SendMeYourNews's Blog – January 2009 Archive (12)

The Compact for Racial Justice Forums: The First 100 Days

Dial in to the bi-weekly series of conference calls hosted by the Applied Research Center. Justice advocates on the Compact Forum calls will track the first 100 days of the Obama administration and shape plans to influence policy affecting racial justice. In addition to engaging featured speakers, participants will share progress on local, state and national efforts, and join a call to action on key issues. Interested individuals must RSVP by the Monday before the call.

Interested… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 28, 2009 at 8:14pm — No Comments

Join the National "Take a Black Male to Worship" Day on Sunday, March 1, 2009

Phillip Jackson, executive director of The Black Star Project, delivered the Men's Day message at First Wesley Academy UMC in Harvey, Illinois on Sunday, December 14, 2008, as the kick-off of "Take a Black Male to Worship" day. Please call Rev. Catherine Jackson at 773.285.9600 or email blackstar1000@ameritech.net if you would like for your church, mosque, synagogue or other faith-based organization to participate in this national effort to… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 27, 2009 at 1:54pm — 3 Comments

Are you utilizing your natural gifts and talents? Find Your Authentic Voice!

Norma Hollis FREE Live Events

The Authenticity Movement comes to the Bay Area

In today's climate of falling economies, endangered

ecologies and unregulated human greed and need it

is time to establish authority for truth and correctness

and enhance a genuine and sincere focus on the

common good. Norma's… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 26, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

INAUGURAL SUMMIT MEETING OF BLACK NATIONALIST AND INDEPENDENT BLACK COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS

SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA

JANUARY 19, 2009

While the United States of America, and the world celebrate and anticipate the inauguration of the first African in history to the presidency of the “American experiment,” as Dr. Obadele I Obadele, former president of The Republic of New Afrika refers to it – Black Community Organizers held series of summit meetings on the land where one of Black America’s most reverent Community Organizer in history, Nat Turner, led the Black… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 19, 2009 at 6:10pm — No Comments

Grassroots organization inspiring our children to "Rise To The Top"

The 100 Plus ASYB - Rites-of-Passage Projects (100+ASYB), by Kuumba Promos - ALC, a grassroots organization, shall inspire our children to believe that they can "Rise To The Top" through education, positive affirmation and personal motivation that will have young males "Moving Toward Manhood"; shall serve as a means to enhance the academic, social, and cultural development of itʼs participants, their families and their community; to nurture participantsʼ life management skills and… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 17, 2009 at 9:31pm — No Comments

WCAR Human Rights Round Table - Harlem, NY, Jan 29

WCAR Human Rights Round Table

Thursday, January 29, 2009, 10.30 am to 4.00 pm

The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial, Educational and Cultural Center

3940 Broadway, Harlem, NY (at 165th Street)

African-Americans Mobilizing Civil Society at the Historic Audubon Ballroom

The week after Barack Obama's inauguration, a distinguish panel of African descendents community leaders and thinkers will… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 14, 2009 at 11:00am — No Comments

Upcoming MWM Black History Month 2009 Program and Activities "From March To Movement"

From The Original Million Woman March

&

The Official

National/International

Million Woman Movement

Black History Month 2008 Activities (Partial Listing)

Philly, PA

Black Student's, Youth, and Young Adults Forums

Tribute To The Black Student's Contribution to the Civil Rights Movement & Black Liberation Movement and Their Necessary Roles Today.

Critique and Examination of the Black Youth and Student… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 13, 2009 at 10:51am — No Comments

INAUGURAL MEETING OF BLACK NATIONALIST AND INDEPENDENT BLACK COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS/ACTIVIST

UNITED BROTHERS & SISTERS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS

26070 Barhams Hills Road – Drewryville, VA 23844

(704) 509-6773 (704) 277-1462 publish@khabooks.com

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http://www.khabooks.com

January 12, 2009

INAUGURAL MEETING OF BLACK NATIONALIST… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 12, 2009 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

NEW RELEASE: “Henry Grimes Solo,” a phenomenal double-CD - 2&1/2 hrs of continuous improvisation!

Illustration by Henry Grimes

GRIMES TIMES!! GRIMES TIMES!! January, ‘O9

“... one wonders / if snow / isn’t a wing’s long memory / across winter.”

( Steve Crow, “Revival”)

Monday, January 19th: Release date for “Henry Grimes Solo,” the phenomenal double-CD set on the ILK Music label, www.ilkmusic.com, with Henry playing acoustic bass and violin for more than… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 10, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

2009 National Juneteenth Events Schedule

(Belzoni, Mississippi) - The National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF), National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC), and Juneteenth America, Inc. (JAI) announces the 2009 National Juneteenth Events Schedule. The establishment of Juneteenth as a National Holiday Observance, the preservation of our African-American jazz legacy and providing opportunities for reconciliation and healing from the legacy of slavery are among the… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 9, 2009 at 10:54am — No Comments

Get A Functional Unity Calendar for Your City

A Functional Unity Calendar for Your City?

What would it mean if all or most progressive African

(Black) organizations and institutions in your city all used a

single online calendar to post their events and to check the

events of other organizations and institutions?

And what if the calendar allowed for great detail;

including contact phone, web and email information?

And what if the calendar was dynamic: letting you post

events… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 7, 2009 at 12:04pm — No Comments

New book - Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918

Jeffrey B. Perry newest book Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem

Radicalism, 1883-1918.

"Hubert Harrison was an immensely skilled writer, orator, educator, critic,

and political activist who, more than any other political leader of his era,

combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness

into a coherent political radicalism. Harrison's ideas profoundly influenced

"New Negro"… Continue

Added by SendMeYourNews on January 3, 2009 at 10:09am — No Comments