Detroit Hip-Hop Summit on Financial Empowerment: 'Get Your Money Right' Convenes at Max M. Fisher Music Center on Saturday, Apri
April 02 2007 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Russell Simmons, Layzie Bone and Krayzie Bone of Bone
Thugs-n-Harmony, Mike Jones, Remy Ma, Raz-B, Belly, Trick Trick,
Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick and Dr. Benjamin Chavis to
Participate DETROIT, April 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- USA Today
said in a March 9, 2007 Page 1 story on the Hip-Hop Summit Action
Network's (HSAN) national tour on financial empowerment, "Despite a
difference in tone and sometimes language, [the artist's] advice
was what you'd get from Merrill Lynch, just more colorful." On
Saturday, April 14, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network returns to
Detroit for its national "Get Your Money Right" tour on financial
empowerment. The "Get Your Money Right" tour will convene at Max M.
Fisher Music Center, located at 3711 Woodward Avenue in Detroit.
The program takes place from 1:30-4 p.m. Doors open at Noon.
Tickets for the Detroit Summit on Financial Empowerment are free
and available at http://www.hsan.org/. The title sponsor and
partner of the tour is Chrysler Financial and the presenting
sponsor is Anheuser-Busch, Inc. The Hip-Hop Summit on Financial
Empowerment's "Get Your Money Right" National Tour, now in its
third successful year, brings together the powerful combination of
hip-hop stars and Chrysler Financial experts to speak to students
and community members about the importance of financial literacy.
Joining Co-Chairmen Russell Simmons and Dr. Benjamin Chavis in
Detroit will be Layzie Bone and Krayzie Bone of Bone Thugs-n-
Harmony, Mike Jones, Remy Ma, Raz-B, Belly, Trick Trick and
Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick (D- MI). Hip-hop television
personality, Free, will co-moderate the Summit with Dr. Chavis. The
Hip-Hop Summit on Financial Empowerment is a grassroots effort to
help engage young people in discussions about the importance of
personal finance. The "Get Your Money Right" agenda features an
interactive panel discussion on financial literacy, including such
topics as the basics of banking, repairing and understanding credit
scores, asset and wealth management, vehicle financing and home
ownership. The tour will utilize the "Get Your Money Right"
workbook, produced and distributed by HSAN in both English and
Spanish and given to all participants. The workbook is free and is
also downloadable at http://www.hsan.org/. "One of the most urgent
issues facing young adults today is the issue of having a firm
financial foundation," emphasized Russell Simmons. "Hip-hop is
about transformation. The theme 'Get Your Money Right,' is not some
rhetorical gesture. This is a real issue and we are talking about
providing real solutions that attendees at the Hip-Hop Summit can
use for the rest of their lives." "Although April is Financial
Literacy month -- we plan on delivering powerful financial
empowerment messages to young people across the country throughout
the year," said William F. Jones Jr., Vice President - Chrysler
Financial. "At the Summit our employee volunteers will discuss the
topics of personal finance, credit and vehicle financing and we
will continue delivering those messages during Money Smart Week
programming April 20-29 in the City of Detroit and April 30-May 2
in Chicago." "The opportunity to live productively begins with a
plan that mandates personal financial responsibility," said Johnny
Furr, Vice President of Urban Marketing and Community Affairs for
Anheuser-Busch, Inc. "We consider it a real benefit to support
HSAN's mission to provide young people with the tools, knowledge
and inspiration they need to begin creating the futures they want
tomorrow, today." Community partners for the Summit include the
Detroit Urban League, Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation,
Detroit Community Initiative and the Heidelberg Project. "Detroit
is one of the strongest hubs of hip-hop in the nation," declared
Dr. Chavis. "Under the leadership of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick,
Detroit is not only on the rebound, it is on the rebuild. We are
rebuilding communities, families and key to this rebuilding is
financial empowerment." The 2007 "Get Your Money Right" tour will
make five more stops including Toronto, Ontario in August 18;
Greensboro, N.C., September 8; Washington, D.C., September 29;
Miami, Fla., October 20; and Atlanta, Ga., November 3. DATASOURCE:
Chrysler Financial CONTACT: Jody L. Miller of JLM PR, Inc.,
+1-212-431-5227, or cell, +1-917-770-3970, or ; or Amber Gowen of
Chrysler Financial, +1-248-427-3126, or cell, +1-248-930-6174, or
Web site: http://www.hsan.org/
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