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Biography

  • Emmalee earned a master’s degree and took a sabbatical from her doctoral program. There is no gray area regarding doing what is right. She did not give up on her spiritual walk with God, herself, or her writing career. She knew in her heart that she was destined to do remarkable things. 
  • She had the privilege of using words and her voice to help convey a positive change in the hearts and minds of people and their communities. 
  • She took irreplaceable experiences over the years and self-published her first book “I Cried Out and He Heard Me.” It will inspire, and people’s lives will change forever. The second book “Roaming in the Wilderness” her journey fighting lions, tigers, and bears will be available in the Fall of 2025.


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  •  93rd Street Community Missionary Baptist Church
  • Black Business Association
  • Blue Lake Park Youth Summer Camp
  • Floral Park Homeowner Association
  • Greater New Bethel Baptist Church
  • I Am One Of The Million
  • Little River Park Youth Summer Camp
  • Mentors R US (Straight Talk-Ages 11-18)
  • Miami Edison Middle School
  • New Birth Baptist Church
  • New Providence Missionary Baptist Church
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FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN-OWNED MARKET PRESTIGE SUPERMARKET IN LIBERTY CITY MIAMI, FL

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN-OWNED MARKET PRESTIGE SUPERMARKET IN LIBERTY CITY MIAMI, FL

 Featured In Newspaper-The Miami Herald

  

  • STORE A SOURCE FOR FRESH FOOD -- AND FOR HOPE
    Source: MIMI WHITEFIELD Herald Business Writer
    When Emma Martin first saw the burned out-hulk of a former Hi-Lo Supermarket in Liberty City, it hardly looked like a dream business. But she was able to see beyond the charred walls and the smoke-damaged c

 Featured In Newspaper-The Miami Herald

  

  • STORE A SOURCE FOR FRESH FOOD -- AND FOR HOPE
    Source: MIMI WHITEFIELD Herald Business Writer
    When Emma Martin first saw the burned out-hulk of a former Hi-Lo Supermarket in Liberty City, it hardly looked like a dream business. But she was able to see beyond the charred walls and the smoke-damaged cash registers. Today, nearly a year since she first toured the store, Martin will open Liberty City's first black-owned and operated supermarket. The doors of the newly christened Prestige Supermarket, now painted a crisp green and white, will swing open for business at 8 a.m.
    Published on March 2, 1998, Page 7BM, Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • RIGHT FIT FOR RETAIL BLACKS AREN'T BACKING BLACK BUSINESSES, MERCHANTS SAY
    Source: LESLIE CASIMIR Herald Staff Writer
    The register rarely rings at the new Prestige Supermarket. Since the Liberty City store opened in March, the most a customer has spent on groceries has been about $50. Heralded as the first black-owned and operated supermarket on 54th Street -- a strip known as the highway to heaven with its storefront churches -- owner Emma Martin finds herself reviewing her low sales and high bills. Then she poses herself this agonizing question: When will the crowds come? ``Where are all the black
    Published on June 21, 1998, Page 1F, Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • BLUNT ECONOMIC REALITIES STRUCK PRESTIGE IN FINAL MONTHS
    Source: MIMI WHITEFIELD, mwhitefield@herald.com
    No one can accuse Emma Martin of not trying to keep her store afloat. She constantly prospected for new financing; she tried to network and approached various economic development groups; she even put in a bakery and deli to boost sales and offered chicken and oxtail dinners and Friday fish fries. ``By the time we paid the gas, the cook and a helper, the deli was holding its own, but it really didn't contribute to the bottom line of the rest of the
    Published on November 29, 1999, Page 23BM, Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • EMMA MARTIN'S $450,000 QUESTION
    Source: MIMI WHITEFIELD, mwhitefield@herald.com
    Just before Halloween, Emma Martin temporarily locked the doors of Prestige Supermarket, the first black-owned supermarket in Liberty City, in an effort to cut expenses while she tried to figure out what to do. The bills were choking her. She owed vendors; she was behind on her loan payments to Miami Capital Development Corp., and she didn't even have the cash to keep the freezers running and the lights on. ``I'm trying everything I can to make this store work.
    Published on November 29, 1999, Page 20BM, Miami Herald, The (FL)
  • CITY SEVERS TIES WITH MIAMI CAPITAL, TAKES OVER LOANS
    Source: MIMI WHITEFIELD, mwhitefield@herald.com
    Since Emma Martin closed Prestige Supermarket - the first black-owned supermarket in Liberty City - last month, she has been busy trying to forestall foreclosure. Martin, whose dream of owning a business turned into a nightmare of debt, is looking for a buyer for the store, investors to do a cash buyout, or anyone who might suggest a workable alternative. Miami Capital, the private lending corporation that until last week lent community block grant funds the city of Miami received from the
    Published on December 20, 1999, Page 13BM, Miami Herald, The (FL)

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