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David Brown, president of BrownPartners, a minority-owned advertising firm specializing in marketing to people of color, will be inducted in the Philadelphia Public Relations Association’s Hall of Fame today. Speaking at the event will be U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah and cartoonist Robb Armstrong. Brown grew up in West Philadelphia, where he survived a drive-by shooting. As proof that even people with journalism degrees can get religion, Brown has a master’s degree in theology and has been commissioned as a Methodist minister. An assistant professor at the University of the Arts, Brown is the first African-American to be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 25 years. - Jane M. Von Bergen