"The Dedan Tolbert Show" - The Original Urban Podcast

Banks was born and raised in Pittsburgh in a small town called "Homewood", Donna banks purchased a Party Rental Store in Bunnell, Florida which became a family owned and operated business for 8 years and was one of the largest Black owned party rental businesses in the State of Florida.

Currently, banks is the Director of a Community Resource Center that assists people who have been underserved and underserviced and is the, self-published author of "Ila's Diamonds", which was published in April 2008.

Banks has had the opportunity to have numerous book signings in several states. has an upcoming book tour in Georgia.

Banks is going to be a featured author for an event in Pittsburgh sponsored by www.thesoulpit.com on May 2, 2009.

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Please join me on The Dedan Tolbert Show on Tuesday March 17th as I welcome platinum selling gospel group, Trin-i-tee 5:7.

Trin-i-tee 5:7 is the best-selling female trio in gospel. Having released their first project in 1998, they’ve already sold more than 2 million units with their first three projects—their eponymous debut, Spiritual Love, and The Kiss. But the group isn’t awestruck by their material successes. Their goal is to inspire and spread God’s love, and T57 (Deluxe Edition) is an exemplary musical testimony. “We’re trying to reach people around the world for Christ,” Adrian says. “No matter where we live on the planet, we deal with the same issues; everybody goes through something. When you reach inside yourself, there are so many others that feel the same way you do. It’s just that God has given us an opportunity to speak for millions of other people. We don’t take that lightly.”

Please join me on The Dedan Tolbert Show as I welcome founder of the-non profit organization K.A.P.P.A. House, Michael Earley.

Below is their mission statement…

The KAPPA House is a non profit organization that has created for the sole purpose of enhancing our youth, communities, and businesses. We plan on doing this by mentoring to our youth, rebuilding and educating our communities and investing in our future.

We offer a wide range of programming such as

Rights of Passage program- High school mentorship program

Kappatal Holding our real estate investing and holding firm

I’m G.O.O.D. Getting out of Dept- Adult financial literacy program

We also will be having variety of events to promote our initiative

• KAPPA keep the piece concert -June 09- Temple U Liacours Center

• Philadelphia Kustom Kar & Bike Show-Aug 09- Convention Center

• 1st Annual Philadelphia Urban Fashion Weekend 2009

• 5k walk on violence

• Celebrity golf and tennis tournament (Aces Country Club)

In closing you can see that our overall goals are to strengthen, educate, and empower our communities. We are prepared to give them chances and opportunities that they might not have had or been exposed to. We believe that by rebuilding our thinking we can grow together and also pass on necessary knowledge that has been eluding us for so long. But with this knowledge that can be obtained under one roof we can move in history knowing that we are attempting to not only changing lives but changing our history.

For more in formation visit http://www.kappahouse.org

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Xtinguish Records presents ARSIN,who’s a Hip Hop artist from the Mantua area of Philadelphia which is also know as “Da Bottom”. Influenced by artists like James Brown, Michael Jackson, Bone Thugs, Nas, 2pac, Eminem, Naughty by Nature, Brand Nubians, Chub Rock and Marvin Gay, ARSIN later decided that music would be the best career path for him.

ARSIN had his first encounter with Hip Hop music in 1995 when he found a “Brand Nubians” cassette tape on the

ground and popped it in his radio. He went through struggles, which was one of the reasons he identified with the inspirational content in the Hip Hop music he collected. ARSIN realized he could inspire and reach people the same way. He got his name when the crowd began to scream “fire” every time he performed. He looked up different names for Fire and came up with Arson, which was later changed to ARSIN (Our-sin) because his philosophy was that “our – sin”, the idea of right and wrong affects the values of society in terms of classism, racism, political and religious beliefs. He uses his music to reflect his experiences with those issues while creating a versatile sound and performance that is guaranteed to entertain.

ARSIN’s music started spreading across the underground scene with a commercial sound which later inspired the premiere of his first single REWIND on 100.3 The Beat, a Philadelphia Hip Hop and R&B radio station. After selling mixtapes across the U.S positive feedback begin to increase because of his latest mixtape “Fire Escape pt2”. Which featured the single which became #6 on Dj Touchtones (from100.3 The beat) top ten and ARSIN later went down to #4 on the countdown. This lead to his premiere live interview on mainstream radio n 100.3 The Beat. That buzz caught the attention of other media outlets and ARSIN later did his first radio interview on 105.3 WDAS fm with Patty Jackson.

He continued pushing his music and landed his first ringtone deal with Thumbplay Ringtones Inc.He has also been on t

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"The Dedan Tolbert Show" airs nationwide Monday-Friday at 9:00pm EST and is hosted by award-winning author and advice columnist , Dedan Tolbert. In addition to giving expert advice on dating and relationships, he also will be interviewing the hottest celebrity guests. Call in live with questions and comments to 646-200-0366.

"The Dedan Tolbert show"

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"The Dedan Tolbert Show" airs nationwide Monday-Friday at 9:00pm EST and is hosted by award-winning author and advice columnist , Dedan Tolbert. In addition to giving expert advice on dating and relationships, he also will be interviewing the hottest celebrity guests. Call in live with questions and comments to 646-200-0366.

"The Dedan Tolbert show"

is now 5 NIGHTS A WEEK (Monday-Friday)!!!

"The Dedan Tolbert Show" airs nationwide Monday-Friday at 9:00pm EST and is hosted by award-winning author and advice columnist , Dedan Tolbert. In addition to giving expert advice on dating and relationships, he also will be interviewing the hottest celebrity guests. Call in live with questions and comments to 646-200-0366.

"The Dedan Tolbert show"

is now 5 NIGHTS A WEEK (Monday-Friday)!!!

"The Dedan Tolbert Show" airs nationwide Monday-Friday at 9:00pm EST and is hosted by award-winning author and advice columnist , Dedan Tolbert. In addition to giving expert advice on dating and relationships, he also will be interviewing the hottest celebrity guests. Call in live with questions and comments to 646-200-0366.

"The Dedan Tolbert show"

is now 5 NIGHTS A WEEK (Monday-Friday)!!!

"The Dedan Tolbert Show" airs nationwide Monday-Friday at 9:00pm EST and is hosted by award-winning author and advice columnist , Dedan Tolbert. In addition to giving expert advice on dating and relationships, he also will be interviewing the hottest celebrity guests. Call in live with questions and comments to 646-200-0366.