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Rise Sister Rise

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“What’s Missing From Your TV Choices?”

Publisher/CEO Sharon S. Gordon

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African American, Black American or Just American?

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Michelle Obama Hits the Road for Second Anniversary of ‘Let’s Move’

Contributing Writers Delois R. Wright Pierrette “Petee” Talley Dr. Erika Pryor A. Christina Dunlap Mykayla Bryant Tamara Fournier Distribution W. Cobre’ Gordon

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Gospel Artists Raise Voices, and Stroke Awareness, In Nationwide Competition

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Publisher’s Page Greetings, This year seems to be moving so fast already we are in February and celebrating Black History Month. For Urban Trendsetters this is a doubly exciting month because February is also our 9th Anniversary Month. This month we are celebrating 9 years of “putting your business in the streets!”

It seems like only yesterday that Ivory (Ivory Payne, now publisher of Praise Reporter News Magazine) pulled an “all nighter” to get the paper edited and to the printer in time for the Radio One 107.5 Anniversary Party. WOW, how time does fly. We have created some great working relationships, new clients, friends and fans and are truly blessed to have each and every one of them.

I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone that has blessed us throughout the years but I am so afraid of leaving someone out. So I will just thank you to each and every one that is viewing this edition. You have helped make this past 9 years possible and I sincerely thank you.

Now on to the next one! We have several events planned this year. The first of which is the launch of our new radio show on WVKO (1580AM). Yes, UTS Un-Plugged is back on WVKO beginning this Saturday. We are so excited about the endless possibilities that this will bring to our publication and other media properties. I would like to thank Gary Richards the General Manager and Michael Alwood, Program Manager for not forgetting about not only Urban Trendsetters but the urban community. WVKO will also give Columbus gospel music throughout the day on Sundays. You can listen to UTS UnPlugged every Saturday afternoon from noon-1PM. Networking will be a big part of our mission in 2012. It is my goal to network and meet with fellow entrepreneurs this year in a major way and allow you the opportunity to do the same. We are launching the Networking event of the year The Cast Your Net Project...90 Days of Networking. We are going to take networking to another level.

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In closing,I feel so blessed right now to have survived in this business for the past 9 years and to still berelevantisadoubleblessing. Itismygoaltocontinuetobringyouthenews,eventsandspotlights on the urban trendsetters of our community in a positive format that uplifts our community.

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RISE SISTER RISE

One United Bank President and COO Authors Financial Book for Kids Photo: JDLiteracy George

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*Teri Williams knows the importance of financial literacy. With more than 30 years of banking experience to back up her status as president and chief operating officer of OneUnited financial literacy and about financial Bank, the former Brown University matters.

So I Investigator, looked forRise some books student come a long way from Fran Frazier, Principal Over 400has girls in Akron, Columbus, To attend this event RSVP to: that we could use and I was really having no knowledge of banking and Rise Research Project be aren’t Dayton and Lima, Ohio told their Sister surprised Lydia Holloway, FCCS, (614) 275-2523 to see that will 1) there a how to properly handle money while of books for children on financial sharinglot project data and ways we can stories of up trauma andprojects resiliency. or Lahollow@fccs.co.franklin.oh.us. growing in the ofThe Bridgebut 2) that there were really port, CT. Teri Williams as a community to place Black girls provided important insights work literacy even fewer books that were focused, about their social relationships, school targeted or spoke to urban youth.

Nowadays, Williams is leading the And the books that were available performance and commitment to way to pass down what she has just gave sort of a, what I would call, learned to youth with her new book, learning, the significant adults in their an impression of a more suburban “I Got Bank! What My Granddad lives, their exposure violence,The their environment. More suburban kids Taught Me About to Money.” story and I would even say more suburcenters around of satisfaction with the theirfriendship gender and you, I would say, help the f ban issues. And what I saw as being two young African-American boys, race, about their values and identity, move forward while at the a need that wasn’t met was, again, Jazz Ellington and his friend Key, as time not being so drained b literature books that would really risky behaviors, leisure activities and they learn about money. Through his ing others that you end up speak to our kids and it would both granddad, Jazz utilizes the elder’s aggression. ing resources so that no on be entertaining, interesting and edulessons about the importance of savforward. That’s the way I wo ing money and having good financial cational.”

The Rise Sister Rise Research describe it to an adult, but discipline. However, those teachings the book does it in a way th Project partnership between the The experience resulted in Williams are putistoa the test when his family can relate to,” she said. experiences money and troubles Ohio Department of Mental Health, and writing a pamphlet that ended up becoming” I Got Bank!” are looking for him to help in light of WomensWorkfcf, Inc., and Mental To promote” I Got Bank!” a the money has saved. the word about financial lit “What I have found in banking and Health America of Summit County.

Williams will sign copies o serving the needs of urban com“What the book talks about is how from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Satu munities and growing up myself in he isRise able to do how Project he figures The Sister Risethat, Research 8th) at OneUnited’s Compt that out,” Williams shared with EUR’s a family and in a community very and Franklin County Children Services branch on 205 E. Compton much like Jazz’s life, is that for a lot Lee Bailey. “It covers topics such addition to the signing, Wil of families there may be one or two (FCCS) are hosting a data sharing as savings and checking and credit exchange copies of “I Got B individuals that have some resources scores and check systems records. presentation for groups that serve used books to be donated t that are confronted with the kinds We find that a lot of people talk a African American girls, on Ends, a nonprofit organizat of challenges Jazz faces. ‘How do I lot about credit scores butTuesday there isn’t recycles children’s books th maintain these resources while at the February 28, 3:00 p.m. available to 5:00 p.m., enough information about student-run book drives and same time helping my family?’” the check systems.

So that, I think, was at FCCS, 855 W. Mound Street. As them in schools and youth Harvard University graduate said. an important topic for us to cover. part of the gathering, participants will tions in need of books.

“There typically aren’t enough reIn addition to collateral andabout foreclobe asked to share information sources to do everything that a family OneUnited is also offering sures, repossessions (“All the things their organization and the services ies of “I Got Bank!” to publ needs, let alone what they want and that our community is confronted ies and schools upon reque you provide. how those decisions are made and with, especially today”), Williams (supplies are limited). what could be done in those situawanted to touch on how it’s not For more information, visit: tions,” Williams continued. “I think impossible to recover after making a www.oneunited.com/book. those decisions are really important mistake with “I Got Bank!”

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National Survey Is Launched To Ask African-Americans “What’s Missing From Your TV Choices?” are almost impossible to find, especially during the primetime schedule.”

Conducting a first-time national survey asking African-Americans what they want to see on TV will clearly demonstrate there is demand for a broader range of programs beyond entertainment. WhatIWantToSee.com, which is being supported by various African-American groups and media outlets, plans to get as many participants to “vote” for more TV options as possible during the next two months.

“Many of the decisions that are made by the TV industry are based not necessarily on research but on the opinions and experiences of executives’,” said Dr. Hairston. “This is an important opportunity for black families to let the industry know exactly what kinds of program choices they

A coalition of consumer groups, media activists, clergy and concerned citizens are launching a national online survey to ask African-American households to tell their preferences about the kind of relevant programming choices they want to see on television.

The coalition is being brought together by the Black Heritage Network, a new cable channel planned for launch this year that will offer what it calls “Black-oriented non-fiction programming.” The network hopes to use the information gathered as a guide for its own programming plans.

According to Nielsen data, AfricanAmericans watch 40% more hours of television per month than the general population. Despite being one of TV’s most important audiences,programming that addresses their varied interests are not being offered. Coalition members says that there is plenty of research on

want, especially for their children.”

Inadditiontogatheringideasforprograms, the survey will ask participants to rank their interest in programs covering news and current affairs, documentaries and independent films, public television programs and regionally-aired shows.

The survey will be available online at www.WhatIWantToSee.com beginning January 15th -- the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King -- until February 29th -- the end of Black History Month. Some of the nation’s leading newspapers, radio programs, magazines and Web sites will be encouraging their audiences to participate. The results will be made through these same outlets and will also be delivered to key leaders in media, civil rights and academia.

what African-American are watching, but virtually nothing on what they would prefer to see on television.

A review ofTV programs currently being aired that feature African-Americans in starring roles reveals that most are socalled reality-based shows or re-runs of comedies were once featured on the major four networks. The next largest block of hours of particular interest to blacks consists of re-broadcasts of theatrically released movies (again, mostly comedies) starring black actors.

“Based upon the viewing options available to black households, there seems to be a conscious effort to ignore certain types of programs that appeal to African-Americans,” said Dr. Teresa Hairston, a member of the coalition and consultant to the Black Heritage Network. “News, interviews, documentaries and issue-oriented programstargetedforAfrican-Americans february 2012 | www.urbantrendsetters.com

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Black History

African American, Black American or Just American?

The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name from the past: “black.”

to declare that black people should be called African-American.

Edelin says today that there was no intent to exclude people born in other countries,or to eliminate the use of black: “It was an attempt to start a cultural offensive, because we were clearly at that time always on the defensive.”

For this group - some descended from U.S. slaves, some immigrants with a separate history - “African-American” is not the sign of progress hailed when the term was popularized in the late 1980s.

Instead, it’s a misleading connection to a distant culture.

The debate has waxed and waned since African-American went mainstream, and gained new significance after the son of a black Kenyan and a white American moved into the White House.

President Barack Obama’s identity has been contested from all sides, renewing questions that have followed millions of darker Americans: What are you? Where are you from?

And how do you fit into this country?

“I prefer to be called black,” said Shawn Smith, an accountant from Houston.

“How I really feel is, I’m American.”

“I don’t like African-American. It denotes something else to me than who I am,” said Smith, whose parents are from Mississippi and North Carolina. “I can’t recall any of them telling me anything about Africa. They told me a whole lot about where they grew up in Macomb County and Shelby, N.C.” Gibra George, an entrepreneur from Miami, started a Facebook page called “Don’t Call Me African-American” on a whim. It now has about 300 “likes.”

“We respect our African heritage, but that term is not really us,” George said.

“We’re several generations down the line. If anyone were to ship us back to Africa, we’d be like fish out of water.”

“It just doesn’t sit well with a younger generation of black people,” continued George, who is 38. “Africa was a long time ago. Are we always going to be tethered to Africa? Spiritually I’m American. When the war starts, I’m fighting for America.”

‘I am not African’ Joan Morgan, a writer born in Jamaica

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“We said, this is kind of a compromise term,” she continued. “There are those among us who don’t want to be referred to as African. And there also those among us who don’t want to be referred to as American.This was a way of bridging divisions among us or in our ideologies so we can move forward as a group.”

who moved to New York City as a girl, remembers the first time she publicly corrected someone about the term: at a book signing, when she was introduced as African-American and her family members in the front rows were appalled and hurt.

“That act of calling me African-American completely erased their history and the sacrifice and contributions it took to make me an author,” said Morgan, a longtime U.S. citizen who calls herself Black-Caribbean American. (Some insist Black should be capitalized.)

She said people struggle with the fact that black people have multiple ethnicities because it challenges America’s original black-white classifications. In her view, forcing everyone into a name meant for descendants of American slaves distorts the nature of the contributions of immigrants like her black countrymen Marcus Garvey and Claude McKay. Morgan acknowledges that her homeland of Jamaica is populated by the descendants of African slaves. “But I am not African, and Africans are not AfricanAmerican,” she said.

In Latin, a forerunner of the English language, the color black is “niger.”

In 1619, the first African captives in America were described as “negars,” which became the epithet still used by some today.

The Spanish word “negro” means black.

That was the label applied by white

Americans for centuries.

The word black also was given many pejorative connotations - a black mood, a blackened reputation, a black heart.

“Colored” seemed better, until the civil rights movement insisted on Negro, with a capital N. Then, in the 1960s, “black” came back as an expression of pride, a strategy to defy oppression.

“Every time black had been mentioned since slavery, it was bad,” says Mary Frances Berry, a University of Pennsylvania history professor and former chairwoman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Reclaiming the word “was a grass-roots move, and it was oppositional. It was like, ‘In your face.’ ” Afro-American was briefly in vogue in the 1970s, and lingers today in the names of some newspapers and university departments. But it was soon overshadowed by African-American, which first sprouted among the black intelligentsia.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is widely credited with taking African-American mainstream in 1988, before his second presidential run.

Berry remembers being at a 1988 gathering of civil rights groups organized

by Jackson in Chicago when Ramona Edelin, then president of the National Urban Coalition, urged those assembled

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In a Senate race against Obama in 2004, Alan Keyes implied that Obama could not claim to share Keyes’ “AfricanAmerican heritage” because Keyes’ ancestors were slaves. During the Democratic presidential primary, some Hillary Clinton supporters made the same charge.

Last year, Herman Cain, then a Republican presidential candidate, sought to contrast his roots in the Jim Crow south with Obama’s history, and he shunned the labelAfrican-American in favor of “American black conservative.”

Rush Limbaugh mocked Obama as a “halfrican-American.

Then there are some white Americans who were born in Africa.

Paulo Seriodo is a U.S. citizen born in Mozambique to parents from Portugal.

In 2009 he filed a lawsuit against his medical school, which he said suspended him after a dispute with black classmates over whether Seriodo could call himself African-American.

“It doesn’t matter if I’m from Africa, and they are not!” Seriodo wrote at the time. “They are not allowing me to be African-American!”

And so the saga of names continues.

“I think it’s still evolving,” said Edelin, the activist who helped popularize AfricanAmerican. “I’m content, for now, with African and American.”

“But,” she added, “that’s not to say that it won’t change again.”

Health & Wellnes Michelle Obama Hits the Road for Second Anniversary of ‘Let’s Move’

By Donna M Owens The first lady with the famously buff biceps will be on the move, literally, over the next few days to mark the second anniversary of her “Let’s Move!� fitness initiative, aimed at reducing childhood obesity in America.

Today, Michelle Obama kicks off a threeday national tour that begins in Des Moines, Iowa, and makes its way to Little Rock, Arkansas, and Dallas-Fort Worth.

The final leg of the trip will include stops at three cities in Florida, including Orlando. The tour comes after Obama made lighthearted appearances on Ellen and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to promote the initiative over the last two weeks.

According to the White House, Mrs. Obama will meet and greet families, educators, military personnel, health care professionals, business, and faith leaders, who have made a significant commitment to improving health outcomes for the nation’s children.

Along the way, she will be joined by Olympic champions and professional athletes, Disney Channel stars, and contestants from Bravo’s Top Chef series.

Obama will receive a briefing on healthy eating efforts from leadership, and then visit the dining facility to discuss the changes with cooks and military personnel.

“The first lady really wanted to get out and see all the great work that’s going on around the country,� said Sam Kass, senior policy advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives and assistant White House chef. “We’re really seeing the country unifying around the health and wellbeing of our nation’s kids.�

The first lady will also have dinner with a Florida family, and speak to a gathering of about 3,000 people in Longwood about ways faith and community organizations can support healthy lifestyles. She’ll wrap the tour at the sports complex of Walt Disney World Resort, taking part in a fitness activity with hundreds of local children and their families.

The first lady’s whirlwind itinerary will run the gamut from a community discussion at an Olive Garden restaurant in Texas, to a massive interactive event with some 10,000 students at the Wells Fargo Arena in Iowa.

At the Little Rock Air Force Base, where a special pilot program has been established to enhance food service quality, variety and availability, Mrs.

“Thank goodness she’s putting the message out there,� said Marlene Schwartz, the deputy director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University. “We know that you can’t pile on the chicken nuggets and fries in the school cafeteria or at home, and expect children to lose weight. We have to change the food environment in this country, and we need to change

policies.�

Since the 1970s, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and nearly one in three children is overweight or obese, according to the Let’s Move website.

Among African-American and Hispanic youth, nearly 40 percent of children are overweight or obese.

Childhood obesity has even become a national security issue. According to Defense Department officials, more than a quarter of America’s 17 to 24-year-olds are too heavy to serve in the U.S. military. Additionally, the department reports spending more than a billion dollars annually on medical care associated with excess weight and obesity among active duty troops. “When we surveyed back in the mid ‘90s, we found that about two out of 100 had weight problems,� said Dr. Jonathan continued on page 13

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Gospel Artists Raise Voices, and Stroke Awareness, In Nationwide Competition competition, because it shines a light on stroke,” Williams said. “This is very important to me because my father had a stroke in 2005 due to smoking, diabetes and an unhealthy lifestyle. His stroke left him debilitated, robbing him of his ability to talk and walk. The very next year, my grandmother suffered from stroke and I’m sad to say that she is no longer with us. My father and grandmother’s strokes have devastated my family,” Williams stressed the importance of awareness. “I want people to know that stroke can happen to anyone, at any time,” she said. “My father was only in his 50s when he suffered from stroke.

It is largely preventable. We have to take care of ourselves…the first step is knowledge.”

Dr. Rani Whitfield, a family practitioner in Baton Rouge, La., and an American Stroke Association spokesman, noted that stroke is a serious issue in the African-American community.

The Most Powerful Voices singing competition begins a new nationwide search for gospel performers who are eager to showcase their talents, compete for performing and recording opportunities – and help us save lives.

The American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association, GMC TV, Roland Corporation and Light Records announced the start of the annual online competition today. It’s open to independent artists, groups and choirs who sing gospel, praise, worship and holy hip-hop.

Signing up is easy. Just go to power. watchgmctv.com and upload a video or MP3 file between now and Jan. 27.

(Participants must be at least 18 years old.) Artists have until Feb. 24 to get people to vote for them. When people register to compete or vote, they will

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• $2,500 from Light Records

The top 10 finalists will be judged by gospel music industry leaders such as former Destiny’s Child singer Michelle Williams and James Robinson, the vice president of Entertainment One Gospel and president of A&R, Light Records.

• $2,500 travel stipend for the trip to New York

The winner will be announced March 5 and will receive: • The opportunity to perform at the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Power Weekend at a prominent New York venue (One lucky voter in the contest also will win a trip to New York for Power Weekend.)

• $5,000 worth of music equipment from Roland, which manufactures and distributes electronic musical instruments

•A digital single produced and distributed

by Light Records • Personal coaching session with a renowned Light Records artist • National recognition on GMC TV Most Powerful Voices is an initiative of the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association’s Power To End Stroke cause campaign. Power To End Stroke reaches African-Americans with stroke messages because of their disproportionate stroke risks compared to other ethnic groups.

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“It is a leading cause of severe, long-term disability and death for all Americans, and African-Americans are at increased risk due to higher prevalence of risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes and previous heart attack and/ or stroke,” he said. “More than 100,000 African-Americans will suffer a new or reoccurring stroke this year. That’s why it’s an important requirement of this competition to register people to receive stroke information. We need to reach as many people as possible to help them to reduce their risk and to know what to do in a stroke emergency to help improve stroke outcomes.”

Power To End Stroke is nationally sponsored by the Bristol-Myers Squibb/ Sanofi Pharmaceuticals Partnership. For more information and to register for the contest, visit power.watchgmctv.com.

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“When we surveyed in about 2005, this had increased to about one in 20, so that’s becoming more of a significant problem for us, and this is one of the reasons we need to address this issue.”

While the mission of “Let’s Move!” is to impact obesity rates within a generation, the White House is touting a series of early successes linked to the endeavor.

For instance, Wal-Mart has pledged to work with manufacturers to remove 10 percent of sugar and 25 percent of sodium in categories throughout the store.

Walgreens and other retailers have announced a commitment to build or expand 1,500 stores in communities with `food deserts’-- limited or no access to healthy food.

Recently, the first lady partnered with Goya Foods around `Mi Plato,’ which will update traditional Latino recipes with healthier changes.

On the legislative front, President Obama signed the Healthy, HungerFree Kids Act into law in 2010, to help children have healthier food in school.

The splashy anniversary celebration of “Let’s Move!” coincides with 2012 presidential politics. Several of the states Mrs. Obama will visit, particularly Florida, are rich in electoral votes and have the potential to sway the outcome of a national election. And some polls suggest Michelle Obama is more popular than her husband.

“There is no way especially in the current climate, that nothing can be seen as totally un-politicized,” said David Bositis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a black think tank in Washington, D.C. “And because the first lady is viewed very well, the more she is out there, she is seen as an asset to the president’s campaign.”

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TRENDY PALLETE SPOTLIGHT One United Bank President and COO Authors Financial Literacy Book for Kids “The idea is for our children to be knowledgeable and avoid some of the mistakes that can be avoidable with more knowledge,” she said.

Williams’ journey towards becoming an author started three years ago when she participated in a program OneUnited developed for school children.

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to focus on, I think for a lot of kids that are confronted with those kind of decisions as well as young adult [and] adults. It is important for the to know that they’re not alone, tha this is very common to families.”

Although “I Got Bank!” is targeted for kids ages 8-12, Williams feels the book can be a “helpful” tool fo adults, whom she hopes will “read separately from their children.”

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To promote” I Got Bank!” and spre the word about financial literacy, “What I have found in banking and Williams will sign copies of her bo serving the needs of urban comfrom 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday (O munities and growing up myself in 8th) at OneUnited’s Compton, CA a family and in a community very branch on 205 E. Compton Blvd. I much like Jazz’s life, is that for a lot addition to the signing, Williams w of families there may be one or two exchange copies of “I Got Bank!” f individuals that have some resources used books to be donated to Book that are confronted with the kinds Ends, a nonprofit organization that of challenges Jazz faces. ‘How do I recycles children’s books through maintain these resources while at the student-run book drives and places same time helping my family?’” the them in schools and youth organiz Harvard University graduate said. tions in need of books.

“There typically aren’t enough resources to do everything that a family OneUnited is also offering free cop ies of “I Got Bank!” to public libra needs, let alone what they want and ies and schools upon request how those decisions are made and (supplies are limited). what could be done in those situaFor more information, visit: tions,” Williams continued. “I think www.oneunited.com/book. those decisions are really important

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