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"Profiled: The Black Man," a four-part OWN docu-series on the Discovery+ network, debuted Saturday, featuring the company's co-founders.

The first episode of the new documentary series profiles Charles Alexander, Mark Edmond and Jamel Lewis, co-owners of Chicago’s Black-owned gourmet sliced-bread company, The Black Bread Co.

The Discovery+ series is one of several new movie and TV projects marking Black History Month.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Terrell Williams had 16 points as Southern topped Lindsey Wilson 86-68 on Thursday night.

Mark Edmond was looking to specifically "buy Black," and during a trip to the grocery store, bread was the first thing on his list.   "The first thing I started doing was googling all the different brands to try to figure out if its Black-owned or at least if it had a Black executive, which I couldn’t find any," Edmond said. So he immediately talked with Lewis and Charles Alexander, and everyone was on board. "We didn’t want to just get on Instagram and Facebook and just start voicing our ...

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