Meet Award Winning News Anchor Brenda Blackmon
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April 24, 2013 -
PRLog -- The Burning Bush Christian Bookstore, as a part of its TBB Literary Series, has partnered with The Kelly Fund for Lupus and will be hosting Author and Emmy Award Winning News Anchor, Brenda Blackmon on Sunday May 5, 2013, from 3 P.M to 5 P.M., at The Coffee Cave, 45 Halsey St., Newark, NJ. This fundraiser will be a meet and greet book signing with Brenda Blackmon as she discusses “A Mom’s Story”, the story of her own daughters’ battle with Lupus. “Nine out of ten people who have lupus are women, of which, it is three times more common in African-American women than in Caucasian women”. Lupus is one of the many autoimmune diseases where the immune system turns against parts of the body it is supposed to protect and it affects 1.5 million people in the United States. This event is a fundraiser for the Kelly Fund for Lupus. The cost of the event ($30 dollars), includes a $10 dollar registration fee and $20 dollars for the book “A Mom’s Story”, signed by Brenda Blackmon. All proceeds for the book will go towards the Kelly Fund for Lupus. For more information please visit our website
http://www.tbbbookstore.com/literary/blackmon/ and please check out our video on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/embed/8rnU8QwsSYE About The TBB Literary Series The TBB Literary Series is a monthly book event that is designed to bring personal access to best-selling authors and highlight exciting new upcoming authors. The goal of the TBB Literary Series is to foster and promote the joys of reading by bridging communication between the authors and book lovers, while at the same time encouraging spiritual growth by supplying the book lover with faith based literature that heals, entertains and inspires. The Burning Bush Christian Bookstore has already hosted events for authors such as ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Victoria Christopher Murray and Booker T. Mattison and has confirmed a growing list of authors, including author and playwright, Tiffany L. Warren, and award winning author and comedienne, Pat G'Orge Walker a.k.a. "Sister Betty". For more information on the TBB Literary series, visit their website at
http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001rv9MZxm4nR7YOGdzMK5rzkvnzl... About The Burning Bush Christian Bookstore The Burning Bush Christian Bookstore (www.TBBbookstore.com)
is an online literary retail store that provides access to an assortment of resources that help to entertain, encourage, develop and support one's Christian lifestyle. The vision of TBB is "To build people up one book at a Time" and this is achieved by not just selling Christian products but with categories like finance, fiction, spiritual growth and family, TBB delivers products that will develop the person as a whole.
About Brenda Blackmon Brenda Blackmon is one of the most recognizable and talented journalists in the nation’s number one television market, New York. She joined the news team at WWOR-TV in 1990 and became a multi-Emmy award winning reporter and role model for her community. She has won numerous awards for journalism and has received community citations and notable honors. The Urban/Black Entertainment Report says, “She has such a warm, engaging and effervescent personality you can’t help but like her instantly.” The Network Journal recognized her as one of the “25 Most Influential Black Women in Business”, redefining excellence. Her hometown of Columbus, Georgia honored her as “One of the Century’s Most Influential.”
She was influential indeed, making history as the city’s first African American News Anchor. Brenda has done it all: reporter, film editor, film photographer, talk show host for television and radio, show producer, writer, and TV anchorwoman for decades. Brenda graduated Magna Cum Laude from Fairleigh Dickinson University and has received two honorary doctorates. She is now working on her MBA. Brenda says, “I believe as it is written in Isaiah 56:1, Be just and fair to all. Do what’s right and good.”
About The Kelly Fund For Lupus The Kelly Fund for Lupus, Inc., a 501(c) 3 organization, was founded in May 2008 by Brenda Blackmon. When her daughter Kelly was diagnosed with lupus, Kelly vowed after her life threatening recovery to make a difference in combating this disease. Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that can affect various parts of the body, especially the skin, joints, blood and kidneys. Much of the money raised by The Kelly Fund For Lupus, Inc. goes to the Alliance for Lupus Research and in other ways by promoting awareness and understanding of the disease. “Lupus is three times more common among African American Women, and more common in women of Hispanic, Asian and Native American Descent.”
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