Leaders to Focus on Malaria at 4th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD)

African leaders: acquisition malaria key to African development. Controlling malaria can save added than one actor humans a year worldwide.

Tokyo, Japan and Geneva, Switzerland -- Financing malaria control will be a advantageous affair at the 4th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), starting on May 27 in Yokohama. African leaders will abode the accountability of malaria aural the animal aegis articulation of the 3-day conference, signaling the acceptation of a ache that hampers Africa's bread-and-butter development.
Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership
Details for Press Conference to alarm for scaled-up action adjoin the disease:
Wednesday 28 May 2008, 09.30 - 10.30h
TICAD, Pacifico Yokohama - Media Centre

Controlling malaria can save added than one actor humans a year worldwide. In African ancient countries alone, it consumes as abundant as 40 percent of accessible bloom expenditures. Tackling the ache is an basic allotment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

To about-face this socio-economic drain, four well-tested accoutrement angle accessible to accompany malaria beneath control: insecticide-treated bed nets, spraying houses with insecticides, antitoxin analysis for abundant women, and appropriate analysis of the ailing with able drugs.

"An advancing scale-up of malaria control, aimed at accepted advantage of bed nets, can accomplish a advantageous acknowledgment on investment," said Jun Yamazaki, Deputy Director General for Global Issues at Japan's Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MOFA). A accelerated scale-up could save two and a bisected actor added lives, anticipate added than 430 actor added malaria cases, and advice accomplish $50 billion added in bread-and-butter achievement over 5 years, according to a 2008 abstraction of McKinsey & Company. It would save alert as abounding lives for every dollar spent in allegory to the accepted allotment trajectory.

Members to the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership, a all-around public-private venture, accept bent what investments charge to be fabricated now to ensure a accelerated scale-up of malaria blockage and analysis efforts. ''With all-around political charge malaria can be controlled on a abiding basis'', said Dr. Awa Marie Coll-Seck, RBM Executive Director.

In alarm of the accessible G8 acme to be captivated in Japan in July, leaders will accumulate at TICAD to ensure antecedent pledges in allotment will be fabricated to ascendancy malaria.

Speaking at the TICAD columnist appointment on malaria will be:

 

Professor Brian Greenwood - Noguchi Africa Prize champ 2008, London University, United Kingdom Jun Yamazaki, Deputy Director-General of Global Issues, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan Professor Awa Marie Coll-Seck, RBM Executive Director, Switzerland Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Singer, RBM Goodwill Ambassador, South Africa Youssou N'Dour, Singer, RBM Goodwill Ambassador, Senegal

USACC Urges G20 to Honor Millennium Development Goals in Africa

The U.S. African Chamber of Commerce (USACC) is allurement the G20 to account the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's) adopted in September 2000 by 189 Countries.

Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 2, 2009 -- The U.S. African Chamber of Commerce (USACC) is allurement the G20 to account the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's) adopted in September 2000 by 189 Countries. These goals are meant to advance the above of activity for the world's atomic humans by 2015. By signing on to abutment these goals, the wealthiest donor countries apprenticed to accomplice with developing countries, accouterment bazaar acceptance for agronomical exports, debt relief, anticipated financing, and added forms of assistance. (reflected in Goals 1 to 7) Most commitments for Africa are included in Goal 8, the amplification of acceptance to anti-retroviral drugs for Africans active with HIV/AIDS and Reducing Debt for the Region. Positive impacts are already accepting apparent in these areas.

The U.S. African Chamber of Commerce requests connected abutment of the African Millennium Goals, in befitting with its assurance to advance greater buying of its development path. In 2001, the abstemious adopted the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), a advanced -ranging framework for bread-and-butter and amusing development. In the plan, the arena committed itself to democracy, account for animal rights, and bread-and-butter development. Midway to the ambition date of 2015 for accomplishing the goals, some Sub-Saharan African countries are on clue to accomplish some of the goals. But if accepted trends continue, no African country will accomplish all of them. Where advance is accepting made, improvements are generally not analogously shared. Women, economically disadvantaged people, and those who abide in rural areas tend to account less.

The USACC is the Leading Advocacy Organization for U.S. African Relations and promotes Emerging Markets. The USACC is the awning alignment for African Chambers of Commerce and Professional Trade and Business Associations throughout the United States and abroad.

Contact:
U.S. African Chamber of Commerce
Martin Mohammed, President
202-465-0778
www.usafricanchamber.com

USACC Promotes Investment in Immigrant Education and Culture

The United States African Chamber of Commerce (USACC) commends the immigrant association in the U.S., acquainted their contributions to the economy, bookish capital, and amusing bolt of the nation.

Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 10, 2009 -- The United States African Chamber of Commerce (USACC) commends the immigrant association in the U.S., acquainted their contributions to the economy, bookish capital, and amusing bolt of the nation. Immigrant groups above the nation accord to the abridgement by bushing jobs, accouterment services, purchasing appurtenances and services, and abating neighborhoods and communities that are in decline. Immigrant entrepreneurs crop advantage of the aboriginal bazaar and aboriginal audience bushing gaps larboard by boilerplate American entrepreneurs. Thus, immigrant entrepreneurs do not displace native-born entrepreneurs but rather aggrandize into areas not contrarily exploited, accidental to the advance of the American economy. In 2002, Hispanic-owned businesses had sales in balance of $226.4 billion, and the 1.2 actor black-owned firms in the U.S. generated revenues of $88.8 billion.

complement the different amusing bolt of business activity in the community. Immigrant entrepreneurs accord not alone to the economy, but to the American ability as well. As one abstraction of Little Village in Chicago indicates, academic storefronts and artery vendors "complement the different amusing bolt of business activity in the community." Immigrants accommodate new account and perspectives, accomplish basic contributions in the fields of science, technology, and others, and they allotment their cultural traditions, art, and cuisine that adorn our above of life.

Efforts aimed at advance assets and announcement apprenticeship and ability in immigrant communities is a significant, cost-effective band-aid to abate poverty, advance bread-and-butter growth, actualize jobs, and even abate intergroup battle in the U.S.

The USACC is the arch advancement alignment for U.S. African relations and arising African markets. The USACC is the awning alignment for African accommodation of business and able barter and business associations throughout the United States and abroad.

Contact
U.S. African Chamber of Commerce
Martin Mohammed, President
202-465-0778

New National Leadership Emerges for the African Immigrant Community

With the contempo official barrage of the United States African Chamber of Commerce, the alignment would like to admit the achievements and adherence of its Founder and President, Martin Mohammed.

Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 11, 2009 -- With the contempo official barrage of the United States African Chamber of Commerce, the alignment would like to admit the achievements and adherence of its Founder and President, Martin Mohammed.

Martin Mohammed is a avant-garde in economic development in the African immigrant community in the United States. With business degrees from Somalia, Mr. Mohammed came to the United States in the backward nineties and re-completed his education, including a Bachelor's amount from National American University in Business Administration, with Emphasis in Financial Management, and an MBA in Business Management from ST.Thomas University & Stanford University Graduate of Business of. Mr. Mohammed holds appropriate certifications in Financial Management, Credit Management, and Islamic Financial Management.

Martin is an Executive Member at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, a affiliate of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce, an adopted axle affiliate of the U.S. Department of Peace, and an Advisory Committee Member of the Office of Refugee Resettlement Agency in Washington, D.C. In 1999, he founded an bread-and-butter development account alignment in Minnesota for African immigrants that were reorganized in 2007 as the African Chamber of Commerce. He has provided key leadership, inspiration, and administration for the alignment back its inception.

After years of acquaintance in crafting an authoritative anatomy that both provides absolute banking articulacy casework and offers a apparatus for advancement on account of African immigrants, Mr. Mohammed is now accustomed the archetypal of the African Chamber of Commerce in Minnesota to the civic scene. Over the accomplished year, he has catholic abundantly in the United States, affair with bread-and-butter development leaders, foundations, accessible officials, and added African association leaders and chambers, announcement his eyes for a civic alignment to represent the African immigrant association and accommodate a unified acknowledgment to issues affecting African immigrants above the country. He has artificial important alliances with key organizations, including the African analysis of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and 22 civic accommodation and partners, which will advanced the development of African immigrant businesses, entrepreneurs, and families in the U.S.

The USACC is the arch advancement alignment for U.S. African relations and arising African markets. The USACC is the awning alignment for African accommodation of business and able barter and business associations throughout the United States and abroad.

USACC White Paper Released

The U.S. African Chamber of Commerce (USACC) announces the absolution of the White Paper: ''The U.S. African Chamber of Commerce: Accelerating the Economic Development of the Emerging African Immigrant Population in the United States.''

Washington, DC. (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 10, 2009 -- The U.S. African Chamber of Commerce (USACC) announces the absolution of the White Paper: ''The U.S. African Chamber of Commerce: Accelerating the Economic Development of the Emerging African Immigrant Population in the United States.'' The white cardboard is accessible for examination at the USACC website at www.usafricanchamber.com. See USACC In Action.

The USACC is the arch advancement alignment for U.S. African relations and arising African markets. The USACC is the awning alignment for African accommodation of business and able barter and business associations throughout the United States and abroad.

USACC Congratulates President Obama's Nomination of New Assistant Secretary for Africa

The U.S.African Chamber of Commerce congratulates President Barack Obama for his appear absorbed to appoint career agent and three-time U.S. agent in Africa Johnnie Carson as the next U.S. abettor secretary of accompaniment for African affairs.

Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 28, 2009 -- The U.S. African Chamber of Commerce congratulates President Barack Obama for his appear absorbed to appoint career agent and three-time U.S. agent in Africa Johnnie Carson as the next U.S. abettor secretary of accompaniment for African affairs. If accepted by the Senate, Carson will accomplish Jendayi Frazer, who served in the column during the Bush administration.

Carson is an able career adopted account administrator with an accomplished clue almanac on African issues spanning abounding decades and a ambit of positions Carson has a abysmal compassionate of our adept capacities and the accent of approved interagency collaboration. I attending advanced to because his choice and audition how he and the administering plan to abode the abounding challenges we face on the African continent. Carson is currently the civic intelligence administrator for Africa on the National Intelligence Council. He abutting the board in September 2006 afterwards a 37-year career in the adopted service. Prior to this appointment, Carson served as the chief carnality admiral of the National Defense University in Washington from 2003 until 2006.

Carson's adopted account career includes ambassadorships to Kenya (1999-2003), Zimbabwe (1995-1997) and Uganda (1991-1994). He aswell served as arch agent abettor secretary for the State Department's Bureau of African Affairs from 1997 through 1999. Earlier in his career, he served in Portugal, Botswana, Mozambique and Nigeria as able-bodied as in the Africa area of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

Before abutting the adopted service, Carson was a Peace Corps advance in Tanzania. He holds an undergraduate amount in history and political science from Drake University and a master's amount in all-embracing relations from the University of London.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented Carson with its Champion of Prevention Award for his administration in administering the U.S. government's HIV/AIDS blockage efforts in Kenya.

Senator Russ Feingold, the administrator of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on African Affairs, alleged Carson's choice "a able choice."

"Carson is an able career adopted account administrator with an accomplished clue almanac on African issues spanning abounding decades and a ambit of positions," Feingold said. "Carson has a abysmal compassionate of our adept capacities and the accent of approved interagency collaboration. I attending advanced to because his choice and audition how he and the administering plan to abode the abounding challenges we face on the African continent."

The USACC is the Leading Advocacy Organization for U.S. African Relations and promotes Emerging Markets. The USACC is the awning alignment for African Chambers of Commerce and Professional Trade and Business Associations throughout the United States and abroad.

USACC Applauds President Barack Obama's Credit Card Reform Bill

The U.S. African Chamber of Commerce congratulates President Barack Obama who will assurance wide-ranging, pro-consumer acclaim agenda reforms into law by backward May, chief U.S. House Democrat Carolyn Maloney predicted on Wednesday.

Washington DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 30, 2009 -- The U.S. African Chamber of Commerce congratulates President Barack Obama who will assurance wide-ranging, pro-consumer acclaim agenda reforms into law by backward May, chief U.S. House Democrat Carolyn Maloney predicted on Wednesday.

Martin Mohammed, President of the USACC, said that there is charge for stronger chump aegis and banking education. Families are not alone ambidextrous with creditors but aswell collections, banking scams, ancestors budgets and added financially-related issues.

Democrats, on account of the Obama administration, are accepted to acquaint a set of amendments including acute agenda issuers to advance low anterior brain-teaser ante on acclaim cards for at atomic six months, and to acquaint agenda holders if they are about to beat their acclaim limits, acceptance them to abstain a amends fee.

The USACC is the Leading Advocacy Organization for U.S. African Relations and promotes Emerging Markets. The USACC is the awning alignment for African Chambers of Commerce and Professional Trade and Business Associations throughout the United States and abroad.

Kids Book World Promotes Early Reading Skills in African-American Children

Kids' Book World, an online banker of alone books for kids ofall ages, has just alien four books geared to the African-American community. Seven Candles for Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa, African-American Santa and African-American Heroes all animate accouchement to apprehend and accomplish acquirements fun by again application the childs name and apropos to the childs claimed friends. The ultimate ambition is for African-American accouchement to advance a life-long adulation of account while acquirements added about traditions and humans arresting in the African-American community.

-- Kids' Book World, an online banker of alone books for kids ages, has just alien four books geared to the African-American community. Seven Candles for Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa, African-American Santa and African-American Heroes all animate accouchement to apprehend and accomplish acquirements fun by again application the child's name and apropos to the child's claimed friends. The ultimate ambition is for African-American accouchement to advance a life-long adulation of account while acquirements added about traditions and humans arresting in the African-American community.

Personalized Books, are a lifetime keepsake, you should never see them in a barn sale. Its accurate that if a child's name is in the book the adolescent is added absorbed because kids adulation to apprehend about themselves," said B. Sheldon, co-founder of Kids Book World. All belief are carefully accounting to back positive, wholesome letters and accommodate all the claimed data to accomplish the adolescent the absolute brilliant of the story. Each book is hand-assembled and beautifully illustrated with a harder apprenticed wipe-off cover. Personalized books are simple to adjustment and accept at www.kidsbookworld.net. In accession to African American Personalized Books, Kids' Book World offers added than 100 alone books and ability for all ages and nationalities featuring some of children's a lot of admired animation characters. An accustomed ambassador and distributor, Kids Book World produces alone books featuring: Sesame Street, Flintstones, Batman, Where's Waldo?, Superman, Looney Tunes, Spider-Man, X-Men, and abundant more.

Kids' Book World is currently analysis businesses and donors to sponsor book betrayal programs at schools so that all accouchement can accept the adventure of owning their own alone book. Its all allotment of an advancing accomplishment to brainwash acceptance with a adulation of acquirements at the youngest age.

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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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South African Smooth Jazz King, Jonathan Butler, to be Honored at a South African Freedom Day Event to be Held in Santa Monica

Smooth Jazz Artist, Jonathan Butler, who rose from apprehensive beginings to become a above brilliant - to be accustomed as allotment of a new account all-embracing music alternation in Los Angeles.

-- Carsel Events and The Immigrant Magazine is appreciative to advertise a new alternation of contest the "Los Angeles International Music Series" - or L.A.I.M.S a account get calm adulatory the music and ball of the abounding altered all-embracing communities active in and about the greater Los Angeles across - with a focus on that communities history and addition to Los Angeles.

Our aboriginal accident will crop abode at the hip and accident Club Zanzibar and will bless the bounded South African association in an accident advantaged "Focus on South Africa."

This accident will cover the following:

1/A anniversary of the 12th celebration of Freedom Day in South Africa which celebrates South Africa's aboriginal autonomous accepted elections - captivated April 27th 1994.

2/A Lifetime Achievement Award for South Africa's bland applesauce King - Jonathan Butler. Jonathan will be present to access the award.

3/South African applesauce pianist,vocalist and T.V. personality - Chloe Moodley - will be assuming a set of Butler's songs - as allotment of the Lifetime Achievement ceremony.

4/A abide achievement by Afro Beat Down - a 10-14 area African casting arena a different mix of African music.

5/A abbreviate celebration to bless the Academy Award won by the cine "Tsotsi" - presented by Milan Records.

6/DJ's Sachay and DJ Charles (formely of the "Bamboo Club")will circuit all your favourite South African Dance Music from the 80's through today including a mix of Mbaqanga,Kwaito,Jazz and more...Some artists to be featured cover :
The Soweto Jazz Pioneers, The Elite Swingsters, Jonathan Butler(of course), Ernie Smith (Jazz) Soul Brothers, Johnny Clegg and Savuka,Juluka(Mbaqanga) Zola, Malaika, Mafikizola (Kwaito) and abounding others...

5/The alms sponsor for this accident is "Artists for a New South Africa"(A.N.S.A) (Http://www.ansaafrica.org).

For added advice on this accident amuse bang to Http://www.carselevents.com

The admission amount for this accident is $15 prebooked and $20 on the night.
Tickets may be purchased through our website or by calling Selwyn at 310-569-6954

The accident is alone accessible to ages 21 and over.

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Pope Benedict Calls for Sex Without Condoms in Africa

The United States African Chamber of Commerce (USACC) has bidding affair afresh afterward Pope Benedict’s appointment to Africa endure month, a appointment which has acquired abuse a allotment of bloom agencies and others who are on the foreground band in the action adjoin AIDS.

Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 11, 2009 -- The United States African Chamber of Commerce (USACC) has bidding affair afresh afterward Pope Benedict’s appointment to Africa endure month, a appointment which has acquired abuse a allotment of bloom agencies and others who are on the foreground band in the action adjoin AIDS. The African Continent has the better amount of AIDS patients on the planet. And while a abundant accord of apprenticeship and accomplishment is accepting committed to assure humans who are affected, there is a acute charge for affordable vaccines in Africa. Both the Gates and Clinton Foundations accept offered apple administration in the all-around accomplishment to action AIDS and to ensure the availability of affordable vaccines.

However, the Pope’s appointment to Africa endure ages seems to avoid the absoluteness of adverse and alleviative this abominable ache and catching and focuses rather on the bulletin of sex and abstinence, assuming little absorption in abutting the efforts of apple leaders, such as the Gates and Clinton Foundations.

The Pope’s absorption rather was directed against the massive application and about-face of West African nations into Catholicism. He apparent a bottom attention for the bearings of African accouchement who are dying due to abridgement of sanitation, apple-pie water, education, and ache blockage and who are faced with accepting larboard orphaned by the accident of their parents to AIDS. It is not abundant to face the African peoples and the victims of AIDS with a simple “Don’t accept sex” slogan.

The U.S. African Chamber of Commerce is allurement Africans to abide the action adjoin AIDS and to apply apprenticeship and avant-garde anesthetic as capital apparatus in the action to save families and our accouchement of the future. The bloom affair of the African humans is a above crisis, and letters such as those that the Pope is breeding are not acceptable in Africa.

The USACC is the arch advancement alignment for U.S. African relations and arising African markets. The USACC is the awning alignment for African accommodation of business and able barter and business associations throughout the United States and abroad.

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Plan Ahead and Book Winter African Safari Trips Now

With the sun animated on a lot of locations of the country, it can be harder to brainstorm that winter confusion will be actuality in a few abbreviate months. African Portfolio, arch provider of African carnival trips reminds travelers that if biking affairs cover a safari, it is best to plan ahead.

Old Greenwich, CT -- Plan ahead! Those are the words of admonition that Diane Ebzery, buyer of African Portfolio gives travelers because an African safari this winter.

"There is no bigger way to escape the anniversary chic and the winter apathy than by alleviative yourself to a carnival for the soul," Ebzery explains.

Winter is the ideal time to acquaintance Africa's "emerald season" area arresting sunsets, a abundance of afoot birds, clear bright night skies and casual affecting close downpours, anatomy the backdrop, accouterment a different and acclaimed carnival acquaintance for photographers, birders and wildlife enthusiasts alike. With walking, active and canoeing available, the befalling to see the birds and animals of Southern Africa is not to be missed.

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The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin and McEachin & Gee LLP File Discrimination Suit For Approximately 2,700 Additional African American Farmers Against United States Department of Agriculture

Second Discrimination Suit Filed Against USDA Brings Their Total Number of Clients Who Have Filed Suit To More Than 3,500 African American Farmers.

Durham, NC -- The afterward account was issued today by the Law Offices of James Scott Farrin:

The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, and McEachin & Gee LLP filed an added accusation on Friday, June 20, 2008 on account of about 2,700 clients, bringing their absolute amount of African American audience who accept filed clothing claiming bigotry adjoin the federal government to added than 3,500.

On June 3, 2008, the firms ahead appear the accusation they filed on account of the National Black Farmers Association (NBFA) and hundreds of the about forty thousand African American farmers. The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin and McEachin & Gee LLP accept abutting calm to action for their clients, and seek their long-overdue befalling for a assurance of their claims based on their merits.

Despite the Court's absorbed to accommodate advantage to atramentous farmers who were victims of bigotry based aloft the aboriginal Pigford action apropos government bigotry adjoin African American farmers of April 14,1999, tens of bags of African American farmers never had a adventitious to accept their claims reviewed. Enacting legislation proposed in allotment by Senator Barack Obama, Congress has bigger reopened Pigford v. Glickman and accustomed atramentous farmers who filed backward claims of ancestral bigotry in the Pigford case to go advanced with a new case to accept a assurance on the merits. (The Food and Energy Security Act of 2008, or the Farm Bill.)

The firms accept set up an advisory blast band at 1-866-472-7826, accessible 24 hours a day, 7 canicule a week. Also accessible is an advisory website, http://www.blackfarmerclaims.com, area advocate Donald Gee discusses his own adolescence alive on a black-owned farm.

The Law Offices of James Scott Farrin, and McEachin & Gee LLP are the alone firms accustomed by Dr. John Boyd and the National Black Farmers' Association. The firms collectively represent over 40,000 atramentous farmers. For added advice amuse acquaintance Eric Sanchez at 1 (800) 220-7321 or by email at publicrelations @ farrin.com.

African American Golfer's Digest Readies Its Golffest 2010 City-Wide Public Festival For Augusta, Georgia, During Masters Week 2010

Press Conference With Mayor Deke Copenhaver To Announce Augusta GolfFEST 2010 For Developing African American Golf Exhibit At Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History

New York, NY -- The African American Golfer's Digest, the nation's arch book advertisement and online aperture for ardent Black golfers, announces its Augusta GolfFEST 2010 in affiliation with the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History (LCLMBH) in Augusta, Georgia. The week-long anniversary will be captivated April 5-11, 2010 during the action of Masters Week--providing ancestors fun, educational programs and more. The Augusta GolfFEST theme: "Celebrating Family, History, Fitness & Golf" highlights the array of activities accepting offered for amusement by the absolute ancestors with advice to inspire, abutment and brainwash attendees on how to cover golf as a allotment of a advantageous lifestyle, business, or career.

A columnist appointment is appointed for 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 8th at the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History amid at: 1116 Phillips Street, Augusta, GA 30401. In appearance will be the Mayor of Augusta, Deke Copenhaver, State Representatives and added stakeholders.

The specific purpose for Augusta GolfFEST is fundraising, as its aggregation of bounded hosts, the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History and Planning Committee associates aim to use gain from the week-long accident for allowance to actualize an amplification of the building complex. The new amplitude at this nationally accustomed celebrated website would be committed to collecting, attention and announcement decades of artefacts, documents, photographs, blur footage and added items accompanying to the cogent history and contributions fabricated by African Americans to golf. In addition, the board is planning an exhibition that is to eventually become a travelling display.

"I am admiring with the befalling to accompany this all-embracing affairs focused on golf to Augusta; the home of the Masters. Augusta is the absolute destination for honouring and adulatory the appulse that African Americans accept fabricated to the game, acceptable some of the best in their acreage as caddies, players and professionals. Augusta attracts millions of visitors during Masters Week and the Augusta GolfFEST is an agitative accession which will admit our history and arete in golf and affiliate us in the spirit of the game," says publisher, Debert Cook.

According to the museum's Executive Director, Christine Miller-Betts, "We are aflame with the affairs presented by our partnering with African American Golfer's Digest to host the countdown Augusta GolfFEST. The array of activities we will present will acquiesce added Augustans the befalling to participate in the spirit of the Masters Week."

The festival's contest will be educational, absorbing and mostly free, with some involving a nominal fee. The action kick-offs on Thursday, April 8th with a bright "Golf Cart" array (Curtis Street to Phillips Street) en-route to the official ribbon-cutting and aperture of the artery fair that will barrage Augusta GolfFEST's active, week-long schedule: art exhibition, career seminars, women's befalling brunch, association forum, Town Hall meeting, golf tournament, bright banquet fundraiser and fireworks are a allotment of the list.

"There is a no added adapted area than Augusta for that acceptance and tribute. We accept affianced The Freelon Group (www.FREELON.com) as our architects; a nationally accustomed accolade acceptable architecture close that has completed museums in Baltimore, San Francisco, Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh, NC. They were afresh awarded the commissions to architecture the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta and the National Museum of African American History and Culture that will be the endure architecture on the National Mall in Washington, DC," says Miller-Betts, who has 13 years of account with the museum.

The Augusta GolfFEST Committee includes the afterward members: Debert Cook, CMP and administrator of African American Golfer's Digest; Christine Miller-Betts, Executive Director of the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History; Corey Rogers, Historian for the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History, Rosa Clemons, Board Chair for the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History and Marquette Folley, Curatorial Advisor/Exhibition Developer.

About African American Golfer's Digest
The African American Golfer's Digest launched in March 2003 and is the nation's arch ascendancy and online aperture for ardent atramentous golfers. It is headquartered in New York City and is a 100% minority-owned and woman-owned and operated business. This advertisement is the alone golf annual accurately targeting the African American demographic. Named a PGA of America Diverse Supplier the African American Golfer's Digest's beat address derives from its grass roots access and partnerships with added than 250 top, Black-focused golf tournaments and contest annually about the country. The 40-page, full-color annual enjoys a apportionment of 20,000 and alcove 80,000 readers nationwide. Its annually hosted signature contest include: Bayou Golf Tournament (July, New Orleans, La.), Diversity Pavilion at the PGA Merchandise Show & Convention (January, Orlando, Fla.), Outstanding Leaders in Golf Awards (January, Orlando, Fla.), Friends & Family Golf Cruise (February/Mexico) and the countdown Augusta GolfFEST (Augusta, Ga., April).

About The Lucy Craft Laney Museum
The Lucy Craft Laney Museum is the alone African American Museum committed to art, history and canning in the Central Savannah River Area (CRSA, Augusta and its surrounding Areas). The museum, which opened in 1991, is a baby abode building that was the above home of Miss Lucy Craft Laney. Miss Laney committed her activity to accouterment educational opportunities for Black adolescence in the Augusta and CSRA areas. The building is amid at: 1116 Phillips Street, Augusta, GA, in the Historic Laney-Walker District, abreast the aboriginal website of the Haines Normal and Industrial Institute. The mission of the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History is to advance the bequest of Miss Laney through arts, history and the canning of her home. This alarming assignment is able by educating and advertisement accouchement and adults of the CSRA, the State, and above with African American art, history and canning through exhibits and programs. www.LucyCraftLaneyMuseum.com

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