
EXCLUSIVE INDUSTRIES: Point A To Point B Specialists
Business partners Ethan Young and Mike Hubbs have collaborated to create Exclusive Industries, LLC, aka EI, for short. They have combined their collective years of experience as couriers and truck drivers, their business savvy and immersion in technology to create a business model that has proven to be a great seed to growing a strong business. EI was formed two years ago when Mike and Ethan decided to branch out from their jobs as truck drivers to owning their own trucking

BLACK DIAMONDS SCHOLARSHIP AWARDED!!
L to R: Dr. April Parker, Reverend Rikki Ferrell, Jr., Vernon Heard and Joyalise's mom Veronica Hulitt I am VERY PLEASED to say that we culminated the fundraising for the Black Diamonds Scholarship Fund by presenting a $1,000 check to Veronica Hulitt, the mother of our scholarship recipient Joyalise Shelton. Joyalise is attending University of Tennessee this fall but had already left for school early this summer to attend summer courses and get a jump start on her college ed

DOING THE MOST: Jazz Saxaphonist Chazzy Green
Lately it seems that I have been graced with interviewing some phenomenal musicians. True players, for real. Another musical great to add to this growing list is Charles “Chazzy” Green, saxophone ninja. Chazzy is a Detroit native that has been on the music scene for decades. He has rubbed shoulders with a veritable who’s who of legendary artists including Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Macy Grey, Ray Parker Junior, Johnny Guitar Watson, Bobby Womack, Cameo, WAR and many others i

EDITORIAL: Willful Ignorance
There is a lot of feigned ignorance about wrongdoing in relation to the trigger-happy cops shooting Black citizens. I don’t mean the explainers who try to break down why it was OK for a cop to brutalize a citizen, or throw a girl across a room like a ragdoll. I don’t mean the people who mourn the deaths of 5 officers nationally and ignore 519 killings by police in the first 6 months of the year (a number of which occurred IN POLICE CUSTODY). I’m referring to the segment of