Jara Everett.
Founder of RAATV & LUX PLE Media. Author, artist, filmmaker, and executive producer — available for interviews, features, and panels.
Four angles a producer can run with today.
She built a streaming network by herself — with zero funding.
A Black woman independently launched a full streaming network — live now on Apple TV, Apple iOS, Android, Amazon Fire TV, and the web, with Roku and Samsung rolling out soon — no investors, no studio behind her. Funded startups fold doing less.
From hip-hop's most talked-about tell-all to network owner.
The author who wrote openly about Tupac, Suge Knight, R. Kelly, and Young Jeezy now owns the platform and controls her own narrative. It's a full-circle story a booker can build a whole segment around.
She's a star-maker on a mission.
RAATV's first original, The Access Index: Jackson, is Jara putting real, first-time Black talent on television and making them names. Discovering and developing new stars is the on-camera story, not just the interview.
“When Hollywood says no, RAATV says bring it here.”
The ownership crusade — a ready-made soundbite. Jara speaks to Black creators being overlooked, underfunded, and boxed out, and to building your own lane instead of waiting for permission.
Jara Everett has already been in the room for some of the biggest moments in modern Black entertainment — and now she owns the room. She came up rhyming next to names like Young Jeezy and Shawty Redd, toured the country on stage, and wrote the tell-all that put hip-hop’s heaviest hitters on the page. Then she stopped waiting on Hollywood and built her own: LUX PLE Media, a Black-owned media company, and RAATV, the streaming platform it owns and operates. As creator, showrunner, and executive producer of The Access Index: Jackson, she does the one thing the industry keeps refusing to do — find the talent nobody’s betting on and turn them into stars.
- 01You built and launched an entire streaming network with no outside investment. How did you actually pull that off?
- 02You went from writing hip-hop's most talked-about tell-all to owning a network. What changed in you between those two chapters?
- 03The Access Index: Jackson stars real, first-time talent. How do you find them, and how do you turn them into stars?
- 04What does ownership mean for the next generation of Black creators — and what are you telling them?
- RAATV premiere coverageDigitalJournal →
- JumpOff tell-all announcement (Tupac, Suge, R. Kelly, Jeezy)PR Newswire →
- Producer / Script creditsIMDb →
- Writer · Producer · FounderLinkedIn →