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Boycott Donald Trump! A Plea To Advertisers To Pull Sponsorship

Today,best-selling author George Fraser, Chairman of FraserNet, Inc. and founder of The PowerNetworking Conference, the #1 Black Business Conference in America, join the ranks with talk show hosts Lawrence O’Donnell and Bill Maher, popular liberal blog Daily Kos, Andy Ostroy,

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GDN CD FEATURE: Closer Than I Realized New Jazz Saxophone CD

Wilmington, NC — October 2012 marked the release of new jazz saxophone CD Closer Than I Realized. Closer Than I Realized is a 10 track sophomore CD release of Darryl Donnell Murrill. The CD is comprised of mostly instrumental songs with

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Retail Discrimination and Racist Policies that Target African-Americans

The issue of racial profiling in retail stores gained attention nationally with the production of ABC’s “True Colors,” a series which brought to light retail discrimination and racist policies that singled out African-American consumers. As consumers, many African-Americans have been perceived

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Six of the Nations Most Provocative Filmmakers Receive 2012 BronzeLens Film Festival Awards

The third annual BronzeLens Film Festival (BronzeLens) was host to over 3000 attendees from across the United States, Europe, the Caribbean and Africa. During the course of four days 50 films in the Feature, Narrative Fiction, Documentary and Shorts categories

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Helping Your Local Economy

You know about Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving when people line up outside the big department stores and discount stores in the middle of the night to buy cheap Christmas presents. Black Friday is a big day for retailers,

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How To Not Grow Old Broke

Growing old is not something we can avoid, but growing old and broke is! I speak about the Consumption Theory in my latest book, Power M.O.V.E.: How to Transition from Employee to Employer. So many people have been enlightened by

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Student Loans Cause 36 Million to Drop Out

According to a new report, since 2009, 36 million Americans have attended college without earning a degree. Consequently, 850,000 individual private loans valued at more than $8 billion are now in default. With high and variable interest rates, these loans

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Black Unemployment Still Needs to Be Addressed

The problem with having a deadline at the end of the week, is that you miss the opportunity to weigh in on things, such as an election, that happens on a Tuesday.  It is almost torture when you consider the

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Cindy Trimm Publishes The Final Installation of Three-Book Series of Prayer and Spiritual Warfare

Cindy Trimm has dined with the queen of England, played putt-putt golf with Prince Andrew, and was appointed to the Bermuda Senate at the age of thirty. Over the last dozen years she’s become one of the most in-demand motivational

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New Study Finds A Common Bond Between School Bullies and Their Targets: Alcohol Abuse

A new study out of the University of Cincinnati finds that both school bullies and their victims are likely to abuse alcohol after a bullying episode. Keith King, a University of Cincinnati professor of health promotion, along with Rebecca Vidourek,

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Ballot Proposition Increases Corporate Welfare

It’s time to analyze the various referendums on the ballots Tuesday.  All over the nation, common citizens are asked to say “yes” to an issue that is supposedly for their benefit and financial future. More times than not, the consequences

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Stone Cold Marketing: Selling Alcohol to Young African Americans

The former owner of the Payless Market in South Los Angeles, gleefully described how the Black community’s passion for malt liquor and his “unofficial grassroots advertising campaign” allowed him to significantly increase his store revenue within a few weeks and

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