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National University Ranks First in California in Granting Master's Degrees to African Americans
Hip-Hop Stars Kanye West, Ludacris and The GAME Ask "Where You At?" in New Boost Mobile "Anthem" TV Ad Hip-Hop Stars Kanye West, Ludacris and The Game Ask "Where You At?" in New Boost Mobile "Anthem" TV Ad 2 - Anthem Campaign Includes Original Music Recorded by Hip-Hop Artists, Alliance Benefiting Youth Charities, and Contest to Win a Weekend Trip to Kanye West's, Ludacris' or The Game's Hometowns
TAMYRA GRAY, FORMER AMERICAN IDOL STAR, DEBUTS ON BILLBOARD MUSIC CHARTS WITH NEW CD
THE COSBY FIRESTORM JUST WON'T DIE DOWN - By Joseph C. Phillips
PERFORMANCES BY JANET JACKSON, OUTKAST & USHER CRANK UP BET AWARDS '04 AS MO'NIQUE HOSTS - Beyonce, Outkast, Usher and Lil Jon Lead Nominations as BET Invades the Kodak Theatre for Star-Studded Live Telecast Featuring Today's Brightest Stars. Humanitarian Honoree Danny Glover and Lifetime Achievement Recipients The Isley Brothers Headline Parade of Honorees
NEW BOOK TARGETS BLACK MEN FOR SUCCESS
AFRICAN AMERICAN DESIGNER TO CONDUCT WEEKEND HAT MAKING WORKSHOPS IN CALIFORNIA - Plans to expand workshops to other cities across the U.S.
NIELSEN REPORTS MORE DIVERSE TELEVISION VIEWING PATTERNS AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN AND LATINO AUDIENCES - Significant Shifts to Cable, Spanish Language Broadcast Networks and Leased
THE RAPE OF IRAQI WOMEN AND GIRLS BY U.S. SOLDIERS - A. Akbar Muhammad, African Representative of Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam is based in Ghana
CONTROVERSIAL BOOK GIVES FUNKY TWIST ON BLACK CULTURE! - Can you spell candid with a capital C, followed by a shuddering A on the brink of ecstasy? Well, that's what "My Head is Bloody, But Unbowed" epitomizes, candor of the rarest nature
WIDOW OF VETERAN DENIED ASSISTANCE FROM DEPARTMENT OF LABOR/VETS
MCDONALD'S® INTRODUCES FIRST-EVER HAPPY MEAL® FOR ADULTS - Fitness Expert Donna Richardson and McDonald's Celebrate the Go Active! American Challenge with Bob Greene
Mario Winans' Hurt No More - Billboard 200 "Hot Shot Debut" - Enters Charts at No. 2 -
AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESS SUMMIT AND "LIVING HISTORY MAKERS ENTREPRENEURS AWARDS" - Call for Participation
AMERICAN LEGACY MAGAZINE TO HOST TEACHERS AWARD RECEPTION!
BREEJ TECHNOLOGIES SETS NEW STANDARD FOR SHAVING BUMP TREATMENT - BREEJ's revolutionary shaving bumps treatment system takes off in the DC/MD/VA region. Sales of the comprehensive eight product line at CVS Pharmacy increased 250% in 3 months! BREEJ signs JAH'S Marketing of Hyattsville, MD to increase the momentum in the DC/MD/VA region in its quest to make shaving bumps history!
MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF ESSENCE MAGAZINE'S 30 "BEST COMPANIES FOR BLACK WOMEN"
WHO'S THE MOST TALENTED OF THEM ALL? - Search For Talented Black Pre-Teens
DETROIT BUSINESSWOMAN LAUNCHES SECOND BOOK
AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS OUTSCORE WHITES; THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP IS CLOSED
SELF-ESTEEM AND SELF-IMAGE BOOK TO IMPROVE SELF-AWARENESS IN THE COMMUNITY
JUDGES & PHYSICIANS URGE PARENTS TO TAKE EARLY ACTION AGAINST TEEN DRUG USE - Effort Coincides with Release of New Television Ads and National Drug Court Awareness Month
KEITH KILLGO & KROSSLINK MANAGEMENT PRODUCE STARJAMZ FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLE NETWORK - Former Blackbyrds drummer creates and hosts new music performance television specials for TV One ; Ruben Studdard/Peabo Bryson - TV One Show
REGINALD HOLMES ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE NATIONAL BLACK UNITED FUND
PFIZER'S SHARE CARD PROGRAM JOINS UNITEDHEALTH GROUP IN DISCOUNT CARD COALITION TO HELP MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES SAVE ON NEEDED MEDICINES - U Share Prescription Drug Discount Card Expected To Be One Of The Most Comprehensive Offerings Available Under New Medicare-Approved Discount Drug Card Program - Visiting Nurse Association of America Says Discount Card Will Make "a meaningful difference" To Patients
NEW EVIDENCE TO PROVE THE INNOCENCE OF MALACHI YORK
McDONALD'S® AND OPRAH'S PERSONAL TRAINER BOB GREENE EMBARK ON 36-DAY, CROSS-COUNTRY CHALLENGE - Fitness Expert Donna Richardson, Former Bachelorette Trista Rehn Sutter and Former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado team up with Bob Greene to support McDonald's balanced lifestyles program
NATIONWIDE BARNES & NOBLE ADOPTS TERRY E. HILL'S THRILLING DEBUT NOVEL "Inside the Fall" - An Insider's Look into San Francisco City Hall Politics, The Mayor's Personal Life and the Homeless Factor
TOMMY MOTTOLA DOES IT AGAIN: NOT SO SWEET 16
BET's SPRING BLING '04 HEATS UP DAYTONA BEACH WITH THE #1 STUNNERS IN HIP-HOP
Usher’s Confessions No. 1 Second Week Straight on Billboard 200 - Makes History: Highest-Ever Chart Debut for an R&B Artist
OMARION GRANDBERRY TO STAR IN FAT ALBERT; GRANDBERRY TO PLAY REGGIE IN THE FOX FEATURE FILM - GRANDBERRY'S SOLO ALBUM SET FOR RELEASE THIS FALL ON T.U.G./ EPIC RECORDS; ALBUM TO BE THE FIRST SOLO ALBUM FOR THE FORMER B2K SUPERSTAR
NATIONAL "STRENGTHENING AMERICA'S COMMUNITIES" WEEK - A PARADIGM SHIFT IN YOUTH LEADERSHIP - Black Youth Encouraged To Participate
NATIONAL INITIATIVE TO SAVE BLACK YOUTH FOCUSES ATTENTION ON PARENT AND SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS
MILLIONS OF BLACK CHILDREN SUFFER FROM LOW TEST SCORES, LOW SELF-ESTEEM AND POOR SELF-IMAGE - What Can We Do?
TOP BLACK AND HISPANIC INTERNET ENTREPRENEURS UNITE TO CLOSE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN E-BUSINESS
ESSAY CONTEST WINNER WINS TRIP TO WEST AFRICA WITH SUMMER CAMP IN AFRICA
African American Organ Donors Improve Survival Rates for Black Recipients - Kidney Transplant Gives Second Chance to Husband and Father of Two
CAN BOOKS WRITTEN BY BLACKS SERVE AS A LIFE-JACKET FOR THE DISMAL PLIGHT OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS? - Top Ten Books For Black Libraries
THE BLACK PATRIOTS FOUNDATION NAMES TWO NEW DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
HOUSTON DERMATOLOGIST FIGHTS RAZOR BUMPS BY CREATING SHAVING & SKIN CARE PRODUCTS
THE HAITIAN-AMERICAN INVESTMENT BANK ANNOUNCES PUBLIC LAUNCH
America's Oldest Black Radio Broadcaster - CARTER BROADCAST GROUP ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION
BET, PARAMOUNT'S KINGS DOMINION TEAM UP FOR AMUSEMENT AND LIVE CONCERT ENTERTAINMENT WITH 7TH ANNUAL BET COLLEGE DAY - Hip-Hop Artists Twista, and David Banner and R&B Group Jagged Edge Headline Concerts During Exclusive Event for College Students
BLACK COMEDY 30 YEARS TO LIFE ON HOME VIDEO & DVD TUESDAY, APRIL 6
AMBER BOOKS RELEASES "FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE: THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SURVIVAL GUIDE"
Atlanta-Area Entrepreneur Launches New Internet-Driven Apparel Line - OOHWEE!
Bay Area Multicultural Ad Agency Donates Professional and Monetary Resources To Save Lives - CHP Promotional Budget Limitations Prompt Crossover Creative Group to Underwrite TV Commercials For CHP Traffic Safety Outreach Campaign
New Black Owned Hotel Chain To Be Launched In Major Cities - Get the whole story in a newly released novel "Lots Of Room at The Inns"
Did You Know That California Was Named After A Black Queen?
Design Firm Offers Free Info On Small Business Grants
African American Entrepreneur/Inventor Scores Big By Introducing Table Golf To The Billiard Industry - From being a gang member and drug dealer in the streets of LA, to serving 10 years in prison, to being the inventor of a game that everybody wants
Fat Albert The Movie Starring Omarion - THE ULTIMATE GROUP ANNOUNCES EXCITING MUSIC AND MOTION PICTURE NEWS FOR 2004
EXTREME MAKEOVER DOCTOR ANTHONY GRIFFIN PUTS NEW FACE ON ANTI-DRUG CAMPAIGN
NEW BOOK ENCOURAGES MULTICULTURALISM IN THE CHURCH
"OUR BODIES" - THE MUST-HAVE HANDBOOK FOR EVERY AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN
BLACK WOMEN SIGNIFICANT BENEFACTORS OF LEGAL SAME-SEX MARRIAGES
BLACK COLLEGE IN NORTH CAROLINA MAKES HISTORY WITH NASA - AGAIN! - Bennett College Kicks Off 2nd Annual NASA Space Science Week
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Atlanta, GA - (BlackNews.com/BlackPR.com) - 1-14-04. A former Coca-Cola Senior Systems Specialist, Ajibola Tai Laosebikan affectionately known as Tai Laosebikan and currently a plaintiff in a Racial Discrimination lawsuit against The Coca-Cola Company, will be memorialized on The Wall of Tolerance. The Wall of Tolerance represents people who stand for justice and practice tolerance in their daily lives, a project sponsored by The Southern Poverty Law Center, chaired by Mrs. Rosa Parks and co-chaired by Morris Dees. The Southern Poverty Law Center has won a series of historic lawsuits against hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis.
The Wall of Tolerance will be a visible, powerful symbol of unity and the strength of the "Tolerance Movement," the new crusade that is being launched by the National Campaign for Tolerance. Mr. Laosebikan and others added to the Wall will serve as a call to action for other Americans of good will to follow their example and join in this campaign for tolerance and justice.
The Wall of Tolerance will be located in the new Civil Rights Memorial Center in the heart of Montgomery, Alabama, a city famous for the Human Rights struggle. It will be just blocks from where Rosa Parks helped launch the Civil Rights Movement when she refused to give her bus seat to a white man. It will be around the corner from the church where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, and the capitol steps where the Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March ended in 1965. The Wall will be in the same complex as the Civil Rights Memorial, which honors the slain heroes of the Movement. The Memorial was designed by Maya Lin, architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Laosebikan, is a highly talented extremely intelligent individual with passion for competition. His character exudes honesty, determination, resiliency and focus. According to our sources, Mr. Laosebikan is credited for exposing a professional career racist manager, Richard Hoefs, a current employee of The Coca-Cola Company, who has built a history of falsifying documents which include performance appraisals; lying, harassing, intimidating, and slandering African American and minority employees that work for him before firing them because of their race.
Our sources states that a career racist likes to take credit and receive company bonuses and other perks for hiring African Americans and other minorities, and then set them up for firing. A slavery system, Mr. Laosebikan alleges, is fully supported by The Coca-Cola Company. He further states, "Mr. Hoefs had been successful with his methods of slavery until he targeted me as his next victim. The racist also lied under oath at my deposition and may be headed for jail." Mr. Laosebikan continues to push his way through the justice system in a lawsuit filed against Coca Cola for his wrongful termination in 1999.
Mr. Laosebikan was fired November 1999 after notifying former CEO, Doug Ivester, of the practices in his department and requesting necessary action to correct the problem. Mr. Laosebikan states, "I wasn't just wrongfully fired, but incriminated through a conspiracy engineered by former CEO, Doug Ivester, Michael Walters, former Vice President of Human Resources, Joseph Gladden, former Vice President of Legal Affairs, Keith Wise, former Information Services director, and Richard Hoefs, the racist manager." Mr. Laosebikan busted the conspiracy by legally taping the incriminating incident.
Mr. Laosebikan also busted a conspiracy he alleges was funded by The Coca-Cola Company through its legal representation, King and Spalding. He states, "A private investigator with the assistance of a next door neighbor, a former neo-Nazi, were used to perform a "forcible entry" into my home to kill me and my family and destroy the taped evidence. Also Richard Hoefs with the assistance of the former neo-Nazi neighbor conspired to slander my reputation in our neighborhood." Mr. Laosebikan next-door neighbor was reportedly paid for his assistance.
Mr. Laosebikan also claims he busted King and Spalding, the law firm representing Coca-Cola in his current lawsuit, for obstruction of justice after learning his court transcript and videotaped deposition were edited. Mr. Laosebikan states, "I am in the process of involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Attorney General for a full investigation of these criminal acts."
Mr. Laosebikan historically has fought racial injustice, corruption, fraud and racketeering against State Government, Corporate America, and individuals. He has been successful in prosecuting and winning past cases without benefit of legal counsel. Mr. Laosebikan states, "My talent and skill persuaded Willie Gary's law firm to hire one of the best employment lawyers in the nation to represent me against Coca Cola." Mr. Laosebikan is represented by James Montalvo, an attorney with the Gary Firm in Florida.
Mr. Laosebikan believes, "African Americans and minorities need to translate the power of marching together to fight racial injustice to the court room. America is still an institutionalized system of racism and slavery; individual efforts through the justice system will have an immediate profound effect on our society. One million lawsuits against a racist organization is better than one lawsuit, because it will force them to change or risk going out of business."
Mr. Laosebikan was born as the first of twin babies on June 14, 1955 in Ibadan, Nigeria. He credited his leadership style, confidence and ability to making a difference to the quasi-military private high school he attended in Nigeria where 'survival of the fittest' is the rule.
Mr. Laosebikan is currently the CEO of E-COMMERCE Technology of Atlanta, an IBM Business Partner. Mr. Laosebikan graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science in 1982 and a MBA in Business Administration in 1986. Mr. Laosebikan also holds several Technology Certifications. He served on the Board of Decision Analyst, Inc. where he is a member of The Executive Advisory Board. He is also a special adviser to CEO of Infisys and E-Commerce Technology.
Mr. Laosebikan is married to Emma Laosebikan, a former military officer who served the country during the Korean War. Mrs. Laosebikan graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma with a Bachelors Degree in Nursing, and a Masters Degree in Education. She is currently employed with Emory University. The couple have two children and a step daughter.
Mr. Laosebikan's favorite book is Covey - Seven Habits of Highly Effective people. He enjoys reading Wall Street Journal, and Bottom Line. He likes to play tennis, jogging, volley ball and soccer. He also has a great sense of humor.
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Portland, OR - (BlackNews.com/BlackPR.com) - 1-14-04. Research Knowledge Inc, a game distributor in Portland, Oregon, is offering to donate the final inventory of the accredited "Black Americans of Achievements, the Game" to nonprofit groups, such as schools and youth camps. The games come as a set of 10 games to a box and contain teacher lesson plans and instructions on hosting tournaments. Typically the games retail for $25.00 each. However, all that is required now is a payment of the shipping and handling which costs $6.00 per game. Schools across the United States are currently using the games to educate children on the importance of African American history. The nearly 2,000 exciting questions and answers emphasize the achievements of black Americans throughout 400 years of American history. The game acknowledges individuals who have distinguished themselves in every field of endeavors from the arts, science, religion, sports, entertainment, politics, technology, the armed forces and more. Players will learn more about notables such as Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, Colin Powell, Tina Turner, Carl Lewis, Alex Haley, Thurgood Marshall, George Washington Carver, Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis and Martin Luther King. "Black Americans of Achievement, is such a welcome addition... enjoyable for the entire family" --- Ebony Magazine For more information, contact Tom Magee at Retirement Knowledge at (877) 935-8790 and thommagee@aol.com Or visit www.BlackGame.com and give the number of sets (10 games per set) you can utilize. |
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Cleveland, OH - (BlackNews.com/BlackPR.com). 1-13-04. American Legacy, the magazine of African American history and culture, kicks off American Legacy Showcase, a national tour showcasing local talent in African American communities, while celebrating African American history and culture, in Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday, January 24, 2004 at Cleveland's Tower City Center from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm.
"American Legacy takes pride in celebrating history while making history by showcasing area talent," says American Legacy Founder and Publisher and Cleveland-native Rodney J. Reynolds. "What a great way to celebrate Black History Month."
American Family Insurance is the title sponsor of this year's American Legacy Showcase. "American Family Insurance is proud to be apart of this national celebration which informs and educates all Americans about the rich and noble history of African Americans," says American Family Insurance's Gwen Jones. "This event is something that all families will enjoy."
American Legacy Showcase 2004 will also be presented in St. Louis, Missouri; Phoenix, Arizona; Las Vegas, Nevada and St. Paul, Minnesota.
American Legacy is a quarterly magazine distributed nationwide to over 500,000 readers through black churches, educational and cultural institutions. Also available on newsstands and through paid subscriptions, it is a joint venture between RJR Communications Inc. and the American Heritage division of Forbes. In addition to the magazine, other brands include American Legacy Woman, American Legacy, Jr. and American Legacy Television, a nationally syndicated television program.
Founded in 1927, American Family Insurance is a full-service insurance company with more than $4.9 billion in written premium, making it the third largest property and casualty mutual insurer in the nation today. Operating in 17 states with 3,900 agents and more than 7,500 employees, the company is dedicated to providing coverage at competitive prices and superior customer service to all of the communities it serves.