Margaret will be presenting her signature "Wholistic Approach to Wellness" at the Pan African Festival to be held at the Greater Mount Nebo A.M.E. Church, 401 Prince George's Blvd., Upper Marlboro, Maryland, on Saturday, June 7th. Ms. Dureke will be speaking at 2:30pm.

Please mark your calender for Saturday, June 7th, 2003 from 3-7 p.m. for the JAHS O'Coutour Fashion Show to be held at Howard University Blackburn Center by JAHS Enterprises.

The Fashion Show and Sale will feature JAHS Active Wear in our exciting summer close-out sale. Everything will be be sold at 20-60% off on clothing items, and 10-15% off on all Jahs Publishing Products. Open to the public and admission is free!

Margaret Dureke will be a featured speaker at the 16th Annual Conference for Blacks in Higher Education, to be convened by the University of Maryland, College Park Black Faculty and Staff Association, at the Greenbelt Marriott in Greenbelt, Maryland on May 28 and 29. Margaret will speak on May 29th at 9:30am, on "Unity Among Ourselves: Understanding, Support and Progress."

At 2:30pm on the 29th, Margaret will conduct an interactive workshop on "Game Plane on How to Succeed Against All Odds." JAHS Enterprises will be on hand for the entire two-day conference to exhibit and sell products and services. The conference will run from 9am-6pm on the 28th, and from 8am-4pm on the 29th, and will be open to the general public. Conference information and registration can be viewed at: http://www.inform.umd.edu/bfsa/Conference/.

JAHS Publishing Group is thrilled to announce that Margaret Dureke's book, How to Succeed Against All Odds has been selected to be included on the 2003 Our Black Authors Foundation (OBA) Best Seller List. In notifying of this selection, Charlene Harry, Director of Our Black Authors Foundation (www.ourblackauthors.com) said, "This book has enriched our staff readers with words of encouragement. How to Succeed Against All Odds makes the reader feel ten feet tall. It is a message of hope that people of all ages and races should be required to read."

On January 15, Margaret Dureke was the featured speaker at a luncheon and held by the Greater Bowie Chamber of Commerce's Women in Business. The response to her motivational presentation has been enthusiastic. The event was covered by The Bowie-Blade News in its Thursday, January 23rd edition (Page C11), and included a picture of Margaret with Cathy Woods, Chairperson of the Women in Business Committee, and Lisa Gibson of Woodward Estates, who hosted the event.

The January 2, 2003 edition of the Gazette Newspaper in Prince George's County, Maryland published a rave review of John O. Dureke Jr.'s book, The Horrors Of War From The Eyes Of A Child. Dureke, inspired by the violence of Sept. 11, 2001, wrote the book about his childhood memories of the Biafran civil war in Nigeria. The book describes his experiences as a boy forced to flee a deadly conflict. During three years of civil war, Dureke, his siblings and his parents were refugees, moving from village to village within Biafra.

An article by Margaret Dureke was recently published by OUR SOCIETY, a London-based magazine. The edition with the article is now available.

Margaret also has an article, "The Power of Belief," in the monthly newspaper, THE ANOINTED PATH. Please check your local library for a copy.