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uly 2, 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed this historic civil rights act into law, outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin, including barring discrimination in all facilities open to the public, thereby ending the old "Jim Crow" era in regions of the country. Can you image a time in which it was perfectly legal to refuse to serve blacks at restaurants, hotels and other public facilities? Prior to the civil rights movements of the late 50's and 60's, it was legal to separate blacks and whites at the same movie theaters, or certain business contracts exclusively barred blacks from applying. Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, all of this, and more was the norm. The Civil Rights Act was a strong effort to change all of this. In the words of President Johnson "The purpose of the law is simple, those who are equal before God shall now also be equal in the polling booths, in the classrooms, in the factories, and in hotels, restaurants, movie theaters, and other places that provide service to the public."

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In almost every economic category since the Civil Rights Act, blacks have made significant progress. According to the U.S. census, the number of black-owned businesses increased by 60.5% to 1.9 million, more than triple the national rate of 18.0%, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Survey of Business Owners for the period 2002 to 2007. Over the same period, receipts generated by blackowned businesses increased 55.1% to $137.5 billion. However, we as a people are often at the bottom of the economic ladder. Black unemployment remains twice the level of white unemployment. Another example is the median family income for African Americans is just two-thirds that of the median income for all American. There are still barriers that exist in education,

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Contents

BLACK BUSINESS NEWS…JULY 2014 GOVERNMENT…

8 12 14 16

The President on Tech Startups US-Africa Leaders Summit Julian Castro, New HUD Secretary White House Working Families Summit

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT 50TH ANNIVERSARY… PAGE 20 EDIT DITORIALS… 24 26 30

Sueing the President Racism & Obama's Opposition The Digital Initiative

BUSINESS… 34 37 39 40 58

Google's Code for Free Driving Small Business Growth The "Ziggy" The Rewards of Business Ownership

Game Changer - 3D Bioprinting

COLUMNS

3 - Publisher's Message 62 - Take A Look! 104 - Books to Consider... 106 - Calendar 108- Resources

PUBLIC INTEREST/COMMUNITY… 66 68 72

Let's Move Eat Like a Pro & Active Schools Empower Our Children Above Ground! - National Museum of African American History and Culture

IN MEMORY…

SPONSORS 6 - Black Business Association

SPECIAL SECTION… 92

Shopping Gallery Cover image - Phallu Morgan

Alice Coachman

INTERNATIONAL… 78

WAAW Foundation

Government

President Obama Visits 1776, "An Incubator for All Sorts of Tech Startups" by Randy Paris

President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the economy at 1776, a tech startup hub in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)

n the day before we celebrate America’s independence, President Obama had a chance to stop by 1776, a tech startup incubator in Washington, D.C. that supports entrepreneurs tackling major challenges in education, energy, health care, and other critical industries. The President’s visit coincided with the June jobs report, which shows the supporting role that startups and new businesses are playing in the

American economy. 1776 was an outgrowth of the President’s Startup America Initiative to encourage and promote entrepreneurship. During the visit, the President had the chance to meet some amazing entrepreneurs. As he said, places like 1776 are helping Americans “coming from a wide range of backgrounds -- we had former Army Rangers; we had lawyers; we had former HR folks,

transportation experts, engineers -all of them had the kind of energy and drive and creativity and innovation that has been the hallmark of the American economy.” The entrepreneurs the President met reflect a larger story about the growing strength of the American economy. The President highlighted a new June jobs report showing that in the first half of this year, the American economy added 1.4 million jobs -- the most in any

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Startup America first half since 1999. This includes hundreds of thousands of jobs in some of the most advanced hightechnology sectors. In addition, incubators like 1776, and the startups and entrepreneurs they represent, will play an important role in boosting the economic recovery, as businesses with fewer than 500 employees have accounted for more than 60 percent of the jobs added since early 2010. Evan Burfield and Donna Harris launched 1776 in 2013 on the second anniversary of the President’s Startup America Initiative, which is an all-hands-on-deck effort to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship in America. In the last three years, the initiative has been expanding access to capital, moving research breakthroughs from lab to market, and growing a broad coalition of government, non-profit, and privatesector stakeholders dedicated to answering the President’s call to support American entrepreneurs.

Incubators like 1776 represent the ingenuity, innovation, and drive that are fueling America’s recovery. That’s why we can’t imagine a better way for the President to kick off the July 4th weekend. You can find out more about the President’s plan to support America’s entrepreneurs at WhiteHouse.gov/StartupAmerica.

Startup America Going Strong at Three Years

anuary 2014 marked the third anniversary of Startup America, a White House initiative to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the Nation. In 2011, President Obama issued an all-hands-on-deck call to action for Federal agencies, Congress, and the private sector to help increase the success of entrepreneurs across the country. Here’s a look at three big ways the

Startup America initiative has led to action over the past three years:

1. Expanding access to capital: Two years ago, the President sent to Congress his Startup America Legislative Agenda, which proposed three ways to expand access to capital for innovative companies, from crowdfunding to “mini public offerings” all the way to initial public offerings (IPOs). Congress responded and in April 2012, the President signed the bipartisan Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, enacting these proposals to encourage startups and support our Nation’s small businesses. Thanks to this law, today smaller emerging growth companies have a smoother path to transparent capital markets through an “IPO On-Ramp,” which provides a maximum five-year phase-in for certain costly audit requirements, consistent with investor protections. In addition, the Securities and Exchange see Startup America on page 10

www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/07/03/president-obama-visits-1776-incubator-all-sorts-tech-startups www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P465ujm79c www.whitehouse.gov/economy/business/startup-america www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/07/03/employment-situation-june

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Commission (SEC) has proposed new rules designed to allow startups and small businesses to more efficiently raise capital from investors, including through streamlined “Regulation A+” mini public offerings and through a new class of regulated crowdfunding platforms. As the President said in 2012 when signing the JOBS Act, expanding the promise of

From life-saving drugs to worldchanging hardware, the scientific research that begins in our Federal and university laboratories can lead to new companies, new jobs, and even new industries. That’s why in 2011, as part of the Startup America initiative, President Obama signed a memorandum directing all Federal agencies with research facilities to accelerate the transfer of these innovations from the laboratory to the commercial marketplace. In line with these Lab-to-Market

Ghana's Dropifi, an Up Global Succ continues to develop technology transfer partnerships across the country, and the Small Business Administration streamlines entrepreneurs’ access to R&D funding.

3. All hands on deck for entrepreneurship:

crowdfunding is a potential gamechanger because “start-ups and small business will now have access to a big, new pool of potential investors—namely, the American people. For the first time, ordinary Americans will be able to go online and invest in entrepreneurs that they believe in.”

2. Moving research breakthroughs from lab to market: As the President said in his recent State of the Union address, “Federally funded research helped lead to the ideas and inventions behind Google and smartphones.”

efforts, the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health have made it much easier for entrepreneurs to license patents owned by the Federal Government, and are supporting the next generation of scienceintensive startups through the National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition and the Breast Cancer Startup Challenge,. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is supporting the Epicenter entrepreneurship education hub for engineering undergrads and the Innovation Corps training program for entrepreneurial scientists, while the Department of Commerce

In response to the President’s initial call to action for an “all hands on deck effort to ensure that America remains the best place on Earth to turn a great idea into a successful business,” an independent alliance of entrepreneurs, foundations, and companies came together to form the Startup America Partnership. This private-sector partnership is dedicated to strengthening entrepreneurial networks all across the country by empowering local grassroots leaders to create action-oriented startup community programs. For example, an organizer located in the Colorado Rockies can now access the Startup Colorado Community Fund to support a local tech meetup, while nearly 200

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young companies in the Nation’s capital can work side-by-side in a new startup campus created by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. The Startup America Partnership is now operating around the world as “UP Global,” which recently committed to support and train 500,000 entrepreneurs in 1,000 cities over the next three years. And many other organizations are cess Story making good on their Startup America commitments to expand opportunity for entrepreneurs, including the rollout of campus entrepreneurship career centers at colleges and universities across the Nation, the growth of a global startup accelerator network to cities across the country, and the expansion of a startup innovation fund and a “Presidents for Entrepreneurship Pledge” at more and more community colleges. In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama renewed his call to action, saying “Let’s do more to help the entrepreneurs and small business owners who create most new jobs in America.” For Congress, that means acting on commonsense immigration reform to grow our economy and help create thousands of new jobs, as well as working with the President to develop a small business agenda to support America’s entrepreneurs. In the year to come, we look forward to making the Startup America initiative even more successful by engaging additional stakeholders across the country. Whether you’re a university or community college, a Fortune 500 firm or a new venture, an investor or a public servant, let us know how you plan to accelerate startup success and expand opportunity for entrepreneurs in your community. 

Make Sure You're in the President's Loop. You can receive "The Daily Snapshot" which has everything you need to know about a given day at the White House. That means: • Photos of the day • The President Daily Schedule • The Vice-President's Daily Schedule • Important policy updates Recipients of the Daily Snapshot will also receive periodic updates from President Obama and other senior Administration officials. Register at: www.whitehouse.gov/daily-snapshot

n August 2014 President Obama will welcome leaders from across the African continent to the Nation’s Capital for a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the first such event of its kind. This Summit, the largest event any U.S. President has held with African heads of state and government, will build on the President’s trip to Africa in the summer of 2013 and it will strengthen ties between the United States and one of the world’s most dynamic and fastest growing regions. Specifically, the August 4-6 Summit will advance the Administration’s focus on trade and investment in Africa and highlight America’s commitment to Africa’s security, its democratic development, and its people. At the same time, it will highlight the depth and breadth of the United States’ commitment to the African continent, advance our shared priorities and enable discussion of concrete ideas to deepen the partnership. At its core, this Summit is about fostering stronger ties between the United States and Africa. The theme of the Summit is "Investing in the Next Generation." Focusing on the next generation is at the core of a government’s responsibility and work, and this Summit is an opportunity to discuss ways of stimulating growth, unlocking opportunities, and creating an enabling environment for the next generation. Throughout the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, African leaders will have an opportunity to engage with President Obama, his Cabinet members, and other key leaders, including business executives from the

U.S. and Africa, Members of Congress, and members of civil society. Discussions will center on how to encourage progress in key areas that Africans define as critical for the future of the continent: expanding trade and investment ties, engaging young African leaders, promoting inclusive sustainable development, expanding cooperation on peace and security, and gaining a better future for Africa’s next generation. President Obama invited all African heads of state or government in good standing with the United States and the African Union to attend the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. An invitation was also extended to the African Union Chairperson.

Spousal Program On August 6, First Lady Michelle Obama, in partnership with former First Lady Laura Bush and the Bush Institute, will host a day-long spouses symposium at the Kennedy Center focused on the impact of investments in education, health, and publicprivate partnerships.

Side Events In order to leverage the presence in Washington, D.C. of so many African leaders as well as the intense interest in U.S.-Africa ties that the Summit has engendered, a number of non government actors – the private sector and non-profit organizations — are organizing events along the margins to coincide with the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. 

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President Barack Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, delivers remarks announcing his intent to nominate Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan as Office of Management and Budget Director and San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro to replace him, in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Julián Castro Confirmed as the Next HUD Secretary

he Senate overwhelmingly approved San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro to be the next Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The vote was 71-26. President Obama applauded the bipartisan majority of senators who quickly confirmed Mayor Castro for Secretary of HUD: Julián is a proven leader, a champion for safe, affordable housing and strong, sustainable neighborhoods. I know that together with the dedicated professionals at HUD, Julián will help build on the progress we’ve made battling back from the Great Recession -- rebuilding our housing market, reducing homelessness among veterans, and connecting neighborhoods with good schools and good jobs that help our citizens succeed. Back in May, the President Obama nominated Mayor Castro to lead HUD, citing his work revitalizing San Antonio as an excellent example of the expertise and skill that he will bring to his new post. As mayor of San Antonio, Castro revitalized the city, implementing

housing and economic development projects that have attracted hundreds of millions of dollars in investments. Mayor Castro has developed strong relationships with other mayors all across the country and established important partnerships in the Administration's Promise Zones Initiative, which highlights San Antonio's success in partnering with local businesses and community leaders to foster economic growth and opportunity. Mayor Castro has also not lost sight of his roots. In May, the President talked about how Mayor Castro's story represents the American Dream: Julián’s grandmother came to this country from Mexico. She worked as a maid, worked as a cook, worked as a babysitter -- whatever she had to do to keep a roof over her family’s head. And that’s because for her, and generations of Americans like her, a home is more than just a house. A home is a source of pride and security. It’s a place to raise a family and put down roots and build up savings for college or a business or retirement, or write a lifetime of memories. And maybe one day the kid grows up in that home and is able to go on to get a great education and become the Mayor of San Antonio, and become a member of the President’s Cabinet. Mayor Castro will bring his proven, on-the-ground success to HUD -- and his own story will remind him every day of what a home can mean to a family. 

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The on W

By Lind

he White House, in partnership with the Department of Labor and the Center for American Progress, hosted a Summit on Working Families with the aim of having a national conversation and set a concrete agenda to bring American workplaces into the 21st century. That conversation brought together businesses, economists, labor leaders, legislators, advocates, and working citizens to talk through the very real issues facing the full spectrum of working families — from low-wage workers to executives. And you didn't have to be in Washington to join in. Americans across the country tuned in and raised their voices online. As Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett noted yesterday: "This is a movement, not a moment." So if you missed the event yesterday,

you can still add your voice. Take a look at our recap of yesterday's Summit, and if you've got a story tell — get involved.

White House Summit on Working Families Marks a 'New Movement'

irst Lady Michelle Obama called the White House Summit the beginning of a movement, a movement for working families. In many ways the Summit felt like a movement, a combination of a political pep rally and a church service with crowds of true believers jumping to their feet, calling out from the audience, and cheering. If it is a movement, it has been several decades in the making. As I looked around the room and on the stage, I could see people who have

been working on these issues for ages -- from Gloria Steinem speaking out for women; Kathleen Christensen of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation calling for making flexibility the standard of the American workplace; Alex Gorsky, CEO of Johnson & Johnson, talking about how his company changed its Credo to include the company's responsibility to working families in 1989; Ellen Bravo of Family Values @ Work mobilizing communities to pass paid family leave and paid sick day legislation; and so many other workplace pioneers. Yet, it wasn't just the "true believers" or the "pioneers" who were present. For example, Families and Work Institute was

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dsay Holst able to invite 60 small, mid-sized and large employers we've identified as creating "effective and flexible workplaces," a number of whom are relatively new to these issues and clearly would not be found at political pep rallies. But they're the ones forging a new trail, providing innovative workplaces where bosses go above and beyond helping employees make work work. In a number of ways, this event really does mark a new movement. In the past, there have been clearly divided, often competing camps -- equal pay and advancement for women, domestic violence, workplace flexibility and work-life assistance, child care, early learning, etc. There have been those who want Washington to solve working families' problems and those who believe solutions lie with employers. At the Summit, there was less talk about "either/ or" and more talk about "both/and." And there were many new players. One long-time leader said she looked around the room of more than 1200 people and hardly recognized anyone. If there was a theme, it was stated by the First Lady -"it begins with each of us." She told First Lady the familiar story Michelle Obama of being a nursing mother and being invited for a job interview. Unable to find child care, she decided that she should be authentic, so she took her daughter Sasha

with her to the interview, where she was offered a job at the University of Chicago. Although she didn't mention the recent uproar over a mother who left her young children in her car to go to a job interview and ended up in jail, the First Lady acknowledged being an exception. Offering insights on what men face, Vice President Joe Biden told the story of being present for 87%of the votes as a new member of the Senate, soon after his wife was killed in a car accident. Although his handlers urged otherwise, he went on television and faced the issue directly, telling voters that if they reelected him to a second term, he would only make 87% of the votes. I won't miss important or procedural votes, he told them, but if it's a choice, I will put my children first and go home on the train to be with them. Like the First Lady, both the Vice President and the President (who talked about taking some time off when Malia and Sasha were infants so that he was there for the 2:00 a.m. feeding and the soothing), stated they were lucky, more privileged than others. They had more resources and more options than those who might lose jobs by putting their families first. Others told personal stories too, describing themselves as feeling alone in facing problems managing work and family life. Or if their workplaces were supportive, they felt they'd won the "good boss lottery." They and the other speakers urged everyone to take action in helping working families (such as providing paid sick days for one's child care providers or not assuming someone who needs to take an elderly parent to the doctor is a slacker or uncommitted to work). They said the solutions were not just in DC, but with Mayors (who passed a resolution to promote An Early Learning Nation on June 23rd too: city councils, governors, and employers. The President also spoke out for paid leave and improved child care. There is no mistaking the sounds of kumbaya on the 23rd for any sense that there is long-term unity or that whatever path we each take, the journey will be short or easy. But I, for one -- long after I stepped off the podium as a speaker, long after I watched the hotel staff sweep away the debris of the Summit--felt renewed energy to make workplaces work better for employees and employers, especially for those with the fewest resources. Employees shouldn't have to win the "good boss lottery" in order to nurture their families and care for them economically. 

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THE WHITE HOUSE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Few achievements have defined our national identity as distinctly or as powerfully as the passage of the Civil Rights Act. It transformed our understanding of justice, equality, and democracy and advanced our long journey toward a more perfect Union. It helped bring an end to the Jim Crow era, banning discrimination in public places; prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; and providing a long-awaited enforcement mechanism for the integration of schools. A half-century later, we celebrate this landmark achievement and renew our commitment to building a freer, fairer, greater society. Through the lens of history, the progress of the past five decades may seem inevitable. We may wish to remember our triumphs while erasing the pain and doubt that came before. Yet to do so would be a disservice to the giants who led us to the mountaintop, to unsung heroes who left footprints on our National Mall, to every American who bled and died on the battlefield of justice. In the face of bigotry, fear, and unyielding opposition from entrenched interests, their courage stirred our Nation's conscience. And their struggle helped convince a Texas Democrat who had previously voted against civil rights legislation to become its new champion. With skillful charm and ceaseless grit, President Lyndon B. Johnson shepherded the Civil Rights Act through the Congress -- and on July 2, 1964, he signed it into law. While laws alone cannot right every wrong, they possess an unmatched power to anchor lasting change. The Civil Rights Act threw open the door for legislation that strengthened voting rights and established fair housing standards for all Americans. Fifty years later, we know our country works best when we accept our obligations to one another, embrace the belief that our destiny is shared, and draw strength from the bonds that hold together the most diverse Nation on Earth. As we reflect on the Civil Rights Act and the burst of progress that followed, we also acknowledge that our journey is not complete. Today, let us resolve to restore the promise of opportunity, defend our fellow Americans' sacred right to vote, seek equality in our schools and workplaces, and fight injustice wherever it exists. Let us remember that victory never comes easily, but with iron wills and common purpose, those who love their country can change it. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim July 2, 2014, as the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. I call upon all Americans to observe this day with programs, ceremonies, and activities that celebrate this accomplishment and advance civil rights in our time. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand fourteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-eighth. BARACK OBAMA

50th Anniversary 1964 Civil Rights Bill

President Barack Obama views a replica of the Oval Office at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Quote of Note... “The Civil Rights Act brought us closer to making real the declaration at the heart of our founding – that we are all created equal. But that journey continues. A half a century later, we’re still working to tear down barriers and put opportunity within reach for every American, no matter who they are, what they look like, or where they come from. So as we celebrate this anniversary and the undeniable progress we’ve made over the past 50 years, we also remember those who have fought tirelessly to perfect our union, and recommit ourselves to making America more just, more equal and more free.” President Barack H. Obama www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/10/remarks-presidentlbj-presidential-library-civil-rights-summit See the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIj3nMhDjHA

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50th Anniversary 1964 Civil Rights Bill

The King Center Celebrated 50th Anniversary of 1964 Civil Rights Bill By Terry Shropshire, National Correspondent, Atlanta Daily World

ifty-one summers ago, amid a tense Alabama day that teemed with the specter of violence and bloodshed, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s dispatched dignitaries convinced Gov. George Wallace to step aside and allow the first black man to desegregate the University of Alabama. Later that same June day in 1963, at RFK’s urging, his older brother President John F. Kennedy put his presidency on the line when he told the nation in a televised address that the fight for civil rights was “as old as the Scriptures and as clear as the Constitution.” He then outlined to the nation his plans to send his Civil Rights Bill through Congress with “the proposition that race has no place in American life or law.” The very next day, on June 12, famed civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Miss., by a member of a white supremacist group in the driveway of his home. The very next year, the blood of Evers and countless others was used to pay down the signing of the landmark Civil Rights Bill at the White House in July of 1964. President Lyndon B. Johnson who skillfully took the civil rights baton after Kennedy’s assassination, signed the legislation into law with Dr. Martin Luther King and many senators flanking him.

Five decades later, The King Center in Atlanta facilitated the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Bill. The program featured King Center CEO Dr. Bernice A. King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mrs. Coretta Scott King; and, luminaries such as Ambassador Andrew Young, Dr. C.T. Vivian, Dr. Joseph Lowery, and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed. “Despite the difficulties and obstacles that remain on our path to the Beloved Community of my father’s dream, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made possible tremendous strides toward a more just nation,” said Dr. Bernice A. King. King repeated one of her favorite quotes from her mother; “Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won,” she said, remembering all the struggle, pain, bloodshed and death that went into the signing of the bill, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Student Sit Ins, the assassinations, hanging and bombings of civil rights workers. “You earn it and win it in every generation. We must guard and protect our freedoms in every generation,” King added. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ushered in a new wave of democracy and freedom. It also confirmed a national shift for human rights. It proved to be historic legislation which profoundly transformed

America for the better in a myriad of ways. Civil rights leader and former U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young said while there is still racism in America, a lot has changed. “Though we feel now that we still have problems, the truth of it is if Martin Luther King had known 50 years ago that we would be where we are today, he would be very, very pleased,” said Young. “I think if I had said to him ‘I think I’m going to be the Mayor of Atlanta, and I’m going to be an Ambassador to the United Nations. And I’m going to help a Georgia Governor get to the White House’ he would say ‘Boy, you are sick!’ ” “Legal racism no longer exists. Now that doesn’t mean that prejudice, color prejudice, class prejudice no longer exists,” said Young. “It exists in my family, in your family. We still have our individual idiosyncrasies. But legal racism just is not here anymore.” In addition to barring unequal application of voter registration requirements, the Civil Rights Act of 1964: outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin in hotels, motels, restaurants, theaters, and all other public accommodations engaged in interstate commerce; prohibits state and municipal governments from denying access to public facilities on grounds of race, color, religion or national origin, and prevents discrimination by government agencies that receive federal funds. “There’s a cover over it [Civil Rights Movement] right now because they are trying to take away the essence of it. So that means we’ll have to struggle and do some fighting like we did back then,” said Dr. C.T. Vivian, the famed civil rights activist and minister. 

http://atlantadailyworld.com/2014/07/16/the-king-center-celebrated-50th-anniversary-of-1964-civil-rights-bill

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Editorial: Racism & the Presidency

The Racism Behind Boehner's Threats to Sue Obama By: Thom Hartmann, AlterNet

irst, the Republicans were gleeful that the Democratic Party had nominated a black man whose middle name was Hussein to run for president. They figured beating him would be a cakewalk, and didn't even get too upset when John McCain picked a fringe politician from Alaska as his running mate. After all, Obama was black and his middle name was Hussein – how could they lose even if their nominee was an elderly crank and their vice presidential nominee was a former sports reporter on local television? But Obama won and the disrespect began. Congressman Joe Wilson shouted "you lie" during a presidential Joint Address to Congress. Rumors circulated in the far right blogs that the president was secretly born in Kenya, and therefore wasn't even legitimately President of the United States. He wasn't even a legitimate citizen. After all, he was black. The question on the minds of so many Republicans was, "What is that black man doing in our White House?" So they spent the first four years questioning the legitimacy of his even being in office, all the while doing everything they could to prevent him from having any significant successes legislatively. Then, after he won reelection, their obstruction went into overdrive. And

he said,"I have a pen and I'm going to use it." The argument that this black man was illegitimate had been largely relegated to the fringes by this point, so now a new variation on the argument emerged. While he may actually have a birth certificate and legitimately be president, his behaviors are illegitimate! And so, even though this president has issued fewer executive orders then any president since Grover Cleveland, House Speaker and Republican Congressman John Boehner intends to sue him for his illegitimate actions as president. In John Boehner's memo to his colleagues in Congress he even mentioned how horrified he and his white colleagues were that this black man would dare take such powers. He wrote, "...at times [Obama is] even boasting about his willingness to do it, as if daring the American people to stop him." It was no coincidence, back in 1980, that the first speech that Ronald Reagan made after he was nominated as the Republican Party's candidate for president, was in a little town of 7,000 people in rural Mississippi. Reagan's opening speech kicking off his presidential campaign, was near Philadelphia, Mississippi – the very town where back in 1964, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were brutally murdered.

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And to make sure that all the rightwing white racists got the message, the substance of Reagan's first campaign speech was "States' Rights." This new attack by John Boehner on President Obama's legitimacy as President of United States is nothing more than an extension of the earlier Republican Birther attack. Only this time it adds in the very real probability of causing the president much more inconvenience and expense than simply producing a birth certificate. Much like when Bill Clinton was impeached, Obama is now going to be tied up for the last two years of his presidency dealing with courts and lawsuits, and this may go all the way to the Supreme Court. Not only do Republicans have no shame, but they very definitely

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The question on the minds of so many Republicans was, "What is that black man doing in our White House?"

know how to speak in "dog whistle language" to the white racists they picked up when they flipped the South Republican after LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act. One of the biggest benefits of white privilege is that white people never, ever wonder if something has happened because of the color of their skin (from restaurant tables to jobs to taxis to apartments to just having doors held or not). And so many white people won't immediately "get" what I'm suggesting here, and the largely white right-wing websites will say I've gone over the edge. But if the callers to my radio show are any indication, most people of color in this country know exactly what Boehner's lawsuit is all about. In his memo to his Republican colleagues, he talks about the

(mostly white Republican) crowds that he visits when he travels around America, and says: "Everywhere I go in America outside of Washington DC, I'm asked: when will the House stand up on behalf of the people to stop the encroachment of executive power under President Obama? We elected a president, Americans note; we didn't elect a monarch or king." He could just as easily have said, "This guy has really gotten way too uppity!" This is not the kind of language John Boehner would be using if Barack Obama was white. Even when Republicans pushed back on FDR's executive orders, and called him a communist or a socialist, they never questioned his legitimacy to be the president of the United States, or tried suing him over the legitimacy of his ability as president to take the actions he did. But then came Lee Atwater helping run the Reagan campaign, and the whole Nixon Southern Strategy got far more sophisticated. As Atwater said, Republicans no longer have to say the N-word in order to dog-whistle to white racists: You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can’t say 'nigger'—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'Nigger, nigger.' Boehner has gone a mile too far, and it's time for us all to realize that this is just a repeat of the Atwater strategy, that the Birther hysteria was the same thing, and call out the real agenda here. 

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Editorial: Racism & the Presidency

Racism Definitely Plays Role in Obama Opposition By Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law Center www.splcenter.org

I grew up in rural Alabama during the Jim Crow years and lived through the Civil Rrights Movement, when white supremacists did everything they could, including committing violent

ight-wing pundits are jumping all over Attorney General Eric Holder for daring to suggest on Sunday, July 20, 2014 that “racial animus” plays a role in the “level of vehemence” that’s been directed at President Obama. They’re denouncing him for “playing the race card” and “stoking racial divisions.” Who do they think they’re fooling? The rhetoric is what’s hateful. Calling people out for it is not. The racism Holder described has been obvious since the 2008 campaign, when Obama was portrayed as someone who was not a “real American” – a Muslim, a Kenyan, a communist, even a terrorist sympathizer. Since then, an entire movement has been built around the thoroughly discredited notion that the president’s birth certificate is a fake. And that’s just the beginning. Newt Gingrich has called Obama the “food stamp president” and referred to his “Kenyan, anticolonial behavior.” Rush Limbaugh has said Obama – and Oprah Winfrey, too, by the way – have reached the pinnacle of their professions only because they’re black. He added this week that “so-called conservative media types” praised Holder’s nomination only because he’s black. Glenn Beck has said the president, whose mother was white, has a “deep-seated hatred for white people, or white culture.” Conservative hero and former rock star Ted Nugent, who was invited to campaign with the GOP

nominee minee for Texas governor governor, called the president a “subhuman mongrel.” A Confederate flag was waved in front of the White House during last year’s “Million Vet March.” U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina screamed “You lie!” during the president’s address to Congress in September 2009. When has that happened to a president before? All manner of overtly racist posters have been seen at Tea Party rallies, including one depicting the president as a “witch doctor.” We’ve repeatedly seen stories about conservative politicians sharing racist jokes about Obama. And, we’ve seen an explosive growth of radical-right groups, including armed militias, since Obama was elected, and repeated threats that violence is needed to “take our country back” from the “tyranny” of Obama. This is part of a backlash to the growing diversity in our country, as symbolized by the presence of a black man in the White House.

atrocities to turn back the tide of atrocities, progress. And I’ve stared across the courtroom at some of America’s most vicious hatemongers – men like neo-Nazi Glenn Frazier Cross, who recently killed three people and once targeted me. I know racism when I see it. No one, of course, is suggesting that merely disagreeing with Obama is evidence of racism. That’s clearly not true. But we have a political party and a right-wing media machine that pander incessantly to the racist reactionaries in our society, often through code words. It’s been going on since Nixon implemented his “Southern strategy” of appealing to white resentment in the wake of the civil rights movement. I wish it weren’t so. But it is simply undeniable. We should call it what it is. Sincerely,

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Publisher's Message housing and business. Disparities in net worth amongst ethnic groups, the persisted widening of wealth gap, and the contributed assault on affirmative action and voting rights are signs that the struggle is not yet over. As black business leaders and entrepreneurs, we cannot focus only on the celebration of electing a black president of the most powerful country in the world. We must ensure there is continuation of the very equality and opportunity that are the core of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. While we applaud the anniversary of the landmark act, which was the precursor for Affirmative Action and other programs, there is much more work to be done. Let us not forget about those that came before the Civil Rights Movement, such as Alice Coachman, the first African

Civil Rights movement was the legendary Ron Brown, former United States Secretary of Commerce, whose life was cut short during a trade mission in 1996. In his honor, the California Black Chamber of Commerce is hosting the "Ron Brown" Business and Economic Summit, including, a one-day: Women of Success Symposium being held at the Los Angeles Marriott Airport Hotel, in Los Angeles, California, August 2123, 2014. For further information, please visit website www.calbcc. org. Please mark your calendars for

the Black Business Association (BBA) Procurement Exchange Summit, October 16, 2014 at the downtown Los Angeles Hyatt Regency Hotel. This year, the BBA will be honoring outstanding entrepreneurs in recognition of MED week. Also, pick up the July issue of the Black Enterprise (BE) magazine for BE's 100 BillionDollar Club. You can retrieve it online at www.blackenterprise.com/ small-business/be-100s-top-billiondollar-black-owned-companies. 

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Ron Brown American female to win an Olympic Gold Medal. Her story is shared with you on page 74 of this issue of the Black Business News. Ms. Coachman recently died at the age of 90; her story was one of survival and strength during a period of extreme racism. We applaud the numerous Alice Coachman's of the nation whom paved the way for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. One of the beneficiaries of the 27  July 2014  Black Business News  www.blackbbusinessnews.net  1-323-291-7819

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Rainbow PUSH’s Digital Initiative "Support The Petition Campaign"

ast year, when confronted with criticism about his appointment of an all-white, all-male Board of Directors Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter, responded with a dismissive, joking tweet. [FN1] "The whole thing has to be about more than checking a box & saying 'we did it!'," he later typed. Twitter has yet to publicly address the failure to appoint a single Black person to its board despite data that confirms that Black folks make up a disproportionate share of Twitter's user-base. [FN2] Responding to Rev. Jackson and Rainbow PUSH’s Digital initiative [FN3] and public appeal [FN4], other Silicon Valley tech companies like Facebook, Yahoo, Google and LinkedIn took the historic first step to release depressing data about the racial and gender composition of their staffs, Twitter has remained silent – and has resisted and refused to publicly disclose its EEO-1 workforce diversity/inclusion data. That's why Color of Change and Rainbow PUSH Coalition are together to call on Twitter to do two things: 1) release your employee diversity numbers immediately and 2) signal your commitment to real inclusion by hosting a public community forum that addresses the company's plan to recruit and retain more Black talent.

Twitter is Unlikely to Break any Trends To date, most of the data disclosures have confirmed that Silicon Valley prefers its workers to be male and either white or Asian; with Blacks comprising just 1-2% and Latinos 3-4% of the workforce. [FN5]

We won’t know how good tech can be until everyone can participate and share in the opportunity. Twitter has a very unique role to play. Although not on the payroll, Twitter's platform -- via the cultural force known as "Black Twitter" [FN 6, 7] -- has been built off the creativity of Black people. The company owes our community more -- more transparency, and a more thoughtful solutions-oriented approach that addresses its failure to be more inclusive without blaming Black people.

Shifting the Blame Sadly many of the tech companies (and their pundits) have been quick to incorrectly blame a leaky "talent pipeline" for the extreme racial hiring disparities. They point to statistics about the dearth of computer science degrees awarded to Black men and women and bragging about their own philanthropic-investments in tech education for minorities, yet Silicon Valley apologists are working to divert blame. They ignore the fact that Black people are also severely underrepresented in nontechnical Silicon Valley roles, these tactics are misleading, and also serve to reinforce the false and problematic narrative that Black people are simply "unqualified," undeserving and not valuable.

Will you Join Us? It Only Takes a Minute. Sign the petition now at http://rainbowpush.org/ page/s/tell-twitter-disclose-your-diversity-data. Tweet it out on Twitter. Put it on Facebook and social media. 

Foot Notes (FN) 1. "Twitter CEO Takes Fire Over All Male Board" http://valleywag.gawker.com/twitter-ceo-takes-fire-over-allmale-board-of-directors-1441983747 2. “Pew Study on Black Users of Twitter” http://rainbowpush.org/news/single/pew_study_blacks_over-index_ on_twitter_-_26_of_black_internet_users_survey 3. “Rainbow PUSH Digital Connections Initiative” http://rainbowpush.org/index.php/news_links/single/rainbow_ push_coalition_launches_new_digital_inclusion_initiative 4. http://rainbowpush.org/news/single/open_letter_to_silicon_valley_-_be_transparent_release_your_eeo1_ data 5. “Dismal workforce data” http://rainbowpush.org/news/single/salesforce_employs_just_as_many_white_ guys_as_the_rest_of_the_tech_world_-_ 6. "Mama I Made It: Pew Poll Study Confirms The Existence of Black Twitter" http://www.okayplayer.com/news/ pew-poll-study-black-twitter-african-american-social-media.html 7. "Black Twitter FINALLY Gets Recognized…so that Twitter can Sell Ads" http://valleywag.gawker.com/blacktwitter-finally-gets-recognized-so-twitter-ca-1505745932/all 30  July 2014  Black Business News  www.blackbbusinessnews.net  1-323-291-7819

Editorial Follow the RPC/ColorofChange Twitter campaign today under the hashtag: #blackroots14

A new report says young, college-educated and higher-income African-Americans are just as likely as their white counterparts to use the Internet, and Twitter seems to be a favorite place in cyberspace. The Pew Research Center report found that roughly 72% of blacks have a home broadband connection, a smartphone, or both. About 86% of black Internet users ages 18-29 have home broadband access, about 88% are college graduates and about 91% earn at least $75,000 annually. Pew said blacks also tend to use Twitter more often, noting that 22% of black Internet users access Twitter at high levels compared with 16% of whites. Overall, 73% of black Internet users and 72% of white Internet users use Twitter.

Black Twitter is a cultural identity on the Twitter social network focused on issues of interest to the black community, particularly in the United States. Feminista Jones described it in Salon as "a collective of active, primarily African-American Twitter users who have created a virtual community ... [and are] proving adept at bringing about a wide range of sociopolitical changes." A similar Black Twitter community is growing in South Africa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Twitter

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Jesse Jackson & Color of Change Demand Twitter Release Employee Diversity Data By John Ribeiro (IDG News Service) 18 July, 2014

.S. civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has called on Twitter to release its employee diversity information, which its Silicon Valley peers such as Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn and

Tech companies have been under pressure to release employee diversity data since Jackson took up the campaign to highlight the underrepresentation of African-Americans in Silicon

of their employees in the U.S. 70% of Google's employees are men and 61% of its U.S. employees are white, according to the workforce diversity report it released in May. Blacks accounted for 2% of Google's

Rev. Jesse Jackson Demands ‘Diversity’ from Silicon Valley Facebook have already done. The Rainbow Push Coalition, founded by Jackson, has also asked Twitter to signal its commitment to inclusion by hosting a public community forum to address the company's plan to recruit and retain more black talent. The coalition and black empowerment group, ColorOfChange.org, plans to launch a Twitter-based campaign to challenge the company, the coalition said in a statement July 17, 2014.

Valley companies, starting with a delegation to Hewlett-Packard's annual meeting of shareholders. "....Twitter has remained silent, resisting and refusing to publicly disclose its EEO-1 workforce diversity/inclusion data," according to the joint petition by the coalition and ColorOfChange.org. Twitter could not be immediately reached for comment The companies reporting worker demographics in response to Jackson have said that blacks account for a very small percentage

U.S. workforce. Facebook provided similar data. In the U.S., 57% of the social network's workforce is white while blacks account for 2%. Jackson, however, holds that tech companies cannot explain away their hiring disparities by citing an issue with talent among blacks. The argument ignores the fact that black people are also severely underrepresented in nontechnical Silicon Valley roles, he said.  Follow John on Twitter at @ Johnribeiro. John's e-mail address is john_ribeiro@idg.com

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Google Will Help Women and Minorities Learn Coding For Free By Patrick Austin for Black Enterprise

oogle’s been on a roll as far as diversity in programming goes. Although only 17% of Google employees are women, it was one of the first tech companies

to voluntarily release its diversity numbers, showing a significant dearth in the number of women and minorities at the company, and taking steps to encourage underrepresented groups to explore computer science programs. At Google I/O, its developer conference, the company had more than 1,000 women developers in attendence, and featured an all-women developer team in Nigeria. In addition to the lottery system it uses to give away

tickets, Google gave passes to organizations like Women Who Code and the Anita Borg Institute For Women and Technology. Now, Google’s Women Te c h m a k e r s ’ initiative is teaming up with Code School to get even more people involved in programming. Google will pay for three months’ worth of Code School for “thousands of accounts,” according to Code School’s blog. “Together, our goal is to invest in women and minorities so they can continue developing their technical skill sets,” Code School said.

“Having access to self-learning programs (such as Code School) is instrumental in that.” Google’s inclusive programs are more important than ever, with more information being revealed

about the demographics of tech companies in Silicon Valley. In Facebook, Yahoo!, and Google, only 2% of employees are black. Google isn’t indiscriminately passing out codes though, it’s helping women already inside its development community and Google I/O attendees. You can apply for the program through Google’s Women Techmakers’ program. Already have your code? You can redeem your code on Code School’s page.  Also see "Changing Lives in Africa" on page 80.

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Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program

he Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program (KDFP) is an annual competitive program that awards up to 15 Dissertation Fellowship grants of $15,000 each to Ph.D., D.B.A., or other doctoral students at accredited U.S. universities to support dissertations in the area of entrepreneurship. Since its establishment in 2003, the KDFP has received more than a thousand proposals and supported 153 dissertations on various topics related to entrepreneurship from a wide range of disciplines while maintaining an overall high quality of research. This program helps launch the careers of emerging world-class entrepreneurship scholars, who have gone on to find positions in top-tier universities, research arms of federal agencies, and private industry, thus laying a foundation for future scientific advancement. The findings generated by this effort will be translated into knowledge with immediate application for policymakers, educators, service providers, and entrepreneurs as well as highquality academic research. The Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program is one of three academic recognition programs established by the Kauffman Foundation (www.kauffman.org) to aid the Foundation in achieving its goal of building a body of respected entrepreneurship research

and making entrepreneurship a highly regarded academic field. The other two programs are the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research awards and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in

Entrepreneurship.  www.kauffman.org/what-we-do/ programs/entrepreneurship/ building-the-field-ofentrepreneurship-research/kauffmandissertation-fellowship-program?utm_ source=Newsletter&utm_ medium=Opticast&utm_ campaign=Ideas_At_Work_7_02_14

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A New Strategy to “Drive” Small Business Growth By John Spears

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hree years ago, entrepreneur Maurice Brewster made one of the best business decisions of his life: He signed his limousine company, Mosaic Transportation, up for IBM’s Supplier Connection – a collaboration between small businesses and the supply chains of Fortune 500 corporations It was a wise decision because small firms that enter the supply chains of major corporations grow their revenue by an average of 250% and their workforce by an average of 150%. In three years, Maurice has

signed contracts with seven major corporations, grown Mosaic from 20 to 46 employees, and tripled his annual revenues. His company had lost half of its business during the Recession, but now it is reaping record profits. Maurice credits this remarkable turnaround to two things: he joined a corporate supply chain, and all seven of his new clients pay him up front with a corporate credit card. Unfortunately, most Mosaic

clients take far longer to pay; it took one company seven months to cut his check. Maurice says if every client paid him on time, he would expand tomorrow to New York and Los Angeles and create dozens of new jobs. This is a common complaint from America’s small business owners. Timely payments and the cost of working capital can make or break a small business. And these ingredients are essential to job creation and economic growth. Today, SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet joined President Obama at the White House to announce the launch of SupplierPay. It’s a new project dedicated to giving America’s entrepreneurs access to affordable, consistent working capital. It’s about paying them on time and keeping their interest rates low, so they can invest in new equipment, new products and new people. Twenty-six major corporations have already signed up. They’ve pledged to shorten payment times or provide other creative financing solutions, so their small business suppliers have the confidence to hire more workers and expand their operations. SBA will take the lead in recruiting

additional corporations to join this endeavor. We have a great case to make, because SupplierPay is a win-win for small businesses and their corporate partners. Supply chains are often shared across

Maria Contreras-Sweet, SBA Administrator an entire industry, so there’s a positive spillover effect when capital costs are lowered. It reduces the price of goods and services. It allows investments in human capital that reduce preventable errors. It increases returns on cash and improves the overall stability of supply chains. President Obama promised the American people he would use the power of his office to make progress on their behalf. Whether you’re a limo company, an auto parts maker or an IT services company, getting paid faster and on more favorable terms is a surefire way to drive job growth and help put America on the road to a more prosperous future. 

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Business Development Manager for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Insurance Division knows from first-hand experience the need for such an item. As a trainer he says he is constantly in motion, which often results in his tie moving out of place. But it is because of a photograph he saw of his self with Susan Taylor founder and CEO of the National CARES Mentoring Movement and editor-in-chief emeritus of Essence Magazine with his tie buckled under his tie clip that triggered the concept for the Ziggi. “I was not pleased with the way I looked. I was not looking my best or presenting my best image,” said the 40-year-old professional. The photograph was taken at the end of February of 2013 and by February of 2014 he had created and designed the product, found a company to make it, developed the packaging, created a website, and is currently in selling mode. With a heavy concentration on social media sites he says the Ziggi can be found on Facebook,

George Howard & the ‘Ziggi Tie Piece’

eorge R. Howard works hard to perfect and market his Ziggi Tie Piece product. The Ziggi Tie Piece, he explains is for the executive man with style. “It is for a professional man and anyone who cares about their appearance.” The Ziggi as he refers to it is designed to flow with the

movement of your body. Made from soft blended wool felt material in white or blue, Howard said it easily slides in the tie label and hooks to the shirt. “The non-restricting and machine washable Ziggi complements a tie clip because the clip can stay attached to the tie while the Ziggi secures the tie’s motion,” he describes. “It provides a man the comfort of knowing that they are looking their best.” Howard, the Training and

Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. Ziggis can be purchased from his website, www.ziggitiepiece.com by using all major credit cards or Pay Pal. “One great opportunity I experienced recently was pitching and auditioning for Shark Tank,” he expressed. “I am waiting to hear if I move to the next level, which is filming a video at their expense. From there the LA producers decide if I make the cut to be on the show.” A strong advocate for education and training, he received his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business and obtained his bachelors from Wayne State University in Detroit. He also is a Harvard University, Maynard Media Academy fellow. Possessing a friendly, positive and energetic personality, Howard identifies his ultimate goal as having a strong thriving business that will allow him to give back to the community. His philosophy is that being successful is more than making money. “It is about helping people.” One way that he currently gives back is by serving as a Reading is Fundamental Reading Mentor in the Pittsburgh Public School elementary system. He also enjoys being a member of the National Black MBAs. Committed to the success of the Ziggi Tie Piece, Howard views his product being as successful as brands like Gucci and Fendi. “I named the tie piece Ziggi because it is cool, fun, easy to remember and sounds similar to Gucci and Fendi. Now embarking upon a capital campaign, Howard says he needs money to properly market the product to reach a wider customer base and for continued product development. 

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The Biggest Reward of Owning a Small Business By Ayaz Nanji for MarketingProfs

ore than half of small businesses owners (52%) say the top reward of owning a company is having the freedom to control your own destiny, according to a recent report from Manta. Other benefits frequently cited by small business owners include not having a boss (23%) and increased self-confidence (7%). Only 4% of small business owners surveyed say money is the top reward. Nearly three-quarters of respondents (72%) say owning their own company gives them more freedom, though 21% say they now have more responsibility and less independence as a small

business owner. The following are additional key findings from the report, which was based on data from a survey of 1,105 small business owners in the United States.

Barriers to Independence 29% of respondents say the performance of the overall economy is the biggest barrier to their independence as a small business owner. 28% say marketing/worrying about new customers is a major barrier to feeling free; 20% cite worrying about money/financial stability; and 7% say the fixed costs necessary to run their business are a major issue.

Technology 39% of respondents say the Internet is the technology most critical to maintaining their

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independence as an entrepreneur. 32% say their mobile phone is the most important piece of tech that enables freedom.

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10 Things You Need to Do When Getting Started on Instagram By Ryan Pinkham for Constant Contact

ou’ve heard all the reasons why Instagram is a great tool for small businesses. Maybe you’ve even signed up for Instagram for personal use. But do you know what it takes to set up an Instagram for your business? Here are 10 things you need to do first:

5. Get set up for social sharing

1. Download the app Instagram is different from other social networks in that it is primarily a mobile platform. Once your account is set up, you will have a page that can be viewed on desktop, but the majority of your activity will take place within the mobile app. Go to http://instagram.com/# to download the app.

2. Choose a recognizable username You can sign up for Instagram with an email address or a personal Facebook account. Once you sign up, you’ll be asked to choose a username. Your username will display publicly, and will be what people see when they find you on Instagram. Make sure the username you choose is recognizable, and is as close to your business or organization’s name as possible. When signing up, Instagram will also ask for your full name. Here, you can put your full business name which will make it easier for people to find you through Instagram’s search function.

recognizable to people who know your business. In most cases, the best choice will be your business’s logo. Your profile photo can only be updated on a mobile device. If you don’t have your logo saved to your smartphone or tablet, Instagram has the option import it from Facebook or Twitter. You can also take a new photo with Instagram.

3. Update your profile Instagram lets you fill out a 150 character bio about your business. Because of the text-limitations, you’ll want to be clear and concise about who you are and what you offer. If you serve a local customer base, you’ll also want to add your location. Constant Contact uses the bio to share our mission, and let people know what types of photos we share from our Instagram account: You can also add your business’s website, which users will be able to click to visit right from their mobile device.

4. Add a recognizable profile picture The perfect Instagram photo will be 160×160 pixels. But what’s most important is that the photo you choose is

If you chose to import your profile photo from Facebook or Twitter, you’re one step ahead. But if you haven’t yet, you should take steps to integrate your Instagram account with your other social channels. On the mobile app, click the gear icon in the top right corner and choose Share Settings. Once you integrate with Facebook, you’ll have the option to share Instagram photos on your personal Timeline, or on a Page that you manage.

6. Post your first photo Okay, now that your profile is set up, it’s time to take your first photo. Here’s a quick run through of how Instagram works: First, click the blue icon on the bottom in the middle of the screen.

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You can either snap a photo by pressing the circle in the middle of the screen, or click the photo

add a caption. You can also tag people and name the location. Before you hit Share, consider step #7.

7. Setting up your location When you click, Name this Location you will see a list of previously used locations in your general area. If you have a brick and mortar location, you may see that someone has already named your location. If your store, restaurant, or office hasn’t been named, you can name it yourself. After your photo is posted, you will see the location name in blue. When you click on your location

preview in the bottom left to upload a photo of your own. Note: The icon on the right enables you to take a video up to 15 seconds long. If you’re uploading a photo, you will have the option to crop it first. After that, you’ll have options for different enhancements. You can choose from a number of filters that scroll across the bottom of the app. (Double tap the filter to add a border or alter the strength of the filter. You can also alter the brightness or click on the wrench icon to access a number of other photo editing features. Once you’re happy with your photo, hit NEXT in the top right of the screen. Here, you’ll be able to

name, you’ll be able to see every photo that has been tagged there. This can be a great resource for seeing what people like and want to share about your business.

8. Tell people Instagram

you’re

Leverage your existing channels to let people know your business is on Instagram. You can post about it on your different networks and link back to your account, or share photos directly from the app.

If you have an email list, you can send out an announcement and ask readers to follow you. Instagram also has badges that can easily be added to your website or blog.

9. Follow others Instagram’s search function makes it easy to find people and brands to follow. You can search by username, or choose a hashtag that may be relevant to your business. Following more people and businesses is a great way to make new connections and can also provide inspiration for your Instagram account.

10. Get social You’ve set up your account, learned the basics, and found the right people to follow; now you’re ready to start building a presence for your business on Instagram. A key component of building an audience on Instagram is engaging with the people who follow you. When someone likes or comments on your photo, you will receive a notification. You can respond within the comments of a photo by including the “@” symbol, followed by their username. You will also receive notifications when someone tags you in a photo. You can view all of the photos you’ve been tagged in, on your Instagram profile. 

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How to do Business with the Asian Development Bank Forum August 7, 2014

August 8, 2014

LA Area Chamber of Commerce City Bank Building Address 4th & Flower Streets Downtown Los Angeles The U.S. Commercial Service is offering an educational/networking forum on August 7th for consultants, manufacturers, suppliers and project developers interested in business opportunities resulting from ADB lending activities and meeting with ADB experts and procurement specialists who will discuss how to track these opportunities and how ADB contracts are implemented. A second day of individualized meetings will take place on August 8th at the City Bank Building (4th & Flower St). Cost: $50.00: On-line registration only, opens on June 1st. Seating will be limited. Event Information & Registration: www.adb.org, http://export.gov/adb Sponsorship Opportunity Information: www.adb.org, http://export.gov/adb

Reminder to California Business Owners Effective, July 1, 2014. Minimum wage in California goes up to $9.00 an hour. All employees in California must be paid the minimum wage.

ADB Lending Activities Profile 22 billion annually from 2011 – 2013 U.S. Companies secured over $1.6 billion in contracts from 2009 – 2013 Cumulative procurement since 1966 exceeded $8.5 billion dollars. Bobby Hines, International Trade Specialist International Trade Administration/USDOC/DownTown Los Angeles www.export.gov bobby.hines@trade.gov TEL: 213-894-4231 FAX: 213-894-8789

Effective January 1, 2016, the minimum wage in California will be $10.00 per hour.

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The U.S. Commercial Service is proud to present this unprecedented national series of business development conferences to help U.S. companies identify and win new business in the international marketplace. Each DISCOVER GLOBAL MARKETS event will feature visiting U.S. Commercial Diplomats from the countries highlighted below:

DISCOVER GLOBAL MARKETS: Free Trade Agreement Countries Australia, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Panama, Peru, Singapore, and South Korea Detroit - September 9-10, 2014

DISCOVER GLOBAL MARKETS: Greater China and Gateway Countries Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenyang, Singapore, Taiwan, and Mongolia New York - October 7-8, 2014

DISCOVER GLOBAL MARKETS: The Americas Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay Charlotte - October 29-31, 2014

DISCOVER GLOBAL MARKETS: Sub-Saharan Africa Angola, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania Atlanta - November 5-6, 2014

DISCOVER GLOBAL MARKETS: Healthcare & Life Sciences Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, European Union (Regulations), India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudia Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, and Vietnam Minneapolis - November 17-18, 2014 Contact us at any time at DiscoverGlobalMarkets@trade.gov

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Dwayne Gathers CoTECH NOTES: Chairs Hollywood More Search Tools Economic Development by Steven M. Baule, Ed.D, Ph.D. Committee

ounded in 1921, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has been the leading business organization in the heart of the Greater Los Angeles region, representing and advocating on behalf of the interests of its diverse business community, including the region’s signature industries – including entertainment and tourism. The Chamber focuses on economic development, quality of life issues and providing assistance to businesses looking to grow and expand in Hollywood. Over the past 12 years, Hollywood has attracted over US $4 Billion in new investment and currently has over US $1 Billion in new projects under construction – including office, residential, mixed use and retail projects. It is the home of the entertainment industry and represents the largest tourism destination in the region, attracting an estimated 10 million tourists annually. Dwayne Gathers, President/CEO, Gathers Strategies, brings 30 years of professional experiences in banking, public policy, economic development and international trade and investment having served in the private sector, the public sector, and in the non-profit sector to this committee. He has

worked both domestically and internationally and has developed a wide range of economic development programs on behalf of foreign governmental and economic development organizations seeking to engage California’s diverse business communities in order to attract investment, grow trade relationships, and enhance strategic partnerships. Gathers served as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in Washington, D.C. and later was appointed by the Governor of California as its first-ever Director of the State of California’s Office of

ince the Web has been with us for more than 20 years, much is taken for granted. One of the biggest neglected skills taught is how to search the Web effectively since “everyone knows how to use Google” (or insert another favorite search engine here). You can help your students, teachers and staff improve their search skills and results by pointing them to resources like Google’s Guide to Search Engine Operators or their Advanced Search (www.google.com/advanced_search) page. How to Geek (www.howtogeek.com) provides similar tips for using Bing. Once you’ve mastered the basics, start learning about the “Deep Web” resources available, such as Open Source Internet Resources (http:// opensourceinternet.org/category/online-tools/searchengines/deep-web-search), the WWW Virtual Library catalog (http://vlib.org) of Web resources, or Google’s DeeperWeb (http://deeperweb.com) search engine. Your team will soon learn they can yield far better search results if they do more than “just Google it." 

Trade and Investment for sub-Saharan Africa, based in Johannesburg, from 1995 -2000. To discuss opportunities for partnerships with the Hollywood community, contact Dwayne at 213-2363554 or www.gathersstrategies.com or send email inquiries to dgathers@gathersstrategies.com. 

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Small Business Investment Companies (SBIC)

favorable rates through the federal government. •And the national economy benefits as the small businesses financed by SBICs continue to create jobs and generate tax revenues.

Where can I learn more? Visit the SBIC Program pages ( w w w. s b a . g o v / c o n t e n t / s b i c program-overview-0), including the FAQ, for more information about the SBIC Program. Still have questions? Email askSBIC@sba. gov. 

id you know that the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program has been helping high-growth small businesses get financing since 1958? That's right – for more than 50 years, SBICs have facilitated the flow of long-term capital to America’s businesses. There are thousands of small business success stories, but here are a few you probably recognize: Costco, Apple and Staples – just to name a few.

funds (the SBICs) that finance small businesses.

How does it work?

What are the perks?

SBA doesn't finance businesses directly. For the SBIC program, the Small Business Administration (SBA) partners with private investors to capitalize professionally-managed investment

•Small businesses can receive equity capital, long-term loans and expert management assistance. •Investment managers can add to their own private investment capital with funds borrowed at

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RIO 2016 OLYMPIC COMMITTEE Partnership & Contract Opportunities For a list of current Rio 2016 Olympic Sponsors visit: http://rio2016.com/en/organising-committee/partners

Your American Contact: joel.Reynoso@trade.gov

For information on the Games visit http://export.gov/brazil/games/index.asp

For information on participating in or supporting the Voting Rights Act restoration movement visit these and other organization websites: • 50th Anniversary March on Washington - http://50thanniversarymarchonwashington.com.

• National Action Network - http://nationalactionnetwork.net/mow/

• NAACP - www.naacp.org

• National Urban League - http://nul.iamempowered.com

• Rainbow/PUSH Coalition - www.rainbowpush.org

Verizon is joining forces with AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and a number of other businesses and community organizations to help promote safe driving through

It Can Wait. http://itcanwait.com

• Project Vote - www.projectvote.org

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A crowdfunding platform for projects and ideas benefiting the African-American community. www.blackstartup.com

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Technology and the Future in Health, Business and Ethics 3D Bioprinters Could Make Enhanced, ElectricityGenerating 'Superorgans' By Meghan Neal

ioprinting technology is advancing so quickly that some scientists believe 3D printing an entire artificial human organ is only five to ten years off. That alone is pretty bonkers, science-wise, and could save many lives. But why stop there? Once you start talking about manufacturing body parts, the inevitable lurking question is: Can we go beyond just mimicking biology to make technologically improved humans? At least one scientist, Ibrahim Ozbolat from the University of Iowa, believes that 3D bioprinting will pave the road to this posthuman future. "There might be some brand new organ that doesn't exist in the human body, but it can be transplanted in the human body to enhance the functionality," Ozbolat said in an interview with HuffPost Live (). In other words, simply replacing failed organs is thinking small. Bioprinted enhanced organs— or artificial ones that don’t exist in nature—can be engineered to perform specific, useful functions, such as treating disease. You can bioprint "an organ that is going to be part of the human body and generate electricity that can run the heart." Already, a 3D-printed artificial pancreas that can regulate glucose levels in diabetic patients is being developed at the University of Iowa’s Advanced Manufacturing Technology Group, which Ozbolat

heads up. But “bioprinting enhanced organs is different than our pancreatic organ printing project,” Ozbolat explained in an email. “Pancreas printing is for making an artificial pancreas to regulate glucose level in blood, not targeting at something better than a natural pancreas.” Enhanced, “superorgans” that improve upon nature could open the door to a new era of personalized medicine. Speaking to HuffPost Live, Ozbolat said bioprinting could be used to create an organ that can generate electricity in the human body. An electrogenic organ could power electronic implants, like pacemakers, without the need for batteries. "The pacemaker runs with batteries, and when the battery needs to be replaced, surgery is needed," he said. You can prevent that by printing "an organ that is going to be part of the human body and generates electricity that can run the heart." Whaaat. Let’s back up a sec. The gist of 3D bioprinting is that you start with a bio “ink” harvested from stem cells or human cells, and feed that ink through a printer that's programmed to assemble the cells to construct three dimensional tissue structures. Already, scientists have printed swaths of organ tissue; they imagine being able to print entire organs in the not too distant future. So, by genetically modifying

the cells that go into the printer, scientists can theoretically biomanufacture a transplantable body part with superhuman capabilities. While engineering an existing organ into an electricity generator is impossible, building one from scratch, starting with modifying engineered cells, could do the trick. Electrogenic organs already exist in some marine creatures (such as electric eels), and engineering cells to produce a small voltage has already been accomplished, albeit at a tiny scale, said Ozbolat. "The major problem is how to scale up the voltage to generate enough potential. We need to use multiple millions of these cells and integrate them in 3D to produce sufficient voltage," he said. It’s looking more feasible all the time, but that kind of breakthrough is still many years into the future, Ozbolat said. "Demonstration of a mini organ model lighting a bulb might be feasible in five years. But developing the technology for transplantation, hooking that up to the blood stream, connecting and synchronizing it with a heart with failed AV node will take much longer." Bioprinted "self-powered human” parts that generate electricity are at least 100 years off, Ozbolat said. Unsurprisingly, the idea of electric organs has been floated in transhumanist circles before. In 2008, before 3D printing turbocharged tissue engineering, the blog Human Enhancement and Biopolitics painted a picture

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Business of what it might look like: The most likely and practical option will be to have a small patch of electrogenic cells surrounding any electronic implant, like the prosthetic arm and cybernetic implants we will all have by that stage. They may also prove useful in biological pacemakers, if the heart was surrounded with electrogenic cells to provide impulses.

bioprinting will advance much faster than the social understanding of the technology's implications, which will spark a major ethical debate within a couple years. "What happens when complex 'enhanced' organs involving nonhuman cells are made? Who will control the ability to produce them? Who will ensure the quality of the resulting organs?" wrote Gartner. "These initiatives are well-

know if and when that will change as commercial products start to hit the market. Right now, bioprinted tissues are used for drug testing, as a safer alternative to testing new products on humans. “Regulations will be more strict for organs for transplantation,” Ozbolat said. Experts discussed the ethical and regulatory issues of bioprinting living organs at the RAPID conference recently, he said. For

If the electric organ was just below the skin of our chest and arms, but very well insulated except for at ends of our fingers, we’d literally have the full current and voltage of the electric organ at our fingertips. But while this may sound like a dream to a transhumanist, not everyone takes kindly to the idea of biomanufacturing artificial life with unnatural abilities. A recent Gartner report predicted that 3D

intentioned, but raise a number of questions that remain unanswered.” “Enhanced organs might have some side effects as well ... No one want to be a Frankenstein.” Like many other emerging technologies, the question of how to regulate the human enhancement trend has policymakers scratching their heads. There’s currently no government regulations on bioprinting, bioprinted products or the machines, but there’s no way to

instance, patients may not be willing to let people use their cells for biomaterials. “Enhanced organs might have some side effects as well; therefore, there should be some restrictions or limitations on that," said Ozbolat. “No one wants to be a Frankenstein.” And that’s the other inevitable lurking question: Even if 3D printing superorgans is possible, is it a good idea? 

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Take a Look! by LaSandra Stratton Check out what these firms and organizations have to offer for your personal interests, personal wealth building, and business expansion opportunities. http://gingerlabs.com Notability, is a powerful notetaker on iPad and iPhone: sketch ideas, annotate documents, sign contracts. With Notability and iCloud, your office travels with you. All of your notes, sketches, plans, and forms are available to mark up, review, or send to a client anytime, anywhere.

“With Notability, you're no longer tethered to an office. You can mark up many types of documents on an iPad or iPhone, and then send them to clients while on the road.” iPad is more versatile and resourceful than pen and paper. With Notability, you can combine photos, sketches, typing and audio recordings to give your notes and presentations more context than ever. With Notability, you can fill out, sign and email forms from wherever you are, to wherever they need to be. Notability is the perfect place

for all of your personal notes and plans - packing lists, travel documents, maps, recipes, forms and capturing all of your amazing memories. Notability also aids your learning process for recording notes and recording lectures. Notability by Ginger Labs is available on iTunes. http://en-us.wespeke.com Use WeSpeke to prepare for trade missions to nations that use French or Portuguese as a primary language for business and

to continue to conduct viable and business operations over time. Our aim at WeSpeke is to make language education engaging, fun and motivating by scaling a disruptive model for language education and cultural exchange. We are combining social networking, crowd-sourcing, Voice and Video over IP, content and matching technology to allow anyone, anywhere at any time to teach, learn and practice languages and exchange cultures – for free! We are a free global community. WeSpeke is a safe, secure and free Online Cross-Cultural Communications Platform that allows language learners to practice a foreign language by connecting them in one-on-one conversations with natives. It can be used in a language education curriculum or as a homework platform to help you motivate and engage your students. Use WeSpeke to: build connections with schools, classes, teach-

ers or students; talk to business partners around the world using text chat, messaging, audio and video; find people to talk to based on shared interests. www.voxer.com Voxer is Voice Communication Made Easy. Voxer offers instant voice on smartphones that's live like two-way radios, but is saved so you never miss a message. Alongside voice you may share text, photos and location globally. You’ll never need to repeat your-

self or call back. Send or receive a message, and the message is instantly available to playback. Use Voxer on mobile devices or on your desktop. We're on any data network that you're on. Listen and respond to messages at anytime from anywhere. Voxer Business for your Desktop. Get everything you love about Voxer Business on your desktop live and recorded voice, text and photos at your fingertips. http://pocketgems.com Pocket Gems, founded in 2009, pioneered the free to play mobile games industry. They offer a wide variety of interactive games for all ages played on mobile devices. Through their Episode Interactive series of games, Pocket

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Business Gems offers the opportunity to become a game writer. Episode presents players with dozens of animated stories where their choices matter. Episode also empowers writers to write and animate their own stories for our community. Download Episode on the Apple Appstore, Google Play Store or Amazon Appstore. or if you’re interested in writing for the app, check out the writer’s portal. http://aws.amazon.com Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services that help organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale applications. These services are trusted by the largest enterprises and the hottest start-ups to power a wide variety of workloads including: web and mobile applications, data processing and warehousing, storage, archive, and many others. Amazon Web Services provides a variety of cloudbased computing services including a wide selection of compute instances which can scale up and down automatically to meet the needs of your application, a managed load balancing service as well as fully managed desktops in the cloud. Some of the services included are:

Amazon Appstream: a flexible, low-latency service that lets you stream resource intensive applications from the cloud. Amazon WorkSpaces: access the documents, applications and resources you need with the device of their choice. AWS Marketplace: an online store that helps your customers find, buy, and you to immediately start using the software and services to build marketing products to run your business. Amazon SES (Simple Email

Service): a highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for the cloud.

Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud): lets you provision a private, isolated section of the AWS Cloud where you can launch AWS

resources in a virtual network that you define. With Amazon VPC, you can define a virtual network topology that closely resembles a traditional network that you might operate in your own datacenter. Review all of the services and features of AWS at http://aws.amazon.com. www.google.co.ke/mybusiness www.google.com/mybusiness Google My Business connects you directly with customers, whether they're looking for you on Search, Maps or Google+. Google My Business puts your business info on Search, Maps and Google+ so that customers can find you, no matter what device they're using. Give customers the right info at the right time, whether that be driving directions to your business in Maps, opening hours in Search or a phone number they can click on to call you on mobile phones. Google My Business helps you build a loyal fan base. Your customers can show their appreciation with ratings and reviews, use the +1 button to endorse your content and reshare your Google+ posts across the web. 

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Let's Move - Eat Like A Pro

First Lady Michelle Obama participates in a "Let's Move!" taping with Richard Sherman of the Seattle Seahawks in the White House Kitchen. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon)

n May, the Seattle Seahawks were invited to the White House to commemorate their Super Bowl Championship earlier this year. During their visit, Seahawks players Richard Sherman, Russell Wilson, and Earl Thomas teamed up with the First Lady Michelle Obama in the White House Kitchen to show off some impressive cooking skills and share the importance of eating healthy to help them perform at the top of their game. As Richard Sherman put it, "whether you're a pro athlete or just

a kid at school wanting a healthy meal, you've got to put the right fuel in your body in order to perform at your best." See the "Let's Cook! with Richard Sherman and the Seattle Seahawks" video using the YouTube address show below.

Bring the Let's Move Program to Your Neighborhood Through Active Schools An Active School incorporates physical activity before, during, and after school for at least 60 minutes a day.

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When Kids Are Physically Active They perform better academically. They have better attendance. Their behavior improves.

The Time To Act Is Now

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Because • Only 6 states require physical education in every grade. • Only 20% of school districts require daily recess. • 2 out of 3 kids today are inactive.

The 5 Key Elements To Achieve School-Wide Change Physical Education: Provide high-quality physical education

that is fun and inclusive. Physical Activity During School: Create active classrooms. Include physical activity breaks in lessons. Physical Activity Before & After School: Offer students opportunities to begin and end their day with physical activities. Staff Involvement: Emphasize physical activity as a priority for the whole staff. Family & Community Engagement:

Connect with the community. Make your school the center for physical activity. Whether you’re a parent or an educator, Let's Move Active Schools will help you build a plan, make improvements, and celebrate success. Get started now and help shape the future! Sign up at www. letsmoveschools.org. 

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Empower Children Bridge the Word Gap by Maya Shankar

esearch shows that during the first years of life, a poor child hears roughly 30 million fewer total words than her more affluent peers. Critically, what she hears has direct consequences for what she learns. Children who experience this drought in heard words have vocabularies that are half the size of their peers by age 3, putting them at a disadvantage before they even step foot in a classroom. This is what we call the “word gap,” and it can lead to disparities not just in vocabulary size, but also in school readiness, long-term educational and health outcomes, earnings, and family stability even decades later. It’s important to note that talking to one’s baby doesn’t just promote language development. It promotes brain development more broadly. Every time a parent or caregiver has a positive, engaging verbal interaction with a baby – whether it’s talking, singing, or reading – neural connections of all kinds are strengthened within the baby’s rapidly growing brain. That’s why today we are releasing a new video message from President Obama focused on the importance of supporting learning in our youngest children to help bridge the word gap and improve their chances for later success in school and in life. The President’s message builds on the key components of his Early Learning Initiative, which proposes a comprehensive plan to provide high-quality early education to children from birth to school entry.

The President’s message is part of a week-long campaign organized in partnership with Too Small to Fail, a joint initiative of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation and Next Generation, to raise awareness of the importance of closing the word gap. The video series follows the firstever White House Summit on Working Families that explored innovative solutions to help expand opportunities for working families and businesses. The Summit explored a wide range of issues, including expanding access to affordable child care and early education opportunities for families. Our children’s future is so important, bipartisan leaders are all doing their part to help close the word gap. Watch messages from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, and Cindy McCain, and share these messages with your networks to help spread the word about this cause. This fall, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Department of Health and Human Services will team up with Too Small to Fail and the Urban Institute to host an event designed to increase public understanding and make progress on this important issue. This event will highlight initiatives across the country focused on bridging the word gap, including: • Too Small to Fail’s Talking

is Teaching public action campaign aimed at educating parents about the importance of talking to one’s baby and testing out community-level approaches, including in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Too Small to Fail is working in partnership with the George Kaiser Family Foundation. This campaign will engage pediatricians, business owners, faith-based leaders, librarians, and others to share with parents and caregivers how simple actions (e.g., describing objects seen during a walk or bus ride, singing songs, or telling stories) can significantly improve a baby’s ability to learn new words and concepts. • Georgia’s Talk with Me Baby, a scalable, public action strategy aimed at increasing early exposure to language and public understanding of the primacy of language. This program provides professional

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development to nurses, the nation’s largest healthcare workforce, who will coach new and expectant parents to deliver “language nutrition” to their kids. With funding from the Greater United Way of Atlanta, this collaborative effort brings together the Georgia Department of Public Health and Department of Education, Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and Georgia Tech. • The City of Providence’s Providence Talks, which provides members of the Providence community, where

two-thirds of kindergarteners enroll below national literacy standards, with home-based caregiver coaching interventions. These interventions harness innovative technologies from the LENA Foundation, including word “pedometers” that record and provide quantitative feedback to caregivers on the number of words spoken and the number of conversations had with children. Providence Talks is hosted by Mayor Taveras of Providence, Rhode Island, and is supported by the Bloomberg Foundation. • The University of Chicago,

School of Medicine's Thirty Million Words® Initiative with its tiered intervention approach to optimizing caregiver-child talk at the individual, community, and population levels. Researchers recently received funds from the PNC Foundation to support a five-year longitudinal study of the program’s impact. To learn more about the Administration’s commitment to early childhood education, click here. Stay tuned for more details on our fall event. And if you’re interested in joining this effort or sharing the great work you’re already doing, email us at wordgap@ostp.gov. 

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Community/Public Interest

Museum Above Ground and On Schedule

by Edison R. Wato Jr., Membership Manager

s you may know the National Museum of African American History and Culture was established through Congressional legislation and signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2003. In April 2009, a design competition jury selected the Freelon Adjaye Bond/ SmithGroup as the Museum’s architectural and engineering team. From our humble beginnings in 2003, the Museum broke ground on a five-acre site adjacent to the Washington Monument and in view of the White House, on February 22, 2012. These amazing

moments will go down in history and it is thanks to donations and support from Charter Members and friends like you! Since 2012 we have made large strides in the construction of our Museum. In Spring 2014 we poured concrete over the roof of the History Gallery, one of our underground exhibitions. This monumental moment enabled us to rise above ground in late

April 2014. Since breaking ground, the Museum is meeting construction deadlines and is scheduled to open in 2016. We wanted to take the opportunity today to let all of you know that that we are finally Above Ground! Thank you for all your support! Continue that support and keep the development project on schedule by visiting the NMAAHC website at www.nmaahc.si.edu. 

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Community/Public Interest

Olympic Gold Medalist Alice Coachman Dies at 90 By Dan Whitcomb, Reuters

s the gold medal winner in the high jump at the 1948 Olympics in London, Alice Coachman came home to a celebratory welcome, including a parade in her home town of Albany, Ga.. But Coachman was not permitted to speak at the ceremony. And the mayor did not shake her hand. The town's problem with Coachman had nothing to do with her athletic achievement or her character. It was the color of her skin. Coachman, who was the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal, died recently in Albany, said her son, Richmond Davis, who said she had been undergoing treatment for a stroke. She was believed to be 90. Coachman, whose married name was Davis, was not surprised at the behavior of city officials during the era of segregation in the South. She was all too familiar with unjust treatment. As a girl, she was not permitted to use public sports facilities, forcing her to improvise. She used rope or tied rags together to substitute for proper crossbars when she practiced high-jumping. And instead of running on a track, Coachman ran on rural trails, usually barefoot because her family could not afford sports shoes. Still, when Albany officials snubbed her after her victory, it hurt, especially in light of the fact that she received her medal in London from King George VI. "To come back home to your own country, your own state and your own city, and you can't get a handshake from the mayor?" she said in an interview several years ago for the National Visionary Leadership Project. "Wasn't a good feeling." Some whites in the city were supportive, but not publicly. At a party at her godfather's house, she received many gifts and flowers from well wishers but many of the packages arrived with no cards or names attached. Coachman said those came from white people. "They couldn't let people know they were sending

flowers to this black woman," she said. "That's the way it was, then." Coachman was born in Albany on Nov. 9, 1923, according to some published reports, although her son said the exact date is uncertain; he said tax documents put the year at 1922. Her parents had 10 children, with Alice early on showing signs of being an athlete. On walks with her great-grandmother along dirt roads "I would skip ahead of her and run from her," Coachman said in a 1997 interview with the Birmingham News. "This was way before I became school age. I just had so much fun running. "I never stopped."

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By the time she was in seventh grade, she was high jumping more than 5 feet, a towering distance for her age at the time. Before entering high school, she participated in a track and field meet at Tuskegee Institute, one of the best-known black educational institutions, where she shattered the high school and college high-jump records. Tuskegee's famed coach, Cleve Abbott, recruited her. Coachman won the national championship in high jump in 1939, and went on to win it nine more times in a row. She would have probably competed at the Olympic Games in 1940 and 1944, but they were canceled because of World War II. "I know I would have won in 1944, at least," she said. "I was starting to peak then." Finally, she made it to the Olympics in 1948 and found herself staying, for the first time in her life, in integrated housing. "It was a beautiful thing to be around that camp," Coachman told the Associated Press in 1996. "All those people from different countries doing their thing, singing and dancing." The high jump was one of the last events of the Games. On her first jump, she cleared the bar at just

over 51/2 feet, an Olympic and U.S. record. Coachman retired from competitions after the Games. She had earned her undergraduate degree from what is now Albany State University, and went on to teach and coach. But there were also hard times — a breakup with her fiance, a bad marriage and a series of deadend jobs, including working as a housekeeper. But by the early 1990s, her life was coming back together. She married her former fiance (coincidentally, both her husbands had the last name of Davis) and she began teaching again. After years of living quietly, she also was ready to set the sports world straight on a misconception. "You go anyplace and people will tell you Wilma Rudolph was the first black woman to win a medal," Coachman said in the Birmingham News, speaking of the runner who won three gold medals at the 1960 Olympic Games. "It's not true, She came on the scene 12 years later. "But she was on television." In addition to her son, who lives in Akron, Ohio, Coachman is survived by a daughter, Evelyn Jones of Albany; one grandchild, two great-grandchildren and a sister. 

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SAVE THE DATE!

ETHIOPIA BUSINESS & INVESTMENT FORUM Fostering Private Sector Partnerships for Economic Development WHEN? Friday, August 1, 2014 8:00 am – 4:00 pm

2151 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, CA 90067 WHY ETHIOPIA? Harnessing the power of its large population and abundant labor force; political and social stability; and investment incentives and protections; Ethiopia has achieved some of the highest economic growth rates across Africa over the past decade. The government of Ethiopia also has undertaken considerable reforms to improve the country’s business climate, enhance its attractiveness, and raise its infrastructures to international standards to make investment in Ethiopia favorable to all prospective investors. HOW? The forum will showcase the vast business and investment opportunities for U.S. organizations that exist in Ethiopia in the areas of agriculture, manufacturing, infrastructure, hotel and tourism development, and mining, amongst others. U.S. organizations can also take advantage of the “Power Africa” initiative by investing in the country’s enormous renewable energy resources, such as wind, solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric power. WHO’S COMING? The delegation will be led by the highest possible executive of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) and will include senior cabinet ministers and Ethiopia’s leading private sector companies.

TOURISM | ENERGY | INDUSTRIES | AGRICULTURE | CONSTRUCTION For more information, please contact: Ambassador Zerihun Retta, Consul General, Consulate General of Ethiopia in Los Angeles at 310-616-6910; Mr. Esayas Gotta, Deputy Consul General, Consulate General of Ethiopia in Los Angeles at 213-365-0017 or investethiopia@ethioconsulatela.org; or Dwayne Gathers, Gathers Strategies, Inc. at 213-236-3554 or dgathers@gathersstrategies.com For online registration, click - register Or enter the following URL into your browser https://arcsoftus.wufoo.com/forms/ethiopian-business-investment-forum/ Embassy of Ethiopia Washington DC

Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Addis Ababa

Ethiopian Consulate General Los Angeles

International

TRADE MISSION: DIVERSIFYING INVESTMENT IN ANGOLA May 29 - June 5, 2014

The U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce has postponed its Trade Mission until the 4th Quarter of 2014. The US-Angola Chamber of Commerce (USACC) was informed on May 21st by Boeing that due to administrative circumstances beyond their control, the anticipated dates for delivery of the TAAG 777 had to be shifted. Subsequently this means that the USACC Trade Mission to Angola originally scheduled for May 29 to June 4, 2014, will also have to be changed to a later date which will be conveyed in due course – anticipated to be in the fourth quarter of 2014. USACC sincerely apologizes for any inconvenience this unavoidable shift in schedule may have caused you and do hope that you will still be able to join us on this great mission at its rescheduled date. If you have already paid, USACC will be pleased to reimburse your fee for the trade mission. Upon receipt of your instruction please be advised that this reimbursement will take approximately four business days to be credited back to your account. Please know that you and your company are important to us at the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce and our partner ANIP. We would like to sincerely thank you for your support and understanding. Should you have any additional questions or concerns, please contact Maria da Cruz Gabriel (1-703-203-6481).

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International

Changing Lives in Africa – Unoma Okorafor Anita Borg Institute

he Anita Borg Institute 2013 Change Agent ABIE Award Winner Unoma Okorafor is the founder of the non profit

growth and poverty eradication in Africa. Unoma believes that education is the most effective tool to empower

organization WAAW Foundation (Working to Advance Science and Technology Education for African Girls). Their mission is to increase the pipeline of African girls and women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) related fields, and to ensure that this talent is engaged in innovation, economic

a girl, give her a voice, and create opportunities for a brighter future,

not only for herself but for her family and community. She also believes that technology innovation is our best chance for solving many of the challenges currently faced in Africa. This summer, the WAAW Foundation is organizing a weeklong residential Robotics and Computing Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) camp for 60 public school secondary girls from across Africa. Hosted in Lagos, Nigeria, the camp will impact girls, aged 13 – 17 from low income families, who otherwise would never have an opportunity to experience STEM learning in a fun, interactive and hands-on way, arming them with tools that will encourage innovation and make them problem solvers in their communities. Every donation goes 100% towards impacting the girls’ life directly by providing scholarships for the girls to attend the STEM camp costfree. Help girls in Africa contribute to technology innovation and poverty eradication by participating in the WAAW Foundation Indiegogo campaign “Help An African Girl Achieve A STEM Education.“ 

www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-an-african-girl-achieve-a-stem-education www.waawfoundation.org http://anitaborg.org/profiles/changing-lives-in-africa-unoma-okorafor

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African Global Economic & Development Summit (AGED) August 6-9, 2014 University of Southern California (USC) 3620 McClintock Avenue Hedco Auditorium - Mudd Building Los Angeles, CA 90089 Register at: http://bit.ly/AfricanSummit For more information visit: http://bit.ly/AGEDinfo Contact: Mary Flowers info@GGDGNow.com or 909 396-5141 Africa is home to 54 nations and over 1 billion consumers. Africa is host to six of the top ten fastest growing economies in the world. These high growth countries are experiencing GDP’s above 6% annum, some as high as 9%. Almost all goods are imported in Africa. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM AGED SUMMIT 2014: • AGED is your one-stop regional shop: Meet multiple African businesses & high-level government contacts. • African market intelligence and economic data is extrapolated, shared and actionable partnerships and multi-party business agreements are structured for execution. • More than 60% of the attendees are coming from African states or the African Diaspora from around the globe. 79  July 2014  Black Business News  www.blackbbusinessnews.net  1-323-291-7819

Newly formed Atlanta organization to host Zambia Golden Jubilee Celebration in Atlanta Zambians Promoting Leadership in America (ZLA) is a recently formed organization based in Atlanta GA. ZLA founder, Freda Mwamba Brazle, said the organization's objective is centered around demonstrating leadership, taking responsibility and collaboration. Born in Chinsali, Northern Province, Mwamba Brazle is a graduate of the Leadership Atlanta class of 2006 and possesses a Bachelors in Management Information Systems and Master of Science in Accounting from Pace University, New York City. She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Master Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma. Her impressive education background is coupled with over 20 years experience in the corporate world which includes employment with The Coca-Cola Company, General Electric, Arthur Andersen Consulting, Bank of America and WellPoint where she has held various executive roles.

When asked why she decided to host Zambia Golden Jubilee event and how it relates to ZLA, Freda said, "I am one of many Zambian born professionals who have made significant strides in the United States. Zambia's 50th year anniversary is the perfect time to take stock of how far Zambia has come and how Zambians in the Diaspora have developed. Zambia's 50th birth year is the perfect

time to launch "Zambians Promoting Leadership in America." Freda Mwamba Brazle decided that she was going to apply what she had learned about community and transformational leadership to plan a memorable event for Zambiaಬs 50th Golden Jubilee in Atlanta. Understanding that success is best achieved with like-minded people,

Freda Mwamba

she pulsed several contacts, both Zambian and non-Zambian to interest them in joining her in making a statement about her country of origin. The response was overwhelming and the idea was given life.

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SPEAKER LINE-UP

Innocent Mulenga

Thomas Konditi

The members of the planning committee are made up of Zambian professionals from diverse backgrounds and experience. "There are so many skilled and talented Zambians in the US. I feel privileged to work with such an impressive team of leaders in their own right. Take a look at their profiles on our website," she exclaimed. The jubilee celebrations will take place on Saturday, October 25th, 2014 at the Atlanta Airport Marriott Gateway Hotel. An impressive list of speakers include: Geri Thomas President of Georgia Operations and Global

Hugh Molotsi

Diversity & Inclusion Executive at Bank of America Corporation. Nairobi-based Thomas Konditi, the Chief Financial Officer for GE Africa. Hugh Molotsi, Vice President of Technology Innovation at Intuit. Zambia-based Innocent Mulenga, Zambian Primatologist at Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage. Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphange in Zambia has provided care and protection to about 200 Chimpanzees since it opened.

Geri Thomas

Street Dancers, and Damien Musuka. ಯThe Golden Jubilee event is our way of giving back to our country of origin by sharing the untold story and showcasing Zambia to the American audience. We are a proud, humble and friendly nation and home to The Victoria Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world." Freda added.

Entertainment will be provided by 3D the Boss, Ollie Patterson, the Soweto

Tickets can be purchased online at www.ZambiaJubileeAtlanta.com For additional information please email zambiajubileeatlanta@gmail.com

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The 2014 Annual Pan African Trade & Investment Conference will be convened on

August 15 & 16, 2014 Los Angeles, CA in collaboration with the

2014 International African Marketplace & Business Expo and the

Life and Times Magazine's 4th Annual Fiesta. Our 2014 conference will feature trade exhibits, and business opportunity presentations and panels from representatives of East and West Africa. For more information contact our Conference Coordinator, Al Washington at 1-626-243-3614 or visit our conference website: www.panafricanglobaltradeconference.com SPECIAL NOTE - MEET

His Excellency, Malam (Dr) Isa Yuguda, the Governor of Bauchi State of Nigeria at this conference!

AFRICAN EXPANSION ECONOMIC SUMMIT 2014 / Durban, South Africa 10-14 November 2014 Durban International Convention Centre The African Economic Expansion Summit is an annual global gathering of international investors, business executives, financiers and government officials to discuss, showcase, review and create business partnerships. Several infrastructure channels and project pipelines have been identified for pre-selected African States to submit pre-screened projects to the Project Initiation Committee under the following sectors: Transport:

Services:

Social:

Agriculture:

Energy:

• Ports/Shipping • Road Network • Rail Network • Airports

• Electricity • Water • Telecoms & ICT

• Schools/Universities • Clinics/Hospitals • Tourism

• Production • Processing • Distribution

• Generation • Distribution • Sustainable & Alternative

International project and consulting companies and interested businesses/investors will be able to present their focussed projects and services to government decision makers from across sub Saharan Africa. Interested parties from Africa and overseas will be able to showcase their infrastructure projects and services through targeted exhibitions, project due diligence presentations and other marketing materials. The Summit’s diverse array of marketing channels includes site visits, plenary sessions, panel discussions, break-away sessions and one-on-one interactions will deliver a unique professional experience and networking platform to move deals forward. The AEES gives Africa a new platform to drive economic activity and investment profiles about what’s happening on the continent as it relates to infrastructure projects. African delegations from Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union, West & East African Regional Economic Communities, and various African member states to showcase their economies critical infrastructure projects. The Summit co-hosts, the South African Province of KwaZulu-Natal and Rainbow/PUSH Africa believe this unique professional networking experience offers an exceptional insight into Africa’s future infrastructural opportunities and challenges. We look forward to your participation at the AEES, we believe there is an appetite to build new partnerships and become part of the African growth story. Registration and Information: Website: www-aees.co.za E-mail: info@aees.co.za

International

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African Stock Exchanges • Bolsa de Valores of Cape Verde - www.bvc.cv (in Portuguese) • Bond Exchange of South Africa - www.bondexchange. co.za • Botswana Stock Exchange www.bse.co.bw • Bourse Regionale des Valeurs Mobilieres - UEMOA (Abidjan, Ivory Coast) - www.brvm.org • Casablanca Stock Exchange (Morocco) - www.casablancabourse.com/bourseweb/index. aspx • Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange (Tanzania) - www. dse.co.tz

• Douala Stock Exchange (Cameroon) - www.douala-stockexchange.com/index_us.php • The Egyptian Exchange - www. egx.com.eg/English/homepage. aspx • Ethiopia Commodity Exchange - www.ecx.com.et • Ghana Stock Exchange - www. gse.com.gh • Johannesburg Stock Exchange (South Africa) - www. jse.co.za/Home.aspx • Khartoum Stock Exchange (Sudan, in Arabic) - www.kse. com.sd • Libyan Stock Market - www. lsm.ly/_layouts/membership/

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login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fEnglis h%2fPages%2fdefault.aspx Lusaka Stock Exchange (Zambia) - www.luse.co.zm Nairobi Stock Exchange (Kenya) - www.luse.co.zm Malawi Stock Exchange - www. mse.co.mw Mozambique Stock Exchange (in Portuguese) - www. bolsadevalores.co.mz Namibian Stock Exchange www.nsx.com.na Nigerian Stock Exchange www.nse.com.ng/Pages/default. aspx Stock Exchange of Mauritius www.stockexchangeofmauritius. com Swaziland Stock Exchange www.ssx.org.sz Tunisia Stock Exchange - www. bvmt.com.tn Uganda Securities Exchange www.use.or.ug

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One Africa:

Tell the US Government that North Africa is Africa Too!

oin with and support the United Africa Organization’s campaign to petition the U.S. Department of State to include the whole African continent under its Bureau of African Affairs.

Why? The State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs, led by Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson, currently excludes Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Western Sahara from its agenda. Instead, the aforementioned countries are grouped with the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, together with Iran, Iraq, Israel and others. This artificial distinction between North Africa and the rest of Africa

negatively impacts US foreign policy relations throughout the entire continent of Africa. We unequivocally reject the argument that North African countries are outside the scope of African affairs. North Africa is geographically and historically part of the African continent, and all fifty-three (53) independent African states, including North African countries, are represented in the African Union (AU). It would be far more productive for the State Department to engage with the entire continent of Africa, including North Africa, under its Bureau of African Affairs. We are one Africa, from the Cape to Cairo, indivisible and bound together! Therefore, no square inch of African

land should be excluded from African affairs.

Sign The Petition!!! Go to www.change.org/petitions/ one-africa-tell-us-state-departmentthat-north-africa-is-part-of-africa and sign the online petition to support this important proposition. Next tell everyone you know to sign. 

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RESOURCES FOR GOING GLOBAL Event: USDOC Export Regulations Seminar, Los Angeles Dates: August 6-7, 2014 Times: 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Registration/Continental Breakfast: 7:30 - 8:30 am Location: Sheraton Gateway Hotel Los Angeles 6101 W. Century Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90045 Cost: $450 for both days includes continental breakfast, lunch and training materials. The Bureau of Industry and Security, in cooperation with the District Export Council of Southern California, and the U.S. Commercial Service in Southern California, invites you to attend a workshop on the Export Administration Regulations so you can keep abreast the Administration’s Export Control Reform efforts. This program is well suited for those who need a comprehensive understanding of their obligations under the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”). The workshop will explain: • What the latest developments in the Administration's Export Control Reform initiative are, including the specially designed definition, CCL order of review, new decision tools, 600 series items (and applicable license exceptions for these items), transition issues, and much more. • The scope of the Export Administration Regulations. • How to determine the export licensing requirements for your product. • When you may export without applying for a license. • What an Export Management Compliance Program (“EMCP”) is, and how it can help meet your regulatory responsibilities. (red flags, best practices, templates, audits, etc.) • Real-life examples and hands-on exercises after each topic. Register at: https://www.regonline.com/bis14 Questions?: For more information on the topics covered, please call BIS Western Regional Office at (949) 660-0144 and for arrangement or registration, please call the Irvine U.S. Export Assistance Center at (949) 660-1688 .

Event: “A Practical Guide to Selling Cosmetics Overseas” in FTA Countries" Location: In country Speakers include U.S. Commercial Service in-country specialists to discuss markets, distribution channels, pricing, trends and more. Regulatory specialists will explain the registration process. Impact of the Free Trade Agreements will be outlined. • Peru - April 15, 2014 www.icmad.org/events/upcoming-events/9535877f0078-cca5-772f-0b382a18eb6b • NAFTA - June 3, 2014 www.icmad.org/events/upcoming-events/9535877f0078-c9a8-8d64-0b382a1a4808 • Panama - June 24, 2014 www.icmad.org/events/upcoming-events/9535877f0078-c470-f4ad-0b382a1b3e00 • Chile - July 22, 2014 www.icmad.org/events/upcoming-events/9535877f0078-c569-82e4-0b382a1cb662

ᏊᏊᏊᏊᏊ Marketing: Promote Your Company on the New Commercial News USA Website The newly redesigned Commercial News USA website makes it easier for buyers around the world to find American companies with products and services ready for immediate export and for U.S. exporters connect with buyers worldwide. Commercial News USA features hundreds of products and services from U.S. exporters. For more information and/or to review the cur-

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RESOURCES FOR GOING GLOBAL States and in more than 75 countries, the U.S. Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration uses its global Network and international resources to connect U.S companies with international buyers worldwide.

rent issue of the magazine, please visit www.thinkglobal.us. ᏊᏊᏊᏊᏊ The U.S. Commercial Service - Your Global Business Partner. With offices across the United

If you have any questions about these initiatives, please contact your local U.S. Commercial Service trade specialist. To find the trade specialist nearest you please visit www.buyusa.gov/home/us.html or contact Bobby Hines at bobby. hines@trade.gov. 

Returning to Africa? African Repatriation is an invaluable online resource for any African national who is thinking about returning to Africa. Our industry articles and specialist editorials provide the latest sector information. Why not find out for yourself and become a part of our growing community today? www.africanrepatriation. com

Career Opportunities in Africa Search and apply online for the latest vacancies in Africa with African Talent. We provide candidates and employers with the tools and resources needed in today’s competitive job market. For employers, we offer numerous options to feature your jobs in Africa and for candidates, reviewing the most recent job vacancies in Africa is a fast, easy process. Uploading your CV is simple and takes just a few moments. www.africantalent.com 90  July 2014  Black Business News  www.blackbbusinessnews.net  1-323-291-7819

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The Man from Essence: Creating a

C is for Cocoa: An alphabet book about Ghana, West Africa, and the food, plants, and animals found in its environment by Caroline Brewer, Kimmoly RiceOgletree

is for Cocoa is an exciting and unique alphabet book for all ages about Ghana, West Africa, and the people, food, plants, and animals in its environment, based on suggestions by the 3rd grade students of Timber Junction-Nkwanta School in Konko Village, in the Eastern Region. The book was created through a literacy project undertaken by Authors Caroline Brewer and Kimmoly Rice-Ogletree. Every book purchase is a donation that allows us to donate this book to Konko Village children and other school children in Ghana, and provide free lunches to Konko students.  www.amazon.com/Cocoa-alphabet-Africa-animalsenvironment/dp/0615949622

Magazine for Black Women by Edward Lewis (with Audrey Edwards)

t’s never been done; it’s never been tried. Maybe it’s never been thought of, either, but that hasn’t stopped you. Once a valid idea pops into your head, it’s not long before the idea becomes more. You’ve been around long enough to know, however, that the road to success can be paved with spikes and nothing ever happens smoothly. In “The Man from Essence” by Edward Lewis (with Audrey Edwards),

you’ll see that that phenomenon crosses all industries. By age 28, Edward Lewis had already endured his share of awkwardness: he’d lost a football scholarship at one college and had flunked out of law school at another. He was, however, able to find and keep a good job at a major bank in Manhattan, which led to an opportunity that would “transform” his life. The vice president of a New York investment firm invited a ‘bunch of . . . young bloods” to a think-tank meeting, promising them financing if they came up with a business idea that would work. One of the attendees mentioned that his mother always dreamed of a magazine specifically for “Negro” women and,

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offhandedly, the investment VP paired him and two others with Lewis, who knew “something about finance.” Eager to own their own business, the four men—Clarence Smith, Jonathan Blount, Cecil Hollingsworth, and Lewis—set up a partnership in March, 1969, and began looking for an editor for their new magazine, even though they “knew a little more than zip about Negro women and the consumer market . . . they comprised.” There was, of course, a learning curve—including a disastrous almost-name of the magazine, staffing problems and many wars of words—but in the spring of 1970, Essence magazine debuted. Despite an initial problem with funding, a revolving editorial door, plenty of in-fighting, lawsuits, ousting of partners, and “out-of-control behavior,” the magazine thrives with a readership that today “remains ever faithful.” And of the original four partners, Lewis was the “last man standing” when Essence Communications Inc. was sold to Time Warner in 2008. This story of a magazine as told by “The Man from Essence” is a good one. It’s filled with advice, insight, and hot-button gossip, but that’s not all. It also includes stories about people who probably won’t like those stories told.  www.huemanbookstore.com/book/9781476703480

Creating Utopia by Nikki Giovanni

ith Chasing Utopia, Nikki Giovanni, one of America's most celebrated artists, demands that the prosaic--flowers, birdsong, winter--be seen as poetic. The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements and inspired songs, turned hearts and informed generations. She's been hailed as a healer and a national treasure. But if her reputation is writ large upon the national stage, her heart resides in the everyday where family and lovers gather, friends commune, and those no longer with us are remembered. And at every gathering there is food, food as sustenance, food as aphrodisiac, food as memory. A pot of beans are flavored with her mother's

sighs, this sigh part cardamom, that one the essence of clove; a lover requests a banquet as an affirmation of ongoing passion; an homage is paid to the most time-honored appetizer, soup. Chasing Utopia affirms once again why Nikki Giovanni is as energetic, "remarkable" (Gwendolyn Brooks), "wonderful" (Marian Wright Edleman), "outspoken, prolific, energetic" (New York Times), and as relevant as ever  www.huemanbookstore.com/autographed-nikkigiovannichasing-utopia

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Calendar July

7th-8th Bill Pickett International Rodeo Held at the Industry Hills Expo Center. Information and tickets are available at www.billpickettrodeo. com. See page 53.

31st-August 1st Annual MED Week Conference Attend the 2014 MED Week Conference "Connecting Business with Opportunity," being held at the Washington Hilton, Washington, DC. Information is available at www.medweek.mbda.gov.

training program prepares the serious entrepreneur for operating a highly successful business. Participation fee is $75 and includes a one-year BBA membership and a certificate of completion. For information visit www.bbala.org or send an inquiry to the BBA using mail@bbala.org. See page 71

Downtown Los Angeles. For informaion on how to participate in the exchange, attend the conference, and the benefits of sponsorship visit www.bbala.org or send an inquiry to the BBA using mail@bbala.org. See page 52. ď &#x192;

October 16th BBA 2014 Procurement Exchange Summit The Summit, Conference and Luncheon will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel,

August 4th-6th U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit President Obama will welcome leaders from across the African continent to the Nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Capital for a three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. See page 12.

7th-8th Asian Development Bank Forum The U.S. Commercial Service is offering an educational/networking forum in Los Angeles, CA. Information is available at www.adb.org. See page 50.

21st Ron Brown Business & Economic Summit - Women's Symposium The 2014 Conference theme is "Success Above the Glass Ceiling." The conference is being held at the Marriott Los Angeles Hotel, Los Angeles, CA. Information is available at www.medweek.mbda.gov.

September TBA BBA Business Entrepreneur Training Institute Conducted in partnership with the Business Division of West Los Angeles College. The 15-week www.export.gov/SAUDIARABIA/Magic2014/index.asp

Resources Media Africa Interactive Multimedia Press/Content Agency in Africa www.africa-interactive.com Africa World Press Books www.africaworldpressbooks.com African Vibes Magazine www.africanvibes.com The African World www.theafricanworld.tv Africast TV www.africast.tv AllAfrica http://allafrica.com Black Wall Street Times http://bwstimes.com Black Business News Group www.blackbusinessnews.net Black Press USA www.blackpressusa.com BridesNoir www.bridesnoir.com CuisineNoir www.cuisinenoirmag.com DiasporaVoice www.blogtalkradio.com/diasporavoice Publish Africa http://wow.gm/publishafrica Rock Me Africa //rockmeafrica.com

www.causecast.com www.causecastfornonprofits.com Continental African Chamber of Commerce www.continentalacc.org Pan African Film Festival www.paff.org United African Organization http://uniteafricans.org Zambia-USA Chamber of Commerce www.zambiausachamber.org

Investment/Development Africa Reports www.africareports.com African Development Bank www.afdb.org African Export - Import Bank //afreximbank.com/afrexim/en AfrigadgetTV www.afrigadget.com The Exchange Magazine www.nse.co.ke YouTube Educational Channels http://teacherswithapps.com/197-educational-youtube-channels-know Ventures www.ventures-africa.com

U.S. Government

Organizations Africa Leadership Forum http://africaleadership.org The African Union www.au.int/en Black Business Association www.bbala.org CauseCast

Commerce Department www.doc.gov International Trade Administration http://trade.gov Minority Business Development Agency www.mbda.gov Small Business Administration www.sba.gov State Department www.dos.gov White House www.whitehouse.gov

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