Daily Archives: August 1, 2012

Just when the concept of marketing to Blacks was breathing its last dying breath, along comes Pepper Miller, researcher, author and CEO of The Hunter-Miller Group, galloping into the scene as the Joan of Arc of Black Consumer Marketing. Her mission: To save the reputation of Black consumerism by helping increase the cultural IQ about Black America to companies and advertisers.

The Herero and Nama genocide (1904-1908) was carried out by Germany in South West Africa, now called Namibia. It killed 60,000 Hereros and 10,000 Nama, 50% to 70% of them. It featured concentration camps, skin-and-bone people, mass graves, medical experiments and good German record-keeping - more than 30 years before the Jewish Holocaust.

People who blame the Jewish Holocaust on Hitler and the Nazis alone need to think again: 

Renown artist Elizabeth Catlett, who passed away April 2 at age 96, created timeless work that captured the beauty, struggle and strength of women of color.

Our truth lives on in her work.

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