Story ARC is a storytelling company focused on the production of story-driven content, the analysis of stories, and the enhancement of the story experience. Based in Detroit, the company was founded by Andrew Robert Colom after he read about the inspiring and tragic stories of Ossian and Gladys Sweet, a Black doctor and his wife who bought a home in a white middle-class Detroit neighborhood in the 1920s, and were forced to face off with a violent white mob. Inspired to create a real estate company that could thrive while addressing historic injustices, and doing right by the community it was based in, the company was founded by Andrew Robert Colom with his fraternity brother David Alade. It expanded from a portfolio of five single family homes to over 200 homes and apartment units. In 2020, the company released its latest short movie, One Sweet Night, starring J. D. Williams of The Wire, a stunning telling of the night Ossian Sweet and his family faced off with their white neighbors and sought to take a stand for their own stake, and the stake of all Black Americans, in the American dream. Today, Andrew is committed to the idea of new paths, believing one should approach life with the intention of creating an opportunity whenever feasible, while also widening the lanes of opportunity as broadly, and as free of prejudice as possible. He lives in Detroit, in one of the very homes and neighborhoods his company invested in, with his partner Rose Elizabeth Hackman, a feminist writer, and his begrudgingly-adopted dog Alfie.
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