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			<title><![CDATA[African-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Houston hosts Community Back-to-School Fair]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[HOUSTON- African-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Houston, (AACCGH) hosted its 2nd Annual Back to School Resource Fair along with African-American News&Issues, Sylvester Turner, Wal-Mart, Lone Star College, Majic 102.1FM, The Children’s Museum, City of Houston Health Department-Immunizations, METRO, Acres Home Center for Business and Economic Development and Drs. S.N. Jones, Ka-Ron Wade, D.D.S. and Michael Suber, O.D., who were all on hand to provide services to area youth.  More than 1000 students and their parents were on hand to join in the activities. <br/>In addition, The Chamber recognized eight students who were either entering college or currently attending college with scholarships at their August Business Networking Luncheon.The students were part of a nine-week summer Youth Entrepreneurship conducted in conjunction with Career and Recovery and the Workforce Solutions.  Special thanks to the following chamber members for making this possible: R.D. and Shirley Malonson (AAN&I), James Harris (HEB), Kathy Hampton (Hampton Associates), Robert LeDay (RL Tax Service), Dr. Ken Wells (Alken Health Resources, Inc.), Joyce Wiley (Lone Star College), CeCe Sutphen (Lone Star College), Sylvia Teague (Communities in Schools), Mike Jones (Seamless Solutions), (Ron Douglas) R&K Barbecue, Quinton Washington (AFLAC), Kimberly Fitzgerald (Healthy Gourmet Coffee &Tea), and Rick Bauman (The Bauman Law Firm)<br/>For more information regarding  the Chamber’s Monthly Business Networking Luncheons or other hosted events, call (713)692-7003.<br/><br/><img title="" alt="" src="http://www.aframnews.com/html/interspire/content_images/1/TX-09-9-09-pg5redo.jpg" align="Baseline" border="0" height="489" width="426"/><br/>A few of the more than 1000 students of different ages from throughout the Northwest Houston area that came took part in the Community Back-to-School Fair hosted by the <br/>African-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Houston.  <br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Carmen Watkins)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:00:00 MST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[CARMEN'S CORNER: Safety, Pot, and Speeding Tickets]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While many of us have spent hours debating the latest position of Obama health care plan and whether congress and others are “spinning facts with fiction”, we might want to pause for just a minute and catch up on a number of new pieces of legislation in Texas that could have immediate impact on us and have a slightly longer affect on our bottom-line. <br/><br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Carmen Watkins)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:00:00 MST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Could Online Degrees Save the nation’s HBCU’s?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It’s not a new trend within the walls of academic circles, but some HBCU’s are hoping that online and alternative scheduling and flexible classes could be the ticket to the success of the colleges as we know it. Any number of new classes and full degrees are now offered at Black colleges. Some are seeking to reach a new student audience that divides the earnings between college and family.  <br/><br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Carmen Watkins)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:30:00 MST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Healthcare Nightmares]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[What does Sheila Jackson Lee, Gene Green and Nick Lampson all have in common?  Outside of their democratic alliance, they have all been bombarded with rowdy and disruptive crowds at local congressional town hall meetings, organized in an effort to hear the community’s voice on the healthcare crisis. The public overthrow of these town hall meetings have been organized by right-wing organizations such as Freedomworks.org, which is directed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, now a Washington lobbyist with clients that include a major international pharmaceuticals company.  <br/><br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Carmen Watkins)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:00:00 MST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[America Gets an “F”]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Just as America spent part of last week scoring everything from the president to the media, I decided that the American public should be scored.  As a matter of fact, I think it’s a great idea to begin scoring a host of other things that impact us. After all we score schools, books, music and anything else that we deem as transitional or disposable.We spend an inordinate amount of time researching what is best and identifying the various attributes that make it, that way.   <br/><br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Carmen Watkins)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:00:00 MST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[African-Americans Benefit Big From  New G.I. Bill]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It was heralded as one of the most significant pieces of legislation ever produced by the federal government—one that impacted the United States socially, economically and politically.  The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944—commonly known as the GI Bill of Rights. The bill provided million of servicemen returning from war, an opportunity at education and housing benefits that would provide them with a chance of acquiring the American dream.  <br/><br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Carmen Watkins)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:00:00 MST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Laws and Rate Hike for Ike]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Just when we thought we had survived the last blow from the devastation of Hurricane Ike, new fees and new laws have been introduced that could mean more money out of our pocket by the time the next hurricane forms in the Gulf.  <br/><br/><br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Carmen Watkins)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:30:00 MST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[CARMEN'S CORNER: Paris is not the City of Love]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A small town about 90 miles northeast of Dallas was once again the site of ongoing racial unrest for local residents.  Paris, Texas was the sight of where 24-year-old Brandon McClelland’s mangled body was found Sept. 16, 2008 after being dragged on an old country road. Northeast Texas has a long history of small towns and race related murders and crime and Paris, Texas is still healing from the protests over the jailing of a Black female teenager two years ago.<br/><br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Carmen Watkins)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:00:00 MST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[On Being Black in America: Let’s Ask “Skip” Gates]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[At the same moment that one of the nations celebrated cable news station’s prepared to launch Part II of the series “Black in America,”  Prof. Henry “Skip” Gates was living the moment. A Harvard scholar noted American Literary critic and lecturer, Gates currently serves as the, Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research. Gates was the first African-American to be awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship and studied English in Cambridge.  <br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Carmen Watkins)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:00:00 MST]]></pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[CARMEN'S CORNER: Sotomayor and our Community:  When Will We Learn?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Unless Sonia Sotomayor decides to have a fist fight with her soon to be comrades on the Supreme Court, she is sure to be confirmed.  That is unless Republican hopefuls find a way to get the swered wordsmith and legal scholar to be less than what she has portrayed herself to be, capable and competent.  Sotomayor will become the first Hispanic justice on the bench.  <br/><br/>]]></description>
			<author>no@spam.com (Carmen Watkins)</author>
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:30:00 MST]]></pubDate>
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