DALLAS — As expected for a majority of the final quarter of the year, longtime businesswoman Necia Jones and Dr. Alandrus Spencer will be named Making Headline News’ Woman and Man Of The Year, respectively, for 2018.
Jones, 39, is an accomplished Texas entrepreneur, who is the mastermind behind Bossed Up Media, her Houston-based social media growth company that is geared largely toward enhancing the presence of social media account holders.
COST TO BE THE BOSS — Necia Jones, 39, is an accomplished Texas entrepreneur, who is the mastermind behind Bossed Up Media, her Houston-based a social media growth company that is geared largely toward enhancing the presence of social media account holders.
Spencer, meanwhile, is an accomplished Jonesboro, Arkansas-based author who is just days away from releasing his second book, “Encouraging Moment: The Turbulence Was Necessary.”
The Founder and Senior Pastor of Touching Lives Ministry in nearby Blytheville, Arkansas, Spencer, 46, has enjoyed what has been a banner year, one that was highlighted recently by his being named National TAP Awards Author Of The Year.
DESTINY STEPS — The Founder and Senior Pastor of Touching Lives Ministry in nearby Blytheville, Arkansas, Dr. Alandrus Spencer, 46, has enjoyed what has been a banner year, one that was highlighted recently by his being named National TAP Awards Author Of The Year.
Official announcements of Making Headline News’ Man and Woman Of The Year will come on December 27.
Last year, author and educator Tyneisha Collins of Osceola, Arkansas was named MHN Woman Of The Year.
Memphis Life Coach Michael Scruggs was named MHN Man Of The Year for 2017.
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ABOUT ANDRE: Andre Johnson is a longtime sports journalist and a 2000 graduate of the University of the Memphis with Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. A native of Memphis, Johnson is a former sport reporter Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper and Memphis Sport Magazine. He worked as full-time staffer for The Commercial Appeal from 2000-2002, in which he was the beat reporter for the Memphis Houn’dawgs of now-defunct American Basketball Assocation and the Memphis Xplorers of the arenafootball2 league. He has interviewed numerous sports personalities, most notably Archie Manning, LeBron James, George “Iceman” Gervin, Issac Bruce, Laila Ali, Vince Carter, Paul Westphal, Phil Jackson, Ken Hamlin, Cortez Kennedy, Michael Oher, Kobe Bryant, Chris Douglas-Roberts, Marc Gasol, Dwight Howard, James Harden, Patrick Willis, Stanley Morgan, Dirk Nowitzki, Rick Carlisle, Mark Cuban, Carmelo Anthony, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, Rudy Gay, John Force, Lamar Odom, Alexandra Stevenson, Derek Fisher, Penny Hardaway, Phillip Rivers, Colin Kaepernick, Jim Harbaugh, Tyreke Evans, Kirk Ferentz, and O. J. Mayo, among others. To reach Johnson, send email to: memphisgraduate@yahoo.com. Also, follow him on Twitter @AJ_Journalist.
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