Turning Point Communications Announces Momentous Strategic Alliance with Anthony Asadullah Samad

Released on = March 14, 2005, 12:49 pm

Press Release Author = Adrienne S. Lamm/Turning Point Communications

Industry = Media

Press Release Summary = Pat Means, President of Turning Point Communications and Publisher Turning Point Magazine - the most widely read small business magazine for African American and minorities in the United States - and Anthony Asadullah Samad, national columnist, scholar, Associate Professor, Managing Director of the Urban Issues Forum and well renowned national author - jointly announce a partnership whose aim is to Nationally strengthen open communications within the African American Small Business Community.

Press Release Body = PR, Media and Marketing Contact:
Adrienne S. Lamm Marketing and Public Relations
Turning Point Communications
Telephone: (323) 299-6000 ext. 107
Fax: (323) 299-6006

Turning Point Communications - the premiere media organization that inspires, informs, influences and empowers African Americans in small business through its national publication Turning Point Magazine and several high profile yearly events - announce a momentous partnership with Anthony Asadullah Samad, prominent national columnist, scholar, Associate Professor and Managing Director of the Urban Issues Forum.

The focus of this partnership will be to strengthen open communications within the African American Small Business Community.

Anthony Asadullah Samad will be partnering with Turning Point Communications to author exclusive, original bimonthly columns for Turning Point Magazine, and bring his live Urban Issues Forum discussion forums to several Turning Point
Communications national events in 2005. The first opportunity will be Turning Point Magazine presents Anthony Asadullah Samad’s Urban Issues Forum at the 8th Annual
African American Business Summit, Thursday June 23, 2005, at the Westin Resort and Spa The Westin Mission Hills Resort, 71-333 Dinah Shore Drive, Rancho Mirage, CA
92270. This event partnership of the Urban Issues Forum will be designed to publicly educate the urban business community on critical issues. Turning Point Magazine’s regular feature columnists - “Political Watch” by Atty. Anita Estelle and “Freedom Suite” by Wallace Ford - are just a few of the erudite individuals scheduled to participate in the discussions.

“Partnering with Mr. Samad creates a number of exciting new opportunities,” remarks Pat Means, President of Turning Point Communications and Publisher of Turning Point Magazine. “This strategic alliance brings an stimulating community dynamic to our small business audiences. By having Mr. Samad lead these live forums at our primary events and also to provide timely, informative columns, we are happy to be able to expand our goals of informing, inspiring and influencing African American and minority small businesses to real communications they can use and apply immediately.”

Mr. Samad’s columns of social commentary pertaining to small business issues will begin to appear in the May/June issue of Turning Point Magazine. His live Urban Issues Forum discussion will partner with Turning Point Communications events such as the popular 8th Annual African American Business Summit; The Access To Success Business Tour in Detroit late summer of 2005; and the Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Weekend in Washington, D.C. in September 2005.

“I am pleased to partner with Turning Point Communications in their important and influential enterprises,” comments Anthony Asadullah Samad. “Turning Point Magazine is one of the very best African American and minority small business magazines distributed across the United States today, and their small business events are second to none.

Our partnership marks a critical step in producing direct communications to this vital business community, and permits us to bring an exciting new level of mindfulness that initiates growth and change – within their businesses and within themselves.”

Urban Issues Forums will be presented at the Access to Success Tour in Detroit this summer and at the Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Weekend in Washington, D.C.
this September and will dive into the pulses of socially economic, political and small businesses issues and stimulate lively discussions.

About Turning Point Communications
Turning Point Communications is a dynamic, fast growing Media Communications Company providing information and resources for African American small business owners
seeking a "turning point" in their business growth and development.

Through relationships with gatekeeper organizations within the African American community, Turning Point Communications has a unique entry to black business owners.

Turning Point Communications central business units are Turning Point Magazine, turningpointmagazine.com, the national Annual African American Business Summit and
the "Access to Success" Business Tour.

The company develops events and programs that support the company's goal of informing, inspiring and influencing small business owners.

About Anthony Asadullah Samad:
Anthony Asadullah Samad is an author, columnist and scholar known for his fiery analysis of social, political and economic issues that impact American society. As one of the most read featured columnists in the African American press over the past 13 years, Samad’s various weekly editorial commentaries contributes to newspapers and cyber websites that appear in over 100 U.S. markets.

An Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at East Los Angeles College, Samad has a Masters of Arts in Public Administration (Public Finance specialization) from the University of Southern California, a second Masters of Arts Degree, in Political Economy, from the Claremont Graduate University’s School of Politics and Economics, and is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Claremont Graduate University, completing his doctoral study, with a dissertation, entitled, “Legal and Policy Interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment in the Post Brown Era: A 50 Year Case Study on the Policy Implementation Challenges of Brown v. Board of
Education.”

Samad is also President of Samad and Associates, a strategic planning/ urban affairs firm specializing in the assessment and management of public policy, economic development, urban, social and race issues. His firm’s 15-year efforts have
generated over $300 million in economic development opportunities in urban and rural communities nationwide. Mr. Samad is also currently the managing director of the
Urban Issues Forum of Greater Los Angeles, and is the author of two books; the Essence magazine bestseller, Souls For Sale: The Diary of An Ex-Colored Man (Kabili Press, 2002), and his current release, 50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality In America (Kabili Press, 2005).

Anthony Asadullah Samad, his wife and family, currently reside in Southern California. His current writings and commentaries can be read at www.AnthonySamad.com.

About Turning Point Magazine
Turning Point Magazine fuels the passion, drive and commitment of African American entrepreneurs. Through its pages, Turning Point informs, inspires and influences this

vital segment of the American economy by providing real solutions for owners,operators and executives of growing companies.

Each issue of Turning Point Magazine captures the essence of entrepreneurship. In addition to providing information about key business issues, Turning Point Magazine brings resources to an eager audience of small business owners, giving tools to catapult companies to the next level.

Turning Point Magazine is distributed bimonthly (6x/year) in the United States. Subscriptions are available at $16.95 per year. For further information, please visit www.turningpointmagazine.com.

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Web Site = http://www.turningpointmagazine.com

Contact Details = Adrienne S. Lamm
Marketing and Public Relations
Turning Point Communications
Telephone: (323) 299-6000 ext. 107
Fax: (323) 299-6006