Hip-Hop Summit Action Network Welcomes Free as Co-moderator for the 2007 'Get Your Money Right' Financial Empowerment Tour
February 13 2007 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
NEW YORK, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Free, hip-hop television
personality and philanthropist, joins the 2007 "Get Your Money
Right" financial empowerment national tour as co-moderator. The
former co-host of Black Entertainment Television's (BET) highly
popular, award-winning "106 & Park" daily hip-hop program is
joining forces with the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network to motivate
and encourage young people to become financially literate. Joining
moderator Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Co-Chairman of HSAN, Free will help
to lead the panel discussion at each Hip-Hop Summit this year.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070213/CLTU043 ) "I
am extremely excited and honored to be a part of this year's HSAN
movement," declared Free. "I applaud Russell Simmons, Dr. Benjamin
Chavis and HSAN for historically and consistently focusing their
energies on the pulse of our social issues. I know what some of you
are thinking...' What exactly is financial literacy? How and where
do you get it?' More important, 'How do you keep it?' Well, in our
communities across the nation, the misunderstanding of what exactly
Financial Empowerment can and should mean, continues. We shall set
out to inform our audiences (YOU) at these Summits about becoming
'financially literate' and remaining 'financially sound'. P.S. Real
Talk y'all...I'm coming to learn, too, so let's get empowered
TOGETHER! See you there!" Including Russell Simmons, Co-Chairman of
HSAN, the Hip-Hop Summits will be comprised of hip-hop artists and
executives, as well as financial experts from title sponsor and
partner, Chrysler Financial. The presenting sponsor of the tour is
Anheuser-Busch. The 2007 tour will make seven stops including
Houston, Texas., March 3; Detroit, Mich., April 14; Toronto,
Ontario., August; Greensboro, N.C., September 8; Washington, D.C.,
September 29; Miami, Fla., October 20 and Atlanta, Ga., November 3.
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. The workbook is
free and is also downloadable at http://www.hsan.org/. About
Chrysler Financial Chrysler Financial offers a complete line of
world-class automotive financial products and services for both
dealers and consumers of Chrysler, Jeep(R) and Dodge vehicles. In
addition to offering vehicle wholesale and retail financing to more
than 2,400 Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge dealers, Chrysler Financial
also provides fleet management and lines of credit to dealers. As
an industry leader in automotive financing, Chrysler Financial
provides its customers with the most innovative and efficient
methods of doing business. For more information on Chrysler
Financial visit http://www.chryslerfinancial.com/. About
Anheuser-Busch Based in St. Louis, Anheuser-Busch Cos., Inc. is the
leading American brewer holding 50 percent of the U.S. beer market.
The company is American- owned and brews the world's
largest-selling beers, Budweiser and Bud Light. Anheuser-Busch is
ranked first in the U.S. beverage industry in Fortune magazine's
2005 "America's Most Admired Companies" and in the top 30 on
Fortune's 2005 "Global Most Admired Companies" list. The company is
one of the largest theme park operators in the United States, is a
major manufacturer of aluminum cans and is the world's largest
recycler of aluminum beverage containers. For more information,
visit http://www.anheuser-busch.com/ or
http://www.africanamericanbud.com/. About Hip-Hop Summit Action
Network Founded in 2001, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN)
is dedicated to harnessing the cultural relevance of hip-hop music
to serve as a catalyst for education advocacy and other societal
concerns fundamental to the well being of at-risk youth throughout
the United States. HSAN is the largest non-profit, national
coalition of hip-hop artists, entertainment industry leaders,
education advocates, civil rights proponents, and youth leaders
united in the belief that Hip-Hop is an enormously influential
agent for positive social change which must be responsibly and
proactively utilized to fight the war on poverty and injustice. For
more information, go to http://www.hsan.org/.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070213/CLTU043
http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Chrysler Financial CONTACT:
Jody L. Miller, JLM PR, Inc., +1-212-431-5227, Web site:
http://www.daimlerchryslerfinancialservices.com/na
http://www.hsan.org/ http://www.africanamericanbud.com/
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