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Jan 13, 2022
HBO Max to Develop Series About ‘Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire,’ Don Cheadle and Steven Soderbergh Producing (EXCLUSIVE)

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HBO Max is developing a series about one of the first Black millionaires in history with both Steven Soderbergh and Don Cheadle onboard as executive producers, Variety has learned exclusively.

The drama series hails from writers and executive producers Carlos Foglia (“The Lost Symbol,” “Lore”), Ashley Nicole Black (“A Black Lady Sketch Show,” “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee”), and Keith Josef Adkins (“P-Valley,” “The Good Fight”).

It is currently titled “The Other Hamilton” and tells the true story of Jeremiah Hamilton, a Haitian immigrant turned Wall Street tyc00n in the 1800’s who became one of the first Black millionaires using questionable – often illegal – methods. By scamming insurance companies and capitalizing on others’ losses, he earns the moniker Prince of Darkness. The show is based on the book “Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire” by Shane White

 

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Nigeria​

 

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Father was Haitian, Mother was AA/Ojibwe

Out now

 

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Caught an interesting spin on podcasts yesterday. First generation Haitian American guy interviews and discusses with his Mom her journey as a refugee in the 1980s. Her experiences along the way and her perseverance.

Posted the full series in the Root section
A Boat. A Voyage: A Haitian Refugee Story (5 part podcast)

*came out years ago, just found out about it

 

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Let's get it!

 

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I fukks with Haitians.

 

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Knicks player Nerlens Noel has an ad campaign with Barbancourt

 

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*brief clip about Haitians in the Olympic Games


Constantin Henriquez: The story of the first Black athlete to win Olympic gold

World Rugby: (July 29, 2020) It is a name that appears to have now fallen out of memory, but Constantin Henriquez was a rugby and sporting pioneer at the turn of the 20th century. Henriquez is considered to be the first black athlete, the first Afro-Caribbean and the first Haitian Olympic champion. It was in rugby, representing France at the Paris Olympics in 1900, that he made history.

A COMPLETE ATHLETE
Henriquez's precise date of birth is unknown. His grandson, Lionel Henriquez, who died in April 2020, estimated his birth at "around 1876-1877" in Port-de-Paix, Haiti. What seems to be certain, however, is that his father, who was a local politician, sent him to France in 1893 to study medicine. It was there, more than 7,300 km from his home, that Henriquez discovered rugby for the first time.

At that time, Henriquez was already a well-rounded athlete. He distinguished himself in athletics, where he won a university title in pole vault after a jump of 2.60 metres.

In rugby, the young Haitian found everything he was looking for concentrated in one sport: speed, endurance, physical challenges, strategy, and camaraderie. He picked the game up quickly and, like many players at the time, was versatile, playing well as number eight, wing and centre.

Henriquez knew how to get what he wanted.

A GOLD MEDAL IN THE FIRST "OLYMPIC CRUNCH"
At that time, rugby union was still part of the Olympic programme. A tournament was organised


Henriquez was retained in the squad and was set to compete in the colours of France in the 1900 Olympic Games. He would wear the blue and red USFSA rings sewn onto his white jersey.

After beating Germany at the Vincennes Velodrome 27-17 on October 14, France beat England 27-8 two weeks later in front of nearly 6,000 people. This first “Olympic crunch” was a real success that filled the organisers' coffers and presented France with the gold medal.

BACK HOME TO HAITI
Henriquez did not stay long in France after the tournament, instead spending the rest of his life developing sport in Haiti. As the legend has it, he would go on to introduce the country to various different sports, including football, which he introduced in 1904.

According to the local press reporting the words of his grandson Lionel, Henriquez trained the athlete Sylvio Cator, who won a silver medal in the long jump at the Amsterdam Olympics in 1928 and became the event's world record holder with a 7.93-metre jump the same year, as well as the sprinter André Théard, who competed in the Olympic Games in 1924, 1928 and 1932.

Henriquez also became a qualified doctor and the first president of the Haitian Olympic Committee, elected in 1906 and reelected in 1912, when the Haitian Sports Union (USH) and the Haitian Societies Union (USSHIl) were created. The sporting pioneer died in Haiti in 1942

 

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"People ask me, why did you name it Abbey Creek, and Abbey Creek is actually running through our property. Our mantra is Hip Hop, Wine and Chill, that's the sentiment, in that order, as well. You know growing up in New York during the 80s and 90s, hip hop is my thing. So on our logo, I have the creek, the headphones and the color of the Haiti flag to own my heritage and owning who I am."

 

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Season 2 of the show just started.

 

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RODOLPHE LUCIEN DESDUNES

Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes was one of the leading civil rights activists behind the landmark 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, which unsuccessfully challenged the 1890 Separate Car Act of Louisiana that required “separate, but equal” accommodations for blacks and whites on train cars.

Desdunes was born in New Orleans on November 15, 1849 to Pierre Jérémie and his wife Henriette. The Desdunes family migrated to Louisiana in the early eighteenth century, following the revolution in Saint-Domingue. The family got its name from the small town of Desdunes located in the Artibonite valley in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti.
RODOLPHE LUCIEN DESDUNES

 

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RODOLPHE LUCIEN DESDUNES

Yeah, Plessy was given an official pardon by the Gov. of LA a few weeks ago.

With a group of Creole friends, Desdunes organized the Comite des Citoyens(Citizens' Committee). The existence of the committee, whose members included some of the most prominent Haitian Americans in New Orleans, was announced in the Daily Crusader of September 1891. Arthur Esteves, who had been born in Haiti, was selected as its president. Another Haitian American, Cesar Antoine- who served as State Senator (1868-72), Lieutenant Governor(1872-76) and briefly as acting Governor of Louisiana- was selected as vice-president of the Comite.