Rachid Bilal and Troy Millings, founders and co-CEOs of business, education, and podcast platform Earn Your Leisure (EYL), will give the keynote address at the 14th edition of The One Club for Creativity’s hybrid Where Are All The Black People (WAATBP) diversity conference and career fair, taking place September 26-27, 2024 at Convene at Brookfield Place in New York.
Bilal and Millings, who will speak in the morning of WAATBP’s second day, started EYL in 2018 as a media platform which gives rise to emerging and established content creators from the world of business, finance, and entrepreneurship whose perspective, expertise and in-depth insight have been undervalued and overlooked.
The platform has three top 100 podcasts including “Earn Your Leisure”, which has amassed over 50 million downloads and is consistently ranked in the top 20 business podcasts in the U.S. EYL has over two million followers across social media, 900,000 YouTube subscribers, and hosts live events across the globe including “Invest Fest,” the world’s largest financial literacy festival with over 14,000 attendees in 2022.
The platform also includes EYL University, an online educational platform and interactive community with over 12,000 active members and more than 200 archived webinars covering a range of business, finance, and entrepreneurial topics, making it one of the fastest growing private business education communities.
WAATBP is an annual gathering to address and correct the lack of diversity within the ad industry, bringing together Black voices from across the ad community–from students to C-suite leaders–to celebrate successes, examine challenges, and assert their rightful place at the table alongside their allies. Virtual panels, portfolio reviews, and recruiting sessions will happen online on September 26. The next day consists of in-person proceedings, kicking off with the keynote address, followed by additional presentations, crowdsourced panels, recruiting booths, and portfolio reviews.
In order to make the event as accessible as possible, WAATBP is free for job seekers and students to attend. Initial confirmed sponsors to date include Giant Spoon, Klick Health, Ogilvy, Team One, Verizon, and We Are Social, with more to come. Partnership opportunities are available for agencies and brands looking to help promote industry diversity.
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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