NEW ENTREPRENEURSHIP GUIDE HELPS INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED BUILD SUCCESSFUL LIVES

CONTACT:
Sheila Rule
Resilience Multimedia
877-267-2303
resiliencemultimedia@verizon.net


New York, NY (BlackNews.com) - The journey that led Joseph Robinson to write the new book Think Outside the Cell: An Entrepreneur's Guide for the Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated (Resilience Multimedia) began in 1992, after he was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for a crime that had its roots in his illegal drug business. Behind prison walls, Joe developed a passion for legitimate business by reading newspaper financial sections that other prisoners threw away. He traded cigarettes for books to build his own business library and became an authoritative financial adviser to fellow incarcerated men. And he convinced top Wall Street executives and others--including a former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State--to go inside prison to share their business knowledge.

With the publication of his inspiring and informative Think Outside the Cell, Joe is encouraging men and women nationwide to use what for many are innate entrepreneurial gifts in order to build the lives they want and break the cycle of recidivism. This step-by-step guide is packed with straightforward information on a range of topics, including how to get others to embrace your ideas and help launch your business, how to legally avoid taxes, how to establish good credit and the steps to take to remove occupational restrictions that many states place on convicted felons.

Think Outside the Cell has already won high praise, including from John C. Whitehead, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs; Steve Mariotti, founder of the acclaimed National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship; Wahida Clark, best-selling urban fiction author; Nicole Lindahl, assistant director of the Prisoner Reentry Institute at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York; Catherine F. Rohr, founder of the nationally recognized Prison Entrepreneurship Program, and Julio Medina, founder of Exodus Transitional Community, whose work with the formerly incarcerated has been recognized by the White House.

Think Outside the Cell is being published amid renewed efforts to help the formerly incarcerated--who are disproportionately black and Latino--successfully reenter society. But the reentry programs being developed focus on finding jobs in a nation where, according to a Princeton University study, it is easier for a white person with a felony conviction to get a job than for a black person who has never been arrested. Think Outside the Cell presents a largely unexplored option that can help give men and women leaving prison a realistic second chance.
Think Outside the Cell is published by Resilience Multimedia, a New York-based publisher of quality African-American and Latino books. Its founder is Sheila Rule, a journalist for The New York Times for 30 years who started writing to the incarcerated as a volunteer for the Riverside Church Prison Ministry. Inspired by the rich talent she found behind prison walls, she started Resilience Multimedia. Future titles will help the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated tackle other hard challenges. And to present a more balanced image of this population, Resilience will publish books featuring formerly incarcerated men and women who have become successful as entrepreneurs and in other endeavors. To order Think Outside the Cell, or for more information, please visit www.thinkoutsidethecell.com

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INVEST IN YOURSELF CAREER MAKOVER CONTEST

CONTACT:
Adrienne Graham Hues Consulting & Management, Inc
866-779-4830
(o)303-253-8100
(f)info@huesconsulting.com



Think You Can't Use the Help of a Professional Career Consultant? Think Again!
Atlanta, GA (BlackNews.com) - With a new year comes a new outlook on your career. Much sought-after career management consultant Adrienne Graham announced today the introduction of the Invest In Yourself Career Makeover Contest(TM) that promises three months of intense professional career guidance. One lucky winner will receive three months of her expert services free of charge.

The Invest In Yourself Career Makeover Contest(TM), which kicks off December 1, 2007, invites contestants to submit a brief online entry form and an essay of no more than 500 words describing why they want the help of a professional career consultant and how they feel it would help benefit their career.

"Men and women have come to me in recent months and said 'I know I need your help, and I'd really love to hire you, but I'm not sure a 'coach' can work for me,'" says Graham, whose roster of clients has doubled in the past year. "I see a lot of people who feel trapped, burned out or stalled in their careers. I see this contest as one way I can do something to help bring about a sense of empowerment and optimism back into the winner's life." Of course everyone can't win the grand prize. But 5 runners up will receive one free session and 100 resume cards.
As a professional career consultant and Chief Executive Officer of Hues Consulting & Management, Inc, Ms. Graham works one-on-one with professionals who are unsatisfied with their careers, but don't quite know what to do about it. Through a combination of sharp insight, facilitated self-discovery, weekly 'homework assignments', and unwavering support, Ms. Graham says her clients undergo profound personal and professional breakthroughs during her coaching program.

The Invest In Yourself Career Makeover Contest(TM) begins on December 1, 2007 and ends December 31, 2007, with the winner and 5 runners up announced on the website on January 15, 2008. Contest entry is possible only through the Hues Consulting website http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001iHNds4EXmmqQEHPaeK_rV3gU9JVpOa1lLdvOvIitUNCtg_kRLHEzkAU3XPxAlBOtUN6dCzqnNG1ry3_vwWvYsZINoy0X4jwczwXe6FfhjEHaiAKcGZodrg==. The prize package (valued at over $1400) includes three months of intensive career consulting, personalized career and networking plan development, $100 American Express Gift Card, 100 Personalized Resume Cards, Professionally Written Resume, three months paid Linked In membership, and "Franklin Covey Planner" Kit. Contestants are only allowed to enter once.

An innovative Talent Acquisition Consultant and Career Consultant, Adrienne Graham is dedicated to helping professionals and entrepreneurs reinvent their careers and rediscover passion and purpose in their lives. She designs her programs and personal development products to help Men and Women achieve their personal definition of success. Graham is also the founder and CEO of Empower Me! Corporation, a professional network for Black Women. If you'd like more information about this contest, please send email to info@huesconsulting.com.

For more information on Ms. Graham or Hues Consulting & Management, Inc, please visit http://www.huesconsulting.com/


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ARE YOU THE NEXT GREAT WRITER?

CONTACT:Darryl L. Mobley
detroit@familydigest.com

Austin, TX (BlackNews.com) - Family Digest Magazine - Black America's No. 1 Family and Relationship Magazine - is holding a contest to find the Next Great American Magazine Writer. We are looking for fabulous writers who enjoy discovering and sharing the latest information on health, family, parenting, relationships, marriage, great food, travel and more. These writers have to be passionate about uncovering that choice bit of information that makes each article all that much more interesting to our audience -- African American adults with families.

Are you that writer? Are you passionate about uncovering the latest health, family, parenting and lifestyle information that will help African American adults develop smarter, healthier, happier families and relationships? Do you love uncovering underreported facts that will empower Black adults and families? Do you enjoy life and want to give others information to help them enjoy theirs? If you are nodding your head yes, send your article on health, family, parenting, relationships, food, or travel to Family Digest Magazine now.

We will be selecting the best articles we receive in these areas and featuring them in the pages of Family Digest Magazine. We will give our readers and editors the opportunity to vote on their favorite article to choose the Next Great American Magazine Writer. The winners of the Next Great American Magazine Writer Contest will be featured and announced in Family Digest Magazine.

Email us your articles using the form at www.FamilyDigest.info. Be sure and also tell us about you so that we can include this with your featured article. Make the subject Next Great American Magazine Writer Contest.
The entry deadline is December 10, 2007. You may submit as many articles as you like. The top articles will be featured in Family Digest. Go to www.FamilyDigest.info and enter now. You could be the Next Great American Magazine Writer! Articles submitted become the property of Family Digest and may be published in the magazine, online or in any other media at our sole discretion. Writers are not paid for contest entries/submissions.

About Family Digest® MagazineFamily Digest Magazine has been published for twelve years, and with nearly three million readers, websites and events, is Black America's No. 1 Family & Relationship brand. In each issue, readers get powerful editorial on love, relationships, parenting, recipes, health, career, wealth building, and more. Family Digest Magazine is delivered digitally via a link sent to the personal email address of subscribers. Family Digest subscriptions are free and are available at www.FamilyDigestSubscriptions.com. Family Digest is a registered trademark, used with permission.

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FAMILY DIGEST MAGAZINE IS GIVING AWAY EARLY CHRISTMAS PRESENTS -- FREE VACATIONS!

Austin, TX (BlackNews.com)

The holidays are quickly approaching. With all the shopping, cooking, cleaning and holiday guests, moms and dads are going to feel like they could use a break. Family Digest Magazine -- in partnership with great vacation destinations -- will give away free vacations in the Family Digest Vacation Sweepstakes.

According to Darryl L. Mobley, Family Digest's founder, "I have always considered travel the greatest gift. And, the vacation destinations Family Digest is giving away can rightly be considered once-in-a-lifetime gifts to our readers." Registering for the Family Digest Vacation Sweepstakes is free, easy and includes a no-cost subscription to Family Digest Magazine -- Black America's No. 1 Family and Relationship Magazine.

Readers who sign up online at www.FamilyDigestSubscription.com will be entered in the Family Digest Vacation Sweepstakes for a chance to win top-drawer accommodations in these fabulous destinations:
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Susan Benjamin, Editor-in-Chief of Family Digest, added, "Everyone who registers will get a lot of goodies to go with the chance to win the Sweepstakes. Starting with a free subscription to Family Digest Magazine – published nine times a year and chock full of information on parenting, relationships, health, education, financial planning, and much more. Plus, you may win a vacation from Family Digest Magazine!"

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W. Va. Rally Demans Hate Crimes Charges

By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER – 16 hours ago
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) —

Hundreds of people marched through the state capital on Saturday to urge prosecutors to add hate crime charges against six white people charged in the beating, torture and sexual assault of a 20-year-old black woman.

Authorities say the accused, three men and three women, held Megan Williams captive for days at a rural trailer — sexually assaulting her, beating her and forcing her to eat human and animal feces.

Police stopped traffic in downtown Charleston along the 2-mile route, as demonstrators held signs calling for the suspects to be charged with hate crimes. "Hate crimes are out of control in America," Malik Shabazz, a legal adviser to Williams and her family and a founder of Black Lawyers for Justice, told the group at a rally before the march. "Nooses are being hung and our women are being raped by white mobs. What happened to Megan Williams was a hate crime and we want this prosecuted as a hate crime."

Shabazz pointed to statements from suspect Frankie Brewster and her son, Bobby Brewster, that racial epithets were used every time Williams was stabbed.

Shabazz staged the rally despite a request by the city's black ministerial association and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People not to gather because it could harm the prosecution' s case.

Logan County Prosecutor Brian Abraham has not filed hate crime charges in the case saying the other charges already filed carried harsher penalties. A hate crime conviction carries up to 10 years in prison in West Virginia. All six face kidnapping and sexual assault charges. Kidnapping carries a possible life sentence.

Abraham, who urged Williams and her family not to talk about the case or attend the rally, has said it might be difficult to prove a hate crime charge because Williams had a "social relationship" with one of the suspects for at least several months before the alleged assaults.
Williams attended the rally wearing a T-shirt with the message "Protect the Black Woman." In a brief speech, she showed her appreciation to her supporters. The Associated Press generally does not identify suspected victims of sexual assault, but Williams and her mother agreed to release her name.

Joe Marchal said he drove three hours from Berea, Ky., with his wife and infant son to show his support for Williams. "If no one came out today, imagine how that would make Megan Williams feel," said Marchal. "We're here for her."

In addition to calling attention to hate crimes, organizers hoped the rally would help raise money for Williams' medical care and future educational expenses.

Zayid Muhammad, the national minister of culture for the New Black Panther Party, came to the rally from Newark, N.J. "As a father of a daughter and a child of African ancestry, the idea that I can sit by idly, (in) the face of one of the most violent and obscene acts committed against a black woman in my life, was too appalling," Muhammad said. "I had to come."

The Rev. Al Sharpton had been expected to participate but did not appear.

(This version CORRECTS a mispelled word in the Shabazz quote to 'mobs' instead of 'moms.')

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CONTACT: Debra Langston
Black Solutions School Director

CONTACT:
Debra Langston
Black Solutions School Director
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Los Angeles, CA (BlackNews.com) - Black Business Owners finally have a school that gives them the inside secrets to growing their business. They receive the support that they need to counter obstacles that are faced within the community. The Black community doesn't have the same allocated resources that their counterparts do, this dynamic school allows every entrepreneur the opportunity to build a business that will not only last, but have a phenomenal success record to go with it. These courses are convenient and they allow the student to receive a certificate of expertise upon completion. The instructors are African American professors who have real world experience and are in top positions throughout the world. This training camp is designed to allow students to enjoy practical knowledge and scientific expertise. "Black professionals and adults are usually missing the practical experience and hands on expertise after college, and some aren't given the opportunity of a traditional college, this program works for every African American who wants to become a millionaire, who wants to realize their goal of success as an African American Entrepreneur", Debra Langston explains. "This college has an age median of 30-65 years old. The population that attends this college is an adult community. Many of our students have been out in the workforce, or tried to run a successful business, and realized that they didn't have the skills to run it, maintain it, and grow their businesses like they should." Leslie Winfall shares, "I think we are finally realizing, as Black people, that we can't do everything on our own, that we do need to learn how to create businesses, and reading articles and just doing it by trial and error is no longer acceptable if we are to survive."

Black Consumers are more than likely going to hire someone that looks like them:
After completing one of the training courses, Black business owners or consultants can apply these skills in their urban community or environment. "It's a statistical fact that African American consumers feel more comfortable around African American business owners, they just don't have the trust that the business owners have all the resources that they need to provide the adequate services and products. This school gives the entrepreneurs and business owners the opportunity to present their products, services, skills, businesses with confidence that they need to win the trust of the Black consumer." Debra Langston reveals. Scott Miller chimes in, "Black people do hire Black business owners, we just need to truly know that the person has skills, this program allows our students to demonstrate that."

Graduates of the Black Solutions Training Program see a significant increase in their overall sales:
* Black Entrepreneurs have really commended us for helping them think outside the box and increase their bottom line.

* Black Business Owners are introduced to radical sales techniques, and are taught the science of sales that allow them to stay in business and become truly connected to the community.

* Black Business Owners learn how to turn their community and networking skills to actual profits.

This College Trains The Black Mind; we think differently and this program is conducive to our style of learning:

* Since slavery, Blacks didn't inherit power, our power was stripped, this program helps us tap into our inner power.

* Black graduates can't walk in the Fortune 500 company with the same attitude, they aren't the same after this program, the students literally walk in there ready to take over the place. This program changes the students minds totally, transforming them into leaders. They will never be the same after this training program.

Always negotiate from a position of power, this training program allows our students to learn how to use power and become powerful:
* This school forces the students to obtain hands on experience, this program creates a very technical approach at the end of the course, the students can confidently state that they have mastered the course and the field that they have taken.

* Only leaders can train future leaders. The professors that we have on board are already successful business owners, community leaders, entrepreneurs, so they give not only their knowledge but their personal advice to help future leaders come into their own, regardless of their age. The program has students who are 40, 50, 60 years old starting out and learning how to lead.

Attract Investors:
This course takes your Idea and helps you create the perfect business. Normally, Black Businesses, Mom and Pop Stores and Retail Outlets start without a plan. This does our community a disservice. Business Owners need a strategic plan to implement and create a successful business. This course is intended for those who have not created a business plan as well as for those who have already created a business plan but have not yet received a positive response from venture capitalists. This course can also be used for those who want to become expert Business Plan Writers.

Students will learn:
* How to write a Business Plan for themselves and other business owners.

* What financial experts look for when they review Business Plans.

* Business Plans will be judged and graded by experts.

* The secrets behind creating compelling and successful business plans that are sure to attract financial backers are revealed step-by-step in this invaluable class.

* Clear explanations of the guidelines that banks, venture capital firms, and the Small Business Administration (SBA) use to grant loans and other financial support to businesses, this class equips potential business owners with a wealth of knowledge on lending procedures.

* Experts provide useful ideas and strategies for developing, operating, marketing, and building a profitable business are included as are copious examples and resources for further study.

* At the end of the course students will be able to demonstrate how to make business plans uniquely suited to a particular endeavor—such as home-based businesses, sole proprietorships, and franchise operations—this class ensures that anyone can embark on a new business venture with confidence.

Students can become:
* Certified Business Plan Writers and Consultants
Going From Word of Mouth To Mainstream: Create The Buzz:
This course helps you get the word out about your business, increasing your customer base by 50-70%. Black Business Owners have wonderful concepts, business ideas, but they do not strategically market their products like mainstream corporations do.

Normally, Black Business Owners do not take in consideration that beyond opening their businesses up, that they truly need to have strategic marketing plans in place. If they follow our experts' marketing advice they will see a noticeable change and transformation with their businesses.

Students will learn:
* What marketing is really about

* Develop your customers imagination

* Find out about customer information

* Targeting your niche

* Watch your back: watch your competition

* Product Strategies

* How to price your products

* The Art of Branding

* Use Your Positioning Strategy to Craft your Ad Message

* Be a Publicity Hound

* The Skills that you need to sell

* Rainmaking* Building Your Marketing Plan

* Viral Marketing

* How to Get your products in the news and on television

* When and Where to Advertise

* How to Advertise in Print

* Direct Mail: A Controlled first step toward friends you haven't met

* Students will learn how to master marketing and the many strategic ways to create a phenomenal buzz.

Learning how to Lead, while being Black; Blacks were taught to cut off their innate leadership qualities, this course helps us restore our leader within:
This course helps Black people understand their power as leaders. Since slavery we were taught to be subservant. This course helps us break the psychological chains and be very powerful. This course allows community leaders to know the beginning of what it takes to be a leader of the Black community.

Students will learn:

* Learn how to influence - the most important aspect to leadership.

* Learn how to create appropriate priorities.

* Learn how leaders problem solve.

* Learn how to listen to your vision.

* Learn how to be self-disciplined.

* Learn how to create a personal brand.

* Learn on the job training real world practical training for leadership.

* Learn how to deal with different personality types.

* Learn how to develop the leader within.

We are now offering our successful training program online:Black Business Owners may check out our courses by going here: www.richblackgirls.com/chalkboard

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IMPORTANT EMAIL FROM NAACP!!!

Just a few weeks ago now, hundreds of thousands of supporters like you banded together to call for justice for the Jena 6. Because of our outcry, all eyes are on Jena.
These six young men still face prosecution by a DA who has taken it on himself to administer two systems of justice - one for blacks and one for whites. The legal battle there is clearly far from over, but the NAACP will be there all the way.

Click here to donate to the NAACP

And while the situation in Jena has captured the country's attention, it is by no means an isolated incident. The case reflects a disturbing national trend involving disparate, and often violent, treatment of African American youth in the criminal justice system.
In Tallahasee, Florida 14-year old Martin Lee Anderson died while in the custody at the Bay County Boot Camp last year. On October 12 an all white jury acquitted deputies and a nurse who participated in the videotaped violent abuse that resulted in his death...

...15- year old Shelwanda Riley was thrown around, punched and pepper sprayed by a Ft. Pierce, Florida police officer, a man roughly twice her size, as he tried to arrest her for a non-violent curfew violation...

...Isaiah Simmons, 17, died after struggling with five adult staff of the Bowling Brook Preparatory School, a privately run residential program under contract with the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services. Witnesses said the staffers sat on the boy's limbs, chest and head. He was then restrained for three hours. The state medical examiner ruled his death a homicide...

...Videotape showed Donovan Jackson-Chavis, 16, being slammed to the ground, tossed into the air, bounced on the hood of a squad car and choked by police as they handcuffed him for supposedly not dropping a bag of potato chips at a convenience store in Inglewood, California.
When the very people who are the caretakers of America's criminal justice system don't believe that all are equal under the law, it sends a message that racism and hate are acceptable. They are not.

With your support, the NAACP will aggressively pursue these and hundreds of other cases of police misconduct and discrimination targeting African American youth.

We are calling on local and state authorities as well as Congress to investigate these and other incidents of abuse, and the Attorney General to mandate federal prosecution of hate crimes.
This month NAACP units across the country are holding hearings, town hall meetings, rallies and marches in their own communities to demand that African American youth are treated with the dignity and fairness that they deserve under the law.
This wave of violence and intimidation against our youth is unacceptable, it's against the law and it must end now. With your help, we'll shine a light on those who hide their racist acts behind our criminal justice system.


Sincerely,
Dennis Courtland Hayes NAACP Interim President & CEO

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The truth about Planned Parenthood and beyond!

A friend of mine gave me a DVD on Eugenics to watch. I was very surprised at the content and it led me to research what was said. It opened a can of worms. The people that really know me know I see conspiracies.

I thought women that use and have used Planned Parenthood should look this old non-profit closely.

First let me say, I am pro-choice. I believe each of us must make the choice using our religious upbringing, spirituality and morals to make decisions about birth control and abortions according.

The founder of Planned Parenthood was Margaret Sanger, which was formally called American Birth Control League. Sanger believed in Eugenics (the study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding) meaning to create a healthier and intelligent people.

Did you know the Nazi regime in Germany used eugenics as a pretext for racial discrimination?

Sanger considered African Americans unfit and put a strain on American Society. In 1939, the reproduction practices of blacks became the target. When have we not been the guinea pig, take the Tuskegee Experiment. Now Sanger was not alone, Dr. Clarence J. Gamble of Proctor & Gamble devised the “Suggestion for the Negro project” plan.

Part of the plan was to use black leaders (giving the appearance they were in charge) so that no one would think they wanted to exterminate the Negro population. The selling point for birth control was for economic betterment and health measures. We were lured in by “birth control as a remedy for our economic woes by controlling family size. The program was endorsed by prominent black women of the day.

It is recorded that a black minister used a “softening process”, to gain the support of other churches to promote the agenda of PP. The entire black leadership, religious, social, professional and academic community had bought into the propaganda and finally endorsed Planned Parenthood. That made it ok for clinics to be placed in urban areas.

This story goes much further than just Planned Parenthood, but like any research it leads to another story.

So that we are all clear: EUGENICS IS ANTIDEMOCRATIC AND FUNDED BY THE RICHES FAMILIES IN AMERICA. Do I have to repeat that!

In those days the members of the American Eugenics Society were:
The Rockefellers, J. P. Morgan, Jr., Mary Biddle, a tobacco heiress, Cleveland H & Cleveland E. Dodge of Phelps Dodge Co, Robert Garrett, B&O Railroad, E. B. Scripps, United Press and Dorothy Brush of Brush Electric Co. to name a few.

Let me go a little further although the story is long.

Dr. Gamble didn’t stop at birth control pills. Let’s take a moment to talk about one family’s role in the game. The Gray Family, Mr Clayland Boyden Gray was counsel to George Bush, organized the pilot project for the sterilization program. Boyden’s father, Gordon founded the Bowman Gray Medical School in Winston-Salem using his R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co inherited cigarette stock. (Aunt) Alice Gray founded the “Human Betterment League” the North Carolina branch of the national eugenical sterilization movement.

Was that like the “Civil Rights” movement?

They began experiments on all children enrolled in the school district of Winston-Salem, NC. They were given an “intelligence test”; those who scored below a certain mark, which showed that they were insane or feebleminded and were surgically sterilized. My research found that the project was conducted by the University of North Carolina and financed by James Gordon Hanes (Hanes underwear) Do you think Michael Jordon knows? Twenty seven (27) states preformed sterilization programs.

Don’t take my word for it, look it up! Do it soon, it’s surprising to me what people will do. One thing is clear Eugenics is not a conspiracy; it is a movement and an ideology.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4081/is_200505/ai_n15665706

http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Human_Betterment_League_of_North_Carolina

http://www.inclusiondaily.com/news/institutions/nc/eugenics.htm

http://www.annals.org/cgi/reprint/132/4/312.pdf

http://extras.journalnow.com/againsttheirwill/parts/one/story1.html

http://www.dianedew.com/sanger.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger

http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=BushBook&Entity=AmEugenSoc

I have many thoughts about the condition of our people. The cares of the day pushes those thoughts in the background, I’m sad to say, until the next incident raises its head.

I have asked these questions many times. Did integration hurt us? Why do we mistrust each other in business and life in general? Those are not the only two questions…….I have many more.

I read somewhere that Black people have been the only people to come out of bondage and have not left the place of their captivity. I can only assume that our ancestors felt that they built the country and had rights to it. People like Marcus Garvey were destroyed by the FBI for his “Back to Africa” agenda. Through the years we built our own banks, hotels, restaurants etc. Blacks did business with each other because know one else would. Those businesses blossomed like Madam CJ Walker who not only created the products but employed other women to become an independent sales force. The cycle of money in Black Wall Street circulated over 100 times before it left the community. Jealous whites burned down.

WHEN we were ALLOWED to go in the front door of establishments, we did because we could. We should have left through the back door where we started. In 2007, we still give our hard earned dollars to others. In doing so, partly the cause, black owned businesses close at a rapid rate. Many of us complain about those businesses (shelves not full, not enough of something) but many of us don't offer any suggestions for improvement, we just go somewhere else. Other nationalities work for and with each other. Their fights with each other are behind closed doors – to the outside world, they become a united front. The cycle of money in their community circulates about 10-20 times while ours leaves our community in 15 minutes.

There is much debate over reparations. There are many of us that believe done are do. Opponents believe slavery was a legal institution so no crime was committed. We should forget about slavery and move on. Slavery is over and then who would receive payments since all the slaves are dead? Who are their descendants? No one wants to talk about slavery and the effects of it on our community. One example to learn about that subject is to pickup the book or DVD on Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. It’s alright to never forget the Holocaust. We should never forget what has been done to us EITHER. Although we shouldn't get stuck there, we need to come to terms.....that THERE IS A PROBLEM! I don’t care who has made it out of the ghetto! Too many of us are still in the ghetto, stuck (what ever the reasons). Those who say I made it, you can too are full of it and brainwashed. Have something to add?

Marketing Tips

I’ve had numerous businesses throughout my lifetime. I considered each closing a failure and a learning experience. There’s something inside me that will not let me go of the dream of being self-employed. I have decided that while I’m waiting for my next try at self employment I would share with you what I have learned from each adventure.

Marketing and Networking:

Marketing is about communicating with clients about the value and distinct advantages that your business offers. Without communicating those customers do not know you exist. Understanding that you must communicate with your prospective and current clients are very important, how you communicate to them is even more important. It is about getting and keeping customers for life.

Remember your business name announces who you are. A memorable logo reestablishes your name and brand recognition. Use your logo on all your materials; website, boxes & bags, business card, postcards, brochures etc.

Keep in mind that you have to understand your customer’s needs and develop a plan around those needs. Do not copy what another business is doing without knowing what the results of their marketing plan produces. Market yourself. Test different strategies to see what works for you. Of course if it works, use it.

Develop a mailing list, by joining the Chamber of Commerce, collecting business cards and getting involved in community affairs. Review, develop and update your plan. Test what works. Results are the final determination of what works and what doesn't. Most small businesses have a limited marketing budget. That only means your have to think creatively and create a well rounded program.

Send a postcard with a good ad (brief) to your target market. If you decide to create a brochure team up with another business and include their card or insert and they agree to do the same for you. Enclose an ad or flyer in all your outgoing mail. And the internet is great way to communicate what your business does by considering an email newsletter sent to people who visit your website. Don’t forget to code your ads so that you can track the response or simply ask the customer how they hear about your business. Host events, (spoken word, book clubs etc), if it’s a seminar, (based on your space availability) limit attendance and charge a fee which will give the impression of value. Is there a concert in your area? Sell those tickets, or do outreach for a non profit in your area and distribute their material.

Testing will keep you in business longer because you will not continue to waste time with strategies that do not work.

Begin a file for merchandising (advertising) and marketing (networking) ideas and take some seminars and classes. Also develop a data base of customers.

You will know what works for your business by doing it yourself, testing it, and by making small improvements to it until it works consistently for you. Good luck!

Procrastination: One reason why Black Businesses Fail

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PROCRASTINATION: ONE REASON WHY BLACK BUSINESSES FAIL

By Dante Lee

www.BlackBusinessCoach.com

Columbus, OH (BlackNews.com) - According to the U.S. Census Bureau, African Americans are more likely to start a business - but are also more likely to fail at business than any other race. Let's address one common reason why many of our businesses don't survive: Procrastination.

Looking to kill your business? No problem, keep procrastinating. No one wants their business to go down the tubes, but procrastination is one of the most lethal ways to destroy a business from the inside out. Procrastination cuts off any possibility of success, even before you've taken on your first customer. It sucks the lifeblood from everything you hope to do by leaving you right there--in the valley of hopes and dreams--rather than on the mountain of action and results.
Not sure what some of the symptoms of procrastination are? Let's start with that client you promised to follow up with yesterday. Did you make the call? How about getting that business paperwork in order? Can you pull your taxes from three years ago within minutes? If not, then procrastination could be keeping you from fulfilling your promises, organizing your business and managing your finances to ensure your business is not pulled out from under you, by you.
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today. It is an old saying, but one worth repeating. Don't wait. If it is on your to-do list to be done today, then get it done. No excuses. One of the greatest talents of a procrastinator is the ability to create or latch onto seemingly legitimate excuses as to why this or that wasn't done. This technique is no different than a junkie who can't seem to put down the pipe.

Get up out of that slump and make your life happen. Customers are waiting and depending on you to give them the best service they've come to expect. Don't disappoint them and don't disappoint yourself. This is your business and it can only work if you work, today...not tomorrow, or next week, or next month. But today! Leave procrastination on the porch.
Dante Lee is the president and CEO of Diversity City Media, a multicultural marketing and public relations firm based in Columbus, Ohio. His daily blog, BlackBusinessCoach.com, offers a FREE email and RSS subscription for black entrepreneurs and business owners.

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Essex County, New Jersey Black Businesses

"The most revolutionary act you can do is make a payroll every two weeks"

Haki Madhubuti
Owner, Third World Press

We must spend our dollars in stores and nonprofits owned and run by us....
Business development equals Community development!


Serenity Printing Services
(Memorial Brochures, Prayer Cards & more)
Gwendolyn Williamson-Odom
Union, New Jersey
willodom@serenityprinting.com

Erotikah
(Where passion lives)
3 Whittlesey Avenue
East Orange, New Jersey

Systa Hood Beauty Supplies
(Specializing in Nail, Skin & Hair Care products)
51 Central Avenue
East Orange, New Jersey

A's Laundry Mat
239 Park Avenue
East Orange, New Jersey

Hot Peas & Butter
Kelli J. Copeland

Mocha Mind Communications
Gioya McRae-Henry

Partylite
Anessah Serrano

Free Trial: Complete WebStart Package
Leslie M Williams

Global Linkages, Inc.
Community Development Management Consulting Firm
Lorna K. Johnson
linktoafric@aol.com

Alleyne Studios
Natalie Alleyne


I will be adding businesses as time goes on. If you know of a business owned and operated in the Essex County Area, please send me a email. blackberrysweeter@hotmail.com