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Youth About Business

and

Viacom

in coordination with

The Friends of YAB

invite you to attend

An Evening of Possibility

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

6:30pm – 8:30pm

Viacom

1515 Broadway (between 44th and 45th Streets)

Please RSVP to info@youthaboutbusiness.org by February 10th

Event Planning Committee: Dyice Ellis-Beckham, Sean Hudson, William C. Ince, Brian A. Jones, Jeanine Liburd, Kenneth McRay, Ritta McLaughlin, Erik S. Miller, Naima Muhammad, Lesley Nurse, Tanya Odom, Obinna Onyeagoro, Steve Pamon, Erica N. Walker, Heather McDaniel Willis

Committee Adviser -Phil Isom, Partner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP

About - Youth About Business

Youth About Business (YAB) prepares and educates students tobe tomorrow’s leaders by using a unique leadership and financial preparedness model in which high school students are engaged in a week-long business competition performing mergers and acquisitionstransaction simulations. Local investment bankers, accountants,attorneys and executives serve as consultants to the student teams. YAB promotes racial and gender diversity by recruiting students from all socioeconomic backgrounds. YAB looks for ambitious students; participants are not selected solely based on academic performance, but on their desire to excel in all aspects of their lives.

Best Super Bowl Ever?

Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith

With the long overdue opportunity for millions around the world to see two African American coaches compete for the first time in the Super Bowl, this event may rank among other historic milestones like Hank Aaron's 729th home run as effecting "real" change in mainstream American culture. This was arguably a more exciting game than Super Bowl's and offers all Black people the change to express something lacking in professional sports lately. Pride.

Mooninites Attack Boston!

For those of you who have no idea what those "Space Invader" looking gizmos were that set off a full scale terrorist alert in Boston last week, we will explain. The "Mooninites" (Ignigknot and Err) are characters from Turner Broadcasting Networks's Cartoon Network (Adult Swim) series "Aqua Teen Hunger Force". With main-characters like "Master Shake" and "Meatwad", the show is really weird but really, really funny. However, a marketing gimick using circuit boards, raising the terror alert in Boston was not funny at all to local officials.

"Turner Broadcasting Systems and Interference Inc. agreed to pay $2 million. $1 million of this will go towards reimbursing the affected agencies, and $1 million will go towards Homeland Security. In addition, Turner released a statement to take responsibility and apologized for the incident." - Wikipedia.org


Although the Mooninites would find this hilarious...we don't dare laugh at this one. Click above and see what the fuss was about courtesy of YouTube.com...

A Class Act - Barbara McNair

Sadly, the overwhelming Super Bowl coverage overshadowed the passing of a seldom noticed Black screen icon of the 1950's. Click below to see this woman's amazing talent. All talented sisters were not playing maids back in the day.

From - The Associated Press
"LOS ANGELES -- Singer Barbara McNair, who became a film and television star in an era when such opportunities were opening up for black women, has died, her sister said. She was 72.
McNair died Sunday after a battle with throat cancer in Los Angeles, sister Jacqueline Gaither said.
"She was very family oriented," Gaither said. "She was more than just a star or a famous personality. She was a person of her own."
McNair made her Hollywood acting debut in 1968 in the film, "If He Hollers, Let Him Go."
She later starred opposite Sydney Poitier in "They Call Me Mister Tibbs" and with Elvis Presley in "Change of Habit."
She hosted television's "The Barbara McNair Show," a musical and comedy program in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a singer, one of her biggest hits was "You Could Never Love Him.""

"Well Played, Sir!"

It is had for someone raised on "Baltimore" Colts football to admit it, but Tony Dungy and his staff and team deserve our respect and admiration for overcoming unbelieveable odds in his career (he got fired from the Tampa Bay Bucaneers and lost his son to suicide), to become the first African American coach to play in (and win) a Super Bowl. Now maybe we can get a Black President under our belt next and then take on Hockey!

Publisher's Call - Miami Beach

First Ledger was in Miami Beach this past week for various Super Bowl events and celebrations. Special thanks to our hosts Legacy Growth Partners, LLC for the opportunity to attend.







All hotels in Miami Beach are not the same. If you stay at one of the skanier ones, you are in for a real let down. This is the Lowes Miami Beach prior to the Maxim Super Bowl XLI event.





Melyssa Ford was much nicer (and much shorter) than you would imagine in person. She co-hosted a party with Ludacris and Vibe Magazine and conducted herself like a lady in the VIP the whole night.







Seeing Hulk Hogan wizz by us on his scooter convinced the First Ledger folks this was the "must have" gift of Summer 2007.

DJ Sky Nellor ripped up the dance floor at "Suite" with her mix of old school hits and new beats. Although some younger partiers were confused by a few of the "old-skool" tracks, they managed to keep it moving with the older folks.

DJ Sky Nellor

Who knew Jeff Gordon could party?

Thanks again to our friends in Miami Beach for inviting us to a party hosted by NASCAR Champion Jeff Gordon at Suite. We had no idea what to expect but when we saw the folks from Vibe Magazine and Violator's Chris Lighty, we knew we were in the right place. DJ Sky Nellor "set it off", as they say in the streets.














Violator Records CEO Chris Lightty and his wife

Jimi Hendrix would have been proud

Prince

Is there any doubt that Prince's performance was the best Super Bowl half time show in recent memory? "His Royal Badness" managed to unleash a torrent of his greatest hits and a tribute to Jimi in the pouring rain to a frenzied Super Bowl audience. Although the media is reporting some viewers were offended, at least he kept his clothes on. Besides, nothing we saw was as nasty as that "Snickers" commercial (Bleeech!).