Hi Friends,

It’s been quite a whirlwind summer for me. We had a full-time team building the foundation for NOIR Labs. We put our paperwork in place, acquired significant data on our community, designed our emblem, cultivated a visionary culture amongst our team and broader community, and we activated networks of genius that were previously latent. There is so much to share with you as we transition into the next phase! Stay close 😉

Now we’ll focus on our content. We’ll be telling the story of the New World we’re creating through our visionary storytelling, community building and  Artificial  African intelligence.

Some of our summer team will be converted to a network of partners through whom we’ll be supporting brands who wish to use [ high-quality ] intentional, thoughtfully curated data to build more meaningful linkages with their communities across the Black Diaspora. Through our noirpress Writer Tribe, we’ll amplify more stories of Black Genius, innovation and revolutionary worldmaking; and we’ll give you a new lens through which to see the future.

Every time I see a story of a Black woman founder raising over a million for her venture, I feel more confident that we’ll surpass our own fundraising goals. This is how the science of media consumption works. Combined with the law of attraction, it proves that all we really need in order to manifest the New World is to create the vision and behold it as often as we possibly can. Liberation is our Manifest Destiny.

Lolade Siyonbola

Lolade is the visionary behind noirpress and a PhD student at Cambridge University, where she's researching identity and assimilation of the Nigerian creative class in New York and London. She has a Master's in African Studies from Yale and a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Mizzou. Lolade is passionate about using technology to preserve and innovate on ancient cultures and traditions, and obsesses over traditional textiles, artistic indigenous films and bridging gaps across the Black Diaspora.

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