Four Hundred Frames

01/04/2024

🔑 The key to building Black generational wealth and overcoming systemic barriers begins with creating honest financial conversations and sharing real stories of financial struggles and success at home.

Through visual storytelling, graphics, and website design, we helped Seko Benjamin-Eric Varner, the CEO of Positive Vibes Consulting, frame and present his mission and life-changing story about how his father's last words empowered him to change his family's financial trajectory.

💼 We worked with Positive Vibes Consulting alongside Trevina Jefferson, Trepson Operations & HR Consulting, the Lead Consultant during Black BRAND's B-Force Accelerator program for Black businesses.

💻 https://www.positivevibesconsulting.com/

Seko has a wealth of experience supporting Black families and entrepreneurs in boosting credit, obtaining real estate, and overcoming financial obstacles. He is also the founder of The Hampton Roads Greenbook® - Highlighting Black & Minority Businesses, Organizations, & Professionals
📲 https://www.hrgreenbook.com/

09/01/2023

"Frames highlight and link data selectively to tell more or less coherent stories that define problems, diagnose causes, make moral judgments, and suggest remedies."- Robert M. Entman, Andrew Rojecki

08/31/2023

📚 The most impactful resources that changed my view of human storytelling...

"The images we choose to tell our stories shape how viewers understand them." 💣 🔥 -Al Tompkins, Aim for the Heart

I learned the most important lessons about the power and social responsibility of visual storytelling for human dignity and justice from these resources.

Here are some quotes that inspired and informed the vision of Four Hundred Frames...

🗨 "Frames highlight and link data selectively to tell more or less coherent stories that define problems, diagnose causes, make moral judgments, and suggest remedies...Media frames evoke thoughts that have the potential for eroding or building racial comity."- Robert M. Entman, Andrew Rojecki -The Black Image in the White Mind

🗨 "Blacks and Indians, meanwhile, lacked the means to tell their own story, to document the profound injustices they confronted, to chronicle the rich complexity of their daily lives. At the birth of American democracy, people of color possessed no press of their own." -Juan Gonzalez, Joseph Torres - News for All the People

🗨 "Pictures, sounds and graphic images hold great power..." -Al Tompkins, Aim for the Heart

Brandon Graves
CEO, Four Hundred Frames

08/24/2023

08/24/2023

https://ijnet.org/en/story/how-black-journalists-are-incorporating-solutions-approach-their-newsrooms

As a journalist of color working for a legacy publication of color, I’ve spent my career being reminded of my constraints. Like many of my colleagues, I work with limited resources compared with other journalists at larger publications, but I’ve been fortunate in my work with the New York Amster...