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She told us she was betting on stories nobody else would tell. is proof she meant it.

,executively produced the film alongside her husband and producing partner Xavier “Two” Lewis through their company . The film follows William Catlett ( ) as a widowed Black father navigating the beautiful, complicated reality of raising his son with Down syndrome, played by Jeremiah Daniels.

Since its world premiere at Tribeca, Color Book has taken home over 20 jury and audience awards, including wins at the Austin Film Festival, the Deauville American Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Denver Film Festival, and AFI FEST.

In her Bacon cover interview, Naturi said it plainly: “Those are the stories I’m most passionate about. The ones that are untold, uncelebrated, and underrepresented.”

Color Book comes to Netflix on June 19.

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She has spent five years asking Black women voters one honest question: how are you really doing? And she has refused to let the answers go unnoticed.

founded The Highland Project in 2020 on a belief that is as straightforward as it is radical — invest in Black women, and you invest in everyone. Since then, The Highland Project has committed more than $6 million to organizations working across education, economic empowerment, healthcare, housing, and political agency.

The data they have collected tells a story the whole country should be paying attention to. We covered it.

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Gas is $6+ in California and climbing everywhere. If you are running a business and not writing off your mileage, you are leaving real money at the pump.
 
The IRS standard mileage rate for 2026 is 72.5 cents per mile. Drive 300 miles a month for business and that is over $2,600 back at tax time. It is not a loophole. It is the law.
 
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