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Volume 23 - No 8 August
Rod Blagojevich
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C o l e m a n R e c e i v e s ‘ P U S H ’ Aw a r d
n C h i c a g o / I L . . .Ford Motor
Company Vice President
Deborah S. Coleman was
honored with the Trailblazer Award from the
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
and the Citizenship Education Fund during their
2005 annual convention in
Chicago. The Reverend
Jesse Jackson presented
Deborah Coleman
the prestigious award to
Coleman at the annual Business Luncheon at the
Sheraton Hotel & Towers.
According to Rainbow/PUSH organizers, the
Trailblazer Award recognizes those who "work
50 cents at Airports
and outlying Areas
PRSTD
U . S . P O S TA G E PA I D
SPRINGFIELD, IL
PERMIT NO. 498
M a r c h i n g F o r ‘ Vo t i n g R i g h t s A c t ’
Blagojevich Picks Iguodala
Illinois Governor
R o d Blagojevich
selects hometown
hero as G r a n d
Marshal of Illinois
State Fair Twilight
Parade
2005
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Mayor Shirley Franklin, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and many
other city officials and organization leaders urged residents to participate in the ‘Voting Rights Act March’
scheduled for Sat., August 6, in Atlanta, Georgia.
L e t ’s G o To T h e E x p o !
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C l i n t o n To K e y n o t e N A B J C o n f e r e n c e
n Washington/DC...Former
President Bill Clinton
will deliver the keynote
address at the National
Association of Black
’Anniver-sary Convention
and Career Fair in
Atlanta, August 3 thru
August
7.
NABJ
President Herbert Lowe
recently announced.
Bill Clinton
“President Clinton is no
stranger to NABJ and we are pleased that this
very accomplished world leader will visit with us
to share his perspective on the important issues
that we as journalists are covering in our towns,
cities and states every day,” said Lowe, a reporter
at Newsday in New York. In 1992, Clinton
became the first major U.S. presidential candidate to speak to the nation’s largest organization
for journalists of color when he spoke at its convention in Detroit. Five years later, in Chicago,
he kept his promise and became the first sitting
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50 Ye a r s I n H o n o r O f E m m e t t Ti l l
n New York/NY...After being abducted by white
men from his great-uncle's home in Money,
Mississippi on the early morning of Sunday,
August 28, 1955 in the heart of the Jim Crow
south, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old AfricanAmerican from Chicago, Illinois was brutally
murdered for allegedly wolf-whistling at a white
woman. On August 26th through the 28th,
national celebrities, leaders and residents will
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“ M o t o w n - T h e E a r l y Ye a r s ”
n L o s A n g e l e s / C A . . .This
August, PBS premieres
“MOTOWN - The Early
Years,” an all-new musical performance special
produced by TJL Productions which airs as
part of the My Music fundraising series. “MOTOWN
- The Early Years” features a spectacular mix
of classic performances
and rare footage culled
from the Motown archives,
and new performances by
‘60s-era Motown groups;
performing their biggest
hits are The Miracles, The Four Tops, The
Temptations and more. In addition, exclusively
available through PBS is the accompanying fourdisc MOTOWN – The Early Years CD boxed-set,
featuring more than 30 classic Motown songs
extended and remixed from the original recordings, many in true stereo for the first time. This
high-energy Motown television special and exclusive CD boxed set will make their nationwide
debut August 6.
S u p p o r t i n g t h e S p r i n g f i e l d B l a c k E x p o ( S B E ) (L-R) Tammy Lackland, Chairperson, Founder, SBE; Darryl Williams
(D.J. Captain), Chairperson, Founder, SBE; Jerry Lambert, Anchor, WICS-TV Channel 20 News; T.C. Christian, Jr.,
Publisher, CEO, PURE NEWS USA; Michael Pittman, President, Springfield Black Chamber of Commerce; Sarahjini Nunn,
President, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; and Jonathan Lackland, Chairperson, Founder, SBE (not pictured - Reverend
Jerry Doss, Pastor, Abundant Faith Christian Center) Photo By Jimmie Treadwell
KeKe Wyatt
S p r i n g f i e l d / I L . . . The 3rd
Annual Springfield Black Expo
will be hosted in Springfield,
Illinois on Saturday, August
27, at the Warehouse, 2548
S. 1st Street from 9:00 a.m.
to 7:00 p.m.
“The Expo is Back! As
always, the Expo is placing
emphasis on promoting pride
in the community and will
offer Expo goers a day of
fun and excitement,” said
Tammy Lackland, one of the
chairperson and founders of
the Expo.
“This year, the Expo will
consist of the infamous Soul
Food Buffet provided by
Clay’s Bar-B-Que along with
local entertainment provided
by the local Blues group - the
Funkadelic national recording artists - SLAVE
Debbie Ross Band; six gospel
choirs including a special performance by the Abundant Faith
Christian Center Gospel
Choir; Cuzzo recording artist
Wendell B.; Funkadelic
national recording artistsSLAVE; and Cash Money
Records recording artist
KeKe Wyatt,” said Lackland.
“We look forward to sharing
this wonderful experience
with you and your family.
Together we can make great
strides in the Springfield
community and show the
true meaning of ‘It Takes A
Village’” added Lackland.
Members Of Congress, Health Experts A nd Com m un i ty
Leaders Discuss Racial And Ethnic Health Disparities
C h i c a g o / I L . . . Members of
Congress, public health
experts, community leaders
and citizens of Chicago
recently convened to address
racial and ethnic health disparities in the areas of tobacco, obesity, blood stem cell
transplantation, immigrant
health, HIV/AIDS and envi-
ronmental health. The oneday
summit
at
the
University of Illinois at
Chicago was sponsored by
American
Legacy
the
Foundation, the Coalition to
Promote Minority Health
(CPMH), Service Employees
International Union (SEIU),
and a consortium of health
plans and associations that
includes America's Health
Insurance Plans, the Blue
Cross
Blue
Shield
Association, Aetna, United
Health Group and Wellpoint.
"We are pleased that the
sponsors have chosen to hold
the third annual Tri-Caucus
Minority Health Summit at
the University of Illinois in
Chicago, right in the middle
of one of nation's largest
health care districts," said
U.S. Representative Danny
Davis, who is a member of
the Congressional Black
Caucus and represents the
University of Illinois at
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