About the Show

The Biggest Event of the Fashion Season is about to Transcend on Montgomery once again, It’s the 2009 Style Experience Fashion Show.  The show that continues to bring the hottest in urban couture fashion designers, the hottest models, celebrities and music, complete with Alabama’s Most Preferred Crowd of Trendsetters and Taste makers.  Doors will open at 6pm with a fabulous “blue carpet” entrance, interviews,paparazzi, then experience the buyers market & cocktail networking hour, followed by this years’ show that will feature 5 of the hottest new designers on the fashion scene in “The Sapphire Effect” as we celebrate our 5th Anniversary, Followed by the Hypnotiq Blue Martini After Party.

Special Invited Guest Include:

Culture Shock, Montgomery Steppers, HOT JOCKS of Hot 105.7FM, DJ Shadow, Hot Girl Maxximum, Upgrade Magazine of Birmingham/Atlanta, South Models Inc. of Birmingham, Atlanta Talent Connection, LLC,Designer Adrienne Green of Triple SSS, Designer Adrianna Goldston of AMG, Designer Willie Shanks of Birmingham,  Black AL.com Music Producers DaGrindaz & More!!

Helping Our People Excel (H.O.P.E)

Answering  our presidents call to service,  we are donating a portion of the proceeds from the show to the Make A Difference Foundation of Greater Montgomery, a non profit 501(c) organization that mentors Montgomery’s inner city young men, providing tutoring, mentoring and college prep training.

“The Sapphire Effect”

Style Experience 2009

Sunday March 8th

doors open @ 6pm

show starts at 7pm

Hosted by: the daytime “diva” WSFA’s Ms.Tonya Terry

inside the beautiful Grand Ballroom

of the Embassy Suites Hotel

Downtown, Montgomery

Tickets are available Feb 1st @

Heritage Barber/Carter Hill Road

Reflections Salon/Carter Hill Road

Quality Cuts Barber/Woodmere Drive

Sways Way Modeling/Downtown

334.322.3711

www.mocamagazine.com

donation

$10 advance general

$20 VIP entrance-front row-hypnotiq blue afterparty

To become a vendor call 334.538.0441

For immediate release!

A veteran officer of the Montgomery Police Department is the new chief of police at Alabama State University after retiring Thursday as the commander of the MPD Special Operations Team, which includes its SWAT Team, Bomb Squad and Narcotics Unit.

Henry C. Davis, 49, began his new role Monday as the chief law enforcement officer at ASU after serving 24 years with the city’s police department in such varied roles as a patrol officer, director of Community Policing and finally with the rank of major, having been responsible for some of the city’s major drug busts and special crime prevention operations.

Davis, a native of Birmingham, said he is excited about his new role at ASU.

“What attracted me the most about taking on the challenge of serving as ASU’s police chief is that I noticed how hard President Harris and the Board of Trustees are working to make Alabama State an even better place to obtain a quality education,” Davis said, “so naturally I wanted to be a part of their winning team.”

“Personally, I want to work with our police force at ASU as it grows professionally, so we can make sure that Alabama State continues as a safe and secure place to go to school,” Davis said Tuesday.

When Davis is not taking care of bad guys, he is serving as the pastor of the Word of Life Tabernacle, a non-denominational church, which is located in Montgomery.

“My two passions in life are protecting people here on Earth and serving God through the ministry, which offers people peace and protection in the eternal life to come,” Davis said.

Please join me on Wednesday Night November 26, 2008 the most exciting night of the year ” to see and be see” as I celebrate 10 years of providing you a safe and upscale place to mix and mingle with old friends and an opportunity to make new friends, the day before the classic. Together with the beautiful ladies of the Sway’s Way Modeling , we promise the most attractive, well-dressed, professional crowd for Turkey Day Classic 2008.

live.laugh.love.dance

Turkey Day Classic 2008

Classic Soul 10

Wednesday Night

November 26, 2008

10pm-until

@ The All New Mission House

461 South Court Street

Mixologist DJ Boosie

attire: Velvet Rope

Hosted by:

Perry Varner of MOCA Magazine

Kenyetta Smiley of Sway’s Way

brought to you by:

Mission House
Blue Print Media
MOCA Magazine
Urbanham.com
BlackAL.com

For tickets and more information call
334.322.3711
www.mocamagazine.com

Today November 5, 2008, being a black man in America has a different feeling, it feels GREAT!!!! Last night reaffirmed what I already knew about our people that we are powerful beyond measure, “we are born to make manifest the power of GOD that is in us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine,we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.”

Last night culmination of activities were a vision, that a person not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character, stated by my fraternity brother Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in August of 1963 during his “I have a dream speech”, continued throughout the civil rights movement and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. America made good on her promise of being one Nation under God, indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for all.” I would like to thank all of the role models and unsung heroes of Selma, Montgomery and Birmingham who begin this movement some four decades ago, living here on the soil of these soldiers, I think we sometime take it for granted. Please know today that the Audacity of Hope that I inherited , will never go unrecognized.

Brothers and Sisters, lets take this opportunity to continue educating, empowering and inspiring our community, if President Obama can achieve history against all odds, surely we can continue to make a difference in the lives of those we touch each day.!! The journey has merely just begun. May God Bless Each of You who read this. I will be in Washington D.C. on January 20, 2009 for the Inaugural Weekend of Events and share this history with you in MOCA and on my websites.

Perry D. Varner- Publisher of MOCA Magazine & Web Community

Los Angeles, CA – In an effort to circumvent voter suppression tactics and confusion at the polls, award winning actress, Angela Bassett; Tonight Show bandleader, Kevin Eubanks; actress, LisaRaye McCoy Misick; and singer/actress, Brandy Norwood; are among the list of celebrities voicing public service announcements urging people to vote early or be first in line on Election Day. The joint initiative between American Urban Radio Networks (AURN) and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) marks the second phase of their nonpartisan radio campaign aimed at ensuring African Americans cast a ballot that counts on Election Day.

“We’ve already received numerous reports of possible voter suppression. It’s essential to get the word out to vote early or be first in line to avoid the drama on November 4th,” said Melanie L. Campbell, executive director and CEO, NCBCP. “AURN is the largest African American owned radio network company reaching 20 million listeners weekly. We appreciate AURN and all of the celebrities involved, their help ensures that the critical message to vote early will reach our target audience.”

Jerry Lopes, president of program operations and affiliations for AURN adds, “I am pleased to join hands with Unity ‘08, a group of prestigious organizations working to protect the rights that our ancestor’s fought and died for. It was also a great opportunity to engage these celebrities and refreshing to see so many who wanted to help in the effort to protect our right to vote. I thank and applaud all of them for donating their time to this vital effort.”

Tanya Hart, host of AURN’s “Hollywood Live” coordinated the Los Angeles effort. Other celebrities participating in the campaign include: recording artists, James Ingram, Earth, Wind and Fire’s, Verdine White, Siedah Garrett, Doc Powell and Take 6’s, David Thomas. From the big and little screens: Obba Babatunde, Ernest Harden Jr., Reginald Dorsey, Regina Taylor, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Rolanda Watts, Hattie Winston, LaTonya Richardson Jackson, TV game show host, Mark Walberg and from BET’s “Sunday Best,” Beth Payne. Ambassador Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, Susan L. Taylor, editor-in-chief emeritus of Essence magazine, and political comedian, Shang, also participated in the campaign.

In addition to making an appeal for African Americans to be first to vote in this historic election, phase two of the PSA campaign encourages people to call the NCBCP’s Unity ‘08 voter assistance hotline, 866-MYVOTE 1, to locate their polling place in advance. On the ground, NCBCP state coordinators are hosting get-out-the-vote rallies, monitoring the polls, and mobilizing voters in states where early voting has already started.

During the initial phase of the campaign AURN produced and distributed voter education PSA’s, while NCBCP representatives were on the ground in 18 states registering voters, hosting education forums, and making sure eligible voters verified their registration.

For more information about the NCBCP’s Unity ‘08 campaign visit www.blackcampaign.org. To receive a copy of the PSA’s contact Lenore Williams at AURN at 412-456-4098 or via email lwilliams@aurn.com.

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About the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
Founded in 1976, the NCBCP (www.ncbcp.org) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to increasing African American participation in civil society. Current initiatives include Operation Big Vote, Black Youth Vote!, Black Women’s Roundtable, and Voices of the Electorate and Unity ‘08: The Black Campaign, a non-partisan civic engagement initiative designed to inoculate, motivate, and mobilize Black voters to participate in the 2008 election.

About American Urban Radio Networks
American Urban Radio Networks (www.aurn.com ) is the only African-American owned radio network company in the United States. It’s the largest network reaching Urban American with more than 20 million listeners each week. Through three programming networks and its marketing division, American Urban Radio Networks reach more African-Americans than any other medium in America and produce more programming than all other broadcasting companies combined.

Dr. Algernon Austin

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – (September 26, 2008) – Alabama State University’s doctoral program in Educational, Leadership, Policy and Law will begin its Doctoral Seminar Series on Sept. 29 at 5:30 p.m. in the John L. Buskey Heath Sciences building. 

Dr. Algernon Austin, director of the Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy Program at the Economic Policy Institute, will present the lecture titled, “The Good News about Black Students and the Challenges Ahead.”

Austin is a sociologist of racial relations with a specialization on black Americans. Prior to joining the Economic Policy Institute, he was assistant director of research at the Foundation Center and a senior fellow at the Demos think tank. He received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Wesleyan University, a master’s degree and doctoral degree in sociology from Northwestern University.

Austin is the author of Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America and Achieving Blackness: Race, Black Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century. He has published scholarly articles in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Qualitative Sociology, the Journal of African American Studies, and Race, Gender and Class.

The seminar is free and open to the public. For more information, call (334) 229-4659.

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