis, formerly chief in the town of Warrenton, was sworn in during last week’s City Council meeting.
Brackney was hired in the spring of 2018 when predecessor, Alfred S. Thomas Jr., resigned in the wake of an official report blaming him for not acting more assertively during the Unite the Right riot in 2017. Brackney was fired three years later amid accusations that, in trying to impose internal discipline, she acted too assertively.
“It would be disingenuous to say I am disappointed with the Judge’s decision — this is Charlottesville — I would not expect anything less,” Brackney said in a statement, The Post reported. “Our team understands the racial politics of police reform and anti-blackness in the US, and notably, its influences on every institution, including the courts.”
Using her full name of Rashall M. Brackney-Wheelock, the former chief filed a 73-page federal complaint June 15, 2022, accusing 10 government and police leaders of plotting to oust her, and harming her reputation with their public comments. All she was doing, she asserted, was trying to bring order to the force.
Brackney’s attorney’s released a statement on Monday, which read in part:
“When we embarked on this case with Dr. RaShall Brackney, we understood that the process would be equal to a 15-round heavyweight title fight. We did not come into this lawsuit with any delusions regarding Charlottesville’s atmosphere of entitlement or its institutions of cultural supremacy.”
Before Charlottesville, Brackney served as police chief at George Washington University. Her quest for post-Charlottesville employment included an unsuccessful bid last fall for the chief’s position in Minneapolis, the city where an officer was convicted of murder in the highly publicized 2020 death of George Floyd.
More successful was Brackney’s recent appointment as a distinguished visiting professor at George Mason University.
In addition to her undergraduate degree, Brackney holds both a master’s degree in public management and a Ph.D. in instructional management and leadership. This term, she’s listed as teaching “CRIM 490: Law and Popular Culture.” Also, she notes on LinkedIn that she’s writing a book with the working title The Bruising of America: When Black, White and Blue Collide.
Gwen Carr, Mother of Eric Garner, Receives Award for Her Activism and Social Impact Work
Mothers of victims of police brutality and white supremacy are known to keep their loved ones’ names alive. Continuing the fight against oppression brings on the change this country needs.
Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, is no different. Earlier this week, Carr received the Super Happy Healthy Kids Award at their 8th annual Black Tie Gala, Ebonyreported.
The non-profit gave Carr the award for her strength and courage shown after her son was killed by the New York Police Department in 2014.
Carr’s touching speech addressed the pain felt when a parent loses a child due to violence, and matched the group’s mission of promoting a “bully-free world.”
“I want to stop the violence, no matter what type of violence it is. It could be police violence. It could be street violence. It could be domestic violence,” Carr said. “We have to come together because violence doesn’t have a color.”
The 73-year-old was on the front after her son’s murder made national headlines. Garner was killed in Staten Island after being arrested for selling single cigarettes.
Garner struggled with police during his arrest, yelling “I can’t breathe” 11 times as one officer kept his arms tightly wrapped around his neck. He laid on the sidewalk, facedown and unconscious, while police waited for medical assistance. His last words of struggle were chanted during nationwide protests, which Carr frequently attended.
Since his death, Carr has started the E.R.I.C. Foundation, standing for “Eliminating Racism and Inequality Collective,” honoring her son’s legacy. Through the foundation, Carr continues her work to fight alongside the mothers of victims who may not have received the same media coverage her son’s case received. During the gala, she made a generous donation in support of the New York City-based organization.
She also published her memoir, This Stops Today, prompting her start and newfound love in the world of activism for racial equality.
