Month: June 2017

The “What is Amen”!!!!!!!!
We all learned in Sunday School that Amen means Good News, and I would like to say Amen to GBN. Good Black News(www.goodblacknews.org.) a site that everyone in the Black Community should be aware of and visit often. They have some outstanding articles that are heart warming to see and read. In the old days when the news papers had a hot story, they would put out a special edition called an “Extra”. The news sellers on the corners would shout Extra, Extra, read all about. If you ask them what the News was, they would say, “I just sell it, I don’t tell it. Well I don’t sell it, I just tell it and they do too. I am sure you will also, because this is what’s needed in our community to reinforce our commitment for true equality in America.

Who has been watching the Black Women of today? Not just for their Beauty but for their mind set.
Black Press Release Wire has, and hear is what they have to say!!!!

(BPRW) African American Women Are Getting Down To Business, Black PR Wire)
The Seventh Annual Women of Color Empowerment Conference will take place September 8th – 10th, 2017 at the Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort, 321 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL. Registration is now open.

Since caring is sharing, successful strategies most often cited by women business enterprises and corporate purchasing professionals are listed below:

(Black PR Wire) Today, African American women are truly getting down to business. It seems that having a small business is big business. It’s hard to believe that Black women owned enterprises were almost non-existent many years ago.
http://www.blackprwire.com/press-releases
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Cultivate relationships – network with industry movers and shakers and maintain connections to a diverse group to increase your chances of receiving good referrals.

 Increase your visibility – use marketing to promote you, your products, and your services.

 Expand opportunities through subcontracting – align your business with contractors as a way of participating in the corporate marketplace.

 Get certified – let certification validate your firm as a major woman owned firm and operated company.
 Be Responsive – remember that change is inevitable. Business owners must always be ready to adapt to a changing business climate and environment.
 Use cost effective strategies – always strive to cut operational costs whenever possible.
 Let your creativity flow – strive to be creative and think out of the box to develop winning strategies. Also, stay abreast of new technological and social media trends.
 Persevere until the end– hold steadfast to your dreams and have faith in your talents and abilities.
These are just a few strategies that have helped women owned businesses to survive and thrive! With such record growth over the past years, African American women-owned firms are likely to continue to prosper and soar to new heights. They will continue getting down to business.
According to the National Women’s Business Council, there are 911,728 African American women-owned businesses in the United States. This reflects a tremendous 66.7% increase in number since 2002 and a 191.4% increase since 1997.
Obviously, many women have done what it takes to enter the corporate market and build a strong revenue base.

Go to website listed above for more information.

Why we should honor our HBCU’s, who have educated so many of our successful Blacks who have contributed to the greatness of America, one of which is George Edward Alcorn. After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Physics degree from Occidental College of Los Angeles CA.; he attended Howard University, an HBCU, were he received his Master of Science in Nuclear Physics.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about him.

During the summers of 1962 and 1963, he worked as a research engineer for the Space Division of North American Rockwell. He was involved with the computer analysis of launch trajectories and orbital mechanics for Rockwell missiles, including the Titan I and II, the Saturn and the Nova.[1]

Patents issued[edit]
• #4,172,004, 10/23/1979, Method for forming dense dry etched multi-level metallurgy with non-overlapped vias
• #4,201,800, 5/6/1980, Hardened photoresist master image mask process
• #4,289,834, 9/15/1981, Dense dry etched multi-level metallurgy with non-overlapped vias
• #4,472,728, 9/18/1984, Imaging X-ray spectrometer[2]
• #4,543,442, 9/24/1985, GaAs Schottky barrier photo-responsive device and method of fabrication
• #4,618,380, 10/21/1986, Method of fabricating an imaging X-ray spectrometer
• #4,062,720, 12/13/1977, Process for forming ledge-free aluminum copper silicon conductor structure
• #3,986,912, 10/19/1976, Process for controlling the wall inclination of a plasma etched via hole

George Edward Alcorn, Jr. (born March 22, 1940) is an American physicist and inventor who worked primarily for IBM and NASA. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2015.

Thurgood Marshall
OCCUPATION
Civil Rights Activist, Supreme Court Justice, Judge, Lawyer
BIRTH DATE
July 2, 1908
DEATH DATE
January 24, 1993

Where in Black history will the name Thurgood Marshall be placed?
He was a graduate of Lincoln University in 1930 a HBCU. He then attended Howard University Law School graduating in 1933 a HBCU. In 1934 he started his work with the Baltimore Maryland chapter of the NAACP. He achieved his reputation as a civil rights lawyer and became well known when he argued to the Supreme Court and won Brown versus the Board of Education in 1954, that separate but equal schooling for Black and White students was a violation of the constitution. An in October of 1967 President Lyndon Johnson appointed Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court, the first Black to ever serve as a justice in this position.