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For Immediate Release Jesse Mills [email protected] CAU BlackBook & Grey Goose Vodka Present Celebrity Alumni Affair at Kai Lin Art Atlanta, GA - On Saturday, October 3 rd , 2009 at the new Kai Lin Art Gallery in Midtown Atlanta, Grey Goose Vodka, celebrity host Kenny Burns, and CAU BlackBook founders: Jesse Mills, Cecil Cross II, Taj Tashombe, Ade Lusi and Kwassi B. celebrated the success and diversity of Clark Atlanta University alums. The affair featured cocktails compliments of spirit sponsor Grey Goose Vodka, Hors d'œuvres by Healthy Chef Jarvis Belton, and music by CAU’s own celebrity DJ Don Cannon. The affair entertained a crowd of over 600 of Atlanta’s leading business professionals, tastemakers and celebrities. Kenny Burns said of the event, “The BlackBook event was a bunch of well dressed alums, executives, socialites and celebrities that need an injection of FUN! And that’s exactly what it was…FUN!” Fellow hosts and celebrities in attendance included actor Columbus Short, who played the lead role in “Stomp The Yard”, and designer Briana Bigham of BET’s “Harlem Heights”. Bigham, who traveled from New York to attend the event said, “BlackBook was the sexiest event of homecoming weekend. I loved it!” Actor Lance Gross, co-star of Tyler Perry’s “House of Payne”, also commented, “The event was a touch of class. Beautiful people and the perfect social environment made for an unforgettable night.”

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On Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 at the new Kai Lin Art Gallery in Midtown Atlanta, Grey Goose Vodka, celebrity host Kenny Burns, and CAU BlackBook founders: Jesse Mills, Cecil Cross II, Taj Tashombe, Ade Lusi and Kwassi B. celebrated the success and diversity of Clark Atlanta University alums. Fellow hosts and celebrities in attendance included actor Columbus Short, who played the lead role in “Stomp The Yard”, and designer Briana Bigham of BET’s “Harlem Heights”. Bigham, who traveled from New York to attend the event said, “BlackBook was the sexiest event of homecoming weekend. I loved it!” Actor Lance Gross, co-star of Tyler Perry’s “House of Payne”, also commented, “The event was a touch of class. Beautiful people and the perfect social environment made for an unforgettable night.”

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For Immediate ReleaseJesse [email protected]

CAU BlackBook & Grey Goose Vodka Present Celebrity Alumni Affair at Kai Lin Art

Atlanta, GA - On Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 at the new Kai Lin Art Gallery in Midtown Atlanta, Grey Goose

Vodka, celebrity host Kenny Burns, and CAU BlackBook founders: Jesse Mills, Cecil Cross II, Taj Tashombe, Ade

Lusi and Kwassi B. celebrated the success and diversity of Clark Atlanta University alums.

The affair featured cocktails compliments of spirit sponsor Grey Goose Vodka, Hors d'œuvres by Healthy Chef

Jarvis Belton, and music by CAU’s own celebrity DJ Don Cannon. The affair entertained a crowd of over 600 of

Atlanta’s leading business professionals, tastemakers and celebrities. Kenny Burns said of the event, “The

BlackBook event was a bunch of well dressed alums, executives, socialites and celebrities that need an

injection of FUN! And that’s exactly what it was…FUN!”

Fellow hosts and celebrities in attendance included actor Columbus Short, who played the lead role in “Stomp

The Yard”, and designer Briana Bigham of BET’s “Harlem Heights”. Bigham, who traveled from New York to

attend the event said, “BlackBook was the sexiest event of homecoming weekend. I loved it!” Actor Lance

Gross, co-star of Tyler Perry’s “House of Payne”, also commented, “The event was a touch of class. Beautiful

people and the perfect social environment made for an unforgettable night.”

Clark Atlanta’s twentieth year anniversary provided the affair a platform to illustrate the true legacy of the

University and also the imprint that this institutions’ alums have had on the Atlanta community. Plans are in

the works for more affairs produced by CAU BlackBook in the future.

About CAU Blackbook

CAU Blackbook is a progressive organization developed by Clark Atlanta Alumni, an eclectic board represented by Jesse

Mills, graduating class of 2007, Taj Tashombe, graduating class 2004, Ade Lusi MBA, graduating class 2004, Cecil Cross II,

graduating class of 2004, and Kwassi B graduating class of 1999, among other distinguished alums. CAUBB is dedicated

to building upon the institution's legacy through post-graduate professionalism, scholarship & savoir-faire initiatives,

bringing post-graduate achievements to the forefront. For more info visit: http://www.caublackbook.com

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