“SURVIVING TRYING TIMES”: Carla Nelson Among RSVP’s to Attend Tonight’s HARAMBEE Dinner Club at Milton’s Grill
Event offers 6th Anniversary 50% Off “Advertising Special” on BMORENEWS.com tonight only
(BALTIMORE – August 19, 2008) - RSVP’s for tonight’s HARAMBEE Dinner Club include Attorney Marilyn Pierre of Montgomery County, photographer Bruce Smallwood, World Wide Investor staff, staff from Common Communication, Channel Magazine’s Antoine Friend, Erlene Wilson of E Wilson Communications, Ayana Spa/Health, Jennifer Harrison, Donna Hughes, Matt Burgasse, and Carla Nelson of the Mayor's Office of Minority Business Development.
The dinner will be hosted at Milton’s Grill, 336 North Charles Street in Baltimore, MD from 6 to 8 pm promptly.
Sponsors of The HARAMBEE Dinner Club include The Baltimore Times, BVFR & Associates, Cain Contracting, Commercial Interiors, The Shops at North & Charles, John Bugg’s State Farm Insurance, The Great Prostate Cancer Challenge and Chesapeake Urology, The Jewel Salon, More Hair Salon, and, of course, DMGlobal Communications – the Creator of www.BMORENEWS.com - “the news before the news where we uncover the truth!”
Featured speakers for tonight are:
*Kenneth Clark, President of the Maryland-DC Minority Suppliers Development Council
*Henry Garner, Principal Consultant, BVFR & Associates
*Carla Tucker, Baltimore County Minority & Small Business Marketing Manager
*Boyd K. Rutherford, Esq., Assistant Secretary for Departmental Administration at the USDA,
*Kenny Abrams, Baltimore Ravens' PR specialist and owner of Abrams Insurance Agency
*Laura Jones, Financial specialist
*Mark Spencer, Inspector General for Prince George's County
*Attorney Jean Fugett, Esquire (and brother of the late, great Reginald F. Lewis)
*Denise Murphy, Executive Director of the Liberty Road Business Association, and keynote speaker
*Michael Williams, Registered Communications Distribution Designer and Pastor.
Our emcee is gREIBO Media’s Shelonda Stokes, and the theme is “Surviving Trying Times.”
Also, it’s not too late for vendors. Room is still available. FMI, call 443.858.2684.
Tonight’s menu includes: Sweet and sour chicken, Swedish meatballs, veggie pasta salad, chicken wings, rice, Caesar salad, and soft drink (lemonade and iced tea). Admission and dinner at this one-of-a-kind business-networking affair is only $20.
Parking is available at the Franklin Street (at Charles Street) garage is $2.
Sponsors of The HARAMBEE Dinner Club include The Baltimore Times, BVFR & Associates, Cain Contracting, Commercial Interiors, The Shops at North & Charles, John Bugg’s State Farm Insurance, The Great Prostate Cancer Challenge and Chesapeake Urology, The Jewel Salon, More Hair Salon, and, of course, DMGlobal Communications – the Creator of www.BMORENEWS.com - “the news before the news where we uncover the truth!”
Potential advertisers on www.BMORENEWS.com and future sponsors of the HARAMBEE Dinner Club can contact Jewel West at 410.627.7404. BMORENEWS.com is offering a 50% special for tonight only where 6 months of advertising on www.BMORENEWS.com and in our email newsletter (The E-FLASH) can be purchased for only $600. Our newly designed website has received over 1 million hits in the past 4 months and our email subscribers total more than 3,700 – most of whom live or work in the Baltimore-DC region. This urban market is marked by some $45 billion in annual disposable income for African Americans alone.
Further, BMORENEWS.com, with its award-winning BTV Video Reports, is quickly becoming the prime news source for African Americans in the region – especially as it relates to business, politics, and the community. BMORENEWS.com, over the years, has featured incredibly unique interviews with people like former Black Panther Pete O’Neal in Arusha, Tanzania back in 2006.
The HARAMBEE Dinner Club was founded by BMORENEWS publisher Doni Glover and David Miller in the fall of 2002. Past speakers have included Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Delegate Dan Morhaim, political expert Professor Ron Walters, Attorney Billy Murphy, Candidate Bob Ehrlich, Candidate Michael Steele, then-Mayor/now Governor Martin O’Malley, Michael Cryor (now Chair of the Md. Democratic Party/then Chair of BELIEVE), Candidate Peter Franchot, Candidate Doug Gansler, Montgomery County's Isiah "Ike" Leggett, former Special Secretary Sharon Pinder, Prince George’s County’s Jerry Mathis, Ervin Reid (DC political expert formerly of Cherry Hill in Baltimore), former Prince George’s County Executive Wayne Curry, The Flywire’s Marcy Crump, Carla Nelson, MMG’s Stanley Tucker, VMG’s LaRian Finney, and Raymond V. Haysbert, Sr.
The purpose of the HARAMBEE Dinner Club, as always, is to break bread, inform, and network. FYI, ‘harambee’ (huh-RAHM-bay) is Swahili for “all pull together”.
DMGlobal Communications, the Creator of www.BMORENEWS.com, is a full service multimedia marketing and Public Relations firm based in Baltimore. DMGlobal clients include a number of winning politicians, businesses (including doctors and lawyers), non-profits, authors, and artists in the Baltimore-DC region – as well as clients abroad in China, the Caribbean, and Africa. DMGlobal has won an award every year in business, including 2006’s Top 100 MBE’s in Maryland. DMGlobal is also the producer of WOLB 1010 AM’s “Empower Hour” every Tuesday from 10 to 11 am and provides political economy analysis to a litany of media outlets including NBC affiliate WBAL TV 11, Maryland Public Television (MPT), WEAA 88.9 fm, The Baltimore Times and The Northwest VOICE.
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