12 Million

Hosts Daron Jenkins and Akbar Majeed welcome Special Guest Peter Westbrook, Author, Olympian, fencing legend, cancer survivor, and founder of the Peter Westbrook Foundation (www.peterwestbrook.org).

Follow Peter Westbrook on Instagram @peterwestbrookfoundation

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12 Million Podcast is a weekly conversation for the culture that was inspired by the Richard Wright book "12 Million Black Voices"

12 Million is a place for an intelligent and thoughtful conversation with BIPOC entrepreneurs, leaders, influencers, artists, and creators.

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Stephanie E. Farmer, affectionately known as Ms. Steph, is the Founder and Executive Director of Triple F Empowerment, Inc. (TFE). Ms. Steph has been interested in science, dance, singing, and working with children from a young age. She is a multi-faceted individual having earned a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, released two independent albums, and mentored & taught thousands of youths in the New York City metro area. She is an awardee of the RCI- Entrepreneur Empowerment Project’s Soaring Leader award. Ms. Steph’s personal philosophy is that each child coming through TFE’s programming is meant to do great things.

Follow Stephanie on Instagram @mssteph_tfe

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12 Million Podcast is a weekly conversation for the culture that was inspired by the Richard Wright book "12 Million Black Voices"

12 Million is a place for an intelligent and thoughtful conversation with BIPOC entrepreneurs, leaders, influencers, artists, and creators.

Follow us on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠@12millionshow⁠⁠

As the visionary co-founder and CEO of BLACK&SEXY TV, Dennis oversees all productions and has served as the screenwriter, director, and showrunner for many series. Dennis is a Sundance Film Festival Alumni and Gotham Award nominee as “Breakthrough Director” for his feature film debut A Good Day to be Black & Sexy. Dennis also co-created and sold the first BLACK&SEXY series, The Couple to HBO, and secured development deals for two series for BET Networks. Dennis was honored as a selectee on The Root 100 list of the most influential African- Americans in 2015, for his work and contributions to raising the visibility and voices of the Black Community as an artist, entrepreneur, and culture creator.

Follow Dennis on Instagram @dennisdortch

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12 Million Podcast is a weekly conversation for the culture that was inspired by the Richard Wright book "12 Million Black Voices"

12 Million is a place for an intelligent and thoughtful conversation with BIPOC entrepreneurs, leaders, influencers, artists, and creators.

Follow us on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠@12millionshow⁠⁠

Kianga Milele also known as Kiki Kitty is well known for her years of creating and overseeing creative direction for many of your favorite brands. Kiki has been the creative brains behind groundbreaking collections and creative projects for Sean Combs, Justin Timberlake, Jay Z, Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Tommy Hilfiger, and Rihanna.

Follow Kiki on Instagram @kikikittydoll

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12 Million Podcast is a weekly conversation for the culture that was inspired by the Richard Wright book "12 Million Black Voices"

12 Million is a place for an intelligent and thoughtful conversation with BIPOC entrepreneurs, leaders, influencers, artists, and creators.

Follow us on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠@12millionshow⁠⁠

What an amazing first season of the show! Daron and Akbar share their thoughts on the past season and preview Season Two! 

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12 Million Podcast is a weekly conversation for the culture that was inspired by the Richard Wright book "12 Million Black Voices"

12 Million is a place for an intelligent and thoughtful conversation with BIPOC entrepreneurs, leaders, influencers, artists, and creators.

Follow us on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠@12millionshow⁠⁠

In the two years since Jazzmeia Horn, BFA Jazz, and Contemporary Music '14, released the Grammy Award-Nominated A Social Call, she has launched international tours, led masterclasses and workshops globally, and continued to hone her vocal skills while writing songs of personal relevance and social message. The convergence of this drive and development has resulted in what is sure to be hailed as one of the most courageous recordings of 2019-The Grammy Nominated and NAACP Image Award-Winning Love and Liberation-filled with songs of daring musicality, emotional power, and messages of immediate relevance.

Learn more about Jazzmeia Horn at https://www.artistryofjazzhorn.com

Follow Jazzmeia on Instagram at @artistryofjazzhorn

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12 Million Podcast is a weekly conversation for the culture that was inspired by the Richard Wright book "12 Million Black Voices"

12 Million is a place for an intelligent and thoughtful conversation with BIPOC entrepreneurs, leaders, influencers, artists, and creators.

Follow us on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠@12millionshow⁠⁠

Claude Johnson is an author, historian, writer, and founder of the Black Fives Foundation, a 501(c)3 public charity whose mission is to research, preserve, showcase, and teach the pre-NBA history of African-American basketball while honoring its pioneers and their descendants. The Black Fives Foundation Archives contains the world’s leading collection of historical artifacts from that period, known as the Black Fives Era.

Follow the Black Fives Foundation on Instagram at @blackfives

Learn more about The Black Fives Foundation at https://blackfives.org

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12 Million Podcast is a weekly conversation for the culture that was inspired by the Richard Wright book "12 Million Black Voices"

12 Million is a place for an intelligent and thoughtful conversation with BIPOC entrepreneurs, leaders, influencers, artists, and creators.

Follow us on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠@12millionshow⁠⁠

Faheem Majeed is an artist, educator, curator, and community facilitator. He blends his unique experience as an artist, non-profit administrator, and curator to create works that focus on institutional critique and exhibitions that leverage collaboration to engage his immediate, and the broader community, in meaningful dialogue. Majeed received his BFA from Howard University and his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

From 2005-2011 Majeed served as executive director and curator for the South Side Community Art Center and is currently Co-Director and Founder of the Floating Museum.

Majeed is a recipient of The Field and MacArthur Foundation’s Leaders for a New Chicago Award (2020), the Joyce Foundation Award (2020), the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant (2015), and the Harpo Foundation Awardee (2016). Majeed’s solo exhibitions include MCA Chicago, SMFA at Tufts, and the Hyde Park Art Center.

Follow Faheem on Instagram at @faheemmajeedstudio

See more of Faheem's work online at https://www.faheemmajeed.com

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12 Million Podcast is a weekly conversation for the culture that was inspired by the Richard Wright book "12 Million Black Voices"

12 Million is a place for an intelligent and thoughtful conversation with BIPOC entrepreneurs, leaders, influencers, artists, and creators.

Follow us on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠@12millionshow⁠⁠

Daron and Akbar are joined on the show by Dr. Camille F. Cohen. 

Dr. Camille F. Cohen earned her Doctorate of Optometry, in 2014, from Salus University. She has her Bachelor of Science in Health Sciences from The University of Miami. She has experience in private, hospital, and retail practice settings. Her publications include a research paper with Bascom Palmer, as well as newsletters with The National Optometric Association (NOA), and articles with Rise Art and Design Eyewear. She was the 2018 NOA Service Award recipient, for community service projects, here in Brooklyn, NY, as well as in Montego Bay, JA. She has most recently been named one of the 2020 Most Influential Women in Optical by Vision Monday, with features in Women in Optometry and Eye Care Business Magazine. Currently, she manages her own practice, Pearle Vision, in Park Slope, NY.

Learn more about Camille at https://drcamillefcohenoptometry.com

Follow her on Instagram at @drcamillefcohenoptometry⁠

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12 Million Podcast is a weekly conversation for the culture that was inspired by the Richard Wright book "12 Million Black Voices"

12 Million is a place for an intelligent and thoughtful conversation with BIPOC entrepreneurs, leaders, influencers, artists, and creators.

Follow us on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠@12millionshow⁠⁠⁠

Daron and Akbar welcome Cameron Washington to the show. Cameron Washington is a writer, director, producer, filmmaker, and musician from San Francisco California. He has directed multiple award-winning indie films and just recently produced videos for Kamala Harris, and also released "A Man And His Trumpet: The Leroy Jones Documentary" (streaming on Amazon Prime Video right now!), which won the Louisiana Humanities Award for the film.

Learn more about the documentary: http://www.theleroyjonesstory.com/

Follow Cameron Washington on Instagram @cameronwashingtonsf

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12 Million Podcast is a weekly conversation for the culture that was inspired by the Richard Wright book "12 Million Black Voices"

12 Million is a place for an intelligent and thoughtful conversation with BIPOC entrepreneurs, leaders, influencers, artists, and creators.

Follow us on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠@12millionshow⁠⁠