HelloBeautiful.com and Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network (WEEN) Honor Students, Community Activists and Small Business Owners by Awarding Grant Money to Four Contest Winners

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Interactive One, LLC the digital connection for Black America and the digital division of Radio One, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROIAK and ROIA), the largest African American multimedia company, today announced the winners of the HelloBeautiful/WEEN contest. HelloBeautiful.com is one of the portfolio of sites created by Interactive One and is one of the fastest growing sites online for African American women.  HelloBeautiful.com and WEEN partnered to create an opportunity to honor students, community activists and/or small business owners by providing a $1000 grant to each of four winners.  

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The winners include The Posh Twins a clothing store in Philadelphia, Etophia Elaine an entertainment entrepreneur from Brooklyn, Shantelle Johnson of Society for Girls from New York, and Match Strike Media from New York.  Awards were presented last Thursday night, September 2, 2010, at the Second Annual WEEN Awards. WEEN Award Honorees include: Soledad O'Brien, LeToya Luckett, Angie Martinez, Nia Long, Hydeia Broadbent and Esther Silver-Parker.

To view the submissions go to http://hellobeautiful.com/hellobeautiful-original/hellobeautifulstaff1/meet-the-ween-hellobeautiful-scholarship-winners/

ABOUT INTERACTIVE ONE

Interactive One has over 15 million members and reaches 7 million Black Americans each month. With approximately 4 billion annual page views on its suite of sites, the Company has become the definitive social network for Black America through BlackPlanet, as well as a number of leading content sites.  These sites include: NewsOne (www.NewsOne.com), which provides up to the minute, comprehensive coverage of newsworthy events relevant to African Americans across the country and the world through syndicated news, original news reports, local content and opinion blogs from some of the most provocative minds in Black America; TheUrbanDaily (www.TheUrbanDaily.com), which serves as the eyes and ears for African Americans looking for a one-stop, comprehensive destination for entertainment news, information, gossip and opinion and original celebrity interviews; HelloBeautiful (www.HelloBeautiful.com), which celebrates the lives and style of African American women with a dynamic daily mix of fashion, beauty, entertainment and relationship content; and Elev8 (www.Elev8.com) which is a personal empowerment website dedicated to uplifting and enriching the lives of African Americans by offering services, tools, information and community.

Interactive One was launched by Radio One in 2008 to complement Radio One's existing portfolio of media companies targeting the African American community. Since its launch, Interactive One has quickly become the #1 online platform for the African American community.  Interactive One is powered by the mission to create an online community that engages and positively impacts the lives of African Americans.

ABOUT RADIO ONE

Radio One, Inc. (www.radio-one.com) is a diversified media company that primarily targets African-American and urban consumers. The Company is one of the nation's largest radio broadcasting companies, currently owning 53 broadcast stations located in 16 urban markets in the United States. As a part of its core broadcasting business, Radio One operates syndicated programming including the Russ Parr Morning Show, the Yolanda Adams Morning Show, the Rickey Smiley Morning Show, CoCo Brother Live, CoCo Brother's "Spirit" program, Bishop T.D. Jakes' "Empowering Moments", the Reverend Al Sharpton Show, and the Warren Ballentine Show. The Company also owns a controlling interest in Reach Media, Inc. (www.blackamericaweb.com), owner of the Tom Joyner Morning Show and other businesses associated with Tom Joyner. Beyond its core radio broadcasting business, Radio One owns Interactive One (www.interactiveone.com), an online platform serving the African-American community through social content, news, information, and entertainment, which operates a number of branded sites, including NewsOne, TheUrbanDaily, HelloBeautiful, and social networks BlackPlanet, MiGente, and AsianAvenue and an interest in TV One, LLC (www.tvoneonline.com), a cable/satellite network programming primarily to African-Americans.

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