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The company was founded in Harlem in 1991 by Liberians Nyema Tubman and Richelieu Dennis (and his mother Mary Dennis), who were part of the Liberian Diaspora to the United States. The company was inspired by Dennis' Sierra Leonean grandmother, Sofi Tucker, who sold shea butter at a village market in Bonthe, Sierra Leone in 1912. [1] [2] [3]
One person who didn’t shut the door was Richelieu Dennis, a fellow Black founder. Dennis made his fortune through the massively popular beauty company Shea Moisture, Sundial, and other consumer ...
On December 20, 2018, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced that the estate had been sold in mid-September to the New Voices Foundation, which was founded by Richelieu Dennis. An emigrant from Liberia , Dennis is the owner of Essence magazine and the 1992 founder of Sundial Brands, a skin and hair care products company which is ...
In July 2020, controversy rose again when anonymous magazine staffers alleged mistreatment and abuse under the leadership of Richelieu Dennis. In a post called "Black Female Anonymous" on Medium, it is alleged that senior staffers subjected black female employees to sexual harassment, pay inequity and bullying.
She and Dennis married in 2018. Dennis retired at the end of the 2023 season after a career in which he won stages at the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana.
Afropunk is acquired by entrepreneur Richelieu Dennis and Essence Ventures. [6] The festival adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic by hosting its first virtual event in 2020, branded as Planet Afropunk: Past, Present, and Future is Black. This virtual edition, held from October 23 to 25, showcased global talent and tackled critical socio-political ...
Away from the screen, Dennis has been married three times and has three children. He married his first wife Lynne Webster in 1974, and the pair had one son together before their split in 1990.
Photograph of his daughter-in-law, Elinor Douglas Wise. On 27 February 1875 in Paris, Chapelle de Jumilhac was married to American-born heiress Alice Heine (1858–1925), a daughter of Amélie Marie Céleste Miltenberger and Michel Heine, a scion of a prominent German-rooted Berlin and Paris banking Jewish family.