Events

The City of Jackson Parks & Recreation

presents

KWANZAA 2013

at the Medgar Evers Community Center

3159 Edwards Avenue - 601.960.1741

6pm - 9pm nightly

Interested in Participating  -  call Bro David 601.608.8327

Celebration Hosting Schedule

Dec 26 Umoja -  Respect Our Black Dollar Movement

- feat. Pam Grear

Dec 27 Kuchichagulia - Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

Dec 28 Ujima -  Changing Lives Unlimited + Baobab Community Life Center L.L.C.; feat. Councilman Stamps

Dec 29 Ujamaa -  Jackson Advocate Newspaper &  NAACP (pending)          

DEC 30 Nia - Nation of Islam

Dec 31 Kuumba - Arts Klassikal & Cosmic Integrative Health

Jan 1 Imani - Jackson Firefighters

Kwanzaa Yenu Iwe Na Heri!(May Your Kwanzaa Be Happy!)

Dec 26, 3-9:00 PM - KWANZAA CELEBRATION, Kwanzaa Collective, M.S. 35 Stephen Decatur, 272 MacDonough St., btw. Marcus Garvey & Lewis Ave., tribute to: Baba Jitu Weusi, Seydou Njoya, and Atchuda Bakr, free will offering, 718.778.0009 x 17, KwanzaaCollective@gmail.com

Dance, poetry, youth zone, food, and Live Jazz provided by Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium all for FREE

This is both an online and offline event. (click going)

https://www.facebook.com/events/452685584852513/?source=1

Here are the rules for our first offline cash mob… let’s make it happen! 
• Our mob will work together on December 14th, meet in person, location Asili Museum.
• The amount to spend will not be more than $20, although you can spend more if you wish.
• The business must have products that cost less than $20 for both men, women and children; the business must also be black owned.
• The business must have a website, accept credit or debit cards, phone contact, email address and phone lines must be fully operational during cash mob (no voice-mail) and independently operated.
• The business owner must give back to their local community in some way.
• BBE will approve the business for Cash Mob before the mob is announced.
• Cash Mobbers / Businesses must join us on facebook page, twitter and YouTube and join our mailing list.
• The cash mob will occur during the evening for all day, drinks

Saturday, December 14, 11:00 to 1:00 PM a celebration of life ceremony will take place at Boys and Girls High School, 1700 Fulton Street, in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York City.  Republic of South Africa Consul General George Monyemangene will address the audience.  Immediately following the indoor celebration New York City Public Advocate elect Letitia “Tish” James will lead a pedestrian/motorcar procession thru the community.  This march will meet a South African community vigil at the school playground, near M.S. 113, DeKalb Avenue at Carlton, in the Fort Greene section of the borough.

The People of Brooklyn fondly remember Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.  The international icon of peace and justice visited the borough on June 21, 1990 (just months after his release from Robben Island) during his eight city USA tour.  NYPD estimated 100,000 Brooklynites greeted the president’s motorcade as it passed thru the neighborhoods of East New York, Fort Greene; his first offi

In what many prisoners have told us is their favorite event of the year, Resistance in Brooklyn, NYC Anarchist Black Cross, and Scientific Soul Sessions again join forces to bring you the annual holiday card-writing party for U.S. held political prisoners and prisoners of war. This event is always a lot of fun, the food outstanding, the camaraderie lively, and the handmade cards flat out amazing. This year will be no different. So plan to bring your friends, your creativity, and a healthy appetite. We’ll have updates on the pp/pow campaigns as well as paints, markers, crayons, and envelopes.

The New York & New Jersey Minority Supplier Development Council (The Council) will hold its milestone 40th Anniversary Partnership Awards Gala, an elegant black-tie celebration, on Friday, December 6 at the New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

For the last 40 years, The Council has been on the frontline in advocating partnerships between New York and New Jersey African-American, Asian -American, Hispanic American and Native-American Council-certified MBEs and its Fortune 500, institutional and government corporate members. There has been thousands of success stories initiated through The Council’s MBE-corporate partnerships. These strategic alliances have positively affected families and communities through job creation, education, home ownership and consumer buying power.

The Partnership Awards Gala will present awards to both corporate and minority businesses. For outstanding achievement in their industries, The Council will bestow the prestigious Supplier o

ONE WOMAN is the story of Assata Shakur from her own words; before, during and after her Black Panther Party involvement.  Originally performed at Fisk University as her senior dissertation, Akua Taylor wrote ONE WOMAN to raise awareness around the inhumane treatment of political prisoners. The play is completely based on Assata’s autobiography, so as to stay true to her words and her perspective.  Akua tells Assata’s story through 10 different characters, dance, music and poetry. 

Precious Messenger Productions is proud to present ONE WOMAN with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement on November 29th 2013 at Sistas 4 Assata Shakur and Nehanda Abiodun.

TICKETS:

http://mxgm.org/sistas-4-assata-nehanda-2013/

“There is a tragic irony to the fact that currently 180 years after the Slavery Abolition Act prohibited slavery in the British Empire, 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation prohibited slavery in the U.S., and 125 years after the Golden Law prohibited slavery in Brazil, black enslavement continues in several especially pernicious forms throughout the transatlantic region.”

- BLACK BODIES AND 21ST CENTURY CAPTIVITIES

On November 23-26, 2013 the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature will convene their annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The American Academy of Religion (AAR) brings over 9,000 professors and students, authors and publishers, religious leaders and interested laypersons to its Annual Meeting each year. Co-hosted with the Society of Biblical Literature, the Annual Meetings are the largest events of the year in the fields of religious studies and theology.

Kinetics cordially invites you to a special reception featuring Rev. Dr. Allan

November 22: An Evening of Beats, Rhymes and Rhythms Against the Slow Genocide of Mass Incarceration.  

On Friday, November 22, the Stop Mass Incarceration Network is going for a major advance in the movement of resistance to stop mass incarceration and all the horrors that flow from it. And you are needed to make it happen.  

This event features Grammy Award-winning composer and pianist, and leader of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance,  Arturo O'Farrill. He headlines an important benefit that will also see a performance by the IMPACT Repertory Theatre, and reading of prisoners’ letters submitted to the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund.  This benefit kicks off an ongoing effort to raise serious funds that will be part of building sustained resistance against mass incarceration.  If one is serious about waging a fight against mass incarceration, we'd better be serious also about raising serious funds and going on the political offensive against mass incarceration.

You're callled up to pr

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Thought provoking documentary that examines the question of why hair is not just hair for  Black women.

“People always make assumptions on who you are as a person based on your hair. If you wear your hair natural you must be conscious, if you wear your hair in extensions then you must be quite superficial and shallow.”

The film takes a deeper dive into the phenomenon and the reason why there is so much historical attachment to black hair.

It also looks at the scientific characteristics of black hair and the effects of the structural differences it has on those who wear it and debunks the myths long accepted by many “Black hair doesn’t grow, Black hair is tough and strong, etc.”

The Truth about Black hair is very much a modern day story; exploring the factors that influence people’s hair choices today and the negative effects that sometimes lead to.

Join us as we speak to industry experts on the quest for the Truth about Black Hair.

Details

Doors open 6 m Film start time 7pm, running time appr

The Illinois Commission to End Disparities Facing the African American Community co-chaired by Senator Mattie Hunter (3rd District), and Representative Monique Davis (27th District) will host a public hearing in the South Suburbs to discuss disparities in the African American communities across the Southland Region.

The Commission is expected to hear testimony from community residents on issues ranging from healthcare, health services, education, criminal justice, housing, and other social issues to government contracting, employment, and other economic concerns.

The Illinois Commission to End Disparities was signed into law August, 2011 by Governor Quinn. The purpose of the Commission is to research the disparities facing African Americans, to hold public hearings and receive public testimony, as well as reporting findings and specific recommendations to the General Assembly by December 31, 2013.

The upcoming public hearing is scheduled as follows:

Tuesday, November 19, 2013 (6:00 pm