Al Roker Announces Exciting Career News Outside of Today Show
July 3, 2023

TODAY host Al Roker has revealed he earned a major career accomplishment over the weekend.
The 68-year-old meteorologist announced that a documentary from his entertainment company won a big award at the Essence Film Festival.
On Monday, the TV personality shared a photo of a glass trophy for the honor his company Al Roker Entertainment’s documentary, Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land, took home.
Al excitedly captioned the Instagram post: “We won!”
According to the film’s website, the documentary “examines the causes, effects, and solutions” to the issue of “Black ownership of farmland [dwindling] to alarmingly low numbers.”
The project won the 2023 Jury Prize for a Feature Documentary at the Essence Film Festival in New Orleans.
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