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On December 14, 2012 100 Black Men of Long Island, Inc. celebrated its Annual Holiday Celebration & Education Awards at the African American Museum located at 110 North Franklin Street, Hempstead. This year’s celebration honored five distinguished honorees who have each worked in the area the 100’s mission Mentoring, Education, Health & Wellness and Economic Empowerment. Honorees for the evening included Robert Bullock, Economic Empowerment Award, TD Bank Branch Manager, Angela Banks Jourdain, Health & Wellness Award, President, Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Shelley Brazley, Education Award, Hempstead School Board, Waylyn Hobbs, Education Award, Hempstead School Board, Jacqueline Harris, Education Award, Deputy Superintendent Huntington School District, and Wayne Redman, Mentoring Award, Executive Director, Hempstead Boys & Girls Club. Each honoree was presented citations for their work from Office of Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano from Dr. Phillip Elliot, Deputy County Executive, Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, 1st District, Town of Hempstead, and Carrie Solages, Legislator 3rd District (D), Elmont. About—100 Black Men of Long Island, Inc. - The 100 Black Men of Long Island,
Photo: L-R: Henry Holley, Past President, 100 Black Men of Long Island, Inc. Bishop Hobbs, Hempstead School Board honoree, Mr. Bullock, TD Bank Brank Branch Manager, honoree, Ms. Brazely, Hempstead School Board, honoree, Legislator Solages, Mr. Redman, Executive Director, Hempstead Boys & Girls Club, honoree, Ms. Harris, Deputy Superintendent Huntington School District, honoree, Ms. Banks Jourdain, President, Chi Eta Phi Sorority, honoree.
Inc. was founded in 1974 by a group of men from the Long Island region who believed that Long Island was ripe for such an organization. Today the organization continues to take an active part of the community where its interest is at stake.
The 100 Black Men of Long Island, Inc. is now part of an international coalition of 118 chapters, and is a membership body comprised of over 10,000 men worldwide. (See full story next issue)
Hempstead School Board President Betty Cross and United States Marines brighten holiday for children and families in Hempstead and surrounding areas Get an experience of a lifetime. Join our team. Seeking sales reps, reporters/ writers, cartoonists, web designers graphic artists. Call (516) 292-1263 Photo L-R: Pat Brown, Marine Staff Sergeant Kyle Stahlecker, Ms. Betty Cross, Mr. Juan Rodriguez, and Rev. Richard Lawson
As she has done for over thirty years, Village of Hempstead iconic resident and Hempstead School board President Betty Jean Cross always has the children of Hempstead on her mind. The grand lady that she is, “Ms. Betty,” as she is affectionately called, has taken the lead to
providing toys and holiday cheers for families in the region for several decades.
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Congratulations to Lithera Forbes, our new editor. Ms. Forbes, born and raised in Hempstead, earned her MBA in Media Management from the Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY) New York, NY; her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina. She is a graduate of Hempstead High School Class of 2005. ...see full profile in next issue.
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