Builders of Perceptual Monuments

Strategic Public Relations Management--Book/Script Development & Publishing

REDCLAY is a Mississippi-based public relations firm with offices in Indianola, and McCool. Founded in 2003, we have built a reputation for excelling at the toughest part of PR: getting ink and broadcast coverage for our clients and projects.

REDCLAY provides every client with a focused public relations plan to reach the right media and the right target audience at the right time. PR is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Each project has its own unique public relations needs. REDCLAY is headed by a skilled PR professional and supported by a team of Media Specialists who think “outside the box” to match your individual, group, company, or organization’s specific needs. We also offer media coaching to CEOs who may be unfamiliar with the press, giving them the confidence they need to present a favorable impression.

 When you or your company wants to take your story to the public, REDCLAY is the place to start. REDCLAY is truly a public relations firm with the experience, tact and proven strategies to help companies of all types secure coverage and drive interest using numerous traditional state-of-the-art and cutting edge strategies designed to keep your company or group on the minds of your audience(s).

Services we offer include (but not limited to):

• Writing Services (press releases, media alerts, PSAs, etc.)
• Graphic Art Designs
• Video / Photography Production
• Social Media Public Relations Consultation
• PR Strategy (new product)
• Brand Development
• Trade Show Public Relations Services
• Crisis Management

Strategic Public Relations Management

…is a Mississippi-based Public Relations Management firm that equips organizations, artists and intellectuals with the strategic skills of: journalism, community outreach and the publishing expertise proven necessary for prominence and success in today’s marketplace.

OUR FOCUS…

Each year, our firm provides well-written promotional material and lends critical strategic PR support to corporations, government entities, individuals, non-profits, commercial and community-driven small businesses that produce projects that include: film, video, theater/stage, literature, and multidisciplinary art. Our clients are community-oriented producers of positive development and instruments of global exchange.

OUR COMMITMENT…

To create opportunities for local artists and scholars, in a given region, which incorporate the rich traditions and contemporary focus, while reflecting a strong cultural offering that has a constructive impact on the people and the community served.

OUR GOALS…

To reflect the “Best of the Best” images of Africa, by presenting her richly diverse culture and people, who are among the most talented innovators of contemporary art & traditional scholarship, to herself and to the global community.

OUR OBJECTIVES…

To improve the perception of African people, globally through the strategic crafting of:

·film productions

·television programming

·script development

·book publishing

·stage production

·film festival collaboration

·assertive community outreach

·academic research; and,

·public speaking/lecture presentations



Book/Script Development & Publishing

 This division specializes in the editing, publishing and distribution of literary concerns by women, first time authors, including young writers, who present with creative and scholarly expressions of literature, for books, film, television and theatrical productions.

Red Clay also markets, produces and coordinates media tours, of these authors, throughout the United States. Distribution methods utilized by include strategic community outreach, fax, USPS (and other express mail services), satellite, fiber optic cable and the Internet.

Recent Book Projects:

• Young Publisher’s Global Network: Affiliate Chapters—Choctaw County, MS; Winston County, MS; Lagos, Nigeria; Abuja, Nigeria.   Published works by: Ana Cook’s “My Castle;” Brandi Hopkins’, “A Teenage World;” Clarice Norton’s, “ Poetry’s Mistress;” more pending
• Samuel Munachim, Nigerian writer/poet—“Ninety Negro Numbers”
• Apollo Literary Group—African writer’s network--“Complete Poetry” (a textbook)
• Peggy McNutt, Mississippi writer—“A Divine Call”
• Maxine Fair, Mississippi writer—“Country Gurl: Poetry from Down South”
• Paul Robeson Award Initiative (PRAI), organizers of the “Best of the Best” Films and Videos from the African Diaspora AKA Promoting Reel African Images
• Troy Hannah, New York poet—“My Life: Poetry of Love”
• Theodore Mel EG, Minister of Culture, Cote d’Ivoire
• Zekita Tucker, St Louis, MS Writer--Don’t Call Me Nigga!
• Kissin’ My Dust: A Collection of Love Notes, by C.Sade Turnipseed
• No Mo’ Space for Anything, But LOVE, by C. Sade Turnipseed
• Saving Our Babies: A Surrogate Embrace – An Anthology by Writers of the 21^st Century, Edited and Compiled by C. Sade Turnipseed and Farika Bernham
• Writing Workshops and literary projects with international community-based organizations, NGOs, libraries, schools and cultural centers for young writers of all ages.

Recent Magazine Projects:

• Goge Africa, Nigerian Arts and Culture magazine
• Editorial Consultation and English Translations Management for Ports of Africa—La Lettre de l’AGPAOC PMAWCA Newsletter--PAPC Directory, with Challenge Communications, Geneviere Behanzin, Publisher, Cote d’Ivoire
•  Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire
• Girl Scouts of America, workshop compilation

Recent Film/Television Projects:

• Script Consulting for Nollywood Producers, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria
• Script Treatment Development—“Coming the Africa,” a feature length comedy screenplay for African Bridge/Khafre Productions co-productions. ’05-‘06
• Documentary Film Development, with Television/film writer, Kevin Arkadie, working title of project, “The Best of the Best Films from the African Diaspora in FESPACO ’05,” feature length documentary, primary locations: Ouagadougou, New York, Los Angeles
• Script Consulting: character development in consideration of public relations techniques, for Good Life Production Lmtd., Halltech Lmtd, Nollywood Ntwk, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria
• Zemini (under development-intellectual property non-discloseable)
• Red (under development-intellectual property non-discloseable)
• Mama Rose (under development-intellectual property non-discloseable)

Historically--Khafre, the builder of the second pyramid at Giza.

Contemporarily--The builder of perceptual monuments for global change.