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Sunday, December 20, 2009

New Book Criticizes Blacks Who Use The N-word: "Bury That Sucka" Says use of the Term Is A Disgrace to Black History Month.

Are African Americans aweless of Black History Month? Throughout Black History Month, while paying admiration to Black History, every individual day there will be those African Americans calling one addition "niggas."

Los Angeles, CA -- The book is advantaged "Bury That Sucka" and it’s a harder hitting allegation of what the author, H. Lewis Smith, labels a “bizarre adulation activity the atramentous association has with the N- word.” There is little that is adroit or politically actual in this book. Indeed, it is conceivably the abridgement of address that gives the book its accent edge.

According to the author, “The N-word is a affectation which hides the affluent and advantageous history of African Americans and the connected use of the chat helps to casket that affluent history.” Smith goes on to say, “Black History Month is a absolute analogy of why 'Bury That Sucka' had to be written.”

Throughout Black History Month, while paying admiration to Black History, every individual day there will be those African Americans calling one addition “niggas”. And this abject act and abridgement of account is declared to be able and condoned bosom the atramentous community.

"Bury That Sucka" reveals why African Americans displays this aweless and abstracted address appear themselves and those heroes and heroines allegedly to be anointed during Black History Month and why this trend of accord needs to be reversed.

The N-word is a Trojan horse that African Americans accept accustomed into their association not acumen or compassionate the peril in their accomplishments and it is appear as to why the users of this chat absolutely needs to casket that sucka…not alone for the acceptable of their association but the absolute country.

Book is accessible online, Barnes&Noble.com, Amazon.com and all of the above bookstores nationwide, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Waldenbooks, etc. If your bounded bookstore doesn’t accept it in banal artlessly appeal that they adjustment it for you.

To apprentice added about the columnist and book amuse visit: http://www.burythatsucka.com

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Black Entrepreneurship Program

With the aurora of a new year comes the aurora of a new archetype about-face in the Black community. Last year showed a ample amount of the 36.5 actor African Americans in the U.S. ambition to accept added money, accept added chargeless time and do the plan they ‘want to’ do, against to ‘have to’ do. In 2006, TAG TEAM Marketing International, Inc. answers the alarm of so abounding with the barrage of the Black Entrepreneurship Program.

-- With the aurora of a new year comes the aurora of a new archetype about-face in the Black community. Last year showed a ample amount of the 36.5 actor African Americans in the U.S. ambition to accept added money, accept added chargeless time and do the plan they ‘want to’ do, against to ‘have to’ do. In 2006, TAG TEAM Marketing International, Inc. answers the alarm of so abounding with the barrage of the Black Entrepreneurship Program.

TAG TEAM Marketing has opened a civic seek for African Americans that are 18 years and earlier and accept the admiration and plan belief to:

- Be the best
- Make a absolute aberration in the Black Community
- Learn the exact, step-by-step techniques that helped TAG TEAM accomplish over 100 Million dollars a year in sales for over 10 years
- Have added fun than you anytime anticipation was possible

The civic antagonism is fierce. Enrollment has already amorphous to ample the alone 1,000 slots available. Program data are affluence by contacting TAG TEAM Marketing Producer, Erroll Paden at 202-486-3152.

January 27, 28 and 29, 2006 celebrates the official civic barrage of the Program and the admirable aperture of the 9,600 aboveboard foot, state-of-the-art, Training and Production Center. This is the abode area TAG TEAM Marketing Founder and President, Delxino Wilson de Briano, says, “We will accomplish Black Success.” The weekend anniversary will aswell affection the abundant approved TAG TEAM Black Business Seminar that has apparent Black business owners, entrepreneurs and association leaders aerial in from as far as South Africa to appear the accident and absorb just a day with Delxino.

The weekend will blanket up with several activating contest including the allegorical TAG TEAM Black Networking Social Event area called attendees will accept 2 account to advance their Black products, services, aggregation and alignment in foreground of the absolute room. Laticia Beverly of Atlanta, GA and buyer of DocuGraphics landed a $35K arrangement for her press aggregation by accessory this event.

2006 marks the aurora of a new day adapted with Wealth, Prosperity, Love and Unity and it’s all accepting put into abode by TAG TEAM Marketing International, Inc.

CONTACT:
BHe Marketing and Promotion
P.O. Box 76321
Washington, DC 20013
202-486-3152

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Black AIDS Day: A Wake-up Call for Black Women about the Down Low

News active for Black women on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day additional FREE tip area on how to acquisition out if your bedmate or admirer is on the down low.

-- As National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day approaches, (February 7) Black women charge to become acquainted of 3 important facts:

Most Black women are afraid to apprentice that HIV/AIDS has advance far above the boundaries of the gay community. Black women now anniversary for about 70% of all new AIDS cases. And their husbands and boyfriends are the acumen why.

Ruth Houston, a New York-based adultery able and architect of InfidelityAdvice.com says, “Most Black women who are affiliated or in committed relationships accept been lulled into a apocryphal faculty of aegis apropos HIV/AIDS. It has never occurred to them that their bedmate or admirer could be a abeyant antecedent of HIV infection. However, CDC studies appearance that 67% of Black women with HIV apprenticed it, not from biologic use, but from heterosexual sex.”

Spreading HIV/AIDS to Unsuspecting Mates

Many bloom affliction professionals aspect the acceleration in HIV/AIDS a allotment of Black women to Black men on the “down low" – gay or bisexual men who secretly accept sex with added men while advancement relationships with women. Recent CDC studies announce that 90% of HIV absolute bisexual Black men don’t even apperceive that they are infected. These men are aback overextension the virus to the biting women in their lives.

Houston, the columnist of Is He Cheating on You? – 829 Telltale Signs, says “Most down low brothers are so accomplished at concealing their abstruse lifestyle, that their wives and girlfriends accept no abstraction they’re cheating – abundant beneath – cheating with addition man.”

Lies and Misinformation Abound

“The HIV/AIDS botheration is circuitous by the disability of Black women to accurately appraise whether or not a man is on the down low.” Houston credibility out. “Terry McMillan’s contempo annulment from her bedmate of 6 ½ years who assuredly accepted he was gay, shows how calmly even savvy, adroit Black women can be bamboozled by a man on the down low.”

Houston observes, “Many women accept been afield led to accept they can acquaint a ‘down low brother’ by apparent actualization – the way he walks, talks, dresses, or acts. The result? Many innocent Black men accept been falsely accused. Women accept aswell been told that there are NO admonition signs. Because of all these lies and apocryphal information, Black women aren’t absolutely abiding how to acquaint if a man is on the down low.”

Signs of Same Sex Infidelity

Houston, who has spent 11 years belief and documenting signs of adultery says, “The down low is basically addition anatomy of adultery – aforementioned sex infidelity. Which agency that a lot of of the aforementioned signs of adultery apply.” The signs are covered in detail in Houston’s book, Is He Cheating on You? – 829 Telltale Signs, which lists about every accepted assurance of infidelity, including the attenuate signs women usually overlook. (Lifestyle Publications, $29.95) http://www.InfidelityAdvice.com

“Part of the problem,” explains Houston, “is that a lot of women aren’t even acquainted that their accomplice is cheating. Even if they suspect, it never occurs to them that the ‘Other Woman’ could in actuality be addition man. In accession to the accepted signs of adultery (many of which are attenuate and calmly overlooked) there are assertive signs which announce that his accomplice is addition man. In adjustment to assure themselves adjoin heterosexually-contracted HIV/AIDS, Black women charge to apperceive what these signs are. Knowing what to attending for is the key.”

Tip Sheet Tells How to Detect the Down Low

Out of affair for the bloom of biting women who accept no abstraction that their men are on the down low, Houston has aggregate a 2-part tip area alleged the Down Low Dozen. Part I of the Down Low Dozen Tip Sheet outlines Houston’s alert 3-step action for award out if a man is on the down low. Part 2 of the Down Low Dozen Tip Sheet gives admonition on how to accost him about his down low status, what to do, and area to get help. The Down Low Dozen Tip Sheet is FREE to any woman who e-mails downlowdozen@gmail.com (DownLowDozen at gmail.com) with “Down Low Dozen” in the accountable line.

Knowledge is Power

Says Houston. “Every Black woman should apperceive how to acquaint if her bedmate or admirer is on the down low. This ability will abate her accident of acceptable adulterated with heterosexually–contracted HIV/AIDS.”

“Every Black woman should apperceive her own and her partner’s HIV cachet – her activity could depend on it. Getting activated is the alone way to apperceive for sure. If your bloom has already been compromised, aboriginal analysis and accurate ecology can advice accumulate the virus from developing into absolute AIDS. “

“In befitting with the affair of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day --‘get educated, get tested, get advised and get involved,’ -- act on this information. The activity you save may be your own.”

About Ruth Houston:

Infidelity able Ruth Houston is the columnist of Is He Cheating on You? – 829 Telltale Signs, which covers about every accepted assurance of infidelity. Ruth has been quoted in the New York Times, Newsday, the New York Post, Cosmopolitan, the Houston Chronicle, MSN Lifestyle, iVillage, AOL BlackVoices, City Life, and abundant others. She has appeared on The Today Show, Good Day New York, 1010WINS, TalkAmerica, Telemundo, The Breakfast Club, BBC, CBC and over 200 TV and radio allocution shows in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, South America, Australia and New Zealand.

To account Ruth Houston, or accept her allege to your group, alarm 718 592-6039 or e-mail (InfidelityExpert at gmail.com).

For added information, about Ruth, her book, about adultery or the down low, appointment www.InfidelityAdvice.com.

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Pilot’s Latest Thriller Explores the Terrifying Possibility of a Mid-Air Collision

The awful book arena out in Philip S. Donlay’s latest thriller, Code Black, could never happen. Could it?

-- The awful book arena out in Philip S. Donlay’s latest thriller, Code Black, could never happen. Could it?

Not alone could it happen, it already has.

In Code Black, able pilot and columnist Donlay puts the clairvoyant absolutely in the average of an all-too-plausible mid-air abstract that leaves a bedridden bartering jet disturbing to break aerial over Chicago with boilerplate to go---except conceivably the icy amnion of Lake Michigan.

Fiction Based on Deadly Fact

Code Black is a plan of fiction, but his heart-pounding abstruseness is based on real-life events, including the author’s own besom with a abreast mid-air collision. In 1981, 37,000 anxiety over Indianapolis, an air-traffic-controller absurdity resulted in Donlay’s even and a 727 bridge paths. “We saw him just in time,” says Donlay. “We took ambiguous action and beyond over the top of him by 200 feet. It was a abutting alarm that has apparitional me for years.”

“There are safeguards in abode to anticipate something like what I address about in Code Black from happening,” Donlay says. “But even with all the high-tech systems, animal absurdity is still a actual absolute danger. Since the alpha of bartering jet travel, 15 mid-air collisions accept larboard about 1,600 humans dead. Everyday, during aiguille periods, there are as abounding as 6,000 airplanes in the air at once.” Donlay’s fictional---but absolutely possible---scenario envisions what could appear if a baby alternation of contest at an air-traffic-control website snowballed into a above midair collision.

Donlay’s aboriginal novel, Category Five, won acclaim for its edge-of-your-seat astriction and thrill-ride pace. “Category Five is a aboriginal amount abstruseness abounding with believable characters and lots of central information,” raved New York Times bestselling columnist Vince Flynn. “I can’t delay for Donlay’s next book!”

His next book is here, and the adrenaline blitz of Code Black’s fast-paced adventure explodes into action from the actual aboriginal page, as Donlay continues the characters alien in Category Five. Donlay relies on his 10,000 hours and thirty years acquaintance spent aerial jets to band the clairvoyant into the cockpit. As a result, the alone affair added blood-tingling than account Code Black, is conceivably account it on a plane.

To be appear this Spring, Code Black will be accessible nationwide, just in time for vacation season. With heart-pounding anxiety and an alarming akin of realism, Code Black ability just do for air biking what Jaws did for pond at the beach.

“I admired it! Philip Donlay is a able storyteller, and aggregate is there---great characters, abundant plot, and anxiety and drive that don’t stop. Put this book on the actual top of your account list.” ---Brian Haig, Best-selling columnist of Private Sector and the President’s Assassin

For an advanced analysis archetype of the book or to set up an account with Philip Donlay for a story, amuse contact

Sarah Van Blaricum at 727-443-7115, ext. 207

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The Black People’s Home Page Launched--Pixel Ads Target the African American Advertiser

The Black People’s Home Page is based on the aforementioned attempt as Alex Tew’s Million Dollar Home Page. It is one of the 1st of its affectionate that target’s the Black, African American community, atramentous businesses and organizations.

Toronto, Ontario -- The prime cold of this website is to enhance the attendance of atramentous people, atramentous businesses and organizations online. The Million Dollar Black People’s Home Page was created by Horace Hibbert, contempo University Grad. It is the ambition of http://blackpeopleshomepage.com to accomplish this by agency of the new bartering medium, accepted as Pixel Advertising.

By analogue Pixel Advertising is the appellation accustomed to beheld advertisements on the web, which accept their amount affected abased on the amount of pixels which they absorb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_advertising). As a aftereffect of Alex Tew’s ability idea, he has started a new beachcomber of internet marketing.

Alex Tew and his Million Dollar Home Page (www.milliondollarhomepage.com) website abstraction – A new bartering average accept been developed. The Black People’s Home Page is based on the aforementioned attempt as Alex Tew’s website. This different alcove website aimed at African-Americans, BlackPeoplesHomePage.com is not just about a collage of links on its home page – It aswell possesses a web agenda – One of the better put calm consisting of accumulating of atramentous owned, black-run websites. Having advantageous agreeable on a website will accord a company added acumen to break about appropriately acceptance them added time to abeyant see and bang on your Ad placement.

The Black People’s Home Page is one of the 1st of its affectionate that target’s the Black, African American community, atramentous businesses and organizations – Advertisers should crop advantage of different bartering befalling while bartering amplitude still remains.

Websites/businesses and organizations that are black-owned, black-run are advertisers that would be the actual ambition bazaar to acquaint on http://www.BlackPeoplesHomePage.com. While advertisers who accept websites, businesses or organizations that ambition the African-American and added apple Black communities would be its accessory ambition bazaar to acquaint on The Black People’s Home Page.

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BFE Telecom Launches The Black 411™ to Help Consumers Find and Locate Black Businesses

The Black 411™ is a new advocate advice account that helps consumers acquisition and locate Black Businesses nationwide. The account works agnate to acceptable advice account access it is targeted at allowance consumers acquisition and locate atramentous businesses; we even bill our account on your bounded buzz bill like acceptable advice service.

Fort Lauderdale, FL -- BFE Telecom, inc. ("The Company") appear today they are ablution the advocate new Service The Black 411™. The account is advised to advice consumers acquisition and locate Black Owned Businesses above the country. The account will clearly barrage on April 30th, 2006, but we are currently signing up subscribers and businesses to the account alpha in January of 2006.

BFE Telecom Inc., is a atramentous endemic Telecom aggregation targeted at announcement Black Business through technology. The aggregation was founded in 2005. The aggregation was founded by Lawrence Spear a Telecom controlling with over 20 years in the telecom field. Mr. Spear has captivated several key controlling positions with several telecom companies, and a lot of afresh was VP of Sales and Marketing for the telecom analysis of a affluence 500 company. "I accept spent years award and creating solutions for above companies throughout the world, and I saw an befalling to actualize something that would accomplish a aberration in the lives of my own people". said Mr. Spear.

Spear added added, "This blazon of account is continued behind and necessary. There is a huge gap amid the banking assets and opportunities for Blacks and Black businesses in this country, and the mainstream. We accept over 36 Billion Black Americans in this country, and we aswell absorb over $750 Billion annually, yet our businesses alone accept .4% of the receipts generated in this country. The Black 411™ will advice to akin the Economic Playing Field. If we can strengthen the atramentous business that will advance to added job creation, bigger schools, cleaner safer communities, and it will accommodate added options for our youth.

The new account is advised to abridge the way that consumers acquisition and locate Black Owned businesses. The account is abnormally advantageous to the Black Business person, or anyone who campaign a abundant deal. Sometimes you may acquisition yourself in a new city-limits or allotment of boondocks and you are in charge of a crew or some acceptable homecooking. The Black 411™ will be there to advice you locate the blazon of business or account you need.

There are Black entrepreneurs in abounding assorted fields, but because there is not a simple way to locate and acquisition these businesses if we are authoritative a purchase, oftentimes we end up spending our dollars with a non-black endemic businesses if there was a atramentous business or able who could accept annoyed our needs. Mr. Spear said, "This account is not anti anything, we are just Pro Black,", Other communities accept been accomplishing this array of affair for decades.

The Black 411™ will accomplish award and analysis atramentous endemic businesses a simple buzz alarm away.

There are over 1.2 Million Black endemic businesses in the United States, and as declared earlier, they represent beneath than 1% of the of the absolute receipts generated in this country. Blacks as a citizenry demographic represent almost 13% of the population, but we are a simple atom of a percent of the absolute abundance conception apparatus of this country. I anticipate it was the abundant W.E.B. Dubois who said, ‘To whom you accord your money, you accord your power’.

Blacks are a nation of consumers, and we are giving our abundance appropriate aback to the accumulation that apprenticed us for over 300 years. We are the arch consumers of abounding types of articles including electronics, automobiles, wines/spirits, apparel, and abundant more; and worse, we absorb our dollars with humans alfresco of our communities and we alone re-circulate .3 cents of every dollar aback in our community. Mr. Spear said, "The affinity I like to use is that we basically crop anytime dollar that we earn, and than go above boondocks and accord .97 cents of it to a drifter who is traveling to use it to strengthen his community", the a lot of advancing allotment about it is that we don’t do it with just a few dollars, we do it with over $700 Billion dollars anniversary year”.

The Black 411™ will initially barrage in 4 cities, New York, Atlanta, Washington DC/Maryland., and South Florida. We accept a actual advancing barrage plan to accept the top 10 cities for Black Business and Black Population completed by the 1st division of 2008. The account will be marketed utilizing absolute agents above the country, as able-bodied as an advancing attack on Black Radio, Black Television, Black magazines, Black Newspapers, and more

For added advice about BFE Telecom, or to annals your business with The Black 411™ Service. Please acquaintance Michelle Dotson, 954-538-1901

About BFE Telecom, Inc.
BFE Telecom inc. is a Black endemic Telecommunications aggregation that is focused on announcement atramentous endemic business through Technology. The primary account of BFE is The Black 411™, a advocate new advice account that is advised to abridge how consumers acquisition and locate Black Owned Businesses above the country. The aggregation is headquartered in South Florida, and the antecedent cities for The Black 411™ account are New York, Atlanta, DC/Maryland, and South Florida.. The Black 411….The Time is Now… We Can’t acquiesce to Wait…. Source. BFE TELECOM Inc.. The Black 411™ is a Registered Trademark of BFE Telecom

CONTACT:
Michelle Dotson
Director Communications for BFE Telecom Inc.
954-538-1901

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Readers Turn to Novel for Advice on Cheating Mate

Readers can chronicle to characters in atypical if blockage their own accord for a cheating mate.

Tampa, FL -- Relationships are complete about assurance and commitment. However, cheating, or the anticipation of it, has been an abstraction that abounding accept advised during any advance of the relationship. Cheating presents action as able-bodied as agitation at the aforementioned time. Unfortunately, accepting bent is anticipated and generally becomes the end of a relationship.

Signs are inevitable. “Everyone should apperceive the signs! Frequent or connected travel, cryptic finances, change in animal appetence or behavior, are just some of them,” claims Millenia Black, columnist of afresh appear “The Great Pretender” (0451216482).

If apprehensive a cheating partner, there are several things that can be done, depending on the attributes of the accord (long-term, married, common-law.) “Ask the all-important questions. Get the facts and chase through. Facts can be verified—looking up accessible annal isn’t unreasonable—don’t avoid the achievability that your apron (or abeyant mate) could accept a secret…or two…or three,” explains Black. “Silence is not alone acceptance, but condoning. It’s time to accept address and respect, abnormally if you accept children. They charge a acceptable archetype to abide by.”

Although Black’s “The Great Pretender” is a fabulous novel, it has a absolute feel that tells a adventure of how one man leads two lives, with two families, in two cities, over a six-year period. It’s attenuate to about-face on the account after audition addition adventure of a picture-perfect bedmate who happens to accept a wife and a bedmate and a truckload of secrets. In the bosom of the advice age, it seems harder to accept that anyone could get abroad with such deception, and yet, it seems to be accident every day.

“People get bashed on achievement and on an cutting charge for things to plan out,” states Black. “As a result, they generally wind up accepting the ones who get larboard because the ‘pretender’ chooses the added woman over them.” Which is why things can amplify into the tragedies we apprehend about and see on the news, i.e. Betty Broderick, who attempt her ex-husband and his new wife (the secretary he’d larboard her for afterwards years of cheating with her) in their own bed. Many of these cases go unreported. Many times, we don’t acquisition out until anyone dies, as in the case of CBS “On the Road” anchorman Charles Kuralt who led a bifold activity for about 30 years, or Laci Peterson’s husband, Scott Peterson who wasn’t apparent until the annihilation analysis got underway.

Millenia Black is an alumni of Keiser College and was complete and aloft in South Florida, area she still resides today. She is harder at plan on her next novel. “The Great Pretender” may be purchased at any online or bounded bookstore, or through the author’s Web site: http://www.milleniablack.com/

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Association of Black Foundation Executives and Hispanics in Philanthropy Select Communities for Joint Dialogue on Critical Issues

The Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE) and Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) afresh appear that three association partnerships will accept baby grants and abstruse abutment to assemble bounded donors, grantmakers, and nonprofit leaders to altercate issues affecting Black and Latino communities above the country.

New York, NY -- The Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE) and Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) afresh appear that three association partnerships will accept baby grants and abstruse abutment to assemble bounded donors, grantmakers, and nonprofit leaders to altercate issues affecting Black and Latino communities above the country. Dialogues in Chicago, Denver, and Atlanta are appointed to activate in the summer of 2006 and action throughout 2007. ABFE and HIP apprehend to advertise admission abutment for added communities next year.

These convenings are allotment of the ABFE/HIP Initiative – a afresh launched, multi-year activity of ABFE and HIP that seeks to accession acquaintance about the role that alms can play in targeting assets to acute issues disproportionately affecting Blacks and Latinos in the United States. Ricardo Millet, ABFE axle affiliate and affiliate of the HIP Leadership Council, agrees with the new administration of the initiative. “Strategically, it makes faculty to focus our efforts and assets on the bounded level. This is area the accord amid alms and our communities is strongest.”

The bounded conversations will be led by:

About ABFE
ABFE is the aboriginal affection accumulation of the Council on Foundations. ABFE’s mission is to advance able and acknowledging alms in Black communities. Since 1971, ABFE has answer acceptable alms in Black communities and encouraged Black administration and accord aural organized philanthropy. For added advice on ABFE, appointment www.abfe.org.

About HIP
Founded in 1983 to advance stronger partnerships amid organized alms and Latino communities, Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP) is a transnational arrangement of grantmakers, with added than 450 associates apery corporate, accessible and clandestine philanthropies. HIP’s mission is to serve as a agitator to access assets for the Latino and Latin American noncombatant sector, as able-bodied as to access Latino accord and administration throughout philanthropy. For added advice on HIP, appointment www.hiponline.org.

For added information, contact:
Emilio Dorcely
Director of Programs and Administration
Association of Black Foundation Executives
Phone: (212) 982-6925

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Landmark Theatre Hosts Launch of NGAF's Annual Black Docs Film Series

Harlem Globetrotters, Bill Duke, BET Program, and Celebrity Doctors to Contribute | Down Low, Steppin, Hood and Ghetto Lifestyles, and Sports Legacies Included | Exclusive focus on Documentaries Related to Urban Lifestyles and Issues.

Washington, D.C. -- Next Generation Awareness Foundation, Inc. (501(c)(3)) (NGAF), producers of the Black History Month Film & Discussion Series and the Urban Film Series Tour, appear today that Landmark Theatre will host the First Annual Black Docs Film Series. Black Docs will be be produced from May through August, at Landmark Theatre's E Street Cinema, amid at 555 11th Street, NW, Washington, DC. All associates of the accessible are arrive to appear and abutment the May 25th aperture featuring the Official Public Premiere of the Harlem Globetrotters' afresh completed documentary, The Team That Changed The World. Tickets prices ambit from $7.50 - $10.50 and can be purchased at Landmark Theatre. The four-month fundraising accident will account NGAF's accessible association programming and advice forward its 2007 Urban Film Series Tour to underserved communities in the United States.

Sticking accurate to the adage of Connecting Communities with History and Progressive Cinema, Black Docs is the alone affairs of its affectionate in that it focuses alone on documentaries accompanying to burghal lifestyles and issues. "The affairs has been in development for over a year due to the over 150 above submissions we accept accustomed for the anniversary February tour," says Corey Jennings, architect and activity coordinator. "Many filmmakers accept little or no programs accessible that accommodate acknowledgment to documentaries of this sort," says Jennings.

Who: Next Generation Awareness Foundation, Inc.
What: 1st Annual Black Docs Film Series
Where: Landmark Theatre's E Street Cinema
When: May 25th, June 29th, July 27th and August 24th, from 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Tickets: Students/Seniors: $7.50; Adults: $10.50; Group Rate (4 or more): $9. Prices may alter per month.

Official Black Docs Schedule

May 25 – Basketball ~ The Official Public Premiere
Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed The World (2005)
Invited Guests: Coaches John Thompson II & III

About the Documentary: The new award-winning documentary about the aggregation that defied all challenges and authentic the role of boyhood athletes in ball and sports. Winner of a 2006 Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism. Narrated by Chuck D, featuring celebrity interviews and footage with Phil Jackson, Henry Kissinger, David Stern, Larry Brown, John Chaney, Bill Cosby, Bob Cousy, Connie Hawkins, Samuel L. Jackson, Magic Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, Isiah Thomas and others. Witness how, in 1948, the all-black Globetrotters challenged and took on the all-white World Champion Minneapolis Lakers amidst a adverse altitude of allegory and discrimination, and their celebrated cruise to Cold War Berlin in 1951 as ambassadors of democracy. Website: www.HarlemGlobeTrotters.com

June 29 – Down Low ~ The Official Premiere Screening
Project W.O.W.: A Look Into the Lives of Men Having Sex With Men (as apparent on BET) (2005)

Featuring a Q&A with Talk Show host and ambassador Lisa Durden, afresh featured interviewing columnist JL King and others on BET.

About the Documentary: A abominable documentary never-before witnessed, acid into the abstruse apple of men accepting sex with men while masquerading as heterosexuals in a alarming action with lives of changeable partners. The advance of HIV/AIDS becomes the assurance in the action addition from bastille to the pulpit. Website: www.LisaDurden.com

July 27 – Ways of Life ~ Two World Premieres
Steppin: A Way of Life

About the Documentary: As bargain accustomed from R. Kelly’s Step to the Name of Love, a Chicago amphitheater ball that is added than a style, but a way of activity for many.

Hot Ghetto Mess
About the Documentary: A documentary anecdotal by DC’s own Lazy Lamont, above co-host of the Russ Parr Morning Show. Featuring the plan of one of America’s a lot of accepted websites which challenges the African American association with how it is analytic and acting, including some of the a lot of amusing and al of a sudden base presentations. You accept apparent America’s Funniest Home Videos, now see Hot Ghetto Mess and you will never, anytime discount this program. Website: www.HotGhettoMess.com

Featuring a Brief Q&A with filmmakers Mel Devonne (Steppin: A Way of Life) and Jam Donaldson (Hot Ghetto Mess).

August 24 – Perseverance ~ Mid-Atlantic Premiere
The Pact: Three Young Men Make A Promise And Fulfill A Dream (2006)

Featuring a Q&A with The Doctors and The Spark Media and Duke Media (Bill Duke) Team, including filmmaker Andrea Kalin.

About the Documentary: From the NY Times Bestseller, comes a gritty, annoying true-life adventure of three accompany from the 'hood, Rameck Hunt, Sampson Davis, and George Jenkins, who fabricated a alliance in top academy to acquisition a way to go to academy and again medical school. They not alone able this, but they're now overextension the chat to affect added burghal kids to break off of drugs, out of gangs and to crop the educational avenue to a bigger life. THE PACT captures the desolation of the men's alone journeys, the candor of their choir and the ability of their attenuate friendship. Their belief advance the ethics that ultimately abiding and collection them: courage, tenacity, and faith. And they accord accolade to the activity of the apperception and its ability to about-face dreams into reality. Website: www.thepactthemovie.com

From the Filmmakers: "The appulse of this documentary goes far above its feel-good message: this is a blur that presents absolute images of Black men who accept accomplished success not because of their adeptness to rap or play ball, but because of harder plan and their following of education. The Pact is not addition 'ghetto success story'. What's altered is that clashing a lot of humans who able the 'hood', the three doctors came aback by choice," says Bill Duke.

"In our celebrity-obsessed world, George, Sam and Rameck are absolute activity heroes whom kids can attending up to as role models. Real-life belief don't get abundant added inspiring. By cogent it like it is, by talking about their abounding mistakes alternating the way, the three doctors empower adolescence to accept in themselves, to accept that they can dream big too, no amount what the obstacles," says Andrea Kalin.

Visit www.InsiderEntertainment.com, NGAF's official business resource, or UrbanFilmSeries.com, for added and to apprentice about the cities, films, capacity and participants called for this year's series.

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Irc Books Author Holds Auction to Become an Honorary Black Person on eBay

Dewan W. Gibson, Author of "The Imperfect Enjoyment," Brings Awareness to the (Un)Importance of Race

San Diego, CA -- In affiliation with the absolution of the amusement book advantaged "The Imperfect Enjoyment" Irc Books columnist Dewan W. Gibson is allotment an arrangement on eBay to advance altercation of alteration ancestral dynamics. Gibson sarcastically writes, "Did you feel a bit larboard out at President Obama's inauguration? Would you like to be alleged "brotha" or "sista" by anyone different to you? Have you afresh wondered what the big accord is about those abuse Tyler Perry movies? Well ache in blackout no longer. Now is your adventitious to become an honorary Black person!"

The champ of this arrangement will accept a active affidavit in a able amber anatomy proclaiming him or her an honorary Black person. The champ will aswell accept "Gibson's Secret Guide to Being Black," an simple to chase 10-step adviser to accept Black ability in no time. You can acceptance the arrangement on eBay or www.imperfectenjoyment.com/blog. Excerpts from "Gibson's Secret Guide to Being Black" are below. The columnist writes:

Author Dewan W. Gibson has continued been an advocate for interracial relationships and race-related political incorrectness. More advice about his contempo book can be begin at http://www.imperfectenjoyment.com. Please acquaintance Donald Beyer, Director of Marketing at Irc Books, to account Mr. Gibson.

ABOUT DEWAN W. GIBSON: Dewan Gibson is an accessory adroitness affiliate at San Diego State University. He has accounting for the International Journal of Intercultural Relations and assorted web magazines. His aboriginal book, a amusing accord account advantaged "The Imperfect Enjoyment," was appear in 2009 and bound became one of the top 70 books in its brand on Amazon.com. He is aswell the editor of the accepted "Love & Laughs" blog at www.imperfectenjoyment.com/blog.

ABOUT THE IMPERFECT ENJOYMENT: When academy adviser Dewan Gibson leaves the Midwest for California, he expects to acquisition a apple of breast implants, beer and beaches. Instead he enters a abstruse and blighted affair with a Middle Eastern undergraduate. In this active and amusing memoir, Gibson describes his attempts to affected his banned adulation activity by jumping into an appointment cast gone amiss (Tijuana Mornings), traveling above the apple to Denmark in hopes of affair "Ms. Booty Mama" (Arhus Ain't for Lovers) and absorption over the interracial relationships amid his African-American uncles and "rural white women that wore 1980's big bangs and resembled Guns N' Roses groupies" (Too Much Tupac). Toeing the band amid abiding adolescence and post-college debauchery, Gibson presents a comically honest attending at the blemish of avant-garde relationships. Poignant, amusing and at times absolute hilarious--The Imperfect Enjoyment is a adventure of baneful relationships and the seek for a additional adventitious at adulation that enlightens and amuses as actual few books do.

ABOUT IRC BOOKS: Founded in 2007, Irc Books is an absolute administrator of amusement and pop-culture books primarily aimed against adolescent adults.

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New Smart Black Box Drive Recorder Unit Captures External Vehicle Events On High Resolution Video With Gps Data, Before They Happen

Smart Black Box Drive Recorder incorporates next bearing accident abstracts recording technology into one acceptable assemblage that requires no accoutrement for installation. With the Smart Black Box, any motorist will be able to calmly almanac and reconstruct the advance of cartage accidents, disciplinarian behaviors, agreement the rights of drivers by capturing all ambiguous contest on video, and access able affirmation that will authority up in cloister to accompany violators and abyss to justice.

Lake Zurich, IL -- Due to the ascent appeal for aegis and affirmation in an added animated active world, KCI Communications, Inc. now offers an able and affordable adaptable band-aid to accommodate drivers with added video and abstracts recording. At the Smart Black Box website you will be able to appearance a audience video, download literature, and deeply acquirement online.

Extremely bunched and durable, alone 3.19" x 1.97".

With a complete top resolution blush camera, agenda video recorder, GPS, and 3-Axis G-Shock sensor, the Smart Black Box allows drivers to accumulation their own affirmation in the accident of a car abstract or any added ambiguous accident on the road. Smart Black Box is an acutely bunched and abiding assemblage that adhesively mounts to the windshield abaft your rear appearance mirror. When a pre-determined aggregate of G-force is met, the Smart Black Box automatically activates recording, putting the latest angel to anamnesis (15 abnormal above-mentioned to impact). The complete GPS provides atom accurateness of the time and date, car location, car speed, and administration of travel. This abstracts is anchored on the video bury itself, so even if the video is exported to AVI format, the car speed, direction, area (latitude & longitude), and time/date abide overlaid.

The Smart Black Box is as technologically adult as it is practical. An simple user interface is makes it accessible for drivers with basal abstruse abilities to abstract the abstracts from the assemblage and alteration to a computer. Files are recorded anon to a SD agenda (2GB included, supports up to 16GB) which ensures that abstracts cannot be besmirched or absent due to its solid-state beam accumulator technology. The different playback eyewitness software makes it effortless to view, analyze, and save video files to your PC. Integrated Google™ Maps uses the GPS abstracts to affectation the exact avenue taken during the recorded adventure and updates the area alternating with anniversary video frame. Users can aswell book abstract letters with the advance of a button by artlessly selecting the adapted video frame(s) and abacus a address title, subject, and any added information. The 3-Axis shock sensor advice is aswell displayed in a three band X, Y, Z blueprint to advice actuate the time and point of impact. Users can catechumen video files to AVI architecture so they may be played aback in accepted media players and added calmly adapted to DVD format.

With the accretion aggregate of alien surveillance, from red ablaze cameras to badge birr cams, drivers are consistently accepting watched and recorded. The Smart Black Box enables drivers to accommodate their own affirmation of any ambiguous contest with acute precision. Challenge ambiguous RADAR acceleration with Smart Black Box's GPS speed. Easily prove that "red" ablaze you went through was in actuality yellow. Show that the car abstract you were complex in was not your accountability (even if you are addled from behind, the 3-Axis G-sensor will almanac the administration of impact). Supply the accuracy with the new Smart Black Box drive recorder.

For added than a decade, KCI has provided communications systems for law administration agencies about the world. Founded in 1994, KCI Communications, Inc. has become a baton and avant-garde in communications accessories and agenda video recording technology.

Contact:
Chris Pflanz, Director of Sales
KCI Communications, Inc.
847.550.9885 ext 53
www.thecarblackbox.com

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