As the orange light intermittently blinked, I hurried to the phone because I knew it was Nadya. She had just arrived in Florida with her brothers, my mother, and about seven assorted and tired relatives. I call them all cousins...just easier...I’ll clean it up later. She was so excited as she described the train ride from DC to Miami leaving out no details. Forty five seconds later she was crying non-stop on the phone with her mother! She missed her. What had I missed I wondered?
The United States Supreme Court ruled last week that public
education officials may not use race to achieve integration in public
schools. Yes, you heard it right. After 52 years, the high Court
reversed itself on the venerable case of Brown v. Board of Education,
five separate cases consolidated under one oral argument—then called
“the Segregation cases.”
Tavis Smiley's presidential forum, before a black audience, with
questions by black journalists, focusing on the issues ignored or
bypassed in the mainstream media, but vitally important to the African
America community, was billed as a historic occasion. But what we got
was something else --- a game show format, driven by shallow sound
bytes, all of it summed up for us by the same Republican pollster who
gave us the "Contract For America" and the "death tax." Tavis Smiley's
presidential forum shows what we get when we confuse black celebrity
with black leadership, and marketing with journalism.
Sometimes a familiar story, with a twist, better makes the point. As five-year-old Sydnie entered the post office, she wanted to know why so many pictures of people were hanging on the wall. Her father responded, “Those are very bad people that the police want to find and catch immediately.” Puzzled, she glanced once again at the more than 30 images and tugged on her father’s shirt. Looking up to her father she said...give me 45 seconds and I’ll finish Sydnie’s statement.
As small business owners, we have many options for communicating with our prospective customers. The Internet has become the primary medium for reaching potential clients anywhere across the globe. Online marketing is the use of the Internet to advertise and sell goods and services. Below are Six Basic areas of Online Marketing to start with.
"Tracing ancestry through DNA can lead us to
some insight about our potential ancestors and potential places of
ancestry. For untold numbers of people, knowing that is a lot better
than knowing nothing."
“It takes a village to raise a child!” is an
old African proverb that hundreds of millions of people have heard or
used over the past years and that many people believe. But today in the
Black community, that proverb has little relevance or importance.
The African-American web surfer has become a hot target for web
developers and the business industry, as more web-based programs are
being created with Black users in mind. Black households also continue
to spend more than Hispanics, Asians or other minority households in
almost every consumer product category. With this trend, many people
are taking their money and their time, to the world wide web.
