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Hello and welcome to my blog. A little bit about me, my name is Raymond Cody and I attend California State University Northridge. This blog was created as part of a "new media" project for my PAS 300 class. Please feel free to explore my blog. I hope you not only learn from something here, but enjoy the experience also.

My best,

Raymond Cody

Successful Black Musicians and Composers

Successful Black Musicians and Composers

Louis Armstrong - One of the Founding Fathers of Modern Day Jazz, Holds The Record for Oldest Artist Ever to Have a Number One Record (He was 64)





Dizzy Gillespie - One of the Founding Fathers of Bebop

Billie Holiday - Famous Female Jazz Singer/Activist

Edmond Dede- Famed Violinist and Orchestra Conductor at the Alcazar Theatre for 27 Years

Babyfaced Black CEO's

Forbes.com released an online article revealing what they found to be one thing that all successful Black CEO'S had in common: babyfaces

The Babyfaced Black CEO Phenomenon by Robert W. Livingston

Discovering that African Americans who run big corporations tend to look especially nonthreatening.

Please read the article here:

http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/07/babyface-black-ceo-leadership-ceonetwork-study.html

Successful Blacks In Business: Black Entrepreneurs and Executives

Black CEO's









Ursula Burns - First Black Woman to Head a Fortune 500 Company (Xerox)

Ralph V. Gilles - Black CEO of Chrysler

Don Thompson - President of McDonald's

Kenneth I. Chenault - Chairman and CEO of American Express

For more info on prominent Black CEO's such as these, please visit:

http://www.blackentrepreneurprofile.com/fortune-500-ceos/

Successful Black Writers

Here I have listed a few examples of successful black writers...

Alice Walker - 1983 Pulitzer Prize Winner

Toni Morrison - First African American Nobel Prize Winner 1993 for Literature

Yusef Komunyakaa - 1994 Pulitzer Prize Winner

Rita Dove - First African American Poet Laureate 1993-1995

Maya Angelou - First Black Woman to Have An Original Screenplay Published; Chosen Poet of Clinton's 1993 Inauguration

Find these and many more on:

http://www.worldbook.com/wb/Students?content_spotlight/aaliterature/2000's

Successful Blacks in Religion

Bishop T.D. Jakes

Reverend Bernice King

Successful Blacks in Polititcs

These are just a few of the many successful blacks in politics.
For a full list of notable Black politicians please visit

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/bhmpeople1.html

Barack Obama - First Black President of the United States of America

Colin Powell - First Black Secretary of State

Condoleezza Rice - First Black Female Secretary of State

Nelson Mandela - First Democratically Elected President of South Africa