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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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UNIFYING EVENT BRINGS TOGETHER THE BEST OF ROGERS PARK

 

This past Saturday, the Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce (CHICAGO, IL) held its first Unifying Rogers Park Event at Quest Services & the Headquarters of the Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce. The event welcomed and featured some of Rogers Parks finest business reps, organizations and residents for a day of meeting, networking, conversation and fun. In April, the Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce celebrated its second year anniversary and decided to throw a Summer Unifying event for the community.  Guests at the gala included…  Barbara Richardson of Elements Services, Chris of Quest Network Services, Author Eugene Nelson Jr., Mark Finley of MFN: Multifacet Network, Bills Digital Photo’s, Jan McCarter of Club Z Tutoring,  Amadia King of PLAN (Parent Leadership And Network), and Fred Weaver of Life Storage Center- just to name a few. The event showed how a community with multi ethnic groups & business’s from all walks of life can come together to support each other and network to strengthen the community and have fun at the same time.

 

Some of Rogers Park’s finest restaurants were represented with delicious entrees from… Leona’s Pizza, The Fish Keg, Hop Haus, Charmers Café, and The Caribbean / American Bakery. The buffet style /food was excellent with a variety of dishes, including… Fried Fish & Chicken, Pizzas, Brichettas, Sandwiches, Hush Puppies, Meat Pies and Salad’s.

 

The event was also broadcasted LIVE on the Internet and seen around the world by MFN LIVE Broadcast Network hosted by media host Mark Finley and co-host Eugene Nelson Jr. Many of the Business & Org. reps in attendance were interviewed during the Broadcast. Chamber of Commerce president Bill Morton was the events MC and the perfect host.

 

As the event progressed, guest participated in a free-style conversation that was covered by the Broadcast as well.

Mark Finley; Host & GM of MFN LIVE commented…“As the broadcast continued, before I knew it people just started to grab our microphones while they were in conversation which really made the broadcast. I thought it was great that people took the initiative to include their discussions in the broadcast in a free style manner. It made the broadcast that much more genuine and exciting!”

 
  Above-Key Note Speaker & host- MFNS Mark Finley RUNS IT DOWN to the Chamber and the MFN LIVE audience.

Rogers Park Chamber of Commerce President Bill Morton at the end of the event commented... “I am so happy that this event was such a big success! We are all about bringing together all the business, organizations and residents in Rogers Park to come together to strengthen our community!”

If you’d like to view the broadcast of the event, you can watch it any time on demand for the next two weeks by going to www.multifacetnet.com and register for FREE! Then click on the MFN LIVE tab and scroll down to the first broadcast window and click the play button to view the broadcast.