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One Year Later, Gulf Oil Spill Continues to Impede Gulf Progress

  • Loss of employment
  • Shrimpers, bait and tackle shops, food processors and others experienced extreme loss of jobs in Alabama, according to Alabama senator Richard Shelby. Similar losses were reported by fisherman in Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida. Even those who were able to receive a claim are concerned about how they will continue now that the demand for work in the seafood industry has decreased. “Unemployment rates in some of these fishing communities are at 80%,” said Rocky Kistner of the Natural Resources Defense Council, according to the NAACP report.
  • “These fishermen are fed up,” says Byron Encalade, Louisiana Oystermen’s Association, who also appeared in the September 2010 issue of BLACK ENTERPRISE magazine . “They’re not going to see their families starve to death. And we are up to the point where you have nowhere else to go now. Your back is up against the wall here.”
Marcia is a multimedia content producer focusing on technology at Black Enterprise Magazine. In this capacity she writes and assigns stories to educate readers about social media; digital integration; gadgets, apps, and software for business and professional development; minority tech startups; and careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). In 2012, she received two Salute to Excellence Awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and was recognized by Blacks in Technology (BiT) as one of the Top 10 Black achievers in the tech arena for 2011 at SXSW in Austin, Texas. She has spoken about technology on panels for New York Social Media Week, at The 2012 Rainbow/PUSH Wall Street Summit, as well as at Black Enterprise'ss Entrepreneurs Conference and Women of Power Summit. In 2011, SocialWayne.com chose her as one of 28 People of Color Impacting the Social Web, and through crowdsourcing she was listed as one of BlackWeb2.0's/HP's 50 Most Notable African American Tastemakers in Social Media and Technology for 2010. Since taking on the role of Tech editor in September 2010, she has conceived and produced five cover stories on Technology and/or STEM and countless articles, videos, and slideshows online.

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