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Find out what really goes on in the inner circle.... Evelyn Lozada from the VH1 reality #1 hit show, “Basketball Wives ” has recently added to her list of achievements a fiction book that is from her personal journal entries but changed the names to keep confidentiality and remain “loyal to her friends.” On a recent book tour to six major cities, she stopped in Atlanta, Georgia to sit down with her fans to answer a couple of questions about her life and her new book. Just days before her wedding to football player Chad “OchoCinco” Johnson, she promotes her book with the book tour visiting Barnes and Nobles across the United States. She stopped in the city of Atlanta to asnswer some of her fans hard hitting question about the book and the inspiration behind it. Amber Zellner, editor of Miss Zellner purchased “Inner Circle” and is looking forward to reading it. “I believe it will be an interesting and entertaining book – I will definitely, take it along with me on my trips,” says...

The Center for the Visually Impaired is Georgia’s largest service provider for the blind and visually impaired. For 50 years, the Center for the Visually Impaired has empowered people with vision loss to live with independence and dignity serving people of all ages. More than 5,000 people from Atlanta and all over Georgia turn to CVI to help them adjust, or improve a life with limited or no sight. CVI is Georgia’s largest comprehensive, fully accredited private facility providing rehabilitation services for the blind and visually impaired. The BEGIN program caters to the infancy, early childhood & preschool children that are visually impaired. It serves children 5 and under as well as parents, teachers and child care providers. The program includes vision assessments of vision and development with vision and developmental activities for parents and children to family and child group meetings to provide music activities to short-term counseling support for individuals and f...

Savannah State University National Alumni Association Metro Atlanta Chapter is one of the largest alumni chapters of the university. The chapter recently hosted a fundraiser at the local Applebee’s Restaurant in Atlanta, Ga., to raise funds for scholarships to be given to high school graduates that want to attend Savannah State to further their education after high school. April Dobbs, President of the Metro Atlanta Chapter , has a main goal to reach to recent graduates and the younger graduates of the university so that they may know and see the benefits of being active in the alumni chapter and the power of the alumni voice in making decisions and changes at the university. Dobbs wants to break down the perception of what the alumni association actually is and how beneficial is for graduates to get active and remain active so that they will see how powerful the alumni voice is to the university. For a full list of alumni chapters in your area, click HERE.

The 6 th Annual Fiesta Atlanta was held Sunday, May 6 at Centennial Olympic Park for the national Cinco de Mayo celebration. The daylong event is great for all ages and included live music from national and local bands, arts and crafts vendors, a 5k race that benefits The Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and authentic international food vendors. Compliments of the historic Centennial Olympic water fountain, the 6 th Annual Fiesta Atlanta was a cool and fun place to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, for everyone!   Original video content credit/Deniscia Scott

 The unemployment rate in the United States is at a record high from previous years. It has sustained a rate of 8.3 percent over the past year quoted by Trading Economics . The unemployment rate was the highest in 1982 with a percent of 10.8. Even with a high unemployment rate, the economy was able to add an additional 227,000 jobs to the market quotes the U.S. Department of Labor in a recent press release. (Updated news report since original publication of article.) The news of the additional jobs sparked interest of many job seekers and enthusiast. In an article written by Shaila Dewan from the The New York Times , questions whether the improvement in the job sector can accelerate significantly enough to drive down the unemployment rate. President Obama has stated that more companies were bringing back manufacturing jobs to the United States as quoted by Dewan’s article. In the two charts below taken from data from the press release, breaks downs the unemployment by race and ...

Lupus Awareness Campaign I was introduced to Lupus through a high school friend when her sister was diagnosed in 2006. I had not heard of the disease before then and was unsure of what exactly it was. I did not know how many people this disease affected and how it affected the body of people of all ages, race and gender. My friend of 10 years, Musetta Reedy allowed me to ask her questions about Lupus and the impact it had on her life. Musetta Reedy, 24, lead teacher at Head Start school, is very familiar with Lupus as it has effected her family over the years. “My sister, Kalaya Reedy became very ill. She told us that she had a disease called Lupus. My family and I had never heard of it until she sat us down and explained the things that were going on in her body,” says Reedy. Using the Internet as a tool for conducting research, the Reedy family wanted to become more knowledgeable so they could become a strong support system for Kalaya as she fought against Lupus. Lupus is a ...

Exercising and eating right does not come easy for everybody. It is unrealistic to believe that getting fit is an overnight process, but MsFits is committed to helping whoever is willing and wanting, however long it takes. As long as the client is positive, committed, and willing there's nothing we can't do together. -MsFits"][/caption] Opening a personal fitness center can be a challenge for some but not for Miriam "MsFit" Williams, a personal trainer turned entrepreneur. She started her career with Bally Total Fitness Corporation in 2004, and then opened a personal fitness facility in Jonesboro, Ga. Williams celebrated the grand opening of her new facility on Oct. 1, 2011, elevating her personal fitness experience one more level. Wearing a lime green shirt to match the lime green check in her Nike shoes, Williams talked about how she started with personal training. Hosting over 50 pairs of athletic shoes for her career, she has to find matching outfi...

Have you seen that restaurants score? Restaurant scores are posted for a reason and in some cases may determine if one proceeds to the hostess counter or walk back out the door. When you walk into a restaurant what’s the first thing you notice? Is it the fingerprints on the glass doors? Maybe the hostess that eagerly waits to greet you and take you to your table? Or is it the restaurants’ score? Some people, before telling the hostess the number in their party, look for the restaurants’ grade. For the health conscious people if it is not a score of “A” they will turn around and eat somewhere else. Is the letter grading system for restaurants really important and what does the score say about the restaurant? For many years, I never noticed the grade for restaurants until I was with a friend who happened to look at Fox Sport’s Grill in Atlantic Station and stormed out of the restaurant. Ranting on and on about not eating at restaurants that have a score less than an “A” and how disg...

The Collaborative Firm, LLC hosted its 10 th Annual South Metro Development Outlook forum at the Georgia International Convention Center, the morning of February 9, 2012 for an event that specialized in connecting and networking professionals across the metro Atlanta counties. This year’s conference theme was “South Metro: Creating a path to the future through transportation” highlighting the possible development of a transit system to connect the metro areas. The highlight session of the forum was on the Transportation Investment Act. If this bill is passed, it could funnel billions of dollars to transportation projects throughout the Atlanta region. This investment will be essential to improving transit facilities throughout the city and its’ surrounding areas and making Atlanta more competitive in attracting new investment. The Collaborative Firm, LLC specializes in planning, program management and development and has been hosting the South Metro Development Outlook forum ...

Planned Parenthood mission is to provide health care services and educational programs, to advocate and promote research to individuals that are wanting to live a healthier life as stated on the Planned Parenthood website. It is known for their clinical services that include but not limited to; sexual health classes, breast cancer screenings, abortions and funding research for birth control. It’s primary focus is to be a provider and deliver health education to millions of young people around the world. So why would Susan G. Komen for the Cure want to pull it’s services from health facilities if they share the common goal? This question was asked immediately after the announcement was made by the foundation on Associated Press that they had decided to not to renew its partnership with the facilities. This came to a shock for some and an understanding for others. Funding for the majority of the breast cancer screenings that were held at Planned Parenthood came from Komen for the Cure...