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AL SHARPTON ing news and openly Homeless clients of The Bridge receive training to prepare (NNPA) - Freedom of spreading half-truths and the press unequivocally lies, it’s time for someone for the 3rd annual Help the Homeless Walkathon & 5K stands at the core of fun - else to start checking damentals in the United them. (NDG Wire) A journey Bridge are being trained States of America. It is a Last week, news out - of a thousand miles begins and coached for the up - form of checks and bal - lets began reporting on the with a single step, said coming 2009 Help the ances towards the govern - case of Meagan Williams, Confucius, but guests of Homeless WalkAThon & ment, business and other the young woman in West The Bridge homeless assis - 5K, which takes place on entities in our society. But Virginia who had claimed tance center received sup - Saturday, November 14 at when producers, editors, in 2007 that she was kid - port with their journey in Dallas City Hall. 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Thir - Yanique received her "We say very teen-year old Alana adds PhD in Health Behavior Yanique Redwood loudly through our that, "There are very few and Health Education from (NDG Wire) The cles, blogs, online games, Website that you girls who look like me in the University of Michigan founders of sunkissed - an advice column, and an do have good hair. teen fashion magazines. School of Public Health in girlz.com want African- online radio show. It's curly, fuzzy, Every time my mom and I 2008. She also has a Mas - American girls to know that The launch of Sun- kinky, wavy, short, try to find a magazine for ter’s degree in Public they do have good hair. Dr. kissed Girlz is timely, only long, or in-be - me, none of the girls look Health from University of Yanique Redwood co- a few days after the release tween, but it's all like me. We created Michigan and a Bachelor’s founded Sunkissed Girlz of Chris Rock's documen - good hair. And be Sunkissed Girlz so that degree in Chemistry from with her 13-year old daugh - tary Good Hair. Still in the proud of it," she African-American girls can Georgia Tech. She lives in ter Alana Jones in response aftershock of his documen - added. have a space of our own to Atlanta with her husband to the lack of media cele - tary, African-American Other docu - talk about fashion and and partner Ronnie Galvin brating the unique beauty of women and girls are con - mentaries like beauty." and their two teenage chil - African-American girls. sidering the tremendous ceive advice, support, and Souls of Black The mission of Sun- dren Alana and Darren. The Website heavily em - amount of time and money natural hair and beauty tips. Girls and A Girl Like Me il - kissed Girlz is to ensure that More information about phasizes natural hair, en - spent to straighten their "Sunkissed Girlz is the lustrate the damaging im - every African-American the Website and the found - couraging girls to be proud hair. Sunkissedgirlz.com answer to Chris Rock's pact that media messages girl sees herself in popular ing team is available at of their roots. Other ele - supports the counter-argu - daughter's question: Daddy, have on African-American media in a way that builds www.sunkissedgirlz.com. ments of the Website in - ment, offering a new, safe how come I don't have good girls, affecting self-esteem and supports a strong Sunkissed Girlz was foun- clude skin and fashion arti - place for young girls to re - hair?" said CEO Dr. and other physical and men - healthy self-esteem. ded in 2009. Established in 2008, the growing market of Afflu - graphic breaks all the mar - MTC was created out of the ent African Americans, MTC keting rules when it comes to Derek Cooper need to recognize the explod - has become the leader for spending," said Cooper, "I When Derek Cooper, Corporate America, Affluent ing affluent African Ameri - Niche Market Information. implore every company to president & CEO of MTC African Americans also can market as a viable mar - "Through MTC Media & look closely at this demo - Media & Consulting, Inc. known as "Royaltons." ketplace. "Corporate Amer - Consulting's knowledge of graphic, if not, they're leav - (MTC) walked across the While serving as the ica has been taking this mar - the marketplace, they bro- ing money on the table. This stage in 1990 to accept his HBCU Project Director for a ket for granted for years, now ught clientele to our event emerging demographic is on BS Degree in Accounting corporate firm, Cooper dis - that this demographic is that benefited greatly from the forefront of a 1.2 Trillion from Bethune Cookman Uni - covered that many corpora - growing and demanding ac - the exposure that they re - dollar tsunami by 2012, a versity, one of the Histori - tions were unaware of the countability for their dollars, ceived," states Nikki God - 34% increase in just five cally Black Colleges spending power of the "Roy - Corporate America is now frey, Executive Director, of years. Some companies are (HBCUs), never did he imag - altons," African Americans listening," Cooper states. the ESPN MEAC/SWAC going to ride the wave and ine that almost 20 years later, who have a household in - MTC is a strategic mar - Challenge. Since the success MTC Media & Consult - benefit greatly, and some are he would be educating Cor - come of over 75k per year, keting and consulting firm of this business venture, ing has also branched into going to be wiped out by not porate America about a de - college educated and a that specializes in niche event MTC has taken on seven other arenas like golf, motor - recognizing the rising wa - mographic group that fre - spending power of roughly marketing; by assisting Cor - more of their events to take to sports, media and entertain - ters." quently goes unnoticed by $282 billion. porations on understanding the marketplace. ment. "This dynamic demo - Visit www.mtcmedia.net eling to Fort Lauderdale to ported kinship structures. easy – you are carrying the not simply as a human help salute Sudarkasa on From a contemporary per - burden for the race, for the being. In those first posi - Dr. Niara Sudarkasa the occasion of her gener - spective, when we see the gender, being judged as a BY JULIANNE MALVEAUX Center in Fort Lauderdale, ous gift (valued at more Rs absent, we can also ex - representative of everyone, See SUDARKASA Page 6 (NNPA) Dr. Niara Su - Florida. than $270,000) to the li - plain some of the chal - darkasa, the first woman Last week, she donated brary. In thinking about lenges that we face in fam - President of Lincoln Uni - her papers and personal li - Niara’s life and career, I ily life.