15th
Annual Edition 'Buying Power of
Black America' report breaks down billions in expenditures Black
consumers are responding to tighter economic condition by focusing more of
their spending on items and services that improve their homes and
lifestyle. That's one of the trends revealed in the 15th annual report,
"The Buying Power of Black America," published by Target Market News. The
report analyzes spending for black households in 2008 and finds that
African-Americans...
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TV One
presents special one-hour interview with First Lady Michelle Obama
tonight
(October 27, 2010) First Lady Michelle Obama brings her personal effort
to fight childhood obesity to TV One Friday, Oct. 29 at 10 PM ET with
the premiere of the TV One original special, Let's Move with First Lady
Michelle Obama. In a candid and enlightening interview with TV One's
Washington Watch host Roland Martin that takes place on the White House
grounds and by her hand-planted vegetable garden, First Lady Michelle
Obama discusses the components of her signature initiative to end
childhood obesity within a generation and the issues and challenges
involved. The First Lady tells Martin about the genesis of her
awareness of the issue, which began with her own family's lifestyle, and
advice and a cautionary word from her own children's pediatrician.
"I thought that, if I don't realize that my habits and our cultural
transitions are affecting our children, then where is everybody else on
this issue?" Mrs. Obama says. "And having conversations across the
country, [I was] finding that more families are struggling with this
issue, not realizing the impact that it's having, particularly on the
African American community -- one in three kids in this country is
overweight or obese, but in our community, 40 percent of our kids are
overweight or obese."
The First Lady stresses the importance of attacking the problem on
multiple fronts -- at home, at school and in the community.
"The truth is, is that the crisis that we're facing around childhood
obesity hits everything," she says. It's about education, what our kids
are learning about nutrition in the schools, the quality of the food in
the schools. It's about our neighborhood development. How are
neighborhoods designed? Are our kids -- do they have access to safe
places to play? Are we structuring communities in a way that facilitate
healthy living? Are there accessible and affordable healthy foods in
our communities? And it's about economic opportunity as well because if
folks can't afford to put food on the table, then they're eating what
they can."
The program also features an interview with the U.S. Surgeon General,
Dr. Regina Benjamin. Additionally, Martin will take viewers to River
Terrace Elementary School in Washington, DC, a school which the First
Lady has visited and which is working hard to encourage student physical
activity and healthy eating habits. Viewers will also meet Will Allen,
an urban farmer in Milwaukee who teaches inner city residents to garden
and grow healthy food in the city; visit a store that is helping to
erase the "food desert" in Philadelphia, and learn about organizations
that are engaged in the fight against childhood obesity.
"All our folks didn't fight this hard for us to get to this point to
find that the biggest threat to our children today could be their own
health," the First Lady says." ...This is a real issue.
"We've got so much more work to do on all the other hard issues that
we've got to be healthy. We've got to be ready to work, and this
generation has to be prepared physically and mentally for that
challenge. And this is in our power. This is something we can
control. There are barriers for sure, but in terms of what we put into
our bodies and how we move, that's on us -- if we have the information
and the support."
The special repeats at 1 AM ET. Martin, host and managing editor of TV
One's Washington Watch with Roland Martin and also a CNN contributor and
Tom Joyner Morning Show analyst, has won NAACP Image Awards for TV One
interviews conducted with President Barack Obama, then a senator and
Presidential candidate in 2007, and First Lady Michelle Obama, on the
eve of the Democratic convention in 2008.
