we - Blogs - TheBlackList Pub2024-03-29T13:59:50Zhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/weChicago Black Business Group Seeks More Members to Rebuild Communityhttps://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/chicago-black-business-group-seeks-more-members-to-rebuild2011-10-30T03:57:42.000Z2011-10-30T03:57:42.000ZMark S. Allenhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/MarkSAllen<div><p><font face="arial" size="2" color="#000000"> </font></p><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;font-size:13px;"><strong><span style="font-size:16pt;">Chicago Black Business Group Seeks More Members to Rebuild Community</span></strong></div><p style="text-align:center;"></p><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;"><strong><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></strong></div><p></p><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;font-size:13px;"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></div><p></p><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-size:16pt;">WE CAN, Inc, a coalition of business and community professionals, has formed an organization to shore up and support the empowerment of both existing and future African American businesses needed to stabilize, maintain, expand and grow and has set a goal of 100 members needed to help fight for an equitable slice of the economic pie on all governmental levels.</span></div><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-size:16pt;">According to <span class="yiv1826732076yshortcuts" id="yiv1826732076lw_1319282036_0" style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1319946494_0" style="border-bottom:#366388 2px dotted;">Florence</span></span> Cox, the president, WE CAN Inc.’s goal is to boost its membership so that it can begin the awesome but doable tasks of developing African American businesses in the community.</span></div><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-size:16pt;">“We need to develop and maintain our businesses and keep our money in our community because currently most of it goes outside where we live. We can and we will achieve this goal with your help,” she said.</span></div><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-size:16pt;">“We are looking forward to hearing from black business people who are serious about improving the economic growth of the black community,” said President Cox.</span></div><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></div><p></p><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-size:16pt;">“We want to support, maintain and build so we can employ young people from the community and to teach them as role models how to growth their own business. We want to help the black community grow and in doing so it will empower the community because when youth have jobs, the violence will subside,” said Cox, also a former President Of The Chicago Board Of Education.</span></div><p></p><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-size:16pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv1826732076MsoNormal" style="font-size:13px;"><span style="font-size:16pt;">For further information, please e-mail your interests including contact number, the name of your business and address to Florence Cox at the following e-mail:</span> <a><span style="font-size:16pt;">We_can224@yahoo.com</span></a><span style="font-size:16pt;">.”</span></div><p></p></div>Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Presentation, We are our children's future!https://www.theblacklist.net/profiles/blogs/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome2011-01-21T21:39:21.000Z2011-01-21T21:39:21.000ZBaba Bob Shipmanhttps://www.theblacklist.net/members/BabaBobShipman<div><p>This Black History Month Presentation</p><p>Dr. Joy DeGruy's PTSS Presentation and Book Signing is coming to Philadelphia on Sunday, February 20, 2011.<br /><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}3828522555,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-full" width="750" src="{{#staticFileLink}}3828522555,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="3828522555?profile=original" /></a><br />We will host her at the Walter D. Palmer Leadership Learning Partners Charter School, 910 North 6Th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123.<br /><br />This Black History Month Presentation and Book Signing is sponsored by The Frator Heru Institute and The Philadelphia Chapter of N'COBRA (National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America).<br /><br />Please let your networks know. Tickets will be:<br />Adult - $10<br />Youth- $5 (under12 free)<br />Adult with 3 youth: $5ea.<br /><br />Dr. Raymond (Takari) Winbush will be doing the introduction for Dr. Joy DeGruy.<br /><br />This will be a treat indeed. It is our objective to have standing room only, with people waiting outside to get in. The event will have a family focus with outreach to high school and university youth. Please bring young people along to be engaged in this truly necessary dialogue.<br /><a href="http://www.thefratorheruinstitute.org/">http://www.thefratorheruinstitute.org/</a><br />Any Questions Contact The Frator Heru Institute:<br />215-235-1604<br />merretazon@verizon.net<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/TheFratorHeruInstitute">http://www.facebook.com/TheFratorHeruInstitute</a></p></div>