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Joe Young is the Founder and president of Joe Young Entertainment and the President and CEO of Hartford's Got Talent!, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. He is an award-winning cartoonist, filmmaker, producer, writer, and teaching artist. Young is the Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of The University of Bridgeport.

In 2022 Young teamed up with music icon Smokey Robinson to produce the animated BLACK AMERICAN film. The animation was featured on ABC's "The View" TV program. In 1999, he received the Daily Point of Light award from the White House from Presidents Bill Clinton and the late President George H.W. Bush for volunteering to bring the arts to inner-city youth.

He has been recognized for his accomplishments, including being an Amazon National Best-Selling Author, featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not, and in The NAACP 100 Most Influential Blacks in CT. His work has appeared in People, Ebony, GQ and Jet Magazine, the Boston Globe, New York Times, C-Span, ABC's The View, CNN, the Black Family Channel, and other national media outlets.

MEDIA CONTACT: info@joeyoungentertainment.com.

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Black History Month – Teaching Black Children The Value Of Building Wealth, Saving Money, and Financial Literacy

KEMET, Big Time Saver - Joe Young Entertainment

Feb 24, 2023 4:01 PM EST

NEW YORK, N.Y., Feb. 24, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — On the last day of Black History Month, nationally recognized Black Producer and Creator Joe Young, Jr., in partnership with JPMorgan Chase, will launch a print and digital comic book teaching financial literacy to students featuring “KEMET, BIG TIME SAVER.” Students will officially meet KEMET, a 10-year-old time-traveling comic character who goes back to meet African-American historical firsts, legends, and inventors.