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BARACK OBAMA2013 INAUGUATION Special Presidential Edition

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sam ennonsam ennon, is the president of the B.o.B.s.a...the nation’s largest black-owned beauty supply trade association with over 5000 members both national and in-ternational. BOBSA’s membership base includes Black beauty professionals throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Bermuda, Trinidad, West Indies and Switzerland in beauty retail store operations, salons, barbershops, and training institutions.

BOBSA was founded in 2004 as a non-profit, on-line resource source. Inundated with consum-er inquiries, requests for business development support in the black beauty industry, BOBSA began and continues to provide business resource and consultant services to a growing mem-bership.

BOBSA is the leading trade association exclusively representing black-owned beauty supply stores and retail consumers that have been economically disadvantaged in acquiring and owning black-owned beauty supply stores,beauty salons, nail salons and barbershops.

BOBSA has worked to inform, educate,and support black beauty professionals and retail consumers on product knowledge and business operations.

BOBSA will provide support to African-American beauty professionals and retail consumers by providing a comprehensive supply chain network.

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tHE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA5 Read it for yourself, history in the making! The entire INAUGURATIONS SPEECH - FULL LENGTH See Pages 5, 22-23

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6 MR. FRANK DAVIE IN 1979, with virtually neither startup money, nor beforehand knowledge of the hair care industry, entered the enormous world of health and beauty care products.

24 FCI promote small businesses that offer important services to the com-munity. We encourage support via networking so to recycle Black dollars. We celebrate BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2013, A NEW PRESIDENT AND A NEW ADVERTISING PROGRAM FOR BOBSA MEMBERS.

26-27 DENzEL WASHINGTON says his friend and former co-star WHITNEY HOUSTON battled a “monster drug that got a hold of her” and her death should be a lesson to us all. The Oscar-winning ac-tor told the October issue of GQ magazine 2012. A TRIBUTE TO WHITNEY HOUSTON - PBS INTERVIEW EXCLUSIVE!

9 WHY DO KOREANS OWN THE BLACK BEAUTY SUPPLY BUSINESS?September 27th, 2010 - By Rahwa Asmerom

12 SHARON WEST a new author, writer, and woman determined to live life to the fullest. Her work has inspired many to look into the world of reading and enjoying books again from excerpts from her book called “The Clouds Rolled In!”

18 BLACK ENTREPRENEUR’S HALL OF FAME, DR. FULLER HIS-TORICAL STORY, Founded Fuller Products Company, 1929; President, Chicago Negro Chamber of Congress until 1947; Acquired Boyer Interna-tional Laboratories, 1947;

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Each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the enduring strength of our Constitution. We affirm the promise of our democracy. We recall that what binds this nation together is not the colors of our skin or the tenets of our faith or the origins of our names. What makes us exceptional – what makes us American – is our allegiance to an idea, articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago:

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This day January 20, 2013, made World History...Again! BLACK OR WHITE, ASIA, HISPANIC,PEOPLE OF AMERICA REJOICEDGOD MADE IT HAPPEN...TWICE!

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I n late 1979, with virtually neither startup money, nor beforehand knowledge of the hair care industry, Mr. Frank Davie entered the enormous world of health and beauty care products. A self-proclaimed farm boy from Central California, Mr. Davie used his vigorous entrepreneurial spirit and his business knowledge to create a widely successful company called “WORLDS OF CURLS PRODUCTS”.A proud and successful business.

before the birth of “W.O.C Products”, Mr. Davie formerly sold raw materials to hair care manufactures be-fore stumbling upon this new formula. Operating from his home garage, Mr. Davie worked at refining his first prod-uct while doing market research on the ethnic hair care industry. He put relentless effort in getting his product into the marketplace. Mr. Davie recognized the potential market value of his product and soon pioneered the eth-nic hair care market with his popular product called the “Worlds of Curls Gel Curl Activator”. Mr. Davie followed up the success of the “W.O.C Gel Curl Activator” with another ground-breaking formula that also dominated the market called the “Worlds of Curls Comb-Out Conditioning & Oil Sheen Moisturizer Spray”. In the early 1980’s, “W.O.C Hair Care Products” explodes on to the ethnic beauty market scene with the brands trademarkcolor of royal blue & white.

Soon to follow was the introduction of their widely successful advertising campaign called “STEP INTO THE WORLD OF CURLS”. The new “W.O.C” ad-vertising ads were spreading like wildfire, showing up on billboards, magazines and radio ads throughout the country. Now operating from a 5000 sp. ft. facility with 10 employ-ees, Mr. Davie put together an innovative marketing plan that took ethnic hair care industry by surprise. Soon after the monster success of the original hair care products, the “W.O.C” brand continued to expand. In addition to the W.O.C Gel Curl Activator and Comb-Out Conditioning

& Oil Sheen Spray, nine other products were intro-duced under the “Worlds of Curls” umbrella. The products included: “INSTANT MOISTURIZER, COLD WAVE & CURL KIT, BLUE SATIN & EXCLUSIVE BLEND CONDITIONING CREME HAIR RELAXERS, HIGHLIGHTS GEL COLOURS, MAX FOR MEN, PHASE 2 Thermal Styling System, BODI for Waves & Curls, and SIMPLY SATIN COSMETICS”. “Worlds of Curls Hair Care Products” were now a forced to be reckoned with in the ethnic hair care industry.

In 1985, “W.O.C Inc.” reached another plateau in busi-ness and succeeded in the International Hair Care Market. “Worlds of Curls Hair Care Products” were now sold worldwide in five continents of Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, with addition-al company operations in Trinidad-Tobago, London, England and Haiti. The explosive growth of Mr. Da-vie’s business grew beyond his imagination and wi-tin the first five years of operations, the “Worlds of-Curls, Inc.” empire went on to achieve over $38 million in revenue. With the continued growth and success of his business and now with over 400 employed worldwide, Mr. Davie soon purchased and renovated 160,000 sq. ft. facility were most of “W.O.C Hair Care Products” were manufactured. During that time, Mr. Davie took another groundbreaking risk and ventured into the world of cos-metics. Introduced in 1986, “W.O.C Products” created “SIMPLY SATIN Cosmetics”, a 45 item line specifically designed for women of color in mind. “SIMPLY SATIN Cosmetics” gained solid market share for quality and

style with strong brand pres-ence and bold colors. Within the ethnic skin care market, “SIMPLY SATIN Cosmetics” soon became so popular that this forced other cosmetic beauty giants of Revlon and Maybelline to take notice and

develop new cosmetic lines to compete with “SIMPLY SATIN”. At this time all products under the “WORLDS OF CURLS” brand continued to achieve monster success.

In 1985, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davie enter the world of philanthropy. The Davie’s created “WIN THROUGH EDUCATION” with the introduction of the “W.O.C Annual National College Scholarship Fund”. Since 1985, they donated over $400,000 in scholarships to deserv-ing students. Every year they empowered youth to succeed by awarding scholar-

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hair care companies that design prod-ucts primarily with black consumers in mind. The “AHBAI” organization created “The Proud Lady” symbol to distinguish them from their white-owned business competitors. This sym-bol represented black power and was placed on the back of all members’ products to en-sure that the black dollar was reinvested back into the community. “AHBAI’s” sole purpose was to bring positive awareness and educa-tion to the black consumers. At the pinnacle of their success, the “AHBAI” associations top 11 members, including Mr. Davie, combined estimated net worth was well over half a bil-lion dollars. To add to their explosive revolu-tion many historical achievements were made by the incredibly gifted men of “AHBAI”. They contributed too many major economic and political forces around the country potentially having the power to effect world change. The combined power of the “AHBAI” brothers was so substantial that they dominated in the busi-ness of black hair care. They were all ranked in Black Enterprise Magazine’s INDUSTRIAL/SERVICE top 100 lists for outstanding achievements in business and com-munity involvements. Furthermore, Mr. Davie’s solid leadership involve-ment within the “ABHAI” organization and the black hair care industry cemented him as one of the top icons in the industry. Mr. Davie worked tirelessly lending innovative ideas to further solidify “AHBAI’s” power in the black hair care market. In the late 1990’s, despite the downfall of black ownership within the ethnic hair care industry and the “AHBAI” organi-zation, Mr. Davie remained committed and focused to change the world of the ethnic hair care industry. He refused to be part of the demise in an industry that he helped create.

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WHY DO KOREANS OWN THE BLACK BEAUTY SUPPLY BUSINESS? September 27th, 2010 - By Rahwa Asmerom

I t’s odd but not so odd at the same time. By now, many people expect to walk into a beauty supply store and see a Korean store owner manning the register. Whether you’re in the suburbs of Houston or on MLK Blvd in Anytown, USA, you know what to expect. And yet, walking down a street in a Black neighborhood with Black residents and Black customers buzz-ing about the retail shops, that image of the few Koreans in the neighbor-hood only existing behind the cash register of liquor, beauty supply and other retail shops is still perplexing.But what can explain the seemingly random attraction of Black hair to Korean entrepreneurs? Is it that they love Black hair so much? Was there a plan amongst the first wave of Korean immigrants to hone in on the black hair care industry and dominate the beauty supply store market? From a business perspective, it was no coin-cidence.

The wig business and the explosion of the wig business in South Korea in the 1960s is instrumental to understand-ing the Korean ownership of beauty supply stores. According to the book “On My Own: Korean Businesses and Race Relations in America”, the rise of the YH Trade wig manufacturing company was significant. Founder Yung Ho Chang, conceived the idea of the company while working as the vice-director of Korean Trade Promotion Corporation in the U.S. Between 1965 and 1978, his company exported $100 million worth of wigs.The wig business was doing so well, especially amongst African-American

consumers that the Korean Wig Mer-chants pushed to corner the market. “In 1965, the Korean Wig merchants joined together and convinced the Korean government to outlaw the ex-port of raw hair,” said Aron Ranen, a filmmaker who has documented the marginalization of African-American entrepreneurs in the hair care indus-try in the film Black Hair. “[This ban] made it so that one can only buy the pre-made wigs and extensions.” In other words, Korean hair could only be manufactured in Korea. “Six months later, the United States gov-ernment created a ban on any wig that contains hair from China,” effectively putting South Korea in prime position to exploit the market.

The business structure helped set up many Korean entrepreneurs in the sale of wigs and over the past five decades, wig stores have evolved to become full fledged beauty sup-ply stores where hair for weaves and extensions represent the top selling products. Since then, it’s been a chain reaction as one store beget another; family members and employees of one store owner duplicated the business. According to said Dr. Kyeyoung Park, associate professor of anthropology and Asian American Studies at UCLA, competition also played a role in the proliferation. “Korean immigrants are more concerned with peer compe-tition,” she said. “If one is running a business so well, then another Korean will open up a similar business very quickly.”

Today, there are over 9,000 Korean-owned beauty supply stores serving a billion dollar market for Black hair. Between manufacturing, distributing and selling these hair care products, Korean entrepreneurs appear to con-trol all major components. Ranen was inspired to make his documentary be-cause of what he saw as the injustice of unfair business practices.“It’s really about allowing black manu-facturers to get inside the distribu-

tion channel,” he said. “‘I mean, if you ask me, ‘what is your vision for the future?’” Well, right away, it’s a 100 black-owned stores opening up right next to Korean stores – a boycott un-til the Korean stores accept at least 20% black-owned manufactured prod-ucts. Then we are talking about money in the community.”

According Ranin, there are only four central distributors serving beauty supply stores in the country and these Korean owned distributors discrimi-nate against Black store owners in order to maintain their monopoly in the market. Ranin interviewed Lucky White, the owner of Kizure Iron-works which specializes in making styling tools like curling irons, for his 2006 documentary. Ms. White claimed that distributors told her that her products were no longer in demand as an excuse to turn away her prod-ucts in favor of knock-offs produced by Asian companies.

Devin Robinson, an economics profes-sor and author of “How to Become a Successful Beauty Supply Store Own-er”, organized a boycott last Novem-ber against Non- Black Owned Beauty Supply stores. “The problem is with the distributors.” he has stated. “Dis-tributors are mainly Non-Blacks and they handpick who they will distribute products to. This oftentimes leaves as-piring black owners disenfranchised.”business/#7kuvbLdMikhuRWEG.99

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Chapter 1 WhoKnew?Frederick rolled over to look at his throbbing hands. The early morning light streamed through the cracks in the wooden cabin. Frederick lay on the floor and listened to the cock crowing. He wasn’t sure what time he was suppose to get up, this was all new to him. His clean pants and white stockings were now matted with dirt and mud. He had never picked cotton before and now ev-ery part of his body was showing it. His fingers were swollen and slashed with tears and cuts. His back hurt and his knees were bloody.Just two weeks before he had been the special house servant to the Old Master. He was the wa-ter carrier and bather of “Old Massa’ as every one called him. Now he was fumbling and falling and failing to pick cotton as well as one of the six-year-old slaves. Old Massa had, had a peculiar liking to him but now Old Massa was dead. Secretly the slaves were happy and smiled to themselves when he died with a blood-curdling scream from his bedroom. Before he died old Massa was as nearly yellow as his hair in his youth. In his youth he was six foot one, he was now five foot eleven on his deathbed. He lived to be ninety-five years old to most of the slave’s disappointment. As a young man he was handsome with big white teeth and rough yellow hair. Many young white southern bells wanted to marry him, but he sowed his wild oats, to the shame of every one in the county, with all of his female slaves till his late sixty’s. Half of his slaves were his children and the

others were bought and sold at his whim. William Johnson, “Old Massa” was one of the riches men in South Carolina. He had over one hundred slave children by ten different slave women. The slave women were sold when they became too tired to birth children and work. He cared for none of them and they hated him. His children ranged from near white to deep dark brown. But, they all had blond streaks in their hair and blue, green or hazel eyes. He inher-ited a1650-acre plantation from his father, but by the time he died it had been sold down to 500 acres that was crowded with his slave children. At the age of sixty he sent off for a bride from Sweden, a big blond blue eyed twenty-five year old. But what came was a big boned very heavy blond blue-eyed forty-five-year-old Swedish wid-ow, named Inga, with a five year old who hated him on sight. William Johnson knew that his new bride’s son would own his plantation one day. Af-ter ten years of trying to conceive a child with

Inga and failing, this did not please him at all.Young Massa, Bill Johnson, hated everything about the plantation except the money he used to gamble with on the fights every weekend. He dreamed of the day he could sell the whole thing and get away. Every one thought it was sad be-cause he even hated his mother whom he spoke ill of to whomever would listen. Old Massa was indifferent to all his children and outwardly hostile to Bill. He seemed to hate ev-eryone and everything before he died except for Frederick, Frederick’s mother and Frederick’s fa-ther. He doted on them like they were his prize thoroughbreds. He first came across Hattie May, a full fledge

Mandingo from the Mandingo tribe, when she was fifteen years old. Her skin was a beautiful caramel color. She was six foot one when she was bought by Old Massa and could look him straight in his eyes. Not even his children would or could do this to him. He fed her and kept her separate from any of his sons or other male slaves. She was envied for her role on the planta-tion, but she never knew it because she did not associate with the other slaves or speak a word of English. She was never beaten, for not trying. She understood every word that was spoken in English to her; she just didn’t have to answer. Ev-eryone knew Old Massa had a plan for her but they could not guess what it was. He kept her at the big house only cooking breakfast and the rest of the day she was on her own to run free in his woods. Hattie never ran away, she had a plan of her own. She was secretly mapping out an escape route for twenty years. But all that was stopped when Old Massa one day brought in a six foot six Mandingo warrior, Big BOY, who seemed defeated and doc-ile to the other slaves. He had lost two fingers from each hand and his foot was mangled into a knot, like a dog had chewed on it for hours. But, Hattie could see in his eyes a defiance that could, next time get him killed if he ran away. He was locked in a cage like an animal; no slave had been brought on this plantation this way, all the other slaves were glad they were not in his place. Old Massa bragged about how he finally had a fighter and would make lots of money to win back his Daddies land. He would fight him all over the South. But more than that he would mate him with his Hattie. He stated he had wait-ed for this for many years, and now he would have thoroughbred slaves. They would be strong enough to pick cotton all day without a rest. He built a cabin for Big Boy and Hattie and waited for them to mate. He was disappointed when he could not watch and they would not perform on command. That was the only time he was sorry he had not forced Hattie to speak or learn English. He did not know she understood every word he said. But, he knew they under-stood each other. Hattie immediately began to fix Big Boy’s wounds, when Big Boy was removed from the cage. But what Old Massa did not know was Frederick was conceived that night. Hattie did not carry her baby the way the other smaller African slave women did. She did not look preg-nant. When she birthed Frederick she was so quiet and they hid the boy till they could hide him no more. Big Boy would fight for Old Massa as long as he

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dots-online eXclusiVe -eXcerpts From”tHe clouds rolled in!” By sHaron west let him stay with Hattie and his child, but when he would not fight he would make him sleep in the outhouse with all the horseflies. He did not even do this to the other slaves. Big Boy won Old Massa lots of money but the Master would spend it on other things, never buying back his Daddies land. Feeding his slaves were getting costly, taking care of his son and wife was also costly. Inga spent lots of money and so did her son. When Bill saw the old man was losing his sharpness he did more and more corrupt things on the plantation. He also wanted to corrupt the fight game. But, he was secretly afraid of Big Boy. He wanted to fight him for himself, not his stepfather, but he could not make him win for himself.He would beat him with a cat of nine tails right before the fight and starve him never knowing this could make it impossible for him to win. But he and Big Boy knew that if Big Boy wanted to win he would.Years passed, Bill and Big Boy went round and around as the old Massa became more and more feeble. Big Boy would lose more than he would win.One day, six months before Fredericks’ sixteenth birthday, things were truly bad around the planta-tion. Old Massa had turned ninety-five and was up and walking around barking orders almost like his old self. Frederick had tried to bathe him but he wanted to bathe himself. He made his way down to his beloved Mandingo’s cabin only to find Big Boy tied to a tree with his flesh sitting open with flies flying all around his crumpled body. The old man began to cry as if his heart would break. Bill saw the sight from his bedroom window and waddled down to taunt the old man. Bill had not grown like his mother he was five foot five and almost three feet around. Bill growled at the old man to stop crying. “Yes, old man he’s near dead what do you think of that?’ Bill spat out. The old man leaned against another tree and cried silently. Bill was so angry because his stepfather did not even acknowledge he was there. Bill ran to the barn and retrieved his shotgun. He practically dragged it to the tree openings and shot Big Boy in the back of the head. His head splattered on the old man’s face, hair and clothing. The old man fainted. Bill left him at the tree with a grin on his face. He was finally satisfied. He hoped the old man was dead too. Frederick also saw this happen, he wanted to run to what was left of his father, but he knew that everyone was watching. The six foremen, who also had guns, were watching. They were shocked but could not show any emotion, because Mr. Bill Johnson was still looking backward glances at his work. He snarled out, “Boy pick that old man up and take him to his room.” Frederick was now six foot one himself, even though he was only fifteen. He had, had the heart of a child but with his father’s assault, that act had blown his heart to pieces. Frederick wanted to run, but he knew he could not leave Hattie; his

momma was in the kitchen making breakfast. He knew she would take all this silently till they were alone, and then she would fall apart. Frederick carried the old man into the house, never looking back at his father’s headless body. Frederick could speak and understand English. He even could read and write it, because the Pastor’s wife had been secretly teaching the slave children in the house, when she and her husband visited the old man. Her husband would pray for him with Inga looking on, and the Pastor’s wife would excuse herself to the kitchen saying she wanted to make her own tea, only to sneak and teach all the little children to read the Bible. Frederick knew of the love of God even for slaves, but never thought he could call on him to change his plight. But for some reason, as he car-ried the Old Massa, he began to call out to this God to take his father’s spirit to heaven and help him forgive all these people. But, his real true and secret prayer was for Jesus to remove him from this place. This secret prayer was too frighten-ing to him; he looked around hoping the young master could not read his mind because he was not ready to die. He climbed the steps to the old man’s room carrying him with ease. He was not sure he was alive his breathing was so slight. He laid him on the bed and covered him with the coverlet from the bottom of his bed. He was fighting with an overwhelming urge to hate and kill, but he knew better, he had seen many slaves killed since Young Massa took over. He could not look out “Old Massa’s” window at his father’s headless body. What came next was the hardest thing he had ever done in his fifteen years. Bill walked in smiling saying, “Is he dead?” Frederick said, “No sir.” “Well go down and bury Big Boy,” he said with a bigger grin.Frederick knew right then and there his life was changed and was not going back. After he buried Big Boy he was amazed at how he kept his calm, it took him all day. He had never dug a grave before, and dragging his father to the slave graveyard took him two hours. His

father was solid and big, and now he was dead, he weighed twice as much.Young Massa wanted to hurt him, so after he dug for three hours he came to him and told him to drag Big Boy instead to the back of the outhouse where he wanted him bur-ied. Frederick still could not shed a tear yet, as he drug his father behind the outhouse. That night in their cabin he and his mother cried silent tears as they dressed for bed. As the night drifted in they heard Old Massa scream.

Old Massa began to come to himself and over in the corner sat Bill like a fat toad smiling. The old man’s mind was like a bundle of clouds and as they began to clear, all he could see was Big Boy tied to a tree and then his head splattering all over him. At that second his heart popped, he looked over for help from a grinning and laugh-ing Bill. At that very second he knew how all his slaves felt as he had raped and tortured them for years, “helpless”. He screamed half from pain and half from frustration. The next morning Young Massa called Frederick and Hattie out of their cabin to live with the last slaves that were bought. The new slaves were covered with mud from their long trip. The new slaves looked totally frightened, they were crowded into a one-room cabin with fifteen other slaves. They had to leave all they had and come in their day clothes. No one slept on cots they all slept on the floor and were expect-ed to go pick cotton right after breakfast. Break-fast was something that looked like snakeskins. They were told they were pig intestines and were called chitterlings. The smell of fesses made them unbearable to eat.All day Frederick and his mother picked cotton with out any rest. The other slaves rested twice a day because of their size. All these things floated back to Frederick as he lay on the floor looking at his swollen fingers. “What else could happen?” he thought. Little did he know. Written by, SHARON WEST

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Insurance representative for Com-monwealth Burial Association, late 1920s and early 1930s; Founded Fuller Products Company, 1929; President, Chicago Negro Chamber of Congress until 1947; Acquired Boyer International Labora-tories, 1947; Later purchased interest in J. C. McBrady and Company and Patricia Stevens Cosmetics, New York Age and Pittsburgh Courier. In the 1950s founded Fuller Guaranty Corporation, Fuller-Philco Home Ap-pliance Center, and Fuller’s Depart-ment Store.Assistant Pastor to St. Andrew Temple of Faith, Truth and Love Baptist Church, 1962. Placed on probation by the Securities and Exchanges Commission in 1964;Fuller Products Company declared bankruptcy in 1969; Revived, c. 1970s. Dabbled in real estate, farming, and cattle.

Life’s Work:Widely known as S. B. Fuller, Samuel B. Fuller was born in Monroe, Louisiana, in 1905, to parents who were sharecroppers. By the time he was nine years old he had learned the value of door-to-door sales, perhaps from experiences in his commu-nity. Fuller dropped out of school when he was in the sixth grade. When he was 15, the Fullers moved to Memphis, Tennessee. Fuller’s mother died two years later and apparently the seven children provided for themselves without government as-sistance.Samuel B. Fuller started with a sixth-grade education, a desire to succeed, and a talent for sales. Samuel invested $25 to build a company that reached multimillions of dol-lars in assets. He made door-to-door sales successful in both white and black com-munities and became known throughout the country as the head of Fuller Products Company. His training techniques guided others in establishing multimillion-dollar businesses of their own.

Perhaps in search of a better living than he had in Memphis, Fuller hitchhiked to Chicago in 1928 and found work as a coal hiker. Later Fuller worked as an insurance representative for Commonwealth Burial Association; after four years he was pro-moted to a managerial position. Assisted by his friend Lestine Thornton, and soon to be wife, Fuller spent 25 dollars to buy soap that he peddled from door-to-door. Since the investment proved successful, he

soon put $1,000 into this venture. Soon the Fuller Products Company was estab-lished and incorporated in 1929.

Fuller developed a line of 30 products and hired salespeople to sale them door-to-door, primarily on Chicago’s South Side. This is where many of his black custom-ers lived. By 1939 his business had grown from a small office space above a store to a small factory, also located on the South Side. By expanding his sales force to meet the needs of the market, Fuller had be-come one of the city’s most prominent black businessmen.Determined to expand his business, in 1947 Fuller acquired Boyer International Laboratories, a white cosmetic manufac-turing company. In an effort to avoid criti-cism and possibly boycotts from whites that were loyal to Boyer products, (Jean Nadal Cosmetics and H.A. Hair Arranger) the transaction remained secret. Fuller’s customers then were primarily in the South: Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery, Dallas, and North Carolina.

Throughout the 1950s Fuller was probably the richest African American man in the United States. His cosmetics company had $18 million in sales and a sales force of five thousand (one third of them white). It gave training to many future entrepreneurs and other leaders. Fuller was known as a mas-ter salesman. His Chicago plant

included such products as face creams, lotions, perfumes, and a complete line of household products. According to the November 1957 Ebo-ny, the attractive, modest, and unbeliev-ably energetic Fuller had a charming and magnetic quality about him. “He cajoles, questions, lectures, coddles and spanks his dealers with words that have come to be gospel to Fullerites.” The formula for his success, cited in the November 1975 Ebony, is given in Fuller’s own statements, “The door-to-door salesman is the back-bone of today’s economy.... At Fuller Prod-ucts Company, there’s only one race--the human race.... A man doesn’t have to have a lot of degrees behind his name to earn $10,000 a year.”

A motivational genius, Fuller held spiritual meetings for his door- to-door salespeo-ple and published weekly bulletins, distrib-uting them to independent dealers so that his sales people throughout the country always knew his doctrine on selling and living. Furthermore, Fuller held annual meetings for his employees that allowed him an opportunity to honor them. For example, when Fuller and his staff met in Chicago’s Palmer House in 1957, his top three salespeople were awarded automo-biles and 24 other salespeople divided a jackpot of more than $3,000. Most of his administrative staff were college graduates. His employees, who called themselves “Fullerites,” included George Johnson, later owner of the well- known John-son Products, and Joe Louis Dudley, now owner of a multimillion-dollar-business in Greensboro, North Carolina.

By 1959 Fuller had built a $250,000 12-room dream house in Robbins, Illinois. The suburban showplace was equipped with maids’ quarters, 14 telephones, imported Italian terrazzo tile floors, Indian wool carpeting, and Japanese raw silk draperies designed especially for the Fullers.Business soared after the acquisition of Boyer and by the early 1960s sales peaked at $20 mil-lion. Fuller now had a line of 300 products and employed 5,000 salespeople, 600 of who were on direct payroll. His employ-ees were black as well as white, and 60 percent of his customers were white. Ac-cording to the November 1957 issue of Ebony, he inspired his black employees by saying, “Anything the white man can do, so can you. Don’t ever feel the way is closed to you because you are a Negro. All you need is faith in God and faith in yourself.”

He also established 85 branches in 38 states. The astute businessman decided to di-versify his investment further and bought an interest in J. C. McBrady and Company and Pa-tricia Stevens Cosmetics. He became a major shareholder of the Pittsburgh Courier Publish-ing Company--the owner of the country’s old-est black newspaper, the New York Age, and the Pittsburgh Courier, the largest circulated black newspaper.Fuller also invested in real estate, farming, and cattle. He owned a real estate trust in New York City, the buildings housing branches of his business in various cities, and Chicago’s Regal Theater--the city’s counterpart to Harlem’s Apollo Theater for black entertainment. He owned the Fuller Guaranty Corporation and Fuller-Philco Home Appliance Center.

Fuller’s Downfall: Although Fuller believed fully in people own-ing their own business and that it would be easy for Negroes to own their own business, he was wrong. However, he would keep making speeches that would give his biting opinion of Negroes. He did not realize there were forces that hindered the Negroe entrepreneur.

Fuller’s business investments began to decline in the 1960s. The Civil Rights movement and the White Citizen’s Council proceeded to destroy the company by boycotting sales throughout the South, after they learned that Boyer had been sold to a Negroe. The Civil Rights movement had begun to have Negroes launch economic boycotts of southern white businesses. Many of those Drugstore chains owned by whites, re-moved the Boyer line from their shelves. Since 60 percent of the company’s sales came from whites, the boycott devastated Fuller Products Company.

Fuller’s Lack of Foresight:In 1963 Fuller was the first African Ameri-can inducted into the National Association of Manufacturers. He could not and would not change his views that the Negroes mindset was the problem toward owning a business. During his acceptance speech he stated that, “a lack of understanding of the capitalist system and not racial barriers was keeping blacks from making progress.”

In an interview that same year with U.S. News and World Report he said, “Negroes are not discriminated against because of the color of their skin. They are discriminated against be-cause they have not anything to offer that peo-ple want to buy.” Afterwards his company suf-fered severe setbacks as many of his comments were reported out of context. Major national black leaders reacted angrily and called for a boycott of Fuller Products. Fuller soon found out his views were going to be his downfall within his community and were not going to help him outside of his community with whites.According to the African- American Business Leaders, he lashed out criticism at blacks, saying that, “Negroes lack initiative, courage, integrity, loyalty and wisdom.” He accused the Chicago NAACP of ignoring blacks and working only to change the attitude of whites. Clearly, the views

Fuller expressed around this time departed from his earlier assertion that blacks could succeed in business. He began to draw the black community’s wrath and blacks boycot-ted his products. Fuller knew that his busi-ness suffered further by the black boycott; nevertheless, he never recanted his negative statements toward blacks in business and attributed the whole matter to a misunder-standing.

His other products from his other cosmetic companies did not help keep him afloat. The Jean Nadal products had no market at all and Fuller sold the line. Although he believed that black producers should sell to white customers just as whites sell to blacks, he attempted to move his market to northern whites and to blacks in both the North and South. When a New York liquor dealer re-neged on its offer to buy the Jean Nadal line, Fuller’s enterprise was devastated further. His attempt to reinvest his money in Full-er’s Department Store, formerly the South Center Department Store on the South Side of Chicago, left him financially overextended.

In 1964 the Securities and Exchanges Commis-sion charged Fuller with selling unregistered high interest promissory notes on his business and he was placed on probation for five years. In addition, a social service agent in Chicago cam-paigned against him for giving credit to clients on welfare. The agent persuaded the clients not to honor their debts with Fuller, leaving him with more than one million dollars in unpaid accounts. In late 1968 Fuller divested himself of his publishing concern and his retail stores. Despite his sale of the mortgages he held on real estate, Fuller Products Company declared bankruptcy in 1969.

Down But Not Out:Fuller revived his business in the 1970s, when he reorganized under the federal bankruptcy laws, and by 1972, the firm reported $300,000 in profits. Still based in Chicago, he had cen-ters in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Newark, Richmond, Greensboro, Washington, D.C., and Cleveland. By 1975 Fuller’s company manu-factured 60 products, including cosmetics and other beauty items.

In honor of Fuller’s 70th birthday, on June 4, 1975, George Johnson and Johnson Publishing Company executive John H. Johnson cospon-sored a testimonial dinner. Illinois Governor Daniel Walker declared the day “S. B. Fuller Day” in his honor as well. Some 2,000 people paid $50 a plate to attend the Chicago event. John H. Johnson presented Fuller with a check for $70,000, representing funds raised at the event. According to the June 16, 1976, issue of Jet, George Johnson told Fuller, “If there had been no you, there would be no us.” He also presented Fuller with 2,000 shares of Johnson Products stock valued at $50,000. All funds were to help Fuller rebuild his company.

Joe L. Dudley, who had worked with Fuller in the past and was already operating a boom-ing cosmetics business in Greensboro where

three years before he saw more than 400 per-cent profit, teamed up with Fuller to develop a $100,000 business in the next ten years and to perpetuate door-to-door selling. By 1978 Dud-ley had become president of the Fuller Prod-ucts Company. -During his lifetime Fuller di-vided his time between his company and other professional and civic activities. Sometime in the 1930s, black businesses founded the Chicago Negro Chamber of Commerce and later in-cluded older, more established companies such as Park Sausage, Metropolitan Sausage, Supreme Life Insurance Company, and Baldwin Advertis-ing. Their motto was “For your economic eman-cipation, patronize your own.”

Fuller was president of the organization until 1947, and through parades and stickers, guided its continuous campaign for self- sufficiency. Fuller himself consistently supported black businesses. In the 1950s for example, when Johnson Products was burned out of its small cosmetics operation, Fuller enabled George Johnson and his company to use Fuller’s facili-ties in the interim. That Johnson was a competi-tor was irrelevant.In 1960 Fuller was chairman of the Pittsburgh Courier’s board of directors. By 1962 he also had become licensed as a Baptist minister and later became an assistant pastor of St. Andrew Temple of Faith, Truth, and Love Baptist Church. During President Eisenhower’s administration he raised contributions for the Republican Na-tional Committee. He also contributed gener-ously to various charities and scholarship funds.

Fuller died on October 24, 1988, at St. Francis Hospital in Blue Island, apparently of kidney fail-ure. Funeral services were held at St. Andrew Temple of Faith. His survivors included his wife, five daughters, 13 grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren. Fuller is best remembered as a trailblazing entrepreneur and as a mentor to many of the leading black business owners in the country.Resources; Walter, Lamar

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“We hold these truths to be self-ev-ident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Cre-ator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Today we continue a never-ending journey, to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time. For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on Earth.

The patriots of 1776 did not fight to replace the tyranny of a king with the privileges of a few or the rule of a mob. They gave to us a Republic, a govern-ment of, and by, and for the people, en-trusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.

For more than two hundred years, we have.Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free. We made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward to-gether.

Together, we determined that a mod-ern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and com-merce; schools and colleges to train our workers.

Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play.

Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.

Through it all, we have never relin-quished our skepticism of central authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all society’s ills can be

cured through government alone. Our celebration of initiative and enterprise; our insistence on hard work and per-sonal responsibility, are constants in our character.

But we have always understood that when times change, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles re-quires new responses to new chal-lenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action. For the American people can no more meet the demands of today’s world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with mus-kets and militias. No single person can train all the math and science teach-ers we’ll need to equip our children for the future, or build the roads and networks and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores. Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation, and one people.

This generation of Americans has been tested by crises that steeled our re-solve and proved our resilience. A decade of war is now ending. An eco-nomic recovery has begun. America’s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless ca-pacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it – so long as we seize it together.

For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a grow-ing many barely make it. We believe

that America’s prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a ris-ing middle class. We know that America thrives when every person can find in-dependence and pride in their work; when the wages of honest labor liber-ate families from the brink of hardship. We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American, she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.

We understand that outworn pro-grams are inadequate to the needs of our time. We must harness new ideas and technology to remake our govern-ment, revamp our tax code, reform our schools, and empower our citi-zens with the skills they need to work harder, learn more, and reach higher. But while the means will change, our purpose endures: a nation that rewards the effort and determination of every single American. That is what this mo-ment requires. That is what will give real meaning to our creed.

We, the people, still believe that ev-ery citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity. We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future. For we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty, and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn. We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few. We rec-ognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any time, may face a job loss, or a sudden illness, or a home swept away in a terri-ble storm. The commitments we make to each other – through Medicare, and Medicaid, and Social Security – these things do not sap our initiative; they

strengthen us. They do not make us a nation of takers; they free us to take the risks that make this country great.

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transi-tion; we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new indus-tries – we must claim its promise. That is how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure – our forests and waterways; our croplands and snowcapped peaks. That is how we

will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.

We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war. Our brave men and women in uniform, tempered by the flames of battle, are unmatched in skill and courage. Our citizens, seared by the memory of those we have lost, know too well the price that is paid for liberty. The knowledge of their sacrifice will keep us forever vigilant against those who would do us harm. But we are also heirs to those who won the peace and not just the war, who turned sworn enemies into the surest of friends, and we must carry those lessons into this time as well.

We will defend our people and uphold our values through strength of arms and rule of law. We will show the cour-

age to try and resolve our differences with other nations peacefully – not because we are naïve about the dan-gers we face, but because engagement can more durably lift suspicion and fear.




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America will remain the anchor of strong al-liances in every corner of the globe; and we will renew those institutions that extend our capacity to manage crisis abroad, for no one has a greater stake in a peaceful world than its most powerful nation.

We will support democ-racy from Asia to Africa; from the Americas to the Middle East, because our interests and our con-science compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice – not out of mere charity, but be-cause peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity; hu-man dignity and justice.

We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

It is now our generation’s task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their ef-forts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law – for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well. Our journey is not com-plete until no citizen is forced to wait for hours to exercise the right to vote. Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity; until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country. Our journey is not complete until all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of New-town, know that they are cared for, and cher-ished, and always safe from harm.

That is our generation’s task – to make these

words, these rights, these values – of Life, and Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – real for every American. Being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on ev-ery contour of life; it does not mean we will all define liberty in exactly the same way, or follow the same precise path to happiness. Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time – but it does require us to act in our time.

For now decisions are upon us, and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate. We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect. We must act, knowing that today’s victories will be only partial, and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years, and forty years, and four hundred years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare Philadelphia hall.

My fellow Americans, the oath I have sworn before you today, like the one recited by oth-ers who serve in this Capitol, was an oath to God and country, not party or faction – and we must faithfully execute that pledge during the duration of our service. But the words I spoke today are not so different from the oath that is taken each time a soldier signs up for duty, or an immigrant realizes her dream. My oath is not so different from the pledge we all make to the flag that waves above and that fills our hearts with pride. They are the words of citizens, and they repre-sent our greatest hope.

You and I, as citizens, have the power to set this country’s course.

You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to

shape the debates of our time – not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and endur-ing ideals.

Let each of us now embrace, with solemn duty and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history, and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.

Thank you, God Bless you, and may He forever

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THIS EDITORIAL CONVERSATION IS WRITEN AND PRODUCED BY PBS NEWSHOUR.JEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight, our remembrance of singer Whitney Houston. From the release of her first album in 1985, Whitney Houston was a superstar, turning a background in gospel and soul into pop music gold, first artist to chart seven consecutive number-one hits, eventually selling more than 170 million albums, singles and videos worldwide. She won hundreds of awards, including six Grammys, and turned to acting, starring in films, including “The Bodyguard.”

IN-DEPTH COVERAGE Art BeatMore recently, it was the struggles in Houston’s life that drew attention, a turbulent relationship with her hus-band, singer Bobby Brown, and battles with drug addic-tion. At last night’s Grammy Awards, though, performers paid tribute to her music-making and her soaring voice, as in the song “The Greatest Love of All.” Whitney Hous-ton was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel this weekend. The cause of her death is not yet determined. She was 48 years old. And we’re joined now by Gordon Chambers, a Grammy Award-winning singer, producer and songwriter. He worked with Whitney Houston on a number of songs and albums.

“What a Stradivarius was to a violin was what [Whitney Houston] brought to a microphone, the best voice of the 20th century.”- Gordon Chambers, singer-songwriterGordon Chambers, welcome. I mentioned this melding of gospel, soul and pop music. What do you think it was that set her apart?

GORDON CHAMBERS, songwriter-musician: It was the clarity of the tone of her voice, the precision of her pitch.You know, you never forgot that she was of the gospel tradition, but when she sang, she could sing a melody so clearly and so precise, that she could make a song a copyright. She had -- what a Stradivarius was to a violin was what she brought to a microphone, the best voice of the 20th century.

JEFFREY BROWN: I’m sorry. You said what?GORDON CHAMBERS: Easily, hands down, the finest,

purest tone of a singer in the 20th century, in my estima-tion.

JEFFREY BROWN: And she came from this very rich musical background, her mother, Cissy Houston, Aretha Franklin, a godmother, Dionne Warwick, a cousin.

GORDON CHAMBERS: Yes.And, you know, there’s even more singers that are in her background. I mean, Cissy was a member of a wonderful group called the Sweet Inspirations. And Cissy’s brothers and sisters made up a group called the Drinkard Singers.So, the Houston legacy of singing goes back for two gen-erations even before Whitney in Newark, New Jersey. These are fabulous, fabulous, soulful singers in the gospel tradition.

JEFFREY BROWN: Now, you worked with her. What was that like?

GORDON CHAMBERS: I worked with her.I produced songs on two of her albums, “Just Whitney,” and one on a song on her Christmas album, “One Wish.” And Whitney is really funny and really warm, really will somebody who comes in a room and introduces herself to everyone in the room. I asked her to say -- if she wouldn’t mind saying hello to my parents. She spoke to them for about 20 minutes on the phone. She’s a very warm, very radiant person. And as much of a star as she is on TV, she has that same quality, star quality even when she walks in a room and there’s two, three people. She lights up a room and the room lights up to her. She’s funny, charismatic. We laughed a lot, but we got our work

denzel Washington says his friend and former

co-star Whitney Houston battled a “monster drug that

got a hold of her” and her death should be a lesson to

us all. The Oscar-winning actor told the October issue

of GQ magazine, “Whitney was such a sweet, sweet

girl and really just a humble girl.”Referring to her co-

caine addiction, the 57-year-old actor said, “Maybe she

thought she could have one. And then the next thing

you know, her body was betraying her. She didn’t know

that her body was aging quickly.”

“She couldn’t take it. Your body can only take so much,”

Washington added. The Grammy-award winning singer

was found dea http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ d at 48

on Feb. 11 in the bathtub of her Beverly Hills Hotel

room with drug paraphernalia nearby. The Los Angeles

coroner found that she was “acutely intoxicated from

cocaine” at the time of her death and was a “repeated

cocaine user.”Washington, who co-starred with Hous-

ton in the

1996 film “The Preacher’s Wife,” said the singer’s death

was especially tragic because she had seemingly over-

come her addiction.

“Whitney was my girl, and she had done so well in re-

covery. And that is the toughest part about addiction.

And that was a monster drug that got a hold of her, it

was a mean one. You can’t go back to that one. Nobody

beats that,” he said.

“I look at people — and I don’t think I’m speaking

out of line — Samuel L. Jackson, I’ve known for thirty-

some-odd years, he was down at the bottom. And he

came all the way back,” Washington added. “And when

he cleaned up, he never looked back. But he can’t have

that beer, because it might lead to the tough thing.”

The actor told GQ that Houston’s death should be a

lesson to us all.

“It’s more of an example to me or the rest of us to

keep it together. I was listening to her song ‘I Look to

You.’ It’s prophetic,” he said.

TRIBUTE TO WHITNEY HOUSTON CONTINUES...


done. And she treated me with absolute respect.When I got to the studio the first time, I said, “Whitney, I have waited for this moment for a long time.”And she said, “No, Gordon Cham-bers, I have waited for this moment for a long time” -- very real, very warm.

JEFFREY BROWN: Well, in spite of that, and despite so much suc-cess, the tragic personal life in later years, what can you tell us about that?

GORDON CHAMBERS: You know, I can just say that Whitney is human and, like all of God’s children, she was flawed.

But she never lost her faith. You know, there’s many times we sat together and I could tell that she was under pressure, and so was I. And we prayed together. So, in our instances of being together, what I remember was somebody who was turning to God, turning to a higher being, who -- in times of turmoil or times of turbulence, just as I do.And that’s part of what the glue of our friendship. So, I remember a woman who was seeking a higher being. I remember when she went to Israel. She was always connected to her faith and never lost that. And I do believe that she’s in heaven because she never lost her relationship with God.

JEFFREY BROWN: And what of her legacy or her impact, her influ-ence on other singers? Where do you see it today?

GORDON CHAMBERS: Well, I’ll tell you her influence on me. When I was actually producing her Christmas song, she -- there was a note I wanted her to hit in the bridge and to take it a little bit more to church, take it a little higher.

And she looked at me and she said, “Gordon, I think you want to do what I do, baby. I think you want to do what I do.”

And I said, “What do you mean by that?”She said, “I think you want to sing, and, if you want to sing, that you should go for it.”And, really, sure enough, sure enough, that was the kick that I needed. And I came to New York from Atlanta and began recording the first of my three solo albums, the first album, “Introducing Gordon Chambers,” which is an album that she loved. I’m now on my third album, “Sincere.”

So, I wouldn’t be the singer that I am if she -- not for her inspi-ration. Many, many singers, many of the younger singers -- Kelly Rowland was on the red carpet at the Grammys saying that the first time she ever met Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston was singing to her a Destiny’s Child song.So she gave so much inspiration. On Thursday night, the night before the Grammys, she went to support Kelly Price at a pre-Grammy party. So, I think that she gave a lot of encouragement. The girls that were in “Sparkle” with her said that she was very maternal, very warm.And I think that she set the bar high, but in her interactions with other vocalists, she knew how to get down low and make you feel like you were a colleague.

JEFFREY BROWN: All right.GORDON CHAMBERS: And I think that’s her legacy.JEFFREY BROWN: All right.Gordon Chambers on the life and music of Whitney Houston, thanks so much.GORDON CHAMBERS: Thank you.

These Young African Men help to bring bikes, books, toys and clothing to the children of Gambia, Africa villages! Please help today!

Clean Water ProjectWe need to drill wells to provide access to safe and clean drinking water Our goal is to be able to fund 5 wells in one year Each well can provide clean drinking wa-ter continuously to a village of 5000 peo-ple for up to 10 years Each project con-sists of the drilling of the well, providing a submersible pump, a reservoir for the storage of water, and a solar panel for power and up to 500m of distribution line The approximate cost of this project is $10,000 per well .

Ride for Success

To supply children with transporta-tion to and from school. C.H.O.A. will collect new and gently-used bicycles to donate to children who walk 5 Km or more to school.

Everyday EssentialsThis is a project in which we collect gently-used clothing, shoes, toys, and any other household items that can be used by families in The Gambia.

Education for AllIn this project, we identify children that are supposed to be in school and are not. For $250, we enroll them in school, pay their school fees for 1 year, and provide them with books and supplies, and two uniforms.

Facts!72 million children globally are without an education. Mainly girls, disable chidren and those living in conflict are most at risk!

C H R I S T H A N D S O N A f R I k A M I N I S T R y G O A L S

Projects of Christ Hands ON Afrika

Give a child water, and more for $25.00 a month less than a dollar! Help the Children in Gambia, Africa!

Moses and Ashley vision for Christ’s Hands on

Afrika began when they returned to The Gambia in

February 2007. They witnessed a noticeable amount

of school age children unable to attend. In order

for children to receive an education, the schools

require tuition, as well as a fee for the materials and

uniforms. The choices most families have are to

either:

1) Allow only one child in the family to attend

school; 2) Swap children in the family to attend

alternating school years; or 3) Seek sponsorship.

The third alternative is a viable one, if sponsors

would be chomping at the bit to offer the funds nec-

essary for Gambian children to attend school. Unfor-

tunately, sponsorship is declining. Moses and Ashley

turned to God to seek a way to help the Gambian

children. Through prayer, Christ’s Hands on Afrika

became greater than an interest or an idea. God

opened a door with the introduction to Rev. Isaac

K. Daye, the overseer of Living Children’s Aca-

demic Nursery and Lower Basic School in Banjul,

The Gambia.

Mathew 25:35-40

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I

was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a

stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you

clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in

prison and you came to visit me.’

“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did

we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you

something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and

invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you/ When

did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?

’“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you

did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters

of mine, you did for me.’

Vision! Education for All

Purpose ...Education for all Children• Preach the Gospel to all nations• Promote educational growth• To provide social relief to women and children

C.H.O.A.CHRIST HANDS on AfRIkA MINISTRy1451 Orange Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90813www.christshandsonafrika.orgchristshandsonafrika @gmail.com(562) 212-8353

Christ Hands on Afrika

Mission Statement

Christ’s Hands on Afrika, is an ongoing

charitable organization that will provide social aid and

educational relief to children and families in

The Gambia, West Africa.Focus ...

Spreading the love of Christ While Changing lives

C h r i s t H a n d s o n A f r i k a

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Yes, I was overwhelmed my first five years, and naive! Talented, but too ambitious, cause I thought I would be a rich wom-an...at twenty-one. But, I did start my own design studio, within a few years, I had over 10 major department stores that I produced advertising designs, art direction, and marketing for stores locally and nationwide. By my third year I was making almost $20,000 a month. I lived a better life then, ate better, shopped all the time, traveled and placed my daughter in private schools, and dance lessons.But, fate had another plan for me, and I longed to be around peo-ple that loved God, where not gay, and did not stare at me because I was a black woman that was smart, clever, intelligent and artistic. To God be all the praise!

Finally, I landed a job at WORLD OF CURLS, my dreams came true I had found paradise, handsome brothers, strong beautiful black women, 400 employees, salesman from around the coun-try. Wow! It was heavenly! I thought this is as good as it gets! I was employed as the Creative Director, over cosmetics and Highlights product line. Soon though, after falling off my dream horse, and my bubble busted, I was laid off. So I started my own business again. God is still for me, who can stay against me?But, today I want you to know why? When I worked in the corporate world, I had assis-tants, writers, legal depart-ments, photographers, styl-ists working with me. I learned then this media machine in America and the world, buy-ing, selling, advertising, year after year never ends, it never sleeps. So what blacks need to do is advertise in Print, radio, web, billboard, buses, and television to succeed in the world marketplace.

I started to work with small black owned companies that wanted a chance to make it ! But, year after year, they never seem to grow, they where always shortfalls. Years later, and out of money and clients, it dawns on me then, they desperately need advertising, to survive in the marketplace. Because of barriers like, television, ads, no magazine cover-age, never used radio to talk to consumers. It use to cost mil-lions, ask Macy’s how much billboards, buses cost in the past. That’s one of the main reasons today, black companies strug-gle to make there businesses grow and promotions are flat. No money!! No extra money to seed into advertising! Advertising is not a fast turn over, it takes repetitive branding and strategies, targeted marketing plans, website that are interactive and a real budget. That can be managed openly between designers and business owners, not some secret that you hold on to.So why am I here? Why because I still believe! I believe in us,

God has given a great gift for us to witness with our eyes, and hearts, a “Black family in the White House in the richest nation in the world. President Obama, and Michelle, they are us, black people! They made a change, through God and He made the impossible possible!” We black business owners can still achieve great things, through God’s plans for us, He only has the very best for us all. And now we have internet web-sites, Youtube, cheap TV spots, and radios, billboards and promo-tions tools we needed all along, for thousands LESS TODAY, than ever before! Yet YOU still will not advertise! And the Koreans are not worried! Two Trillion dollars spent by Black people every year!

Lets start by trusting in God first, then turn around and trust your marketing and advertising people. We understand your customers better, we are smarter and more advantageous in wisdom when it comes to advertising than you, 90% of the time. We have been to college, and worked in the advertising industry, we are not hair stylists. But it will work if you work it for YOU!!

I love black business owners. But, as an advertising business woman, “ya make it harder on yourselves.” My children and I need and want you to suceed! We can grow and prosper only by help-ing one another. First we must pay one another, not always looking

for freebees, and free deals. We must pay each other first and not last, nor for 50% less. Second, stop cheating, and cutting salaries, cutting people and their profits into little pieces. We must stop! Listen!

Third, start giving back with honor and re-spect! Respect one another’s knowledge and work experiences. God gaves you help, But you hate us for asking for mon-ies, as if we cheated you by charging for services NOT rendered, or we are taking away your monies. Yet we spend hours producing ideas, designs and presenta-tions. But you won’t pay for that! Yet you do not prosper!Fourth, I thought that I might be able to help as an advertising expert. Boy did I have a lot to learn about black businesses. They are stubborn, hands on, never trust-

ing, reluctant to pay you for services or talented designer work or ideas, but always running to Kinko’s to reprint a flyer that worked five years ago. Fifth, Advertise, Advertise and more Advertisement!! Communi-cate visually everyday, not every six months!

Advertising is the only return on your investment! That Works!! Its also 100% tax deductible profit or not!God will not honor us, until we honor Him, Praise Him, Give Thanks to Him and HONOR each other. When we pay one another, we are honoring the gift that God has given to that person or business. We must stop discrimination among ourselves! Stop the hate! Love one another, as Jesus Christ our Saviour loves you, and has GIVEN all who believe, His forgiveness, His love and His Peace! Love one another! Lets get to work together! Email us!

Something You May Not Know! Advertising is the only return on your investment! That truly works!!

Honestly! Look at Macy’s, NFL, Times Warners, millions of businesses around

the World! Its the greatest secret to success!

and it’s 100% tax deductible! I bet you may not have known that!

“I have worked for over 30 years in advertising with Corporations and Businesses. A Black woman from Southwest Los Angeles, CA. From Macy’s, Bullocks, World of Curls, I. Magnin, Robinsons, Mac-Mall, Earth,Wind & Fire, NFL, and dozens more! Some advertising budgets are in the millions, & every year they can get 100% tax write offs and refunds!” So why not you!

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32 dots-online e-puB mag.. . celebrates Black History month 2013

Brandy looks for a comeback with ‘Two Eleven 12|By Mikael

WoodBrandy returns to the R&B scene with a new album, “Two Eleven.”Brandy returns to the R&B scene with a new album, “Two Eleven.” (RCA Records ) It’s not quite being asked to perform at next year’s Super Bowl, but for an R&B star who’s faced no shortage of personal and professional tumult over the last few years, Brandy’s ascent to the No. 2 spot on iTunes’ album chart Tuesday after-noon probably feels an awful lot like validation.

BRANDY

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