The Afri Bar

SUSPENSION OF HIP-HOP CULTURE PROMOTIONAL EVENTS

JULY 5, 2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

This letter serves as an official announcement regarding the marketing and promotional strategies for Village Resorts Hospitality Group, LLC, Village Box Cafe Bar & Grill, Urban Ground Resort & Residence, and The Afri Bar.

When a commercial establishment designs its policies to serve a specific demographic, it balances two competing legal and social frameworks. Under the First Amendment, private commercial entities that provide highly customized, expressive, or curated environments possess rights regarding expressive autonomy and freedom of association. The customization of services, spaces, and lifestyle programming offered by Village Resorts Hospitality Group, LLC, is executed at the sole and absolute discretion of corporate management. While our high-end environments are commercially tailored to serve our target demographic this focus represents a private business model. This commercial focus does not create, imply, or establish a public duty, legal obligation, or social contract to modify, extend, or alter our operations to accommodate any outside demographic category, social collective, or third-party entity.

Village Resorts Hospitality Group, LLC, operates under a strict directive of complete socio-political, ideological, and religious neutrality. Village Resorts Hospitality Group, LLC, is formally designated as a socio-political and religious-free establishment. No architectural feature, operational guideline, marketing asset, or community-centric event constitutes an endorsement, sponsorship, approval or disapproval of any external political campaign, social movement, or religious faction.

Village Resorts Hospitality Group, LLC, firmly disavows all hostile takeover frameworks, deceptive trade practices, and malicious social and administrative attempts to weaponize race, culture, and sexual orientation to include all acts against our Founder and President Oliver B. Mitchell III. Village Resorts Hospitality Group, LLC, remains an immutable commitment to offering an authentic, protected, and high-end experience for our guests, patrons, employees, and target demographics. We will vigorously exhaust every available legal remedy to challenge, counter, and neutralize any illegal contest. Our right to trade, commerce, and space will not be restricted by administrative erasure, discriminatory reprisals, or weaponized race, culture, and sexual orientation contest.

To eliminate any confusion exploited during ongoing intradiasporic or administrative contests, the company clarifies the distinction between its commercial target market and its ownership structure. While our luxury hospitality services, entertainment environments, and specialized programming are precision-tailored to fulfill a business void this customization represents a private commercial strategy, not a communal entitlement. The company is under no legal, social, or moral obligation to alter its business templates, answer to community-led demands, or grant administrative oversight to external factions. Access to our private physical properties and digital advertising networks is a transactional privilege, not a public or community right.

Effective immediately, a corporate decision has been made to suspend all past, current, and future promotional events, entertainment, and activations related to hip-hop, rap, and their associated cultures until further notice.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) establishes protections for copyright infringement. In 1998, Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which amended U.S. copyright law to address important parts of the relationship between copyright and the internet. Village Resorts Hospitality Group, LLC, and the companies we may manage, own, and operate, reserve and retain all Intellectual Property Rights to any Content specific to Village Resorts Hospitality Group, LLC, and the companies we may manage, own, and operate, and does not grant any non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute Our content in any way now known or later developed.

We wish to clarify that all past, current, and previously scheduled events falling under this category were organized strictly for commercial advertising and marketing purposes only. This suspension is a strategic business alignment, a legal response, and a response to ongoing disputes involving Mr. Mitchell. 

From time to time, at our sole discretion Village Resorts Hospitality Group, LLC, reserves the right to implement, modify, cancel, or change any policy, memorandum, or agreement as necessary.

Village Resorts Hospitality Group, LLC, is currently reviewing our entertainment portfolios to ensure our brands remain aligned with our brand, operations, and corporate goals.

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation during this transition.