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Eyewitnesses Piaget Crenshaw and Tiffany Mitchell share details, and video, from the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.
Kaleb J. Hill is the CEO of FitnessFleet, Inc., a medical fitness corporation that caters to the healthcare needs of patients who are predisposed to chronic illness. His primary focus is promoting practical solutions to overcoming health disparities. He is a published white coat poet and visual artist who promotes Black love and self identity, by way of art.
Fitness Fleet is doing a medical crowd funding for patients who can’t afford healthcare services and/or medications. People can donate here: Invest in the Future of Black Health. The official launch of the “free clinic” day is scheduled for November 2014.
Fitness Fleet has recently partnered with Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy’s Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities to launch a community health initiative based in New Orleans. Our primary focus is Black and Hispanic people. We’ve also partnered with Top Box New Orleans to provide fresh produce for people who live in low income communities, and we deliver these boxes to their homes for free.
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Henry Rock has extensive experience in sales, marketing, advertising, media management and small business strategic planning and development, with particular emphasis on black businesses and the black consumer market. It’s this background, coupled with the need to not to be a bystander, while the plight of young men of color remained enormously challenging.
Henry is the Executive Director of City Startup Labs (CSL). CSL grew out of an idea to do something thoughtful and of real value to address the issue of the employability of young men of color. African American men, in particular, have a difficult time getting and keeping jobs. They consistently lag behind their white and Hispanic counterparts. According to a Princeton University study, “Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets,” Even without criminal records, black applicants had low rates of positive responses, about the same as the response rate for white applicants with criminal records. Hispanics also faced discrimination by employers, but were preferred relative to blacks.
So rather than rely on others to define and write their future, it’s time that these young men to be empowered to write or rewrite their own script, by becoming a new class of entrepreneurs.
In the late Summer of 2011, New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg announced the Young Men’s Initiative to address the harsh present and future facing many young men of color from the ages of 14-24 years. The intention of the initiative is to focus on education, the criminal justice system, employment and health care. What was missing from this puzzle, in my estimation was attention on self-employment and entrepreneurship.
As a result CSL was created to provide an academy of instruction, training, mentoring and coaching to prepare these young men to become viable entrepreneurs, thereby contributing to not only themselves, but their families, communities and the country in a fundamentally positive way.
Pre-Great Recession, black men, 18-34 years were nearly a third more likely to start businesses than white males of the same age.
Henry Rock will be on our show live tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Pacific. He will talking about various subjects including black men and entrepreneurship.
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Creating a New Class of Entrepreneurs: Henry Rock at TEDxCharlotteED
Fast track entrepreneurship training can be a potent remedy to chronic unemployment in inner-city America. City Startup Labs is piloting an academy, to teach young black men in Charlotte, how to start and operate small businesses, using accelerated, boot-camp style instruction.
What are the advantages, disadvantages, and challenges that black men experience while working in the corporate business world today? Join Dr. Vibe’s Allies as they continue to attack this controversial topic. Here some of the conversation pieces that The Allies will be talking about:
Did the election of the first black male president make life in the corporate business world harder or easier for black men?
A lot of times, successful black men in the corporate business world are asked to represent their whole race. Do you think that this is fair?
What are the advantages and/or disadvantages of pointing out racism in the corporate business world?
Is it true that a black man has to be better just to be considered equal in the business world?
How can black men succeed in the corporate business world?
Business Week reported awhile ago that the number of black business men becoming entrepreneurs has risen. They have reportedly been leaving the corporate business world to go into business for themselves. Do you think that they do this because they’re INSPIRED by their corporate experiences—–or IN SPITE of them? Source: http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2007/06/corporations_slight_black_mbas.html
Why is this situation still existing for black men and how can they change the situation?
What is the future of black men in the corporate business world?
Stephan Labossiere is a man on a mission, and that mission is to make relationships happier and more fulfilling.
As a certified relationship coach, a speaker and author, Stephan seizes every opportunity to help both men and women overcome the challenges that hinder their relationships. From understanding the opposite sex, to navigating the paths and avoiding the pitfalls of relationships and self growth, Stephan’s relationship advice and insight helps countless individuals achieve an authentically amazing life. Stephan empowers millions to take charge of the difficult situations standing in the way of the life and love they seek and to make impactful changes on a daily basis.
Dedicated to helping, and devoted to keeping it real, Stephan’s straightforward, yet compassionate delivery style, attracts a versatile clientele including; notable celebrities, civic and social organizations, academic institutions, singles, and couples alike, who can and are ready to handle the truth!
Seen, heard and chronicled in national and international media outlets including; the Tom Joyner Morning Show,The Examiner, ABC, and Huffington Post Live, to name a few. Stephan is highly sought-after because he is able to dispel the myths of relationship breakdowns and obstacles–platonic, romantic, and otherwise—with fervor and finesse. To coin a phrase by an individual who attended one of his speaking engagements, “he’s definitely the relationship guy, all relationships all the time.”
With an international following of singles and couples alike, the name Stephan Labossiere is synonymous with breaking down relationship barriers, pushing past common facades, and exposing the truth. It is this understanding of REAL relationships that he brings to everyone he encounters.
Stephan talks about:
– His life growing up in Miami, Florida
– The values that his parents instilled in him especially education
– How his parents handle him changing interests in college
– Working at different jobs and having different businesses when he graduated from college
– How did coaching become part of his life
– What has made him the “go to guy” when it comes to coaching and how he has taken his coaching to the next level
– Why does he feel that the majority of his clients are women
– What are black women telling him about black men and about themselves
– His books “God Where Is My Boaz?” and “3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Take Your Ex Back”
– How can the church can do a better job when it comes to relationships?
– What are his male clients telling him about relationships
– How does he feel about giving advice to couples when he is not married
Lee Pinkerton was born in London at the end of the 1960s, the child of Jamaican and Guyanese immigrants. After leaving home at the end of the 80s to study Sociology and Psychology at University, he became seduced by the bright lights and glamour of the music industry and spent the next decade as a music journalist, first as a freelancer for magazines such as Mix Mag, Echoes, and Hip-Hop Connection and then as the Arts Editor for The Voice –‘Britain’s Best Black newspaper’.
It was whilst in this capacity that he interviewed such Hollywood stars as Samuel Jackson, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Morgan Freeman. At this time he also appeared on music industry panel debates, and was a regular on-air contributor to radio stations Choice FM and BBC Radio London.
But as the 90s gave way to the Noughties, and Lee entered his 30’s the glamour of the film and music industries lost some of their sheen and he yearned to do something more substantial. Not only that, but now married with children he became concerned for the welfare of his two sons up growing up in London’s poorest borough. So he left the cut and thrust of the media and the city of London taking his family to Derby in the East Midlands where they made their new home.
In 2006, he returned to University, again studying Psychology but this time at Master’s degree level and for a time was working in the area of mental health. But his passion for writing would not leave him and he has expanded the topic of his Master’s degree research project into his latest book. Drawing on his own experiences and observations working in Prisons and in Psychiatric hospitals after leaving the media, as well as extensive academic research The Problem With Black Men examines the causes of the social problems facing Black men in Britain and America today.
Lee will be on our show today at 6 p.m. Eastern/3 p.m. Pacific.
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