Archive for ‘January 13th, 2005’

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Jan13

Consumer Tips for week of 1/9/05

by Duane on January 13th, 2005 at 4:46 pm
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Website: www.salescircular.com
What is it about?: This is a very good site to use if you are in the market of making a purchase from the following stores: Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, Kmart, Office Depot, Office Max, Radio Shack, Sears, Staples, Target, WalMart and select local retailers. Mostly electronics and appliances.
In short, this [...]

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Jan13

I found this to be pretty interesting–More on Black Businesses

by Duane on January 13th, 2005 at 4:27 pm
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African-American Chamber Survey: 40 Percent of Black Businesses Have Difficulty Finding Trained Staff; 81.8 Percent of Black Firm Employees are African-American
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ — In a recent survey of its member-
businesses, the Philadelphia-area African-American Chamber of Commerce (AACC)
found that 40 percent are experiencing difficulty in finding appropriately
trained employees to work [...]

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Jan13

Are successful Black businesses “selling out” or “cashing in’?

by Duane on January 13th, 2005 at 12:40 pm
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The Black community within the last few weeks has been rocked with the news that more successful black-owned businesses have been bought out or sold (however you want to see it) to White owned corporate giants: Essence magazine to Time Warner, Africana.com to be merged with AOL Black Voices (Africana.com had already been purchased [...]

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Jan13

The UN’s billion dollar solution for AIDS

by Duane on January 13th, 2005 at 7:39 am
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“The United Nations has launched a series of 20 animated TV ads to stop the spread of AIDS, featuring cartoon condoms named Shaft, Stretch and Dick
Available in 41 languages, the U.N. calls The Three Amigos ad campaign the “start of the world’s largest integrated behavior modification program.” (emphasis mine)
“The spaceship spot has the Amigos as [...]

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Jan13

Ed Lewis Defends Essence Magazine Sale (Atlanta Daily World)

by Duane on January 13th, 2005 at 2:50 am
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The announcement this week that the corporate parent of Essence Magazine was selling the company to magazine behemoth Time Inc. was the latest example of Black media companies being purchased by non-Black firms.
A little more than five years after BET was sold to Viacom for $3.3 billion, the founder of Essence Communications, Ed Lewis, decided [...]

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