Expo Update
has adopted a "news on demand" system from now until the Expo, Sept.
10-12, 2004. (After that we will return to the monthly publishing schedule.)
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We welcome your partnership with the Los Angeles Black owned and
operated businesses who use the Expo each year to showcase their
growth and activity to a consumer base eager to find them.
If you or your company are looking for opportunities to showcase
your corporate support of this community or showcase your
products and services, let's talk. Call me, Harold
Hambrick, Executive Director, at (323) 290-4743.
Join me at the 39th Annual Watts Willowbrook Christmas Parade
this Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004. It kicks off at noon starting at El
Segundo Park--The Grand Marshal are the two young pilots who made
aviation history Kenny Roy and Jimmy Haywood. This year's theme?
Celebrating youth - yesterday, today and tomorrow. Celebrity Marshal
is Micheala Pereira, KTLA Anchor and Danile Smith, Actor.
The grandstand is located at 120th and Wilmington. Be on
the look-out for celebrities and marching bands, and the House of
Uhuru Crew flanked by the fleet of Watts Health Care Vans-- Join
Rory Kaufman, Master of Ceremonies at the Grandstand at 120th and
Central Avenue. For information contact Edna Aliewine,
founder, at 323 563 3629.
Sponsored in part by UHP Healthcare. Look up for House of Uhuru Crew!
The Winter holidays are the time of year many businesses experience
a lift to their product sales. We here at the Los Angeles
Black Business Expo and Trade Show had hoped to provide a catalog of
products and services so that you could consider recycling your
dollars, but our businesses did not take advantage of the free
service. There are however a number of bazaars and things
coming up. Be sure to include Leimert Park on your holiday
shopping list. There are many one of a kind gifts there to
brighten anyone's home.
Marvin Sin, an artist based in Windsor, North Carolina, spends as
much time crafting his mailing list as he does making his fine
leatherware and jewelry. Click his postcard at left to
enlarge. He will be at Zambezi Bazaar, 4334 Degnan
Blvd., Leimert Park Dec. 10 and 11 from noon til 7 PM. (323)
299-6383
Stefanie Askins, owner of Sweet Candied Yams, invites you
to do all of your holiday shopping at their boutique from 11 Am to 6
pm, Wed-Sat. This two year old business sells Afrocentric
items, greeting cards, black Christmas cards, clothes, jewelry,
handbags, pillows, figurines and a lot more.
Dec. 4, 1-4 PM Artist CJ will take orders for his memory
T-shirts. Bring a photo of your choice and he will reproduce
it on a T-shirt or cloth canvass.
That's 3321 W. Manchester Ave., Inglewood, CA -- 1 block
west of Crenshaw at 11th Avenue. Email:
stefanieaskins1@hotmail.com or call (323) 789-6559
Give the gift of art for the person on your list who has
everything!
Master Drummer and Teacher Brother Dadisi Sanyika, long time
ASCAC Member and supporter needs your prayers and support.
He is suffering from terminal colon cancer. To
those of you who know Brother Dadisi, he is a Master Drummer and
long time student of Dr. Alfred Ligon. Moreover, he has done
the Drum Call for many of our national and regional conferences
as well as scholarly presentations. I met Dadisi in 1977 at a
citywide Kwanzaa teaching the children dance and drum through
Africa Culture. There is much I can say regarding this brother
however I simply want to state He is a Black man from the Nile,
a warrior and a teacher who loves us.
Let us give him some love right now. Send forth the spirit of
healing.
S. Pearl has set up a hotline for periodic updates: Call
310/ 803-5453
New law gives
consumers tools to monitor and protect their credit
What is FACTA?
FACTA is the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003. It
is intended to ensure "that all citizens are treated fairly when
they
apply
for...credit." It aims to do this by providing consumers with tools
that give them greater access to their own credit information, while
offering a potent weapon in the fight against identity theft. For
Californians and other consumers who reside in the western states,
December 1, 2004 is an important date for you.
What does FACTA
mean to you? The most important aspect of FACTA is that now everyone
will be entitled to receive a free copy of his or her credit report
once a year. Take advantage of this new provision because it is one
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I would like to extend an
invitation to the members of ExpoUpdate to attend the Grand Opening
Artist Reception of THE BUNGALOW GALLERY which is located inside
very familiar surroundings - my home. The name of the show is
HARLEMHIPHIPHOLLYWOOD (one word).
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RE: AIDS and HIV
Tavis Smiley and friends
Senior Pastor, Bryant Temple AME
Church & Los Angeles County Faith Based Community Advisory Board
Member
An African American HIV/AIDS Summit will be held Saturday Dec. 4,
2004 at USC in Los Angeles. For information and a complete
list of participants, visit:
"We are looking for women over the age of 12 as well as their
Moms and Grandmom’s,” said Auleria Eakins (left), Director of the
Teen Clinic, a popular program at THE Clinic. “Our goal is to
promote conversation around HIV and women’s health issues in a
non-traditional approach. “ Volunteers are needed. Contact Tache
Williams (right) in the Teen Clinic to assist. Girl Talk will be
held Dec. 4 from 5-8 PM in the Mural Room. Free admission, plus
dinner and prizes. Registration for girls over 12 call (3230
295-6571 x 3056. Girl Talk is sponsored by Moms Pharmacy and Pfizer
Pharmaceuticals.
Robert Taylor,Treasurer
Black Health Leadership Council, LA
Black Health Leadership Council Launches Healthy
Lifestyle Campaign to fight Diabetes
The Black Health
Leadership Council, Los Angeles (BHLC) has launched a public service
campaign encouraging adults to change their lifestyles in order to
prevent diabetes and high blood pressure, thanks to a grant from
Pfizer Incorporated.
“You can’t change
genetics but you can change your lifestyle,” said Donzella Lee,
President of the Black Health Leadership Council, Los Angeles.
Thankfully, Pfizer Incorporated heard that battle cry and issued a
grant to fund the concepts.
(Click for more and to hear radio PSA)
Michael's camera was in quite a number of places this month. From
entertainment to community event. Because the
events were so different, we broke them up into two albums:
Young Marcel Rayun Belcher, 14, was shot 16 times on Nov. 14,
2004. The community rallied to raise funds for his burial at Jim
Gilliam Park.
The Following day a mock funeral was held by Pathways to Your
Future. Click the link below:
Natalie Cole, formerly of the L.A Weekly and L.A. Times and
David Miller have launched "Our Weekly," a publication that will
featured more in-depth stories. To see the planned
publication in all its glory,
click here.
If you
need assistance, please call (213) 891-2129.
NOTE:
Because of the tremendous response we have received to
this testing process we are forced to limit the number of
registrations that we can take during each registration period
to 500 -- FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED beginning the first day of
the registration period at 7:00 a.m.!
LAFD IS HIRING TIL
DEC. 4
The Fire Department is Hiring after 7 years:
Applications must be submitted Dec. 1-4, '04 visit
www.lacofd.org for more.
AFRICAN MARKETPLACE
EXPANDS BUSINESS INCUBATOR PROGRAM
by Emma Pullen
African Marketplace, Inc. has expanded its business
incubator program by changing the name of one of its year
round boutiques into the African Marketplace Import Export
Emporium and moving to a new location on the 2nd Floor of the
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, near Sears.
The import export emporium continues African Marketplace, Inc.'s
mission to provide a retail outlet that allows independent
vendors of the African Diaspora, who
do not have a store of their own, the opportunity to sell their
authentic designer African clothing, artifacts, masks, shoes,
jewelry and other merchandise on a year round basis.
The emporium is an extension of the African Marketplace &
Cultural Faire, which provides a commercial outlet for 300
vendors each year to reach nearly 250,000 people, over three
week-ends.
The African Marketplace also expands the
mission of African Marketplace, Inc. founder James V. Burks,
who has spent 19 years creating strategic global business and
cultural alliances. On the eve of the African Marketplace &
Cultural Faire's 20th Anniversary, plans are underway for the
construction of the first permanent Pan African World Trade
Center in the United States in Bayview Hunters Point, where the commercial
center will be located, is the traditionally African American
community of San Francisco.
In addition to the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw
Plaza, African Marketplace Inc. maintains a year-round presence
in Los Angeles through its boutique in the Fox Hills Mall, as
well as, its alliance with the Celebrate African American
Heritage festival in Leimert Park and more.
For more information about the African
Marketplace Import Export Emporium, call Ursaline Bryant at
323/293-3277. For more information about African Marketplace,
Inc.,
www.africanmarketplace.org,
or epullen@africanmarketplace.org.
Los
Angeles-The Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza ushered in the holiday
season with its annual tree lighting ceremony in the Bradley
Court. The ceremony was held on November 18, 2004.
Emcee
Sheila Baker of B’Shey Productions welcomed several hundred
residents to this fabulous program. Ms. Baker led the community
in singing holiday theme songs like “Jingle Bells.”
Additional holiday and praise music were performed by Mass Choir
of First Zion AME Church, Vocalist
Valerie Baker mesmerized the audience with her version of “His
Eyes On The Sparrow”.
Santa
Claus -- who spoke Spanish and English, greeted the kids and listened as they shared their
Christmas wish list with him.
8th
District Councilmember Bernard Parks and Mrs. Parks were in
attendance to light the beautiful 35-foot tree that is adorned
with 1,500 ornaments and more than 10,000 lights.
Happy Holidays. Next Issue
January 2005 Happy Kwanzaa! Happy New Year!
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apply
for...credit." It aims to do this by providing consumers with tools
that give them greater access to their own credit information, while
offering a potent weapon in the fight against identity theft. For
Californians and other consumers who reside in the western states,
December 1, 2004 is an important date for you. 
