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TO ALL WHO MADE ALL-STAR WEEKEND AT TOWER CITY A SUCCESS

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Ninja City Kitchen & Bar Pearl Flower Catering Shell Shock’d Tacos

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All-Star Weekend

Business Recap

Meet Cheryl Pritchard-McCauley, known in the Cleveland area as an entrepreneur, community activist and Cleveland Ambassador for The Musketeer Association and Owner of A&ACT, LLC. Production and Promotion company. At 57 years old Cheryl was one of the small black businesses that suffered during the NBA ALL-Star Weekend in Cleveland. Since September she had worked along with other local and startup businesses on a series of events that were certain to have out of towners dazzled by what Cleveland has to offer in the underground scene. Instead, what she got was a socially distant empty venue which she had to pay top dollar for due to it being All Star Weekend. After the city decided to only allow the 7 top hotels to benefit from the extended hour liquor sales there really wasn’t a chance for her events to be successful. To top the frustration off for Cheryl and other small promoters, the City allowed the NBA and its players to come in and buy up spaces from other venues for astronomical prices. Cheryl: The little man can’t compete with corporate America when it puts its’ hammer down. I heard a group of NBA Players paying 80k to someone to take over their space. Not to mention The Radio and Sponsors not supporting the small promotors and their events. Basically, it was a lose lose situation and the city and it’s event planning should be ashamed and do better. I can’t get with these organizations that do events every year and felt they had to come during this particular weekend to charge vendors and make all this money on the groupied out people of this city when they could have come the week or month after All-Star Weekend. After all they do these events annually. To Me it was being GREEDY and inconsistent with what you say you represent. Opportunities for small businesses.

However, this experience has not deterred me from my goals and life mission which is to Inspire and Enlighten the Masses through Art and Entertainment and my Social Stance. To take us all to a Higher Level of Self Resect and Understanding of our Worth to ourselves and Society. Whether it’s encouraging people to understand what is happening in society outside of what is fed to us through media and the press. Such as education in the prison systems, or the lack of accreditations available to inmates after taking higher education classes, trades being taken out of our schools. Rather than train people of color, society would build robots to replace them. Or, the music that we are force fed that has corrupted society damn near to the point of no return. To being taxed 3 times before you walk out a store in the inner city. These along with countless other issues are what’s really important at the end of the day so that is where my focus is after the All-Star Weekend fiasco. Though I still can’t understand why people would run that situation like that on all ends.

When asked what’s next Cheryl will be doing her part to support The Musketeer Association of Cincinnati as they March in Columbus to support Survivors of Crimes at their 2nd Annual Survivors Speak Advocacy Day and Healing Vigil on March 16, 2022 from (am to pm at the Ohio State House.

Until Next Time…

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