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What makes your company unique?
Seals: We specialize in creating typefaces inspires by the history of minority cultures, specifically by focusing on progressive movements. So each typeface essentially highlights a piece of history from different minority cultures.
What was some of your first professional work?
Seals: The first font I ever made through Vocal was called Martin. I call it a non-violent typeface. It was inspired by the protest signs carried during the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968. It was Dr. King s last cause before his death that year in April. The font itself is inspired by the signs that read I am a Man, the famous quote, along with Honor King: End Racism.
So what were you up to when you were 16 years old? Odds are Paris McKenzie has you beat by a mile. This 16-years-old entrepreneur is the owner of Paris Beauty Supplyz based in Brooklyn, New York. She’s the youngest owner of a Black-owned beauty supply store in the county. But that’s just in her downtime. McKenzie juggles her professional.
So what were you up to when you were 16 years old? Odds are Paris McKenzie has you beat by a mile. This 16-years-old entrepreneur is the owner of Paris Beauty Supplyz based in Brooklyn, New York. She’s the youngest owner of a Black-owned beauty supply store in the county. But that’s just in her downtime. McKenzie juggles her professional.
NBCLX is looking back at the most inspiring people we profiled this year as part of NBCUniversal News Group’s Inspiring America series. The first person we are recognizing is Nicolas Talbott, who sued the federal government after former President Donald Trump banned transgender servicemembers from the military.