BlackAtlanta.com – Atlanta’s Online Urban Renaissance! home | articles | events | pictures | dating | poetry | site directory | travel |     BlackAtlantaStore.com is here! Featured New BlackAtlanta.com Links B's Books and More B's Books & More is your Full-Service Essence and NY Times reporting bookstore specializing in African American Books for the entire family. We are located in Lithonia, Georgia near Stonecrest Mall. Misty Huntley, REALTOR - Century 21 Gold Medal Realty, Inc Whether relocating, buying, selling, or renting, call Misty today for all of your Atlanta area real estate needs. "When it comes to your real estate needs, I am ready when YOU are!" Starrtraxx Music Productions Starrtraxx Music Productions has extensive experience creating and arranging music for various types of projects, including composition for film and video, sound design for theater, music for radio and television commercials, and music. BlackAtlanta.com Joins BlackBigs.com and TiwaWorks for Final Fridays... BlackAtlanta.com joined forces in promoting Final Fridays! A hot event already brought to Atlanta by BlackBigs.com and TiwaWorks, Final Fridays proved to be a hot party environment for staff members of BlackAtlanta.com to promote and attend. Hosted at DJango's with 2 levels of entertainment, this party kept the dance floor hot. With a great menu upstairs, DJango's kept the entrees rolling out! See our pics by clicking here... Billboard Awards After Party Shots out to Roy and Michael at the Whiskey Peach ... BlackAtlanta.com stopped through last Friday after the Billboard Awards for the Billboard Awards After Party hosted by Da Backwudz and Jebron F Kennedy. Celebrities were spotted like Keith Sweat, Jazze Pha , Too Short, Da Backwudz, Jebron F Kennedy, the Dallas Austin Click, and more! Check out some of the photos! New PHOTO AREA for BlackAtlanta.com BlackAtlanta.com has a new photo and picture area. Feel free to send your party, event, networking, and other types of photos in OR register on the site to upload and create your own album! Click here to check out the new album, with now, has newly uploaded pictures from the following categories: Party flyers Pictures from the YOUNG JEEZY Album Release party at Club Vision Final Fridays at DJango's The Billboard Awards After Party Hosted by Rowdy Records New Online Retail Store for BlackAtlanta.com Black Buying Power was estimated at about $656 Billion dollars. African Americans are surging to the internet in powerful numbers over the past few years. What a combination! In order to meet the needs and wants of our visitors, we have started a new website, www.BlackAtlantaStore.com where we will feature store products from select Georgia-based businesses. If you are a store owner, contact us today for an application. Our Newest Products feature printed Tshirts. Check us out today and order up some stuff! Black Enterprise Magazine Celebrates 35 Years With its August 2005 issue, BLACK ENTERPRISE (BE) begins its 35th year as the nation's premier business and investment resource for African Americans. When BLACK ENTERPRISE launched its first issue in August of 1970, founder & publisher Earl G. Graves Sr. noted that "lacking capital, managerial and technical knowledge --and crippled by prejudice-- the minority businessman has been effectively kept out of the American marketplace." Thirty-five years later, Black executives, many identified early in their careers as rising stars by BE, have gained a solid foothold in the senior leadership of the nation's major public corporations, with more than 20 earning the once-unreachable CEO title. In 1973, BE began to rank America 's largest Black-owned companies, eventually establishing the BE 100s as the pinnacle of Black entrepreneurial success. To date, four BE 100s companies have surpassed the billion-dollar revenue milestone. Levels of success, power, and wealth once deemed impossible by people of color have been attained by the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Ken Chenault, Colin Powell, and the late Reginald F. Lewis. In the anniversary features "Then & Now" and "An Agenda for Black America." The August issue of BLACK ENTERPRISE is on newsstands now. powered by UnityFirst.com John Johnson of Johnson Publishing Company Passes... BlackAtlanta.com staff gives our deepest sympathy to the passing of a media mogul, John Johnson of Johnson Publishing Company. Funeral arrangements have been confirmed for John H. Johnson, founder, publisher and chairman of Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., a media and cosmetics empire that includes EBONY and JET magazines, Fashion Fair Cosmetics and EBONY Fashion Fair. Mr. Johnson passed away Monday, August 8 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. VAASProfessionals.com to present Real Estate Seminar Steve Julal of VAASProfessionals will present at the premiere coffee house JAVAOLOGY at 466 Edgewood Ave. (just east of Sweet Auburn market). He will be talking to you about “How to Hold onto your Real Estate PROFIT”. Be There to LEARN How 1031 Transfers Prevent Taxes from Eating Your Gain. First 30 attendees receive FREE GIFT CARD for JAVAOLOGY treats!!! To RSVP call 404-223-1058 Check out more at BlackAtlanta.com. Brandon Johnson + The BlackAtlanta.com team     Wednesday August 10, 2005 Submit Article |  Contact BlackAtlanta |  visit   Billboard/AURN R&B Hip-Hop Conference Hits Atlanta By Tyriq Henderson The Billboard/AURN R&B Hip-Hop Conference is the prem iere event for the industry's who's who to network, share knowledge and discover new talent! The 6th Annual Conference & Awards Show was held in its new location, Atlanta, & feature savvy speakers, must-attend pa nels, skills-sharpening workshops, artist showcases, a stellar Awards Show line-up and more! Now in its 6th year, the Billboard/AURN R&B Hip-Hop Conference and Awards brings together the music professionals that help to create, produce, promote and distribute the hottest genre on the charts today. Attendees include over 700 industry players including agents, artists, managers, producers, press and record label executives. The event was 3 days packed with conference sessions, artist showcases, networking opportunities and, of course, the awards program. Although Billboard pulled out the red carpet for their event and hospitality was great at Compound, there seemed to be a slight disappointment by attendees. Angela Benton was in town for another event and opted to pay her way into the event, but was very surprised by the lack of celebrity attendance. "My image of the awards, especially BILLBOARD, left a lot undone". The laid back style of the show, with a small stage set up in the middle of a dance floor at Compound, left the speakers and presenters having to talk over hundreds of socializing people, with many attendees walking in and out of the presentation at will. While BlackAtlanta.com did advertise for the function and did attend the show, some of our staff attended the event and had a great evening. It was good to see the Yin Yang Twins perform up close and personal, as well as one of our favorites, George Clinton of Parliament walking around during the show. Russ Parr did a good job as master of ceremonies. Overall, Billboard hung in there with the many conferences in town and we hope to have them back next year. Top winners for the night included Usher and 50 Cent. For a full list of winners, please check BillBoard's web site at http://www.billboardevents.com/billboardevents/rb/2005/finalists.jsp For more information about the show, go to http://www.billboardevents.com/billboardevents/rb/2005/index.jsp   BlackAtlanta.com: POB 972 redan, GA 30074 404-306-BLACK (2522) About BlackAtlanta | Advertising | Contact us | Privacy Policy | Terms and conditions | Site Layout ©2004 All right Reserved. Site owned by LC3 Media Group, LLC  Site design by Tamino Co. To Unsubscribe, copy the following link into your browser: