October 2018 Black PR Wire to Highlight Breast Cancer Awareness Month on Thrivin’ Online

Ahh … a world without breast cancer! Education and awareness are part of the answer. Did you know that Black and take charge of their breast health. Each year, Black PR women in the U.S. are 40 percent more likely to die from Wire participates in Breast Cancer Awareness Month in some breast cancer than white women? What’s even more small way – either via promotion or walking in the Race for disturbing is that while 92 percent of black women the Cure®. agree breast health is important, only 25 percent of This year, BPRW plans women have recently discussed breast health with their to take it a step further. Joe family, friends, or colleagues and only 17 percent have Ellick , our dynamic host of Thrivin’ Online taken steps to understand their risk for breast cancer, the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure , will attend ® according to a recent study (Susan G. Komen). interviews with organization founders/participants. and conduct To address the unacceptable disparity in breast Joseph Ellick The interviews, along with footage from the event, will cancer mortality rates, Susan G. Komen air on our popular YouTube channel. ®, the world’s leading breast cancer organization, is on a mission to educate and If we want a world without breast cancer, we must make inspire black women to understand their risk for breast cancer education, awareness and treatment a part of the solution – it’s the only answer.

October is Black Speculative Fiction Month

N.K. Jemisin Samuel R. Delany Octavia E. Butler W.E.B. Du Bois Happy Black Speculative Fiction Month! There is a wealth and like N.K. Jemisin, Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, W.E.B. diversity of Black speculative fiction out there. It’s so appropriate to Du Bois, and others, more Science Fiction enthusiasts debut talk about this in October, as this month is Black Speculative Fiction to wider acclaim each year. As we celebrate Black Speculative Month. Black creators are putting out new and exciting fiction for all Fiction Month, let’s remember October as the culmination – and the sharing readers. Today, there seems to be more black writers of science fiction of 150 years of stories that excite, inspire, frighten, educate, entertain and than there have ever been. Thanks to the success of people evoke change.

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POWER PROFILER: RENE SYLER Author, TV Personality, Breast Cancer Educator; Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Ambassador

René Syler, former co-anchor of CBS News’ countless leaders and celebrities, including First The Early Show, joined Susan G. Komen as Lady Laura Bush and Senator John McCain. an Ambassador in January 2007, after years In early January 2007, René underwent a of volunteering for the organization and bilateral prophylactic mastectomy, the removal supporting various events as emcee, activist and of both breasts. Today, she is completely healthy educator. and living life to the fullest. In addition to being Since January 2007, René has traveled a wife, mother, business woman and tireless the country attending Komen Community breast cancer activist, René is the author of Challenge events and the 2007 Komen Good Enough Mother, published in March 2007. National Race for the Cure in Washington, René is an active member of the National D.C. In October 2007, René wore her pink Association of Black Journalists and is a as the Chief “Passionista” for the Passionately recipient of the 2004 Gracie Allen Award for Pink for the Cure® Celebrity Board. Individual Achievement in the National Best Susan G. Komen’s highly successful Anchor category for her breast cancer series. Passionately Pink for the Cure program engages She is married to Buff Parham, and has two millions in October who chose a day to wear children. pink, fundraise for Komen and spread life-saving messages of early detection. As the former co- Source: https://ww5.komen.org/AboutUs/ anchor of The Early Show, René interviewed ReneSyler.html

This section is designed to keep you in the know and on the go. Check out some of CALENDAR OF EVENTS the latest happenings in Black communities throughout the country this month.

Los Angeles Times Ideas Exchange A Night of R&B:A Tribute Sinbad at the Rose OUR TEAM with DeRay Mckesson to the Legends 10/13/18 Bernadette A. Morris 10/1/18 10/6/18 Pasadena, CA President/CEO Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA www.wheremusicmeetsthe [email protected] www.axs.com/events/ www.eventbrite.com Janice Tarsha soul.com/events/sinbad- 357269/deray-mckesson- Freeman Rodgers Sinbad pasadena/ Ricardo F. Reyes tickets?skin=acehotel DeRay Mckesson Jazz at Drew Tamia: Passion AVP/Creative Director Universoul Circus 10/6/18 Like Fire Tour [email protected] 10/3/18-11/4/18 Los Angeles, CA 10/20/18 www.jazzatdrew.com Chicago, IL Las Vegas, NV Tanisha Coleman www.universoulcircus.com Miami Carnival www.facebook.com/ Marketing Manager 10/7/18 events/254963225103786/ [email protected] R&B Super Jam Starring Tyrese, Miami, FL Taste of Soul Festival Monica, Avant, Donell Jones & 702 www. 10/20/18 Joe Ellick 10/5/18 miamibrowardcarnival.com Los Angeles, CA Newsroom Editor and Inglewood, CA National News Correspondent Black Enterprise TechConnext www.tasteofsoulla.org [email protected] www.ticketmaster.com 702 Summit National Black Book Festival 10/08/18-10/09/18 Burlingame, CA 10/25/18-10/27/18 www.blackenterprise.com Teodoras Vitkauskas Houston, TX Webmaster www.nationalblackbookfestival.com [email protected] Tyrese Monica Avant Donell Jones Silicon Valley African Film Festival Erica Brown Senior Graphic Designer 10/05/18-10/07/18 [email protected] San Jose, CA Kim Coles Michelle Tiffany L. Eric Jerome www.svaff.org Stimpson Warren Dickey

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