Twinkem Productions

Twinkem Productions Twinkem Productions is a an arts organization that educates, mentors and provides opportunities for youth in the SF & Oakland, Bay Area.

06/11/2026
05/13/2026

A***n Simone was sued to stop her from funding Black women — so she took $200 million to Africa instead.The lawsuit was designed to be a wall. When legal action was brought against A***n Simone to prevent her from directing funding specifically toward Black women entrepreneurs, the intended outcome was a full stop — a legal mechanism to shut down the mission before it could grow further. What happened instead was a pivot that made the mission larger. She moved her focus to Africa and launched a $200 million global fund dedicated to supporting women of color entrepreneurs — the first fund of its scale built specifically for that purpose. The wall became a door.The distance between where she started and where she stands now is not a small one. A***n Simone lived in her car. That is the baseline from which she built everything that followed — the platform, the network, the credibility, and eventually the financial infrastructure to move two hundred million dollars toward women who looked like her and faced the same structural barriers she had navigated without a safety net. The homelessness isn't a footnote to her success story. It's the foundation of why her commitment to other women is not theoretical. She knows what the absence of capital and opportunity actually costs.The lawsuit, the pivot, the fund — each piece of the story is its own statement about what happens when systems try to limit someone whose determination has already survived conditions those systems didn't design. They sued her to stop her from funding Black women. She went global. The response to opposition wasn't retreat. It was scale.

05/12/2026

We have so many people that deserve more recognition.

“Production is officially underway on 'Darlene Love: I Know Where I’ve Been', a new documentary centered on Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and legendary vocalist Darlene Love.”

05/09/2026
07/30/2025

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