NEWS & VIEWS
The African American Marketing Commuications community losta major advocates, Herb Kemp
Herbert Kemp, Jr. departed this life on Saturday, March 5, 2011 at his home in Charleston, SC. He was born on June
24, 1941 in Edgefield, SC, the first of seven children born to Annabell Farrow Kemp and Herbert Kemp, Sr.
Herb was educated in the Buffalo, NY public school system and earned a BS degree at Morgan State University and his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmonth College.
Herb had a sucessful business career of more thant 20 years in marketing and advertising with various Fortune 500 companies that included Colgate, Pfizer, General Foods and Chesebrough-Ponds. He held senior level positions at J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy and Mather. He also was President of Uniworld Group and Executive Vice President at The Chisholm Mingo Group. In collaboration with Pepper Miller, they published the book entitled: What's Black About it: Insights to Increase Your Share of a Changing African American Market.
The African American Experience Fund of the National Park Foundation will hold its 10 Anniversary Gala. This year's event will honor Fred Gray, Civil Rights Attorney, Dr. Frank Smith, and The Walt Disney Company.
The Black Tie event will be held at the Rennaissance Hotel, 999 9th Street NW, Washington, DC. For more information contact Lydia Sermons, 202.354.6489.
Disintegration, The Splintering of Black America, by Eugene Robinson is a must read. In this groundbreaking book, Robinson argues that over decades of desegration, affirmative action and immigration the concept of Black America has shattered. Instead of one Black America, now there are four: a Mainstream middle-class, a large Abandoned minority, a small Transcendent elite and two newly Emergent groups.