Kahari Nash

As someone who has personally known Norbert A. Simmons, Lorenzo Creighton, and the late Don Barden, I’ve seen firsthand the challenges and triumphs Black pioneers have faced in this industry. #casinos

Let me tell you how we got to this point and draw the Really Black conclusion. In the fall of 2014, I met the Byrd Brothers, Darrell and James F. Byrd Jr., Black McDonald’s franchisees at a Memphis Grizzlies basketball game. They told me that they had eight (8) McDonald’s stores, four (4) each, and McDonald’s was forcing them to sell four (4) stores, two (2) each, to Fred Tillman, who’s White and at that time was the largest McDonald’s USA franchisee.