MARC A. STEPHENS
Founder, President & CEO
The Black Restitution Initiative, Inc., is founded by Marc A. Stephens. Stephens was born in Harlem, New York, and raised in the Bronx, and nearby Englewood, New Jersey. Stephens brings over 30 years of proven skills in negotiating, problem solving, and business development. Stephens has experience as a personal and business consultant, real estate investor in multiple states, real estate broker in the State of California and New York, and wireless telecommunication site developer.
Stephens has extensive knowledge in the wireless industry as he was responsible for negotiating deals with private landlords and local government to build the infrastructure of the wireless telecommunication services around the United States for all major wireless telecommunication carriers including Cingular Wireless, Clearwire, MetroPCS, Nextel, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon. Stephens also worked as a consultant for American Towers Corporation, Bechtel Corporation, Alcatel-Lucent, and the global aerospace and military defense company, General Dynamics, Inc.
For the past 23 years, Stephens has provided free consulting services to individuals, entrepreneurs, and business owners which included business start-up, internet marketing, web coding, website development, graphic designing, real estate investing, stock trading, copyright infringement, and increasing credit scores to 800. Stephens has a long history of providing his own personal funds to assist black entrepreneurs and business owners.
In 2010, Stephens volunteered his time working with cancer patients around the world. Stephens is a strong advocate for protecting common law and constitutional rights.
In 2014, Stephens filed a federal civil rights complaint against the City of Englewood for violations of the second amendment. The firearms case went up to the Supreme Court of the United States, which a closed conference was held before the Justices decided not to hear the case.
In 2017, Stephens won a ‘right to travel’ case proven citizens are 'not required' to purchase vehicle insurance. In 2019, Stephens successfully negotiated a copyright deal with HBO regarding the documentary called “The Apollo”.
In 2021, Marc Stephens, who is not a lawyer, but is highly requested by many high profile celebrities, assisted with the release of a federal inmate under the First Step Act, which was signed into law by President Donald J. Trump in 2018. Stephens was included on a team of lawyers and inmate advocates spearheaded by Kim Kardashian and Brittany Barnett. Stephens prepared a legal brief which was submitted to ICE agents and Judge at the Adelanto Immigration Facility, proving the inmate’s citizenship within the United States.
In 2022, Stephens won a first amendment free speech case in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and a federal judge ruled in favor of Stephens in a $6 million illegal search case in Englewood, New Jersey. In the same year, Stephens’ 2014 second amendment legal argument was used in the firearm case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn, Inc. v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 - Supreme Court 2022, which is now a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court related to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Marc Stephens is the owner of a media company called MAS Media Acquisitions that contains online news publications located in New York City and New Jersey, which includes Manhattan News, Bronx News, Queens News, Brooklyn News, Staten Island News, and Englewood News. Stephens also own several online magazines such as Lonje Magazine, All House Music Magazine, NYC Hip Hop Magazine, Vital Signs Magazine, and Bear Arms Magazine.
