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Jody Watley Receives Standing Ovation for National Anthem Performance at Dodgers vs. New York Mets Game!
Grammy Award winning iconic singer Jody Watley delivered a stunning performance of the National Anthem at the Dodgers Stadium on Saturday, August 21st. Click the video above and watch Ms. Watley's soulful stylistic rendition of the National Anthem.
In typically flawless Jody Watley fashion, the pop and R&B star, also a huge sports fan performed two of her classics, "Don't You Want Me" and "Looking For A New Love" for the Los Angeles Dodgers Black Heritage pre-game show.
The Black Business Owners Forum 2021 (BBOF20201): “Level Up” is a one-day virtual event being held on Thursday, October 14th from 9:00am - 6:00pm EST. It was designed with you in mind! Our mission is to build the capacity of you AND your business!
LEVELING UP: Advancing one self and business to the next level of development
The theme for BBOF2021 is Level Up! Why Level Up? Leveling Up requires doing things differently to get different results. It takes not only courage and persistence, but growing as a leader and building the capacity of your business to take on bigger responsibilities and greater opportunities. To learn more or to register now visit
Leveling Up also requires an increase of something to remove a disparity. That "something" is an increase in contract opportunities for black owned businesses in the government and private sectors to level the playing field.
Author and U.S. Army chaplain James Darren Key highlights 40 lessons and stories about race, love, honor, and faith to inspire people during changing times in his new memoir A Long Way from Crenshaw: Lessons and Stories about Race, Love, Honor, and Faith for These Changing Times (published by WestBow Press). Now available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
With the purpose of being accessible to all, the author writes in a conversational style. Exploring how life can change, and not always positively, he demonstrates how the human spirit can overcome those circumstances.
Additionally, Key speaks candidly about growing up Black in California in the 1970s and 1980s. Wanting to empower others, the author examines his own weaknesses and fears.
Preaching Exerpt From Dr. James D. Key
Through this study, he hopes to help people:
• recognize failures and successes along their journey;
• approach race and diversity with sensitivity and courage;
• heal from an unhealthy relationship before starting a new one;
• face trials and controversy with unshakable faith.
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Rosa Higgs, a teacher from Berkeley, California, who has proven why phonics instruction matters. Her phonics workbook series, entitled Read in 40 Hours or Less, are designed to help Black students learn to read well and beyond grade level in less than 40 hours of direct instruction.
Across the country, students are experiencing a K-12 crisis in reading skills. In the state of California, millions of dollars are spent every year on education, but students and teachers are overwhelmed by COVID-19 and distance learning and the lack of improved reading skills for many vulnerable Black students proves it.
The coronavirus was a test of America’s ability to provide quality and equitable education to all students. The virus wrecked the school system with unfathomable momentum highlighting known disparities of Black students' access to computers, the internet, trauma, and basic needs such as food and adequate shelter. The Read in 40 Hours or Less workbook series can take schools from inadequate to extraordinary by improving reading skills for our vulnerable Black and Brown students. To order Click Here
Author Rosa Higgs Shares Her Journey Towards
Developing Reading Skills Below...
Meet Robin Rogers, an African American chef and the founder of Macaron Cafe Ohio which represents everything foodies adore about French pastries. In fact, her pastries are so good that her mouth-watering French Champagne Macarons have been nominated as the #1 Best 100 Luxury Product by Nicole Kane, founder of xoNecole.com.
Even more, Chef Rogers' creative interpretations of French cuisine have won her #1 top rank, creating Don Gold Champagne Macarons and 70 additional macaron flavors with a complete vegan macaron selection.
She re-opened her cafe in January 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic in the Southpark Mall location at 500 Southpark Cente in Strongsville, Ohio. After overcoming multiple obstacles, she's now launching her national product brand and focusing on opening additional locations to showcase her artistry of spectacular chocolate desserts, sculptures, mouth-watering pastries, magnificent cakes, and other specialty cuisines.
Meet Charlie Rose whose new book "Why Cops Kill and How to Stop Them," reveals his personal story as a police officer many years ago in the Greenwood area of Tulsa, Oklahoma (formerly known as Black Wall Street). He also shares his keen viewpoints on why he believes that police violence is at an all-time high today.
He says that he actually never thought of becoming a police officer; It was his childhood dream to be a meteorologist. Growing up in Oklahoma, he was fascinated by the rolling squall lines ahead of an approaching storm and had to be made to come in the house out of the rain.
He was never able to pursue him and after graduating from high school he entered the Air Force where he was trained to be a Communication Specialist. After leaving the service and a number of dead-end jobs, a friend of his father told him if he could get him hired as a police officer if he could pass the department’s entrance exam.