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    Earn Your Leisure founders to keynote The One Club’s 2024 “Where Are All The Black People” Conference

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    Troy Millings (l) and Rachid Bilal
    NEW YORK --

    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.

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    Marshall Brickman, who co-wrote “Annie Hall” with Woody Allen, dies at 85

    Sunday, December 1, 2024
    Marshall Brickman speaks to reporters during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

    The Oscar-winning screenwriter Marshall Brickman, whose wide-ranging career spanned some of Woody Allen 's best films, the Broadway musical "Jersey Boys" and a number of Johnny Carson's most beloved sketches, has died. He was 85.

    Brickman died Friday in Manhattan, his daughter Sophie Brickman told The New York Times. No cause of death was cited.

    Brickman was best known for his extensive collaboration with Allen, beginning with the 1973 film "Sleeper." Together, they co-wrote "Annie Hall" (1977), "Manhattan" (1979) and "Manhattan Murder Mystery" (1993). The loosely structured script for "Annie Hall," in particular, has been hailed as one of the wittiest comedies. It won Brickman and Allen an Oscar for best original screenplay.

    In his acceptance speech (Allen skipped the ceremony), Brickman referenced one of the film's many oft-quoted lines, saying: "I've been out here a week, and I still have guilt when I make a right turn on a red light."

    "If the film is worth anything," Brickman told Vanity Fair in 2017, "it gives a very particular specific image of what it was like to be alive in New York at that time in that particular social-economic stratum."

    Brickman and Allen had met in the early 1960s, when Allen was breaking through as a stand-up comedian. Brickman was brought on to write jokes for him. At the time, he had been playing banjo for the folk group the Tarriers. In one of the many twists of Brickman's career, it was an album he and his college roommate Eric Weissberg recorded that later made the soundtrack to 1972's "Deliverance," including "Dueling Banjos."

    Brickman, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was the son of Jewish socialists Abram (who fled Poland during WWII) and Pauline (Wolin) Brickman, who was from New York.... Read More

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