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Target Market News publisher among honorees for Univ. of Chicago Black
Alumni Awards
 (February
20, 2013) The University of Chicago Booth School of Business Black
Alumni Association (CBAA) will host its Third Annual Black History Month
Awards Program to recognize outstanding business and community leaders
on Tuesday, February 26th at the Union League Club at 6:00 PM. BSB is
one of the premiere business schools in the world, with a faculty and
alumni group that have won more Nobel Prizes that any other institution.
This year's honorees include:
Ken Smikle, President and Founder of Target Market News, is
considered one of the nation's leading authorities on marketing,
advertising and media directed to the African-American market. Target
Market News covers business activities in advertising, marketing and
media, and also publishes the annual report, The Buying Power Black
America, now in its 17th year of examining the billions of dollars spent
annually by black consumers.
Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D., is the President of Columbia College
Chicago, the nation's largest Arts and Communications College. He joined
Columbia in 2000, following a four-year term as director of
entertainment arts for Walt Disney Entertainment. At Disney, he was
responsible for developing global education and live arts programs for
the entire corporation.
Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Board President, has been a
dedicated community leader for over two decades, providing independent
and progressive leadership founded on experience, coalition building and
a commitment to practical results. Preckwinkle's independent and
progressive leadership earned her the IVI-IPO Best Alderman Award in
1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2005 and 2008, and the 1997 and 2009 Leon
Despres Awards.
Hermene Hartman, Publisher of NDIGO Magazine, is one of the most
significant and influential Black Women in media and American
publishing. She is a rounded media personality addressing the soul,
spirit and sensibility of America with insight, curiosity, historical
context, wit, and reality. Her behavioral scientist education is
replicated in her writings and commentaries.
Tim King is founder, President and CEO of Urban Prep Academies, a
nonprofit organization operating a network of public college-prep boys'
schools in Chicago (including the nation's first all-male charter high
school) and related programs aimed at promoting college success. One
hundred percent of Urban Prep graduates -- all African-American males
and mostly from low-income families -- have been admitted to four-year
colleges or universities.
Earlier in the day, The Chicago Booth School of Business Black Alumni
Association's Sixth Annual Luncheon will feature David Axelrod. A
University of Chicago alumnus, Axelrod has served as a key strategist
and aide to President Barack Obama, including service in the White House
as senior adviser. He left that role in early 2011 to serve as a
strategist for President Obama's re-election campaign. Now he is turning
his focus to helping inspire and train the next generation of political
leaders at the Institute for Politics, at the University of Chicago.
Register for this event online
by clicking here. The luncheon is also a time to re-connect with
existing friends/colleagues, and to meet new people as well. The public
is invited to come and join CBAA and the greater Booth community.
Sixth Annual Luncheon Members and students, $55.00 Non-members, $60.00.
Black History Month Awards Members and students, $30.00 Non-members,
$35.00 Combined Registration w/discount (Luncheon and BHMAP) Members and
students, $75.00 Non-members, $85.00. On-site registration available
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 Early Registration Until February 20 6th
Annual Luncheon Registration: 11:30am Program: Noon-2pm Black History
Month Awards Reception: 6pm Program: 7-8:30pm Dress Code: Business
Attire Only (Coat and Tie of Men)
For additional info contact: Derryl L. Reed CBAA National Vice President
and Black History Month Awards Program, Committee Chairman derrylreed@ameritech.net
(586) 214-5557, Erika Danina Williams CBAA Midwest Chairmain ewilliam@chicagobooth.edu,
or Peter Washington 6th Annual Luncheon Committee Chairman (312)
893-7403.
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