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Social and Economic Contributors - Professor James Clingman
Health and Wellness Contributor - Dr. Cornelius Stephens
Politics and Culture Contributor - Junious Ricardo Stanton

Politics and Culture Contributor
Junious Ricardo Stanton

Junious Ricardo Stanton is a long time writer, journalist and broadcaster committed to the liberation of Africans world wide. His goal is to encourage Africans to think critically and assiduously work to free ourselves from the debilitating psychological manacles of Eurocentric propaganda and global political and economic hegemony.

His column "From The Ramparts" appears in numerous newspapers, websites and e-groups. In addition to and in conjunction with his writing, he produces and hosts several Internet radio programs: The Digital Underground which airs live Sunday from 12 Noon to 2 PM Eastern time on www.Harambeeradio.com , The Cyberspace Sanctuary which is in daily rotation on the Blake Radio Network's (www.Blakeradio.com) Rainbow Soul Channel and Message In The Music, a music program that airs daily on the Blake Radio Network's Music Massage channel.

Social and Economic Contributor
Professor James Clingman
URL: http://www.blackonomics.com

Called a "true leader in the Black community" by many, author and speaker, Jim Clingman, is a force with which to be reckoned. If you have not heard his name, read his articles, viewed his website, listened to his radio and internet broadcasts and interviews, or perused any of the five books he authored in less than a decade, you will. The nation's most prolific writer and lecturer on economic empowerment, his action-oriented message for African Americans is incessant and is causing a quiet but powerful revolution across this country.

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Clingman has dedicated most of his adult life to uplifting African Americans, but he came into his own after participating in the Million Man March in 1995. On that day he listened to the speakers' mandates for each man to "do something" to better his community. He decided that economic empowerment was his charge; thus, words followed by deeds became his weapons of choice.

As the former editor of The Cincinnati Herald, Clingman used his weekly column to call-out economic, political, and social injustices perpetrated against Blacks, or by anyone, in any arena. He fearlessly stood up against wrong doings while giving information and guidelines for empowerment - specifically, economic empowerment. He wrote his first book, One in a Million: Faces in the Crowd, after the Million Man March, in 1996, a tribute to the "anonymous' men who gathered on the Mall that day, as well as the "ancestors who watched from the sidelines" in a distant memory. He was one of many men who not only heard the marching orders that day but went back and did something.

While working as a manager in the public sector, writing editorials for The Cincinnati Herald, and volunteering with community organizations, he proposed the establishment of a chamber of commerce to a group of business owners and "just plain folks." The Greater Cincinnati African American Chamber of Commerce was born and Jim, as its founder, was named President and Executive Director. He served in those roles as a volunteer for two years while building the organization out of nothing but dreams and determination. Within three years, the GCAACC had over 500 members and a budget of over a million dollars -- and its own office building! During this same period, Jim helped other cities duplicate his efforts.

Over the next decade, Clingman wrote and published four more books: Economic Empowerment or Economic Enslavement - We have a choice; Fathers and Daughters; Blackonomics, and, his latest, Black-o-knowledge: Stuff we need to know. He has done hundreds of lectures, book signings, and live radio show interviews promoting his books, and his passion: Economic empowerment for African Americans. "I do what I do to spread the word of the need for and importance of economic empowerment," Clingman says. "This is a huge job that has to be done and I am but one in a long line of griots passing down information." Mr. Clingman is one of the leading economic empowerment activists who talks the talk, but who also walks the walk.

Clingman earned a Cum Laude degree in Administrative Management from the University of Cincinnati, and was granted a full scholarship to the graduate School of Economics. He is a veteran of the United States Navy, a member of the Cincinnati Gray Road Church of Christ, and a dedicated husband and father. He is a self-employed management consultant, a professor of Black Entrepreneurship at the University of Cincinnati, a teacher at the Cincinnati Christian University, the founder of a public entrepreneurship high school, and the host of a weekly radio show.

Health and Wellness Contributor
Dr. Cornelius Stephens
URL: http:www.relevanthealth.net

Dr. Stephens is a chiropractor and applied kinesiologist who has practiced alternative healthcare for over twenty years. He has had extensive training in nutritional therapy, cold laser therapy and neurology. Dr. Stephens is CEO and primary treating physician at East Metro Wellness Center, LLC.

The primary focus of East Metro Wellness Center involves the following:

1. Resetting the Cycle of Balance:
2. Removing Nerve Interference:
3. Balancing the Electromagnetic Radiation:
4. Resetting Adrenal Glands:
5. Replacing Digestive Enzymes and Hydrochloric Acid:
6. Re-establishing the Bowel Flora:
7. Repairing Nutrition:
8. Releasing Emotional Blocks:
9. Allergy Desensitization:
10. Removing Heavy Metal Contamination:

For more information visit his website at: www.relevanthealth.net or call East Metro Wellness Center at (770) 922-7282.