Stay updated with breaking news from Michelle eubanks. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
UNA to switch tuition models for the 2023-24 school year waff.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from waff.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Wallet Watch: Budding union efforts in Michigan's cannabis industry mlive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mlive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Petition against Ford Marshall plant didn't have enough valid signatures mlive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mlive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
to do that if janelle hadn't been such a fantastic job. -- the former chair, as you said, it was in a bad shape a couple years ago. they came in, entrepreneurs going to -- people wanted to see. they supported it. fast forward, now vibrant venue with three stages now. with the victoria theater. raised $70 million in the first renovation, we're gonna do a lot of good things with that renovation. make it more digital, automated cameras, automated rigging. lots of things, streaming. modernize it. the structure is -- that will set it up for future generations for the next, hopefully 90 years as well. so michelle e. banks comes from essence, which she ran one of the largest festivals in the company, called essence festival in new orleans. she knows a lot of artists, a lot of sponsors. that smooth transition between janelle, who did a fantastic job. and michelle, who had a great background to do this. -- they've been working together already. we're looking forward to the next chapter.
still do. we had -- this year, we have lil wayne. lots of different people. >> at the same spring benefit gala you mentioned that i couldn't get through because i couldn't get a flight due to weather. didi was honored this week, who calls me pops. he couldn't get to it because of the weather. the apollo also recognizes longtime ceo, janelle palco, who is stepping down this month after bringing the theater back from near bankruptcy, to its place as the largest black performing arts organization in the nation. and it looks like she's leading the -- in the best possible hands, with my friend and sister, michelle eubanks, the former ceo of essence communications. of course, she's taking over. what does the apollo's continuing evolution look like with each banks at the helm, you as the chair, and what i understand is a 70 million dollar renovation coming next year? the first in the theater's history. >> first, we wouldn't be able