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The Black Innovation Alliance (Bia), a coalition dedicated to closing the racial wealth gap, will kick off Juneteenth with the new podcast From Chains to Links: The Innovation Podcast. The new podcast will go beyond traditional entrepreneurial topics to explore the intersection of culture, identity and business, as well as examine the systemic barriers faced by Black entrepreneurs.

Bia CEO Dr. Kelly Burton and Ifeoma Ike, attorney, author and founder of Pink Cornrows, an award-winning public policy, communications and social impact firm, will host and spotlight in each episode how Black people have innovated survival, joy, creativity, curiosity, collective economics, healing, and revolution. Guests and experts will share the stories of their own journeys to shed light on Black entrepreneurship in an authentic and honest way. Topics include the future of racial justice work, Black innovators and visionaries, innovation and sustainability as a birthright, the new book “The Equity Mindset,...

A man who pleaded guilty to holding Lost star Josh Holloway hostage was officially sentenced to a minimum of 13 years in prison on Tuesday.

Ruben Royce entered a guilty plea to 34 offences as part of a plea deal reached with prosecutors in February.

Royce broke into Holloway's house in October 2005, threatening the actor and his wife with a gun before stealing their wallets and their car.

During sentencing on Tuesday in a Honolulu, Hawaii court, Judge Karl Sakamoto ruled Royce must serve between 13 to 30 years behind bars after chastising him for being responsible for "a tidal wave of crime" that terrorised victims in their own homes.

Royce admitted to three other robberies and in January, he was also convicted of robbery, burglary, firearms violations and reckless endangerment stemming from a fifth incident.

The 23-year old also pleaded guilty to a variety of offences including kidnapping, first-degree robbery, burglary and autotheft.

Earlier this year Royce's lawyer Terry Marshall stated he was determined to get his client's sentence reduced as Royce "stepped up, because he is hoping to turn his life around".