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Historymakers.com has recognized Taborn as an influential, historical figure who has had significant accomplishments that impact the African American community. In 2003, he received the Hispanic Engineer of the Year Chairman’s Award from HENACC, and in 2005, he received the Baltimore Marketing Association’s Business Person of the Year Award.

His other accolades include a Mercedes Benz Visionary Award and an Internet and Technology Leaders Award from Sprint and MOBE IT. Editors of blackmoney.com and SoulofTechnology.net, who sponsor the Most Important African Americans in Technology Awards, named him one of the “50 Most Important Blacks in Technology.”

On Wednesday, January 2, from 8:00 am till 5:00 pm, homeowners may apply for the Homestead Tax Credit at the Department of Assessments & Taxation, 301 West Preston Street, 8^th floor. This added day is to “make-up” for New Year’s holiday closures on Monday and Tuesday.

Applications will be available onsite, or applicants may download and bring completed forms. http://www.dat.state.md.us/sdatweb/homestead_application.pdf

• If you have a specific question concerning the application, you may telephone 410-767-2165 in the Baltimore

metropolitan area or on 1-866-650-8783 toll free elsewhere in Maryland. Or email the division at homestead@dat.state.md.us.

They include: Kisha Matthews of Integrity Title; Eric Stewart, Branch Manager of Residential Home Funding (www.ericstewart.rhfunding.com; Michael Haynie, Pres. & CEO of Parkway Hospitality Management Company; Marcel Umphery of DMV REI United (Real Estate); Saffir Rabb, International Entrepreneur; Former Delegate Herman Taylor (Montgomery County), CEO of Deskmate Operating Company; Tamyra Brooks, Founder of Divine Gems Youth Group Inc. (a youth mentoring organization for girls ages 10-18); and Former 92Q/Current Howard University's WHUR 96.3 FM Host Extraordinaire/Entrepreneur/Author Marc Clarke.

Further, the keynote is being delivered by none other than Dr. Tyrone Taborn, Publisher and CEO of Black Engineer Magazine and a number of other venture.

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It must have been an awkward moment. However it went down, the Board of Regents at Morgan State University vote 14-1 to keep President David Wilson.

Recently, there was an effort to remove him.
 

Rev. William F. Wingo, Publisher of Power Magazine for the past 22 years, is also on the radio every week on WOLB 1010 AM.

Rev. Wingo, YOU GOT THE POWER!!!

The Sphinx Club Complex Project is the historical rehabilitation and new construction of the lots located at 2101-2111 Pennsylvania Avenue. The project is located in the West Baltimore National Register Historic District, Ward 14, and Section 6 on the northeast corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Bloom Street. The project design will take the 13,340 square foot site and create 22,960 square feet for a restaurant/culture arts venue and Pennsylvania Avenue Museum/Music Program, business incubator office space.

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The 2012 Black Capitol Award honorees are:

*Jeanne Gigi Biggins, Owner, Biggins Social Media Consultant, Forestville, MD
*Sarita Murray, Blink Pink Breast Cancer Awareness, Baltimore, MD
*Coretta Johnson Gray, Coretta's Elegant Events, Entrepreneur, Washington, D.C.
*Delegate Barabara Robinson, Entrepreneur, Baltimore, MD
*Alison Velez Lane, Esquire, Attorney-at-Law/Activist, Baltimore, MD
*Jackie Thompson
*Renee Allen
*Sarah Hemminger, Incentive Mentoring Program, Baltimore, MD
*Tashea Brogdins, Young Democrats of Baltimore City, Washington, D.C.
*Ericka Alston, Entrepreneur/Radio One, Baltimore, MD
*Simone Baptiste, Media/Entrepreneur, New York, NY
*Sonya Lowery, The World Next Door, Washington, D.C.
*Layna Berrier, Entrepreneur, Insure Protection 1, Alexandria, Virginia
*Shelley Payne-Cooke, Heart to Hand Foundation, Baltimore, MD
*Walter Kirkland

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*Media Consulting (1100 Linked In contacts, 6000 Facebook contacts and 1700 Twitter followers) and Public Relations:
We work with you to develop the best marketing strategy possible given your marketing budget.

*Videos: BmoreNews.com also has one of the largest news video libraries in the nation specifically from an African American perspective. Many businesses use our video capabilities to better promote their products and services.

*And, DMGlobal is the producer of the oldest customized show at Radio One in the country. For the past decade, DMGlobal produces “Empower Hour” with Doni Glover on WOLB 1010 AM (www.wolbbaltimore.com) initially for the Empower Baltimore Management Corporation and now Sojourner-Douglass College’s Division of Professional and Continuing Studies. Reaching nearly 50,000 listeners each week, the show touches a variety of community issues – from education to business to employment. The show is now in its 13th year.

Ericka L. Alston is a public relations professional with 10+ years of industry experience, affording her the opportunity to work with clients from virtually every market sector, including tourism, retail, hospitality, construction and architecture.

Ericka serves as principal and managing partner of Pyramid PR, specializing in the fundamentals of its tagline: The Broader Your Base ~ The Stronger Your Foundation. Ericka’s primary focus is broadening the audience and customer base of start-ups, small to mid-sized companies, practices, personalities/professionals, and non-profit organizations.

WHO IS TASHEA BRODGINS?

Tashea Brodgins, a native of Washington, DC, is the recent Past President of the Baltimore City Young Democrats and has been a youth and young professional’s activist in the Democratic Party for over 10 years. During her time in politics, she has worked to advance young people between the ages of 18 to 40 in all areas of politics, whether as an activist, community organizer, candidate for office, or journalist.

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Congratulations to Sarita Murray, Sarah Hemminger, Tashea Brodgins, Erica Alston, Simone Baptiste, Sonya Lowery, Layna Berrier, Shelley Payne-Cooke, Coretta Johnson Gray, Delegate Barabara Robinson, Alison Velez Lane, Jackie Thompson, and Renee Allen.

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Doni M. Glover founded DMGlobal Marketing & Public Relations - the Publishers of www.bmorenews.com - in 2002. Now in its 10^th year, DMGlobal also produces “Empower Hour”, a weekly news talk show presented by Sojourner-Douglass College on Radio One’s WOLB 1010 AM in Baltimore. Doni serves as host of the 13-year old show that focuses on education, job training and entrepreneurship. Additionally, he works with a variety of clients – winning politicians, artists, lawyers, businesses, non-profits, corporations and the like – who need access to the black community.

Nationally, African Americans garner $1 trillion in annual disposable income. Glover said, “With that kind of money, no black-owned business – worth its weight – ought be having any problems getting business.”