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York and a former chancellor of the The Black Stars News 2015 Annual Awards Dinner will honor Mayor New York public schools system. David Dinkins, Rep. Charles Pioneering Stephen A delegation of National that end." "This was a remarkable mission. President Glover producers said she hopes for Rangel, Rep. Yvette Clarke, Byrd and Jones, through their Association of Black Journalists We were given incredible access the reporting tripAlia to China to become R. Donahue Peebles, Barbara company Front Row Production, (NABJ) members are wrapping up to a cross-section of the Chinese an annual journey; establishing the Arnwine, Inez Barron, Sabrina Delegation reports from broughtInstitute “Cat onGlobal a Hot Tin a week-long reporting project in community on the trip," said NABJ Media withRoof” Lamb, Dr. Rudy Crew, Stephen China on trade, reform, and “A Streetcar Named Desire” China covering innovation, trade and Yearwood. "It shows that almost 44 purposeful NABJ programs abroad, Byrd, Alia Jones, and the Central with a multi-ethnic cast to reform as U.S. President Donald years after NABJ was founded, the and encouraging an expansion of Park Five survivors of gross injusticepoverty alleviation and 2016 they bring Trump and Chinese President Xi organization is still demonstrating a future Broadway. projects andInprofessional on December 18 from 6:00pm – innovation. “Eclipsed” with Oscar Winner Jinping announced progress at pioneering spirit." development. 10:00pm at MIST Harlem, 46 West Lupita Nyong ’O to Broadway. the G20 Summit in resolving trade "It was an eye-opening experience. I 116th Street. disputes between the two countries. 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He is "My immediate thought, when housed and identify publications the once-blighted Anacostia Errol Louis (NY1 News), Amel Honoree Sabrina Lamb, founderinterested in publishing the work. a recipient offuture The Bronze medal for thinking about the of neighborhood Washington, D.C."This President Glover wasindetermined Larrieux (Entertainer), Dr. William was of a remarkable of World Money, is a champion helping save NABJ soldiers behind enemythat NABJ journalism, is that members If your Pollard publication is interested, A champion of African-American go to China, and with the (Medgar Evers College), mission. 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19 B L ACK W O M E N M AKE HIS T O RY AS A L L B EC O M E E L E CT E D J U D G E S ! the most diverse. Adding 19 women of color to judicial seats builds a bench that’s more reflective of the population it serves, which, as with all elected offices, is a good thing. Judge-elect Lawshawn Williams told KPRC that she was honored to be among the 19 winning candidates. While they were running, social media dubbed them Houston19. Williams said that the photo holds deeper meaning now because she was one of the 17 elected and will soon take the bench as Harris County Civil Court at Law No. 3 Judge-elect.
In one county in Texas, NINETEEN BLACK WOMEN made POLITICAL HISTORY. The ladies, all who vary in ages: some are mothers, other grandmothers, were running for judge in the recent election and together “make up the largest number seen on the ballot in Harris County history.” It also marks the first time in history that 19 Black women are running for judicial seats
in one county, which happens to be the third largest county in the United States. The group marked the historic moment with a photo featuring all of the candidates. Well, history was made when all 19 were confirmed as winners in their respective races. “I’ve waited for the reveal of this photo of 19 judicial candidates for several weeks – 19 Black women running for judge in Harris County, Houston, TX,” LaShawn Williams wrote in a Facebook post. “This entire time I’ve thought of what I’d say the day we were able to share this moment in history with everyone. But really I’m humbled. Never did I imagine that the day
I decided to run to be judge, I’d become a part of a club of phenomenal Black women, sistersin-law, gifted, brilliant, strong – everything I hope to be! It is with great pride and excitement that I share this ‘Black Girl Magic’ with you! Congratulations – you are truly Black girl magic!” Many are highlighting this win as a bright spot amid Democrat Beto O’Rourke’s loss to Republican incumbent Ted Cruz in the Texas Senate race. The victory of the #Houston19, as the group of women are called, has obvious local impact: Harris County, which encompasses most of Houston, is the third-largest county in the country, and one of
History Making Positions CBC Member Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY-08) was elected chair of the Democratic Caucus, and Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn (D-SC-06) was elected Majority Whip, making it the first time in history that two African Americans will hold top leadership positions in Congress at the same time. In response to these elections, the Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressman Cedric L. Richmond (D-LA-02), released the following statement: “When the Congressional Black Caucus was founded in 1971, I know our 13 founding members dreamed of the day when we would have more than one member in our ranks competing for top leadership positions in Congress. Today was that day, and I know they are proud. “When Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Congressman Hakeem
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Jeffries articulated to our colleagues why they were the best candidate for Democratic Caucus chair, it was one of the best displays of black brilliance that I have seen in a long time. The unfortunate part of their race against each other was that one of them had to lose. “I congratulate Congressman Jeffries on being elected Democratic Caucus chair; he has more than demonstrated during his time in Congress that he is ready to lead in this position. “I also congratulate Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn on being elected Majority Whip. There are few Democrats who have done more than Assistant Democratic Leader Clyburn to mentor young members of Congress and make sure that Democrats win elections.
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Wins like these are an important step in adding much-needed diversity to judicial seats across the country. According to data collected by the American Constitution Society, a national progressive organization focused on the legal system, women of color make up less than 20 percent of state judges. While county judges don’t have quite as much jurisdiction, in most states (including Texas), they have important local responsibilities, including a slew of election procedures, signing off on bail amounts, and jury selection.
CONGRESS
“When former congressman George Henry White, the last AfricanAmerican congressman to leave Congress before the Jim Crow Era, left office in 1901, he said in his famous farewell address, ‘This is perhaps the Negroes' temporary farewell to the American Congress, but let me say, Phoenix-like he will
CBC Member Hakeem Jeffries
A similar thing happened during the 2016 election in Alabama—like Texas, a historically red state—when nine black women were elected as judges in Jefferson County.
rise up some day and come again.’ “Next Congress, the CBC will have 55 members, including two who will be in top leadership positions and five who will chair full House committees – former congressman George Henry White was right, and the Phoenix has risen.”
Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn
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KWA N ZA A , by definition,
is a celebration held in the United States and in other nations of the Africa Diaspora in the Americas and lasts a week. The celebration honors African heritage in the African/ Caribbean-American culture, and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving. Kwanzaa has seven core principles: Umoja – Unity; Kujichagulia - SelfDetermination; Ujima – Collective work and Responsibility; Ujamaa – Cooperative Economics; Nia – Purpose; Kuumba – Creativity; and Imani – Faith. Africa House Global LLC has adopted these principles! In this age of uncertainty, our neighborhoods are under attack by the scourge of the drug culture. Our schools are under-funded, many of our students graduate illiterate, and joblessness is soaring. In the United States alone people of color have a purchasing power of approximately $1.3 Trillion Dollars. When you add
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that to the worldwide spending power of nations such as the 54 countries that make up the African Continent, Brazil, member nations that make up CARICOM in the Caribbean, and the many other countries throughout the world with significant Black populations such as Great Britain, Canada, Central America, other South American Countries, and beyond; you have is a tremendous amount of purchasing power to harness, as well as a huge manufacturing base! People of color will never have any REAL power unless they have ECONOMIC power. And we DO have power – over 3 trillion dollars of GDP in Africa, and at least another trillion and a half in the US, Caribbean and elsewhere. But if we don’t unite together and start looking out for our OWN economic interests, we will get sidelined again by the huge multinationals like Amazon and Alibaba; companies that are making hardly any investment
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in our communities, if any at all. Making that investment in our future is what Africa House Global is all about.
The economies of Africa and the Caribbean are entering a golden age. Economic growth across both regions is above the world average, and private foreign direct investment into Africa is at record levels. With a population nearly equal to China and India COMBINED, corporations are waking up to the huge spending power of Africa’s new middle class. People of color in America are likewise prospering. If African Americans were our own country, we would be the 15th richest country in the world. So, what is the problem? Hundreds of millions of people of color are being completely left behind. Multinationals are making huge profits in Africa, while millions of people there still have no safe drinking water, hundreds of thousands are dying from waterborne illnesses, and 40 billion hours are wasted every year collecting water. Here in America, the richest country history has ever known, an entire generation of young black men is being channeled straight from high school to prison by a system that has utterly failed them. If record prosperity across the world hasn’t helped those left behind, and hasn’t given them hope, what will? We have nothing against the giant corporations like Amazon and Alibaba, which seem to be going so large, they are like governments. But I promise you, they are only
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about profits. They won’t stick out their necks to help our people. If we are to have a future, we must do what black people have always done; we must stick together. Africa House Global is a group of committed individuals, entrepreneurs and businesses committed to pouring back a very large portion of AHG’s profits into projects that serve disadvantaged people of color around the world. When you see the AHG logo, you know you’re dealing with a business with a higher purpose, one committed to seeing the world’s prosperity reach EVERYONE. As an investor, vendor or partner with AHG, you are making a commitment to our shared future. If we pull together, we see a very bright future. Millions of African women can get jobs instead of spending their time gathering water or mourning for children poisoned by filthy water. Millions of Black men in America can get vocational training instead of incarceration, and the economic strength of the united people of color will increase that much more; because there is no power without economic power. Nothing will ever change for disadvantaged people of color unless we all do your part. Contact us at info@africahouseglobal. com and we will update you on this movement. We have got to stick together, every one of us, and that includes YOU! Visit www. AfricaHouseGlobal.com and learn how you can become part of this great movement!
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WE, AS A CULTURE, need to be better. Even when someone says words that offend our sensibilities, are antagonistic to correct history and change our perceptions of a beloved figure, we still must understand the totality of the human that is saying those words if that person is potentially suffering from something. Kanye West has been a staple in hip hop, pop radio and popular culture for nearly two decades. His words on wax have inspired a generation to love hip hop in a way it did not before him. When he first came on to the scene, hip hop was going through a dry spell that showed a lack of creativity and individuality in terms of fashion sense, lyrical content and drama and motivation. Rappers were sounding the same, obsessed with the same things( violence, drugs dealing and chicken heads) and the entire music form was losing its edge. Kanye introduced verbal and symphonic styling’s that pulled from genres that inspired hip hop’s golden era of the early 1990’s such as Jazz and the Blues, he made records that could be challenging while not losing mass appeal and he did so while still struggling with defining his place in the American political spectrum. On one hand he is the vigilante who said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” and on the other hand he is the petulant lyricist who proclaimed to love everybody and anybody on his defiant records, regardless of political position. Yet, recently he has been the focus of derision and controversy for his unabashed and peculiar support of Donald Trump. Unabashedly, he wears Trumps MAGA hat as a gesture of ill will to the Obama administration and its leader who called Mr. West a “jackass” and it is a statement against the perception that blacks not only do but should not vote for the democratic party as a monolith. But his support is not peculiar because he is black and republican, if you watch enough CNN, Fox News and even MSNBC you’ll find some of those, its peculiar because it seems as though Kanye West, the one from the notorious post-Katrina fundraiser, would never throw his hat in the ring with this type of person. Whatever your political leanings, even a Trump supporter could see how a man who lived in golden apartments, fraternized with very few African Americans before there was a political calling to do so and who started the Birther movement to prove that the most prominent black figure since Dr. King Jr. was not an American citizen would hardly seem like the person another prominent black figure, with all the responsibilities to the race and culture upon him, would align himself with. But, Kanye loves Trump and loves the attention his affections have brought
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him and his iconoclastic messaging. And so many of us are blaming this on his mental illness. Mental illness is never the fault of those who suffer from it and all those who have it do suffer. No matter what they say, their words are always susceptible to the mutative effects of their illness. Mania can turn happiness into obsessive comments, depression can turn disappointment into suicidal ideation, and anxiety can turn sense into nonsense -easily. This is especially true if medication is being ignored. Kanye has announced his battle with
within their ranks because their vote is a virtual guarantee is a critique, it is not a sickness. Kanye is voicing the standard conservative taglines that many black conservatives like Larry Elder and Candace Owens espouse, and no one points to their mental fitness in jest or with the mocking attitudes of a bigot. I say this as someone who is not a conservative, I say this as someone who does not personally know Kanye nor do I have a stake in his success or failures. I say this because I am a fellow human being who is only concerned with the delivery of his opinions (the
Bipolar as a casual voyage through his super power. While being positive about your illness is a good thing, to be laissez faire about it can be fatal. Not just to your reputation but to your lifespan. We are watching someone who people think they should scrutinize as you would a healthy individual with whom you disagree with. Kanye is really a person who may not truly wish to be so cavalier with the opinions in retrospect, at least that’s what the “culture” through social media assumes. But we must be careful not to label his convictions an illness, only his symptoms.
rampant tweets, his ramblings at the White House, his accusations of bullying at SNL that have been stated by the cast to be unsubstantiated i.e. his paranoia). I want Kanye, not to return to a certain end of the political spectrum, that won’t make me want to stream his music more or less- I want Kanye to have a good doctor he can trust, to be in a therapeutic environment with people who can care about and for him, I want Kanye to realize that his opinions are what he is entitled to but not to lose sight of the fact that he is even more entitled to acceptance and calm. Saying what he is saying, it is obvious that he will say more and since he’s spoken more about taking his meds inconsistently than he has spoken about taking them regularly, and with a Kardashian backdrop of family members that are entangled in the same sycophantic and artificial Hollywood nexus that covers up more than it cares, Kanye may start to become even more of a pariah.
Being tangential, repetitive, incoherent and out of touch and flighty are symptoms. But being a conservative who says the bare minimum of what millions of conservatives think and many often speak to power is not a sign of illness. Feeling as though blacks have thrown in with the democratic party and thusly have lost clout and power
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Mental illness is never the fault of those who suffer from it and all those who have it do suffer. So, I know it is easy and even more entertaining to view him as a car crash and rubber neck him into ignominy and notoriety. I, too, am guilty of knee jerk reactions to his latest comment about the 13th amendment or proclamation of
brotherhood with our current president. But we have to take a breath, pause, and stop ourselves before we hope for him to just stop. We have to evolve beyond the people who are exacerbating this dilemma for ratings and shares and likes, and remember that Kanye West is just telling us that he doesn’t need to think the way you do, doesn’t need to politic the way black people tend to do; Kanye West is also telling us that mental illness is not the reason for his opinions but it is shaping the conversation surrounding them. But mental illness may be why he feels so alone, it may be why he feels like everyone is out to get him, it may be why he seems to need to be newsworthy every five days, because he can’t help himself. Because Kanye isn’t just speaking his truth, he’s yelling it as if someone out there or in his head is constantly telling him he is false or is less than because of it. The culture is certainly responding, but the voice that Kanye is lashing out at the most may just be his own.
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General admission to the event is FREE and welcomes families in the daytime with interactive art, live muralists, and more. Night time revelers will enjoy uniquely crafted cocktails from the bar, musical performances, and VIP parties hosted by Papa Keith, Africoco, SocialXChange Miami, King Britt, Rich Medina and more. This futuristically fantastic cultural
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growing television network designed for African-American audiences, has released a sneak peek of the new original series Last Call, a half-hour situation comedy from Bobbcat Films and Roger Bobb, producer of Tyler Perry's House of Payne, Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns and Mann & Wife. Last Call premieres Monday, Jan. 7, 2019 on Bounce with back-to-back episodes at 9pm and 9:30pm ET.
(Being Mary Jane), Mishon Ratliff (Lincoln Heights) and Erica Page (Office Christmas Party). Season one will feature guest appearances from Towanda Braxton (Braxton Family Values), Pierre (How to Be a Player), Vanessa Fraction (Barbershop 2), Karlous Miller (Wild'N Out), David Otunga (WWE Raw) and Teresa "Top Notch"
Nelson (Wild'N Out). Cynthia Bailey (Real Housewives of Atlanta) and Lisa Wu (Hollywood Divas) also make appearances on Last Call this season. Bounce (@BounceTV) airs on the broadcast signals of local television stations and corresponding cable carriage and features a
programming mix of original and off-network series, theatrical motion pictures, specials, live sports and more. Visit BounceTV.com for more information. Bounce is part of The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP).
Last Call stars Charles Malik Whitfield (Empire, If Loving You is Wrong) as Darius Knight, an ex-NFL player who - after discovering his business manager ran off with all his money - opens a comedy club in the backroom of his only remaining investment - a Baltimore bar named Last Call. The bar regulars are then forced to share their favorite watering hole with a parade of comics while Darius climbs out of debt. principal cast members include T.C. Carson (Living Single), Carl Payne (Martin), Brely Evans
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ENTER TAINMENT/THE ATER IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Academy Award-winning writer/ director Barry Jenkins’ first film since the Best Picture Oscar-winning Moonlight is If Beale Street Could Talk, his adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel — the first Englishlanguage feature film based on the work of the author, to whom the movie is dedicated.
respect and trust that have connected her and her artist fiancĂŠ Alonzo Hunt, who goes by the nickname Fonny (Stephan James). Friends since childhood, the devoted couple dream of a future together but their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit.
Set in early-1970's Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is a timeless and moving love story of both a couple’s unbreakable bond and the African-American family’s empowering embrace, as told through the eyes of 19-year-old Tish Rivers (screen newcomer KiKi Layne). A daughter and wife-to-be, Tish vividly recalls the passion,
Through the unique intimacy and power of cinema, If Beale Street Could Talk honors the author’s prescient words and imagery, charting the emotional currents navigated in an unforgiving and racially biased world as the filmmaker poetically crosses time frames to show how love and humanity endure.
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OWN'S NEW FAMILY SAGA " AMBITIONS ," STARTS PRODUCTION IN ATL OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network
has announced the start of production in Atlanta of the new multi-generational family saga "Ambitions," produced by Will Packer Media in association with Lionsgate and Lionsgateowned distributor DebmarMercury, and starring Robin Givens ("Riverdale," "The Fix," "The Bold and the Beautiful"), Essence Atkins ("Marlon," "Half and Half"), Brian White ("Ray Donovan," "Scandal"), Kendrick Cross ("Acrimony,") Brely Evans ("Being Mary Jane") and Erica Page ("Ozark," "Bad Dad Rehab"). Multiple award-winning writer/EP Kevin Arkadie ("The Quad," "New York Undercover") has joined as showrunner. Created by executive producer/writer Jamey Giddens ("The Rich and The Ruthless") from an original idea by Packer, "Ambitions" will debut on OWN in 2019, with the pilot episode directed by Benny Boom ("All Eyez on Me," "Black Lightning").
case. Atkins is represented by Buchwald and Kathy McComb Management. Brian White has been cast as 'Evan Lancaster,' the Mayor of Atlanta, who is married to attorney Stephanie Carlisle (Robin Givens). Evan's political ambitions seem to cloud his judgement as he is willing to do anything to get to the next level in his career. White is represented by Paradigm Talent Agency, Zero Gravity Management and attorney Eric Feig. Kendrick Cross stars as 'Titus,' an attorney who recently moved
Givens) dresses for her. Page is represented by Houghton Talent. Benny Boom is represented by Artists First Inc., Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein & Lezcano and ICM Partners. Kevin Arkadie is the cocreator of the series "New York Undercover." Last season, he Co-Executive Produced season two of "The Quad." Previously, he was a Producer on "Chicago Hope"; Supervising Producer on "NYPD Blue"; Co-Executive Producer on "The Shield"; and Executive Producer on "Soul Food: The Series" and "Rescue
DaytimeConfidential.com. Giddens co-wrote the first season of Urban Movie Channel's breakout summer hit dramedy "The Rich and The Ruthless." Giddens worked for 10 years as a communications specialist for the Centers For Disease Control and Protection (CDC), helping to create social media messages alerting the public to such major health events as the H1N1, Zika Virus and Ebola outbreaks. Situated in Atlanta, the awardwinning writing staff includes Jamey Giddens ("The Rich and The Ruthless"), Susan Dansby ("As The World Turns," "The
"Ambitions" is a multigenerational family saga centered around one woman who, having recently relocated and intent on revitalizing her marriage, finds herself going head to head with some of the most powerful and deceitful players in the city. Robin Givens stars as 'Stephanie Carlisle,' the wife of Atlanta Mayor Evan Lancaster (Brian White), whose true loyalty is to her own family's prestigious law firm, where she is the latest in a long line of distinguished lawyers. Stephanie desperately wants to be in charge of the Carlisle family law firm and quietly fumes about her father Stephen's condescending assertion that she's simply not ready yet. Givens is represented by PANTHEON. Essence Atkins plays the role of 'Amara,' a lawyer in U.S. Attorney's Office who has newly arrived in Atlanta with her husband, Titus (Kendrick Cross). Originally from Texas, she is quickly gaining attention from the U.S. Attorney's Office as a diligent prosecutor but disappoints her supervisor by turning down the offer to run point on a major local NewYorkTrendnyc
with his wife Amara (Essence Atkins) to Atlanta. Titus has been hired as in-house counsel for a big pharma company run by Hunter Purifoy, who is fighting a class action suit brought by the powerful Carlisle family. Cross is represented by Houghton Talent. Brely Evans plays the role of 'Rondell,' Atlanta Mayor Evan Lancaster's (Brian White) sister, who runs a not-quite-profitable restaurant called Thelma's Place. Evans is represented by J Pervis Talent. Erica Page plays the role of 'Bella,' a fashion designer in Atlanta who designs all of Stephanie Carlisle's (Robin
77." Arkadie scripted the Emmy®-winning miniseries "The Temptations" and is the recipient of the Golden Globe® Award, Writers Guild Award, Image Award and the Christopher Award as well as a nominee for multiple Emmy® and Humanitas Prizes. He is the Writer/Producer/Director of the documentary "FESPACO." He began his writing career on the much-acclaimed series "I'll Fly Away" as a story editor. Jamey Giddens is an awardwinning writer, producer, entertainment journalist, publicist, and podcast personality. He is the coowner of the wildly popular soap opera-themed website
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Young and The Restless"), Michele Val Jean ("General Hospital," "The Bold and the Beautiful"), Trey Anthony ("da Kink in my Hair," "How Black Mothers Say I Love You") and Jazmen Darnell Brown ("The Citizen," "Saints & Sinners"). "Ambitions" is produced for OWN by Will Packer Media in association with Lionsgate and its producer-distributor DebmarMercury. Will Packer is executive producer. Kevin Arkadie is executive producer/showrunner. Writer Jamey Giddens and Will Packer Media's Sheila Ducksworth also serve as executive producers. Benny Boom directs the pilot episode. www.newyorktrendnyc.com | 9
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BLACK MOTHERS’ BREASTFEEDING ASSOCIATION (BMBFA) Receives National Accreditation
Black Mothers’ Breastfeeding Association (BMBFA) in Detroit, MI has successfully received national accreditation through HealthConnect One’s (HC One) Community-Based Doula Accreditation Program. BMBFA underwent a rigorous process in which the HealthConnect One Accreditation Team reviewed the organization’s existing Community-Based Doula Program to ensure high-quality implementation. Community-based doulas play an important role in helping decrease maternal and infant mortality rates and increase breastfeeding rates. These women are trained to provide peer support to other women in their communities throughout pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and early parenting.
BMBFA’s accreditation from HealthConnect One comes at a time when maternal and infant mortality is skyrocketing in the African-American community due to racial disparities in the healthcare system. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “the risk of pregnancyrelated deaths for black women is three to four times higher than those of white women.” This is impacting the health of
African-American women at an alarming rate and has created a maternal health epidemic. The accreditation means that BMBFA is providing Detroit mothers the highest quality care.
“The accreditation gives us a boost towards creating a sustainable program with the ability to build a labor market for community-based doulas. We continue to positively impact our community, providing respectable service and honorable care to Detroit families,” said Kiddada Green, BMBFA Founding Executive Director. “We understand the level of intimacy involved in pregnancy and birth and we are honored each and every time that a family allows us join in their birth experience.”
infant deaths.
HC One’s Community-Based Doula Accreditation Program (CBDAP) is designed to help organizations implement a high-quality CommunityBased Doula program. “The goal of accreditation is to build greater fidelity to HC One’s evidence-based communitybased doula model; therefore, improving quality of service and outcomes for
program participants,” said Tikvah Wadley, HC One Program Manager. HC One’s first accreditation was Open Arms Perinatal Services in Washington State. The transformative effect of doulas in communities has been spotlighted in a federally funded study in 2014 and recently, HC One’s program model was profiled in the 2018 Home Visiting Yearbook.
BMBFA’s Community-Based Doula Home Visiting Program has assisted in more than one hundred births. Their data from 2015 to 2017 demonstrates the importance of their program in African-American communities. The program boasts 1100+ prenatal and postpartum encounters, 100% breastfeeding initiation rate, 100% regular prenatal care, 99% healthy birth weight, 99% full-term babies and 0
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A world acclaimed chef, cookbook author and TV host Gerry Garvin is known for his television series, “Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin”, which ran for seven seasons on TV One. Next he started another show called “G. Garvin: The Road Tour”, and also appeared in many cooking specials. Out the gate, Garvin defeated all the odds by being an African American man from Atlanta, and having his name and cooking be a worldwide commodity. Garvin is a prime example of someone who turned his passion into success. He took his love of cooking southern food and established himself as a household name chef. He is an inspiration because of the way he continues to thrive. That’s why it’s only fitting to feature G. Garvin on Black PR Wire’s new program Thrivin Online. “Thrivin’ Online features short, upclose and personal news feature vignettes that showcase the work and services of the best and brightest in our communities nationwide,” says Bernadette Morris, CEO of Black PR Wire and executive producer of Thrivin’ Online. “We have an exciting line up of incredible people who are doing amazing things in our communities
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nationwide." The host for Thrivin’ Online is Joseph Ellick, Black PR Wire’s National News Correspondent. Joe is a gifted writer, a seasoned producer, and a talented digital media marketing professional. He has the innate ability to infuse greatness in others, his chemistry with his guests – both on and off camera – live up to the show’s motto to “Continue to thrive, thrive for greatness, and thrive with Black PR Wire!” Thrivin’ Online will feature interviews of people throughout the U.S. and Caribbean and whose stories will help empower and inspire. “From the corporate business executive to the world-renown actor, our up-close and personal interviews will be motivational and inspirational,” says Joseph Ellick, the show’s producer and host. To schedule an appearance for an up-close and personal interview with Joe on Thrivin’ Online, contact the Newsroom@BlackPRWire.com, or give us a call at 1-877-BLACKPR. And be sure to subscribe to Black PR Wire’s YouTube Channel today so you don’t miss an episode of Thrivin’ Online, or other video shows from clients of Black PR Wire.
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LIAACC Seeking Financial Services Industry Professionals
Left to Right: Panelist at LIAACC Leaders In Finance Committee Special Presentation at November General Membership Meeting of Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. – ADarwin Smith, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones; Najee Simmons, Financial Representative, Northwestern Mutual; Marguerite Daniels, Financial Professional, Prudential Advisors; Victoria Addison, Independent Agent, Aflac; Kenneth Marable, Financial Advisor, Prudential; Tyler Sloves, Financial Advisor Emeritus, Prudential; and Marie Neilon, Talent Acquisition Manager, Prudential; and Chair of LIAACC Leaders In Finance Network Committee and Facilitator for LIAACC Financial Panel (Seated in audience 2nd Row, 2nd Seat from Right)
On November 28, 2018 the Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, Inc.’s Leaders In Finance Network Committee presented a special finance panel comprised of a variety of financial service professionals geared towards empowering the African American community touching on a variety of topics.
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American financial services professionals to network within the field and access education relevant to the financial services profession. Networking: Increase your competitive intelligence & do business with people in other fields of financial services. Mentorship: Research indicates that there are fewer AA Financial Professionals in part because there are fewer AAs in leadership roles. *Bringing AA Financial Professionals from various career levels together increases the visibility of managers and top producers providing encouragement and advice. Education: Discussion topics to increase knowledge and build your business. Accountability: Share your monthly goals to keep yourself and your peers on track to achieve your vision. Marie Neilon, Talent Acquisition Manager Long Island Premier Financial Group, and office of Prudential Advisors is the chair of LIAACC’S Leaders In Finance Network Committee. The Long Island African American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. is an affiliate of the US Black Chambers, Inc. and its President Mr. Andrews is Past President of 100 Black Men of Long Island, Inc. Mr. Andrews is also the PresidentEmeritus of the Black Public Relations Society-New York an affiliate chapter of the National Black Public Relations Society. Mr. Andrews has appeared on WABC Here and Now and NBC’s Positively Black. Mr. Andrews is a Black Enterprise BE Modern Man. If you are interested in the LIAACC Leaders in Finance Committee and are involved in the financial services industry and would like to be placed on the email list for the LIAACC Leaders In Finance Network email us at info@liaacc.org or to become a member log on to our website at https://liaacc.org/join-liaacc/#join.
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