Wells Fargo aims $1B at black-owned businesses
East Bay Business Times
Wells Fargo & Co. is targeting black business owners in a newly announced $1 billion lending campaign.
San Francisco-based Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) is marking the 10th anniversary of its African American Business Services program, which provides outreach and educational services. It reached a goal of lending $1 billion to black business owners this year, two years ahead of its 2010 goal. The bank has set another goal of lending an additional $1 billion by 2018. (more…)
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Resiliency Among Black Youth
By Rick Nauert, Ph.D.
Senior News Editor
psychcentral.com
Thursday, Aug 21 (Psych Central) — African-American youth have proven they can bounce back after facing hardship and adversity, yet the majority of studies on this population still focus on the negative outcomes of risk factors, according to a task force of the American Psychological Association.
A new report from APA’s Task Force on Resilience and Strength in Black Children and Adolescents calls for reframing research to better understand “how certain factors traditionally considered risk factors can be reconceptualized as adaptive or protective processes.†(more…)
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PHILADELPHIA, Aug 21, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia will host the national debut of “America I AM: The African American Imprint,” a four-year touring museum exhibition that will celebrate 400 years of African American contributions to this country.
The exhibition is developed in partnership with The Smiley Group, Inc., and organized by Cincinnati Museum Center and Arts and Exhibitions International (AEI), which recently brought the King Tut exhibition to Philadelphia. The exhibition will run January 15 to May 3, 2009, presenting a historical continuum of pivotal moments in courage, conviction and creativity that solidifies the undeniable imprint of African Americans across the nation and around the world.
“As Americans, we all want to live in a nation as good as its promise. This exhibition essentially tells the role that African Americans have played to make real the promise of American democracy,” said Tavis Smiley, who is presenting the exhibition. “Given its historic role in America’s back story, there is no better place to premiere this exhibit than the city of Philadelphia.” (more…)
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(September 10, 1949 – August 20, 2008)
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sixshot.com
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“Just about everybody in the restaurant got checks that were no good†said former bartender Amy Fosse. “Every time I go to the bank, they say ‘Maybe come back tomorrow, there is nothing here’â€.
“It’s a mess,†added Lakeisha Ross, a former cook.
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Dupri’s mother, Tina Mauldin, who serves as CEO for the restaurant, claims that all the workers have been paid and the restaurant’s closure was a “business decisionâ€.
Mauldin would take a swipe at her former employees saying that if they had worked harder, the restaurant would still be open. (more…)
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Is it me, or does it seem according to some/many folks out there that the Black community as a whole is in a perpetual crisis? Here are some of the results I got from using the words African-American, Crisis in Google.
The Crisis of the Young African American Male and the Criminal Justice System
Men Without Women: An African-American Crisis
Young African-American Boys Are In Crisis - And Nation Is Silent …
Study Shows African American Economic Crisis
The Crisis of the Black Man
On campus, grim statistics for African-American men
Sean Taylor and the African-American Crisis
Crisis in the Village: Restoring Hope in African American Communities
African American Leadership Crisis
The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African
The Crisis of the African American Architect
An HIV/AIDS Crisis Among African American Women: A Summary for …
A Major Crisis in the African-American Community [1 of 10]
UCLA Today: A crisis in admission of African-American students
African-American Prostate Cancer Crisis
And let’s not forget the name of NAACP’s magazine: Crisis
Now, let’s do a search under Asian-American, Crisis
Your Child’s First Identity Crisis 1/2 | Asian American Parenting …
Asian American Churches in Crisis of Leadership : m.kitsapsun.com …
Asian-American studies in crisis | Oakland Tribune | Find Articles …
Theatre in Crisis?: Performance Manifestos for a New Century - Google Books Result
Asian Identity Crisis | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com
How about White American, Crisis
Men Without Women: An African-American Crisis < Huh?!?!?!? How did this get here?
American Power: Sean Taylor and the African-American Crisis< Same with this one
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The reason why I posted fewer results for the last two searches is because most of the Google results did not directly talk about a crisis in those groups.
Black folks have issues–we know that and yes we do need to talk about it. But it is very interesting to see things like high divorce rates, abortion, crime, teen sex, etc. in other groups do not get the “crisis” treatment.
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AFP
LOS ANGELES (AFP) — A prominent Los Angeles-based Muslim activist has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to attempting to bribe a witness, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Najee Ali, who heads the community group Project Islamic HOPE (Helping Oppressed People Everywhere), was sentenced on Monday after he admitted an attempt to interfere with a witness in a court case involving his daughter. (more…)
Najee Ali is one of those that the LA local media runs to locally anytime something goes down in the Black community in Los Angeles. For those of you not familiar with Ali, he is sorta like a localized version of Al Sharpton. I may disagree with him on some issues, but when the brutha is right, he is RIGHT.
This is the position he took last year when some White girls in Long Beach got beat up and hospitalized by a group of Black teens back in ‘06.
Project Islamic Hope activist Najee Ali — who was so upset by media underplaying the unusual story and so angry at the black leadership for pooh-poohing the mob behavior that he held a march for the victims — wrote in an e-mail to the Weekly, “The saddest thing was watching Eddie Jones and other South L.A. activists breaking their necks trying to get in front of the TV cameras… embarrassing the rest of the black community by saying the witnesses and victims of the beatings had lied about what happened.”
Agreeing with Hayes, Ali wrote that the black parents’ “public lack of remorse and contrition towards the victims helped turn public sympathy against the defendants” and scuttled a deal offered by the D.A. — probation with no jail time.
Meanwhile, Hicks, of Community Advocates, who is also a former director of the Los Angeles City Human Relations Commission, says that while some black parents may have been out of touch when they insisted “their kids do nothing but homework, run track and go to church,” other parents had “the same street-culture attitudes that their kids showed.”
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Community activists on both sides, contacted by the Weekly, were disappointed over the lack of national coverage of what was, essentially, a man-bites-dog tale. Most believed that, had it been a white-on-black crime involving a mob of 30 white kids, the media would have been all over it. (more…)
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Lawsuit: 2 King Children of Unfairly Used Center
I think I had a reader not too long ago mention a story about a family member who purposely spent up her entire savings to avoid drama like this. I thought it was crazy at first, but Coretta may have missed the boat here. I’m just saying.
G.E. Patterson may have missed the boat on it as well.
BISHOP’S WIFE HAS TO SUE TO PROTECT INCOME FROM HIS MINISTRIES
All y’all crazy!
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Jasmine Guy getting her director on-
Jasmine Guy thriving in a “Different Worldâ€
Atlanta native making debut as theater director (Mo’…)
Plus, whatever happened to this sistah?
Suzette Charles. ‘Memba her?
Here is all I could find on her.
“Suzette Charles DeGaetano - 1981 Scholar
Just three years after being named New Jersey’s Presidential Scholar in 1981, Suzette Charles DeGaetano claimed another national honor - the title of Miss America 1984. An accomplished singer who had appeared in commercials and educational TV programs, Charles swept the talent competition. After her service touring the nation as Miss America, Charles continued her musical career, performing with Bill Cosby, Stevie Wonder, Lou Rawls, Alan King, and Joel Grey. (source)
Plus, here is a site that posted a link where you can download her album.
What was always interesting about her career path is that it was Vanessa Williams’ nude pictures that launched her career while Charles kept her clothes on and has been tossed into Neverland.
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