HARLEM BOOK FAIR’08
HBF FINANCIAL PAVILION

SCHOMBURG/AMERICAN NEGRO THEATRE

515 Malcolm X Blvd., corner of West 135^th Street

SATURDAY, JULY 19

12pm – 1:45pm           YOUR MONEY IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE: SEIZING YOUR 
                                    FINANCIAL POWER!
 

Moderator: Sabrina Lamb, Founder, WorldofMoney.org

Panelists: Lynnette Kalfani-Cox (Zero Debt, Your First Home); Duane Harden (Harlem Funding.com), Robin Young (Merrill Lynch); Derrick Barnes (New York Life) Darrell Washington (Creditminded.com); Manyell Akinfe (Primerica)
 

Real estate investing, retirement planning, protecting your life, correcting your credit, budgeting and disciplined saving are cornerstones of wealth-building and asset management. This panel of experts shows you how to get there from here.

2:00pm – 3:00pm        CHANGING THE MINDSET FOR WEALTH

                                    Edgar J. Ridley, Author and President, Edgar J. Ridley
                                    Associates

Black peoples almost uncontrollable appetite for the latest fashionable lifestyle ranks us as America’s biggest consumer group. Because of our must have it now mentality, we have a negative attitude towards creating wealth for our children and ourselves. What does the future hold for a people living under such condition?

Edgar J. Ridley, author of Symbolism Revisited and The Golden Apple, heads a multi-disciplinary team of organizational and behavior development specialists that helps corporations and governments develop more efficient operations.

4:45p - 6:00p              THE LONG RISE AND HARD FALL OF BLACK RADIO

                                                Moderator: Sabrina Lamb
                                    Kristal Brent Zook (I See Black People: Interviews with African
                                    American Owners of Radio and Television), Sanford Moore - KISS-
                                    FM Week In Review Co-Host,  Bob Law - Veteran Broadcaster, Film
                                    Producer "History of Black Radio"

                                    Black radio has long provided an unadulterated perspective of the
                                    Black American experience. Mergers, conglomerates, audience
                                    diversification and the high costs of maintenance have caused many
                                    smaller stations to fold, while other rely on exaggeration and
                                    caricature to survive – all at the expense of providing the type of
                                    critical, hard-edged analysis a community requires to stay armed
                                    and informed. This panel discusses black media’s demise and future.