CLEVELAND GARY, CEO, BLACK SHOPPING CHANNEL (BSC) SIGNS $125 MILLION DEAL TO EXPAND TV VIEWERSHIP
The added $125 million to the company's balance sheet raises the Black Shopping Channel's market value to a $700 million dollar company and growing.
Black Shopping Channel has announced that it has successfully completed a $125 million deal. The proceeds will be used to expand TV viewership nationwide on Comcast, DirectTV, and Time Warner. The Black Shopping Channel currently airs on Dish Network
* Government Should Embrace, Not Demonize, E-Cigarettes to Help Smokers Quit *
New York City smoking rates have gone up among adults, again, according to newly-released government numbers.
"This failure in public policy provides the most striking and objective evidence to date showing that Mayor Bloomberg's aggressive anti-smoking campaign has been ineffective," said Manhattan-based Jeff Stier, senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research.
The Wall Street Journal reports today th
Terrance Amen, founder of 3ufirst.com,
Terrance Amen, founder of 3ufirst.com and author of Black Unity: The Total Solution to Financial Independence and Happiness, says we can bring billions of dollars back to our community by using the money we're already spending. Amen based 3ufirst, the company, on his book. He created the company in order to solve the major problems within the community, which include unemployment, lack of wealth creation, and lack of funding for the best programs across th
Washington designs Purple Purse to serve as a symbol of movement;NORTHBROOK, Ill., Sept. 16, 2014 / PR Newswire/ — Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actress and advocate Kerry Washington has joined with The Allstate Foundation to raise awareness about domestic violence and the critical role that financial abuse plays in domestic violence situations. Washington is serving as th
The Mind, Body, and Haircare Event will be generously hosted by Acclaimed Actress/Director and CEO Desreta Jackson on September 27th, 2014 in Ontario, California.
Having great hair is the perfect way to boost self-confidence. BlackSilk Products and CEO Desreta Jackson who is best known for playing ‘Young Celie’ in the Academy Award-Nominated movie, "The Color Purple,” is poised to introduce the highly anticipated luxurious haircare line that brings both quality and healthy haircare products fit f
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Here’s an update for you from the ‘Marvin X Books Project’ team:
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Congratulations Marvin X for receiving the 1st Annual Pillar Award for your Eldership and tireless work and pioneering spirit in the Black Arts and Black Power movement, thank you for introducing Eldridge Cleaver to Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, thank you for sharing your journey and testimonies, thank you for teaching us how to fight institutionalized racism and
A man’s likelihood of accumulating fat around his heart – an important indicator of heart disease risk – may be better determined if doctors consider his race and ethnicity, as well as where on his body he’s building up excess fat, reveals an international evaluation led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
The findings, published online today in the International Journal of Obesity, indicate that it may be useful to take racial and ethnic differences into account wh
The Visa Oshwal Convention Centre in Nairobi will once again host the 2nd Medic East Africa Exhibition & Congress (MEA), which is the largest healthcare event in East Africa to date, and exclusively supported by the Ministry of Health. This year's event will take place from 23-25 September 2014 and the exhibition will offer a unique platform to leading manufactures, dealers and distributors and service providers from the healthcare and medical laboratory industry to meet their targeted audience.
New Democracy Productions Release Liberia Documentary to Raise Funds for Ebola Aid
“Liberia: Emerging from the Shadows?” details the troubled country’s economic and health concerns, many of which contribute to its current crisis, an ebola epidemic. Director Wayne Schoenfeld seeks to raise funds for ebola treatment by increasing awareness of the region’s difficulties with this poignant Liberia film.
Director Wayne Schoenfeld and New Democracy Productions release “Libera: Emerging from the Shadows?
The business and technology experts from 10 different countries spent four weeks on the ground in the country's capital Addis Ababa, working with government ministries and NGOs to help them attract foreign investment, deliver healthcare services, and track economic growth. They explained the latest, m
American University of Nigeria Announces #EducateOurGirls Campaign to Provide Scholarships for Nigerian Girls Who Escaped from Boko Haram
The American University of Nigeria announces the formation of the American University of Nigeria Foundation and the #EducateOurGirls campaign to raise funds to provide full scholarships to the young Nigerian girls who escaped Boko Haram as well as other vulnerable children in the northeast of Nigeria. Eleven of the girls are beginning their studies at Americ
An unabated influx of illegal aliens along the southern border of the United States is causing a health crisis in the border region. Actions by the Obama Administration to disperse illegals across America while providing an incentive for more illegals to come could lead to a nationwide health crisis that is likely to manifest itself first within our public schools.
Members of the Project 21 black leadership network say President Barack Obama's support of amnesty for illegal aliens and his 2012 e
About two and half decades after the Kampala Declaration on Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility (1990) the situation of academic freedom in African universities, especially as issues of gender and academic engagement is more perilous. As institutions broadened access to women; as students and academics, new developments have emerged that threaten erode any gains achieved thus far. The deepening of neo-liberal cultures in African universities, with their deep emphasis of market mechani
« Tout système d'éducation est une manière politique de maintenir ou de modifier l'appropriation des discours, avec les savoirs et les pouvoirs qu'ils emportent avec eux » (Foucault, 1969). Les systèmes éducatifs africains, et de façon plus précise, les universités, n’échappent pas à une telle logique et font elles-aussi l’objet de nombreuses appropriations par les pouvoirs, qu’ils soient politiques ou économiques, dans des perspectives qui sont parfois une atteinte flagrante aux libertés académ
[By: Dr Dennis Regling] Getting students excited about science can be a challenge. If it is seen as memorization and bookwork many students will develop a fast aversion to it.
Our job as educators is to make science relevant to the young learner. One of the goals of STEM education is to integrate science, technology, engineering and math into all our lessons in natural and challenging ways.
Here is but a short list of ways we can create a positive attitude about science in our students:
1) Visual d
It's that time of the year again, time to go back to school shopping. As another summer comes to an end and a new school year is quickly approaching, parents are beginning to prepare their kids for a successful year at school and this often means the purchasing of a new backpack. With so much to do in order to prepare for the upcoming school year, few stop to think about backpack safety for kids. Did you know that carrying a heavy backpack to school just may be causing health problems for your k
Well-known global business leader, financier, entrepreneur, investment guru and philanthropist Tony Elumelu is heading up a high-level list of power experts who will address this year’s West African Power Industry Convention (WAPIC) from 18-19 November. During the 11th edition of this long running conference and expo, WAPIC will once again gather government, utilities, consultants and investors to discuss the challenges of local markets, capacity building and investment.
Says WAPIC’s programme di
Pastor Roosevelt Watkins (at the mike) Pastor Roosevelt Watkins, national president of MAADD, held a press conference Thursday at the Blue1647, located at 1647 South Blue Island, Chicago, IL, to unveil two new programs. The first program is the Tech Trybe, a “Greek Squad for the community” with the goal to refurbish computers and other devices, which will be resold, and “Community Hackathon,” which will create teams of youth whose goal is to create apps in various categories in an effort to impr
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