His sister-in-law, Angela Shakur, is also part of the business after working in human resources with Aldi for 12 years, she is now doing the hiring for the home care location. You’re putting it all together for a common goal and cause.”įor help with the business, Shakur has been able to enlist his own family members as co-owners of the location, including his brother, Mujahid Shakur, who runs the day-to-day operations of the franchise. Getting tasks done collectively-that’s a big part of sports as in business. “There’s building a team, finding the right people who mesh with each other, finding the right personalities to build something cohesive that works. “ definitely overlaps in facets of business,” he said. Moving from the basketball court to the business world, Shakur has been able to bring his sports mentality along. She was really surprised by that, and that always stuck with her. “She always told me a story of when she was working at a home care company, and one day the owners came in and she remembers the couple being very young who owned it. “Ironically, my mother worked for a few home care companies in Philadelphia,” he said. Shakur also had a personal connection to the home care space.
I needed to find my niche and follow my core values. “You don’t necessarily want to do exactly what another person is doing,” Shakur said. Shakur was allured to the home care space by the attractive demographics, with 10,000 Americans turning 65 every day, and saw an opportunity to break into the industry through franchising. Producer defends casting Chris Pratt as Mario in new Super Mario Bros.“I decided this was a better fit, to start small by getting an understanding of franchising and health care,” he said.Director Peter Jackson on 'The Beatles: Get Back' documentary' Yahoo Entertainment US.
Read original story Will Smith’s ‘Emancipation’ Adds Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Gilbert Owuor and Mustafa Shakir to Cast At TheWrap Mustafa Shakur is represented by The Gersh Agency, Robyn Bluestone Management and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham. Gilbert Owuor is represented by D2 Management and Innovative Artists. Charmaine Bingwa is represented by Artists First, UTA, Smith & Macdonald Creative, attorney Nelson Davis and Viewpoint.
Foster will next be seen in the action thriller “Violence of Action” and Barry Levinson’s “The Survivor.” Ben Foster is represented by UTA and attorney Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson. Ben Foster most recently starred in “Leave No Trace” from Debra Granik and “Galveston” from Mélanie Laurent. Fuqua is executive producing under his Fuqua Films banner, alongside Cliff Roberts. Smith, James Lassiter and Jon Mone are producing “Emancipation” through Westbrook Studios with McFarland Entertainment’s Joey McFarland and Escape Artists’ Todd Black. The film is inspired by the famous photo circa 1863 known as “The Scourged Back.” The photo, taken during a Union Army medical examination, depicts a runaway slave dubbed “Whipped Peter” who became a symbol for the abolitionist movement when he was photographed in Harper’s Weekly with severe whipping scars all along his back.
And Shakir (“Soul Assassin,” “Cowboy Bebop,” “Marvel’s Luke Cage” and “The Deuce”) plays Cailloux, a free Black man who serves in the Union Army.
Owuor (“Montana Story,” “Mute,” “Reprisal,” “Calls”) will play Gordon, an enslaved man working at the same camp as Peter. Bingwa (“The Good Fight,” “Black Box,” “Trees of Peace”) will play Peter’s beloved wife Dodienne. Foster (“Hell or High Water”) in the film will play Fassel, a man who doggedly pursues any enslaved person who attempts to flee to freedom. Antoine Fuqua is directing the film from a script by Bill Collage, which is based on true events and is the story of Peter, a runaway slave forced to outwit cold-blooded hunters and the punishing Louisiana swamp on a tortuous journey to the Union Army and his only chance at freedom. Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Gilbert Owuor and Mustafa Shakir have joined the cast of “Emancipation,” the runaway slave drama starring Will Smith that’s set up at Apple.