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| NEW AFFINITY CREDIT CARD FROM JOSEPH ADETULA FOUNDATION | |  Anonymous writes "NEW AFFINITY CREDIT CARD FROM
JOSEPH ADETULA FOUNDATION
FUNDS NONPROFIT GROUP’S IMPORTANT WORK
• No annual fee
Tulsa (12/1/2008) - There's a new, convenient way for people who
support Joseph Adetula Foundation
(www.josephadetulafoundation.org) to fund the nonprofit group's work. And it fits in a wallet.
Joseph Adetula Foundation and CardPartner, Inc.
(www.cardpartner.com) have joined forces to launch the Joseph Adetula
Foundation Visa affinity credit card. When a cardholder
activates the card, Joseph Adetula Foundation receives $50. Then
once a month for the life of the program, Joseph Adetula
Foundation receives a check for a portion of every dollar that
every cardholder charges.
'Using the Joseph Adetula Foundation Visa affinity credit card for
everyday purchases is an easy way for supporters to (briefly
describe your organization's main goal),' said Dayo Adetula.
The Joseph Adetula Foundation Visa Platinum card offers qualified
cardholders exceptional benefits:
• 0% APR on purchases and balance transfers for the first six months
• Purchase protection
• Zero liability protection for unauthorized purchases
• Emergency cash and card replacement
• Lost/stolen card reporting service
• 24-hour roadside assistance
• Warranty manager service
• Lost luggage replacement
Find out more about the Joseph Adetula Foundation Visa Platinum card by visiting www.josephadetulafoundation.org.
About CardPartner
CardPartner, Inc. (www.cardpartner.com) is an online company that
specializes in helping smaller U.S.-based membership
organizations and charities
create affinity credit card programs. CardPartner is a unit of the
privately held Serverside Group, a technology provider to many of
the world’s leading
banks.
Visa cards offered through CardPartner are issued by UMB
Bank, n.a., headquartered in Kansas City, MO. UMB Bank approves credit decisions,
grants credit, and manages the administration and cardholder service
for card programs by CardPartner.
Contacts:
For Joseph Adetula Foundation
Dayo Adetula
dayo58@yahoo.com
Jaf Credit Card
For CardPartner
Jim Donahue
302-367-6929 office/cell
donahuellc@hotmail.com
"
| | Posted by nerd57 on Monday, December 01 @ 16:25:38 CST (170 reads) (Read More... | Score: 5) | | | | | | | Anonymous writes "Friend --
I have some important news, and I'm pleased to share it with you first.
I've chosen Joe Biden to be my running mate.
Joe and I will appear for the first time as running mates this afternoon in Springfield, Illinois -- the same place this campaign began more than 19 months ago.
I'm excited about hitting the campaign trail with Joe, but the two of us can't do this alone. We need your help to keep building this movement for change.
Please let Joe know that you're glad he's part of our team. Share your personal welcome note and we'll make sure he gets it:
Welcome Joe
Thanks for your support,
Barack
P.S. -- Make sure to turn on your TV at 2:00 p.m. Central Time to join us or watch online at Barack Obama
"
| | Posted by nerd57 on Saturday, August 23 @ 11:29:49 CDT (162 reads) (Read More... | Score: 0) | | | | | | Making a Difference – Community Service Opportunities with Area Children and You | | As the representatives stood up to introduce themselves and their organizations, I was especially struck by one, partly because it was one I had not previously heard about, and mostly because of the very personal connection the speaker had to his organization. Dayo Adentula, formerly of Nigeria, lost his son, Joseph a few years ago. Joseph was an innocent victim of a drive-by shooting that occurred in his north Tulsa neighborhood. Instead of turning angry and bitter, Dayo has begun a foundation in his son’s name, designed to help young African American men find alternatives to the angry and destructive life-style of violence on the streets. The Joseph Adetula Foundation attempts to accomplish this through various means. Dayo’s current focus, and where he needs the most help, is in advocating for youth facing long term suspension within the Tulsa Public Schools, helping them remain in school and find a second chance. He told me that he has found that almost every young man he has worked with so far has been able to turn themselves around, stay in school and stay out of more serious trouble. The numbers of young people needing this kind of service are more than he can handle. If this is an opportunity you would like to learn more about, you can contact him at dayo58@yahoo.com. To learn more about the Joseph Adetula Foundation, go to Joseph Adetula Foundation
Ruth Wilcox
Children’s Ministry Coordinator
| | | | | | | News: Rock pioneer Bo Diddley dies at age 79 | | Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan Clary said. He had suffered a heart attack in August, three months after suffering a stroke while touring in Iowa. Doctors said the stroke affected his ability to speak, and he had returned to Florida to continue rehabilitation.
The legendary singer and performer, known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton.
Diddley appreciated the honors he received, "but it didn't put no figures in my checkbook."
"If you ain't got no money, ain't nobody calls you honey," he quipped.
The name Bo Diddley came from other youngsters when he was growing up in Chicago, he said in a 1999 interview.
"I don't know where the kids got it, but the kids in grammar school gave me that name," he said, adding that he liked it so it became his stage name. Other times, he gave somewhat differing stories on where he got the name. Some experts believe a possible source for the name is a one-string instrument used in traditional blues music called a diddley bow.
His first single, "Bo Diddley," introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as "shave and a haircut, two bits." The B side, "I'm a Man," with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard.
The company that issued his early songs was Chess-Checkers records, the storied Chicago-based labels that also recorded Chuck Berry and other stars.
Howard Kramer, assistant curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, said in 2006 that Diddley's Chess recordings "stand among the best singular recordings of the 20th century."
Diddley's other major songs included, "Say Man," "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover," "Shave and a Haircut," "Uncle John," "Who Do You Love?" and "The Mule."
Diddley's influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. Buddy Holly borrowed the bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp rhythm for his song "Not Fade Away."
The Rolling Stones' bluesy remake of that Holly song gave them their first chart single in the United States, in 1964. The following year, another British band, the Yardbirds, had a Top 20 hit in the U.S. with their version of "I'm a Man."
Diddley was also one of the pioneers of the electric guitar, adding reverb and tremelo effects. He even rigged some of his guitars himself.
"He treats it like it was a drum, very rhythmic," E. Michael Harrington, professor of music theory and composition at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., said in 2006.
Many other artists, including the Who, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello copied aspects of Diddley's style.
Growing up, Diddley said he had no musical idols, and he wasn't entirely pleased that others drew on his innovations.
"I don't like to copy anybody. Everybody tries to do what I do, update it," he said. "I don't have any idols I copied after."
"They copied everything I did, upgraded it, messed it up. It seems to me that nobody can come up with their own thing, they have to put a little bit of Bo Diddley there," he said.
Despite his success, Diddley claimed he only received a small portion of the money he made during his career. Partly as a result, he continued to tour and record music until his stroke. Between tours, he made his home near Gainesville in north Florida.
"Seventy ain't nothing but a damn number," he told The Associated Press in 1999. "I'm writing and creating new stuff and putting together new different things. Trying to stay out there and roll with the punches. I ain't quit yet."
Diddley, like other artists of his generations, was paid a flat fee for his recordings and said he received no royalty payments on record sales. He also said he was never paid for many of his performances.
"I am owed. I've never got paid," he said. "A dude with a pencil is worse than a cat with a machine gun."
In the early 1950s, Diddley said, disc jockeys called his type of music, "Jungle Music." It was Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed who is credited with inventing the term "rock 'n' roll."
Diddley said Freed was talking about him, when he introduced him, saying, "Here is a man with an original sound, who is going to rock and roll you right out of your seat."
Diddley won attention from a new generation in 1989 when he took part in the "Bo Knows" ad campaign for Nike, built around football and baseball star Bo Jackson. Commenting on Jackson's guitar skills, Diddley turned to the camera and said, "He don't know Diddley."
"I never could figure out what it had to do with shoes, but it worked," Diddley said. "I got into a lot of new front rooms on the tube."
Born as Ellas Bates on Dec. 30, 1928, in McComb, Miss., Diddley was later adopted by his mother's cousin and took on the name Ellis McDaniel, which his wife always called him.
When he was 5, his family moved to Chicago, where he learned the violin at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He learned guitar at 10 and entertained passers-by on street corners.
By his early teens, Diddley was playing Chicago's Maxwell Street.
"I came out of school and made something out of myself. I am known all over the globe, all over the world. There are guys who have done a lot of things that don't have the same impact that I had," he said.
| | | | | | | March on Tulsa Commemorating 87th Anniversary of Tulsa Race Riot | | National Call for March on Tulsa May 31 - June 1, 2008
BEFORE THEY DIE- There will be a march and town hall meeting featuring
the survivors, religious and civic leaders from across the country, and
members of the legal team. The documentary by film producer Reggie
Turner entitled Before They Die will be screened at OSU-Tulsa this
weekend to commemorate the 87th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Riot.
(Photojournalist J. Kavin Ross)
A series of events are planned to commemorate the 87th anniversary of
the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot the weekend of May 31st - June 1st, 2008. This
Saturday, the day begins with a march and rally in the Greenwood section
of Tulsa at 10:00 AM. The March features the oldest living survivor Mr.
Otis Clark, 105 years and Mr. Wesley Young, 91 years, both of Tulsa and
Dr. Olivia Hooker, 93 of White Plains, New York. The following events
will be held at the Oklahoma State University - Tulsa Auditorium
Harvard Law Prof. Charles A. Ogletree Jr. likes to tell audiences, 'So
you know the Gap Band's famous song You Dropped a Bomb on Me. The group
is from Tulsa, Okla., where in 1921 white vigilantes looted and burned
America 's most prosperous black community. More than 300 people were
killed, 1,200 homes and businesses destroyed, and 10,000 citizens
displaced. Some have called it America 's Holocaust. The band's name
memorializes the site of the race riot. Gap is short for Greenwood
Avenue, and Archer and Pine streets that were the heart of the Greenwood
business district known as the 'Black Wall Street.' Ogletree is the
lead counsel in a lawsuit to get reparations for the survivors,
including 105-year-old Otis Clark and Dr. John Hope Franklin. Dr.
Franklin's father's law office was burned down by the white mob.
Many people strongly feel that the time for justice is long overdue. To
commemorate the 87th anniversary of this act of domestic terrorism,
there will be a series of events in Tulsa the weekend of May 31-June 1.
The events will include the premiere of 'Before They Die,' the story of
the survivors' four-year search for justice through the federal judicial
system.
Reggie Turner, the film's director and producer, said: The victims of
9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Japanese-Americans from the
World War II internment camps have all been compensated. The survivors
of the Tulsa Race Riot are still waiting, hoping that they will see
justice and compensation before they die.
The film is the cornerstone of an effort to generate knowledge of this
hidden historical event, and to stimulate Americans to contribute online
to provide compensation directly to the victims. The non-profit, Tulsa
Project Fund Inc. has been established specifically for that purpose.
The goal is to accomplish what the legal and legislative branches of the
government have failed to do. To right this wrong, to no longer simply
look backward: To step forward from our history, by embracing our
present responsibility to make life better for these victims while we
have to opportunity to do so.
There will also be a march and town hall meeting featuring the
survivors, religious and civic leaders from across the country, and
members of the legal team.
On Saturday May 31st at 1:00 PM a town hall meeting with riot survivors
and members of their legal team lead by Harvard Professor Charles
Ogletree and RCC Co-Chair Adjoa Aiyetoro.
3:00 PM Screening of the documentary Before They Die! The story of the
Survivors 4-year odyssey through the Federal courts to the Supreme Court
and on to the US Congress, in their search for justice.
5:45 PM Town Hall Talk Back Panel discussion lead by Professor Charles
Ogletree and Michael Hausfeld co-leads of the Survivors' legal team.
Participating on the panel will be the film's director Reggie Turner and
the noted historian John Hope Franklin.
Oklahoma State University-Tulsa Auditorium is located at 700 N.
Greenwood Avenue.
On Sunday June 1, a memorial service at Mount Zion Church to honor those
who died during the riot.
1:00 PM Oak Lawn Cemetery, the site of an alleged mass grave, a ceremony
will be held to honor the victims of the race riot who where never
properly buried.
For more information contact Mportant Films at 323-677-2780. To view the
trailer
Go to the website click here
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