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Jacqueline Carlisle
Albert Dotson Jr.
Johnny C. Taylor Jr.
Joseph W. Hatchett
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---Facing foreclosure? Save your home---
In response to the threat of millions of additional homeowners losing their homes due to foreclosure, a national African American agency, working in partnership with the Obama administration, is offering free counseling in cities throughout the country. In a recently launched Home Save campaign, NID-Housing Counseling Agency (NID-HCA) is one of 23 HUD-approved National Intermediary Housing Counseling Agencies with funding from the National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling Program to provide free foreclosure prevention counseling and legal assistance to distressed homeowners across the country. Jacqueline Carlisle, Executive Director of NID-HCA, said, “We are pleased to work in partnership with President Barack Obama’s administration to help homeowners to refinance or avoid foreclosure of their homes. We know that housing counseling works and that the needs of many communities are overlooked.” For more information, please go to: www.MakingYourHomeAffordable.org
---100 Black Men of America---
United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, best-selling author Terry McMillan, New York Governor David Paterson, award-winning journalist Ed Gordon, Black Enterprise publisher Earl Graves Sr., actress Vivica A. Fox and more will participate in the 23rd Annual 100 Black Men of America Conference, June 10-14, at the Hilton New York. This year's conference, themed "Education on the Frontline," will explore issues concerning education in the African-American community during various breakout sessions and panel discussions. "New York City holds a significant place in the hearts and history of the 100. It was in New York City that the concept of the 100 Black Men of America originated nearly 46 years ago," said National Chairman of the 100 Black Men of America Inc., Albert Dotson Jr., Esq. "There are enormous disparities that exist among African-American youth as it relates to grade-level education, higher education opportunities and the digital divide. This year's conference will focus on tackling those issues from a global perspective and finding solutions to educating our young men and women."
---Partnership to create greater inclusion in Corporate America ---
RushmoreDrive.com, the first-of-its-kind search engine for the Black community, and Wesley, Brown & Bartle, Inc. (WB&B) -- the nation's leading executive search firm dedicated to the recruitment, retention and professional development of executives of color for over three decades -- announced a strategic partnership that will enable Rushmore Drive's clients and corporate partners to achieve their management diversity objectives by harnessing the cutting-edge capabilities of WB&B. Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., President and CEO of RushmoreDrive.com and the first African-American Chairman of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), commented, "This is a pioneering enterprise, combining as it does the first search engine for the Black community, with, if you will, the first executive search engine designed to serve the diversity and inclusion needs of corporate America." Taylor added, "I have known Ken Roldan, the CEO of WB&B, for years and I have been consistently impressed by the quality and the caliber of the African-American and Latino candidates his organization has brought to my attention through its strategic pipelining practice."
---Diversity and Law---
Akerman Senterfitt, one of the top 100 law firms in the United States, announced a new partnership with Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University Law School (FAMU), one of Florida's oldest Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to promote diversity in the legal profession. At the helm of this project is The Honorable Joseph W. Hatchett, former Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and current Chair of the Appellate Practice Group and Diversity Committee at Akerman. Recognizing that fewer than three percent of lawyers throughout Florida are minorities, the objective of this program is to overcome this disparity and provide the community with a diverse pipeline of legal professionals throughout the state of Florida. The pipeline program is an initiative by the American Bar Association's Presidential Advisory Council on Diversity in the Profession that seeks to foster diversity in the profession by increasing the number of people of color on track to becoming lawyers. The program focuses on the entire spectrum of education, from kindergarten to law-school and bar admission, looking to encourage diverse candidates toward the legal profession. Akerman's work with FAMU specifically targets one of the end portions of this pipeline, law school. "We believe it is important that Akerman play an active role in helping to enhance diversity in the legal profession, and this program is a clear indication of the firm's commitment to that goal," said Judge Hatchett, the first African-American elected to the highest court of any state, and the first African-American to be elected to a statewide office in the South since the Reconstruction era.
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