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Individuals who are unapologetic, bold, courageous, confident and proud of who they are and the way they live. These are the traits the stars of the new Go Your Own Way Xfinity Mobile advertising campaign possess. The campaign illustrates how Xfinity Mobile is different from other wireless providers by giving customers control of their data options.
This new campaign also celebrates the differences that make each of us unique, and, by doing so, aims to represent the diverse customers and communities we serve.
For California, this campaign has special meaning because it features two Californians who are making an impact and a difference in their communities.
The ad opens with the captivating voice of artist, Moses Sumney singing a new take on the classic tune Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac. This song celebrates the many different options available through Xfinity Mobile that allow you to ‘go your own way.’
Born in San Bernardino, California, raised in both Ghana and SoCal, and currently living in North Carolina, Moses Sumney has always been one to go his own way.
Bri Noble is the founder and owner of Mulatto Meadows, an equestrian business dedicated to expanding the accessibility of riding and horsemanship to communities historically excluded from the equestrian world. Bri is especially passionate about introducing horsemanship and riding to youth of color and economically disenfranchised populations.
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Since emerging in 2014 with a self-released cassette EP, Sumney has ridden waves of word-of-mouth praise and dynamic live performances.
That original, unapologetic approach has clearly paid off. His 2017 debut album Aromanticism topped the end-of-year lists of tastemaker hubs like Bandcamp, the New York Times, NPR, and Pitchfork. In 2019, Moses Sumney received a SXSW award for his music video work. His recently published essay, “Stateside Statelessness,” in Fight of the Century (Simon & Schuster) and his 2020 sophomore double album, “græ”, are on course to receive similar acclaim.
Bay Area native and resident Brianna Noble makes a stunning appearance in the commercial along with an 1,800-pound horse. The 25-year-old equestrian generated international attention when she rode at an Oakland Black Lives Matter protest over the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police. When asked why she brought her horse to the protest, Brianna responded that “no one can ignore a black woman sitting on top of a horse.” Age of empires conquerors no cd.
Brianna “Bri” Noble is the founder and owner of Mulatto Meadows, an equestrian business dedicated to expanding the accessibility of riding and horsemanship to communities historically excluded from the equestrian world. In addition, she is leading and raising money for the project Humble, an initiative to help underserved children take horseback riding lessons for free.
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Moses and Brianna fully embody what is means to go your own way and we are proud to see California represented in this new campaign.
Jade Williams, an Oakland School for the Arts fashion design student, carefully crisscrossed each strand of hair until the long braid was finished. Turquoise, white and yellow beads were added until the dark mane was filled with decoration, making a gentle clattering sound as they struck together.
Brianna Krugeramerican Meadow's Equestrian Center Camp
It was the high school freshman’s first time styling a horse, and the animal was surprisingly patient during the hour-long process.
“They’re really well behaved,” Linda Ricciardi, the school’s fashion design chair, said of the three horses her students were grooming, dressing and painting on Friday in a vacant lot above San Francisco’s Sunnydale neighborhood. “We’re excited to be a part of this, it’s been something positive the students have been looking forward to all month since Bri approached us with the project.”
The project was designing and constructing costumes for three riders and their horses in the Afro-futurist style of the movie “Black Panther,” which is as known as much for its Academy Award-winning fashion by Ruth E. Carter as it is for its groundbreaking depiction of Black superheroes. Brianna Noble, founder of the nonprofit horse education program Humble, invited the school to be part of Sunnydale’s Community Day Halloween celebration once she knew this year’s ride would be celebrating the comic book blockbuster and its star, the late actor Chadwick Boseman.
Noble is an alumna of the arts school and is well-known in the community after a photo of her riding her horse ahead of the downtown Oakland protests over the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd went viral in May.
“When ‘Black Panther’ came out, I watched it five times,” said Williams, the first-year student. “I knew I wanted to tie Black Lives Matter and Black history into my costume designs.”
For the second year, Noble and her sister, Brittany Lewis, brought horses to the neighborhood for a festive ride down Sunnydale Avenue. They were joined by a third rider, Dale Johnson, with all three equestrians and their mounts decked-out in full Wakanda style. Wakanda is the fictional country where “Black Panther” is set.
“This is the kids show,” said Noble, getting her face painted in a African-inspired design. “It’s all about the kiddos and their vision of what they want this to be. My job here is to help facilitate things for them. If anything, I’m just a horse safety officer: It’s their hair design, their costume designs, their ideas. We want to showcase that for the community.”
Lewis, a police officer in the Sunnydale neighborhood, sat in Noble’s combination horse trailer and RV while getting gold-tipped false eyelashes glued on. The sisters joked that they named their three-rider tribe “Watusi Wakanda” after the muscular African cattle breed.
“I feel so pretty right now,” said Lewis, adjusting her elaborate gold hoop necklace and beaded collar. “I feel like .. back to my roots.”
Lewis is part of the San Francisco police housing team in the Ingleside District, which works to build relationships between the police and the Sunnydale community.
It’s “more of a proactive community policing approach,” Lewis said. “Build trust and essentially have fun, show the human side of law enforcement. This is just another level of having fun and bringing people together. Horses, they’re the key to your heart, how can you not be happy?”
Once horses and riders were painted and dressed, it was was time to mount up. The three riders shivered as the wind whipped up: Wakanda-style nods to warmer African climates don’t include a lot of coverage against Bay Area elements. After kicking off their shoes they got on their horses, which were blanketed in colorful African print fabrics in lieu of saddles.
“I feel powerful,” Johnson said of his finished look. As for the cold, all three riders hoped the heat of the horses’ bodies would help keep them warm.
Raising her prop spear, Noble yelled out “Watusi, Wakanda forever!” and began the ride three blocks downhill to the Sunnydale Boys & Girls Club and Willie L. Brown Jr. Youth Center, accompanied by a police car playing the “Black Panther” soundtrack for added ambiance.
Cars halted, people stopped on the sidewalk to watch and others came out of their homes. Some shouted hellos to Lewis, others recognized Noble from her viral photograph and Xfinity commercial. A few shouted lines from the movie and made the hero’s signature crossed arm salute. A little boy in his own Black Panther costume stopped in his tracks seeing the horses, lifted his mask and smiled excitedly as he took the whole spectacle in.
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As they rode across the Black Lives Matter street mural painted in front of the Boys & Girls Club, the song “Fight the Power” blasted on a sound system. Dozens of people from the neighborhood gathered around to watch as the riders took position on the lawn so residents could pose with the group for socially distant selfies.
After thanking the crowd and acknowledging the work of the Oakland school’s student designers, Noble led her three-person Watusi Wakanda tribe through the neighborhood before heading back up the hill. Michelle Noble, the mother of Brianna and Brittany, was easy to spot in her shirt and mask emblazoned with the words “Proud Mom.”
“I’m proud of both my daughters,” Michelle Noble said. “Growing up in Oakland, being from a lower-middle-class family, the sport (riding) they wanted to pursue, the things they wanted to do, was so far out from what my husband and I knew that it was hard to embrace this because we didn’t know anything about it. This is a reminder to me that when they have a vision and a dream, support it with everything you got.”
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Tony Bravo is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: tbravo@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @TonyBravoSF