Nationwide Black Producer Companions with JPMorgan Chase to Launch the ‘Kemet, Huge Time Saver’ Youth Literacy Comedian E-book at P.S. 171 in Harlem
NEW YORK, N.Y., Feb. 24, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — On the final day of Black Historical past Month, nationally acknowledged Black Producer and Creator Joe Younger, Jr., in partnership with JPMorgan Chase, will launch a print and digital comedian guide educating monetary literacy to college students that includes “KEMET, BIG TIME SAVER.” On February 28, 2023, 10 a.m. at P.S. 171 Patrick Henry Preparatory faculty in Harlem, Principal Dimitres Pantelidis, will host a Black Historical past Month occasion for fourth, fifth, and sixth-grade college students to have a good time the conclusion of the month.
College students will formally meet KEMET, a ten-year-old time-traveling comedian character who goes again to fulfill African-American historic firsts, legends, and inventors, each residing and deceased, who share with KEMET what they’ve performed to contribute to the excellent accomplishments of constructing this nation and enhancing civilization.
By touring by a historical past time capsule known as “Sankofa 82,” KEMET, in mascot type, will speak to the scholars in regards to the worth of cash and saving and the significance of monetary literacy.
“There’s a dire want for youth in city areas to know the significance of primary cash administration,” mentioned Joe Younger, Founder and Producer of Joe Younger Leisure. “KEMET, BIG TIME SAVER will interact the scholars to consider the worth of cash, saving, and investing. Selling monetary literacy in our colleges impacts the thoughts and conduct in direction of cash administration and understanding the worth and significance of generational wealth.”
“Monetary well being is a crucial part of making a stronger financial basis and constructing generational wealth for the Black neighborhood,” mentioned Jumoke Fagbayi-Butts, Vice President and Senior Enterprise Advisor at Chase. “We’re dedicated to addressing the distinctive monetary wants of these too usually left behind in a rising financial system. Our agency works with leaders like Joe Younger to help the subsequent technology of Black prosperity.”
“We’re completely happy to hitch nationally acknowledged cartoonist Joe Younger, his cartoon character KEMET, BIG TIME SAVER, and JoAnn H. Worth, Co-Founder/Managing Associate of Fairview Capital, to current this comedian guide to all college students at P.S. 171 in Harlem,” mentioned Rocky Chowdhury, Vice President, and Group Supervisor for Chase in Harlem. “Constructing constructive monetary well being habits early in life results in nice success, and applaud Joe’s work to show college students accountable cash habits that may assist safe their monetary futures.”
KEMET, BIG TIME SAVER BACKGROUND
KEMET, BIG TIME SAVER comedian guide, was co-written by Joe Younger and his daughter Paige Younger. The comedian guide story options ten-year-old “Ro” who runs a lemonade stand and decides to make use of her income from the revenues generated from her lemonade stand enterprise to purchase a brand new scooter. She will get annoyed after working into issues elevating sufficient cash.
KEMET, alerted about her dilemma, takes off in “Sankofa 82” to assist her. He introduces Ro to 3 profitable Black entrepreneurs from previous and current: the late A.G. Gaston, one of many wealthiest African Individuals of his time, together with a $130 million enterprise empire spanning communications, actual property, and insurance coverage; JoAnn H. Worth, Co-Founder/Managing Associate of Fairview Capital Companions (Non-public Fairness and Enterprise Capital agency) with over $10.4 Billion in belongings beneath administration since inception; and the late Mary Ellen Nice, a Nineteenth-century entrepreneur, financier, actual property magnate, and abolitionist who was the primary self-made millionaire of African-American heritage.
Starting in March, Younger and his mascot KEMET will begin a tour to go to colleges and youth teams along with his KEMET BIG TIME SAVER PROGRAM. The KEMET youth exercise sheets, which embody enjoyable and academic Black historical past details, are distributed nationwide to varsities and Black newspapers, reaching over 22 million readers per week. Younger is in pre-production for the KEMET BIG TIME SAVER animated movie.
* 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. P.S. 171 Patrick Henry College, 19 E 103rd St, New York, NY 10029 — Black Historical past Month occasion with over 100 elementary college students to fulfill KEMET, have a good time African American leaders and focus on the significance of monetary well being and generational wealth for younger folks. Courtesy of JP Morgan Chase, each scholar will obtain a replica of KEMET, BIG TIME SAVER.
* 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., Apollo Theater, 253 W a hundred and twenty fifth St, New York, NY 10027 — Joe Younger will host a KEMET E-book Signing on the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem to have a good time Black Historical past Month.
ABOUT JOE YOUNG:
Joe Younger is the Founder and president of Joe Younger Leisure and the President and CEO of Hartford’s Obtained Expertise!, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group. He’s an award-winning cartoonist, filmmaker, producer, author, and educating artist. Younger is the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of The College of Bridgeport. In 2022 Younger teamed up with music icon Smokey Robinson to provide the animated BLACK AMERICAN movie. The animation was featured on ABC’s “The View” TV program. In 1999, he acquired the Every day Level of Gentle award from the White Home from Presidents Invoice Clinton and the late President George H.W. Bush for volunteering to carry the humanities to inner-city youth.
He has been acknowledged for his accomplishments, together with being an Amazon Nationwide Finest-Promoting Writer, featured in Ripley’s Imagine It or Not, and in The NAACP 100 Most Influential Blacks in CT. His work has appeared in Folks, Ebony, GQ and Jet Journal, the Boston Globe, New York Instances, C-Span, ABC’s The View, CNN, the Black Household Channel, and different nationwide media retailers.
Study extra: https://joeyoung.org/
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