Delta's Stories of Triumph (DST in the News)

[mccoyred]

Originally posted by divainred
This is one of our very own, although it is not mentioned in this article...

http://www.marylandpublicschools.org...liver_2006_toy

I just knew it! Congrats to Soror Kimberly on holding it down in the area of Educational Development.

[jitterbug13]

^^^^
I knew it too! I was reading the article last week and was saying "I KNOW she's a soror!" Congrats to her!

Hi Soror,

The correction is noted. Thanks. That is what I get for doubting myself. I thought it didn't read right. I picked up the information from someplace else. I've been out of the loop for a while and wanted everything to be right. I sent this piece to a lot of Sorors but no one corrected me. Thanks again!

You know, I don't know how the announcement got on this site. I googled myself today and saw the link. I am very happy the release made it here.

I have been looking for a site like this and now I found one!

[ladygreek]

^^^^ {{{Staci}}} welcome to GC. There is a new sorors introduction thread. I know you, but tell the rest of the sorors about yourself.

[Visionary22]

Magazine by a Soror


First African-American Homes, Decor, Style & Career Magazine, How We Live Magazine, Gets Distribution With Wal-Mart


Dana F. Tucker, Publisher and Editor-In-Chief of How We Live Magazine


Columbia, SC (BlackNews.com) - The mega super store retailer chain, Wal-Mart, will add one more title to its name: distributor for How We Live Magazine: A showcase of African-American Homes, Décor, Style and Careers. The magazine is the first product of Columbia, South Carolina-based Minerva Media & Publishing, Incorporated and is a quarterly publication whose core focus centers on homes, décor, style, and careers. The magazine showcases and celebrates minority and African-American distinction, creativity, history, culture, talent and beauty.

How We Live Magazine acts as a resource - a solution and sounding board to all would-be décor aficionados. The magazine's mission is to enlighten and to inspire our readers about elegant African-American living at home, to bridge the gap of understanding about "how we live" vis-à-vis the quality of life therein, and to give voice to professionals who excel in the areas of design, décor, & style. Additionally, we want to encourage homeowners to invest in their greatest investment - their home. How We Live can be described as a blending of House Beautiful meets Ebony meets In-Style - all wrapped up into one.

The magazine primarily features the homes and lifestyles of African-Americans, but it is intended to affect the lives of readers from all ethnic backgrounds," said Dana Tucker, founder and C.E.O. "The magazine was created to act as a conduit between its subjects and stories about African-American (and other minority-) style, décor and accomplishment, and its readers throughout the nation and world. It highlights professionals who are masters of their craft and targets those who appreciate the tastes of varied cultures."
The homeowners, business professionals, and artists Dana Tucker features will be those she and her staff want to serve as beacons of inspiration - she wants their stories, their homes, their style and their careers to be admired so much, they inspire others to seek to achieve as well. "The youth and children of our community hold the key to our future and success - as a people - for years to come, I want my magazine to encourage and inspire them to consider entrepreneurship and stepping out on faith like I did," Tucker said.

Dana Tucker currently resides in Columbia with her husband, Greg Tucker, and their daughter, Madison Sophia. Also a professionally trained calligrapher and Toastmaster, this multi-tasker is currently completing her MBA Degree at Webster University in Columbia. She recently completed the 18-week Interior Decorating Certificate Program at Columbia's Midlands Technical College; she is active with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and Francis Burns UMC.

The premiere and future issues of How We Live Magazine can be purchased on-line via Dana's website at www.howwelive.biz. It is also available at Capital City News Stand and St. Andrews News Stand in Columbia. Soon it will be available at southeast locations (SC, NC, GA, & FL) of national retailers such as Books-A-Million, Wal-Mart, and Bi-Lo grocery stores, to name a few. Currently, it is available at Kingstree's Floral Designs by Curlee, The Williamsburg County Public Library, at several Columbia beauty salons and barbershops (Armani's, Sur-Nuff, & Diane's), restaurants (BJ's), décor shops and numerous other SC retail locations in Columbia, Lexington, Florence, Spartanburg, Anderson and in Charlotte, NC. Soon Atlanta, GA and other SC, NC & FL region wide locations will carry How We Live Magazine. Plans for nationwide distribution will soon ensue. How We Live Magazine has far-reaching implications for wonderful things to come African-Americans and all minorities, and will soon be available at a location near you!

For Media Inquiries please contact Jackie Audson at (678) 933-1597.


CONTACT:
Jackie Audson
678-933-1597


http://www.blacknews.com/pr/howwelive101.html

http://www.howwelive.biz/

[jitterbug13]

ATLANTA - Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin will lead a delegation of local officials and business leaders to China next month.

Among the items on her agenda will be helping Delta Air Lines get a direct route to the country. Franklin will also try to persuade officials there to open a Chinese consulate in Atlanta.

Her weeklong trip will begin Sept. 5 and will include stops in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and other cities.

Chinese delegations have come to Atlanta recently seeking advice about staging the Olympics and other issues, Franklin said. Atlanta hosted the Olympics in 1996 and Beijing will host it in 2008.

It "only seemed reasonable we would continue the exchange and visit them," Franklin said.
China is seeing its economy grow rapidly and has been a hot topic among state and local economic development officials.

Georgia officials said in June the state will open a trade office in Beijing next year. Craig Lesser, Georgia's commissioner of economic development, plans to leave Friday on his second mission to China. Lesser will also lobby for a Chinese consulate and for Delta's access to China.

And officials hope Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue will fly to China next year.

Atlanta-based Delta has been lobbying Chinese and U.S. officials for a direct flight to China for years. Delta is one of the only major carriers without a direct China route, said Jim Whitehurst, Delta's chief operating officer.

The U.S. and Chinese governments awarded Continental Airlines and American Airlines direct flights in 2005 and 2006. Whitehurst believes Delta has a "very, very good shot" of winning such a route when it's eligible again in 2008.

Such flights are key to opening commerce between Atlanta and foreign markets, said Jorge Fernandez, the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce's vice president of global commerce.

Atlanta can be a difficult sell to overseas companies if they do not have direct access to the city, he said. Delta's direct flights to places such as Denmark and Latin America have already led to new business in Atlanta, Fernandez said.

[Kimmie1913]

From my sororfriend Ramona regarding Soror Angelita's run for the bench and the primary ----

Hi Sorors!!!

THANK YOU to anyone who forwarded my message on yesterday. I AM HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT MY LINESISTER MADE A STEP TOWARDS HISTORY YESTERDAY!!! She WON!!! She has to face an Independent in August but we're not worrying about him.

DST history will soon reflect another GREAT SOROR....#7 Beta Chi Spr '91....Soror Angelita Blackshear Dalton...the FIRST African American woman elected Judge in Nashville, TN!

Here is a link to an article about the elections:


http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs....=2006605030443
Delta Love,

Ramona

[dzdst796]

That is WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!

[Ms Public Service]

Soror Shirley Ann Jackson, president, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and renowned theoretical physicist, will receive an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania at Almanac on May 15, 2006.

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and Hartford, CT, the oldest technological research university in the U.S., has held senior leadership positions in government, industry, research, and academe.

Dr. Jackson is immediate past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and currently chairman of the AAAS Board of Directors, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Physical Society, and has advisory roles and involvement in other prestigious national organizations. She serves as a trustee of the Brookings Institution, a life member of the M.I.T Corporation, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness and serves on the boards of Georgetown University and Rockefeller University. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange, the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and is a director of several major corporations.

She was appointed chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), 1995-1999, by U.S. President William J. Clinton. At the NRC, Dr. Jackson reorganized the agency, and completely revamped its regulatory approach, by articulating, and moving strongly to, risk-informed, performance-based regulation. Prior to that, she was a theoretical physicist at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories and a professor of theoretical physics at Rutgers University.

Dr. Jackson holds an S.B. in physics and a Ph.D. in theoretical elementary particle physics from M.I.T., and 32 honorary doctoral degrees.


http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes...ment-a.html#sj

[Diva_I.S.O.S]

That's what I'm talking about! That's my soror and fellow alum (MIT)! I was so impressed when I first heard about Soror Jackson and her successes at MIT. She went through a lot to get that Ph.D. It gave me hope and inspiration to get my B.S. I'm so proud!

[Diva_I.S.O.S]

Several buildings at Florida A & M University have been re-named. Among them is the Black Archives, which will now be known as the Carrie Meek/James Eaton Southeast Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum.

Soror Carrie Meek is a congresswoman in Florida.

[jitterbug13]

Sheryl Lee Ralph's one woman show, 'Sometimes I Cry' was recently awarded a $40,000 Education/Awareness grant for Creative Theater Program from M.A.C. AIDS Fund. The play -- written and conceived by the actress-- depicts the raw and real life stories of women infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Ralph, who has been active in the fight for AIDS awareness for the past two decades, was motivated to do the show when she realized just how much the face of HIV/AIDS had really changed and how little was being said. "These women’s voices have been silent for too long in the struggle against HIV/AIDS and they must be heard," said the 'Dreamgirls' star, who is currently touring the country with the show. "Their health and well-being matters also." The play will be performed June 9, at Newark, New Jersey's Essex Community College, and June 25, at New York City's Aaron Davis Hall.

"[We are] proud to be able to support DIVA Foundation founder, Sheryl Lee Ralph, through her one-woman show," Bruce Hunter, Interim Executive Director/Executive Program Director for the M.A.C. AIDS Fund, told Black Voices. "An award winning actress and AIDS activist, who has generously donated her time to various M.A.C. (Make-up Arts Cosmetics) AIDS Fund events, Ms. Ralph brings very clear goals and expectations to this project." Since 1994, The M.A.C. AIDS Fund had provided funding to non-profit HIV/AIDS organizations and programs for basic needs, health-related recreational activities, and programs that bring HIV/AIDS education, awareness and prevention to public attention.

Plans are currently being firmed up for the show to tour campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, this fall.

[Diovanka8]

Originally Posted by jitterbug13

Sheryl Lee Ralph's one woman show, 'Sometimes I Cry' was recently awarded a $40,000 Education/Awareness grant for Creative Theater Program from M.A.C. AIDS Fund. The play -- written and conceived by the actress-- depicts the raw and real life stories of women infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Ralph, who has been active in the fight for AIDS awareness for the past two decades, was motivated to do the show when she realized just how much the face of HIV/AIDS had really changed and how little was being said. "These women’s voices have been silent for too long in the struggle against HIV/AIDS and they must be heard," said the 'Dreamgirls' star, who is currently touring the country with the show. "Their health and well-being matters also." The play will be performed June 9, at Newark, New Jersey's Essex Community College, and June 25, at New York City's Aaron Davis Hall.

"[We are] proud to be able to support DIVA Foundation founder, Sheryl Lee Ralph, through her one-woman show," Bruce Hunter, Interim Executive Director/Executive Program Director for the M.A.C. AIDS Fund, told Black Voices. "An award winning actress and AIDS activist, who has generously donated her time to various M.A.C. (Make-up Arts Cosmetics) AIDS Fund events, Ms. Ralph brings very clear goals and expectations to this project." Since 1994, The M.A.C. AIDS Fund had provided funding to non-profit HIV/AIDS organizations and programs for basic needs, health-related recreational activities, and programs that bring HIV/AIDS education, awareness and prevention to public attention.

Plans are currently being firmed up for the show to tour campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, this fall.

I would love the opportunity to see this. I am googling more information for more the New York City viewing. I would love to support. I already missed the other date.

[CrimsonTide4]

Soror Staci Shands Crowned Ms. New York 2006


Staci Shands Crowned Ms. New York 2006

Brooklyn, New York: J'Lynn Howle, national director of Virtue International Pageants, crowned Staci Shands Ms. New York 2006. Ms. Shands will compete later this year for the national title of Ms. America International.

Ms. Shands is a book publicist. Her career goal is to continue to work in the publishing industry as an author and publisher of books for children and young adults. After working in the public relations industry for several years, Ms. Shands started her own firm, called Icats Publicity.

She attends church regularly at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York and spends her time volunteering and working with the homeless in her area. She is a member of the Brooklyn Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., a Christian based service sorority founded to highlight issues and provide solutions for problems in the community, promote academic excellence and offer support to the underserved. In addition Ms. Shands served in the United States Peace Corps as an agriculture volunteer in the Congo.

Ms. Shands enjoys collecting rare and new first edition hardcover books. She also takes pleasure in reading, practicing Tai Chi, going apple picking in the Fall and creating delicious organic vegan meals. As a classically trained dancer, Ms. Shands studied modern, tap, ballet, jazz and African dance for 12 years, and was the recipient of the Dorothy P. Stanley Modern Dance Scholarship.

She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Ms. Shands is a native New Yorker and resides in Brooklyn, New York.

The Ms. America International Pageant is designed especially to celebrate women ages 40 to 79 who are energetic, love life, liberty and freedom. To schedule appearances with Ms. New York or to get involved by reserving your title today, please feel free to contact the national director at 254-694-4006, Ms. New York directly at 718-259-2107 or log onto www.msamericainternationalonline.com.

I wonder how old Soror Staci is. I had her pegged as late 20s based on the photo in the article.

[ladygreek]

Yay Staci. She was a member of the A&L Commission when I was co-chair.