Events

It is a new year & a new Black Business Works to go with it. Join us as we Network over Breakfast at a NEW LOCATION AND DAY (now every Fourth Thursday) in Harlem on Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 9:00 am (est). Our speaker will be Derrick M. Guest, CEO of Griot's Roll Film Production & Services Inc. and 2011 Charles B. Benenson Project Enterprise Entrepreneur of the Year will show you how to create a powerful marketing strategy through social media and videos. Our topic will be "Learn how to Build a Marketing Campaign" this will push you to where you need to be for real results for you & your business. RSVP today as seats are limited.

MBE Venture Weekend™ provides entrepreneurs, mentors, and technical service providers an atmosphere to freely and purposefully collaborate to create, build, and launch start-ups. 

This intense, 53 hour event challenges entrepreneurs to develop their ideas for innovative products and services and build and launch a viable business start-up.  Entrepreneurs emerge from the process with a fine-tuned, defensible business strategy, keenly focused, and empowered to pursue their venture.

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The Launching a Campaign Intensive, being run by entrepreneurshipEDGE in collaboration with CAMBA, NYU's Moral Courage Project, & Griot's Roll Film Production Services, aims to provide participants with:

- An overview of how a range of campaigns (health, homelessness, education, and so on) were launched (nonprofits from a variety of fields will come and talk about campaigns)

- Topics in: campaign strategy, marketing and film and volunteer recruitment (schedule below)

- Provide opportunities for participants to get involved in nonprofit campaigns 

SCHEDULE:

10:00 - 10:30: Introduction and Icebreaker

10:30 - 11:15: Campaign Strategy and Volunteer Recruitment - Ramona Gant, Campaign/Project Coordinator, CAMBA's Respite Bed Program

11:15AM - 11:30: Networking/Break

11:30AM - 12:30: Campaign Strategy Advanced - Annie McWilliams, Associate Director of NYU's Moral Courage Project

12:30 - 1:30: Lunch

1:30 - 2:30: Marketing and Film - Derrick Guest, CEO, Griot's Roll Film Production Services

2:00 - 2:15:

BIS Publishing Courses 27th January 2012

1 Day Intensive Course for African / African Caribbean Writers who want to Self Publish Successfully!

Friday, 27th January  · 10:00am - 1:00pm

Cost: £97.99 in advance - Early Bird £72.99

BIS Publications' How To Market Your Book(s) & CREATE The Demand

Friday, 27th January  · 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Cost: £97.99 in advance - Early Bird £72.99

FULL DAY £195.99  - Early Bird £139.99 (A massive saving)

Concessions are available for Students/OAPs/Unemployed

Venue: Voluntary Action Islington, 200A Pentonville Road, London N1 9JP

For more information or to register call:  T. 0845 226 4066  or  T. 07903 791 469.

www.bispublishingcourses.co.uk

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Spaces are limited. Please note that this course will be taught in small numbers so unfortunately we can only register those who sign up early. We do apologize in advance if you haven’t been accepted.

 “I enjoyed it, it was well presented and fun” 

 “Great Value for Money” 

Congolese Community peaceful protest march

Starting point: Front of Raleigh Civic Center

Order of Service:

Every Congolese, every Pastor and all churches are invited to the upcoming march to take place on Monday, January 16, 2012.

We will start with a prayer that will be delivered by one of our local Pastor.

We will then start our march and a closing prayer will take place also at the end of the event.

A press release is sent to media demanding them to cover our protest.

Let’s shows that we care and keep putting pressure on Obama’s administration about its flawed policy about the Congo.

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Michelle Alexander’s best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness, has laid bare the systematic racism at the heart of the prison build-up and has caused a sensation, galvanizing communities.

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness by chicantv

YOUTUBE (46:11)

Click Here to view an outstanding 46-minute Video of Professor Michelle Alexander

in Chicago at Hartzell Church/The Black Star Project.

The Abyssinian Baptist Church traces its roots to 1808 at 40 Worth Street in lower Manhattan when Black parishioners left the First Baptist Church of New York in protest over racially segregated seating. In 1908, Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. became pastor of the church, and in 1923, he oversaw its move uptown to its current location on West 138th Street in Harlem, New York. By the time he handed the reins of the church to his son, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., in 1935, the Abyssinian Baptist Church had become the largest Protestant congre

KWANZAA CELEBRATION AT NAT TURNER LIBRARY
PRINCIPLE OF IMANI, JANUARY 1, 2012

THE NAT TURNER LIBRARY: DREWRYVILLE, VIRGINIA – The Nat Turner Library is
hosting an “open” celebration on the last day of Kwanzaa, January 1, 2012:
All contributors (www.natturnerlibrary.com), supporters and Patrons of the
products and services of UBUS Communications Systems are invited to attend
and participate.

UBUS Communications Systems was founded in Harlem, N.Y. in 1973 as a
multiple, independent, media business/cultural expression. In the 1990’s,
a tradition was established as “open house” on the first day of the New
Year: Imani Day.

This year will feature a surprise special guest, but all children, as well
as adults who’d like to participate are given time at the microphone.
WIDE RANGE OF GUEST COMING TO CELEBRATE
AND TO BE ON NAT TURNER BIRTHLAND ON NEW YEAR’S DAY

Family, Friends, Patrons & etc. are coming from far-away places to bring
in the New Year; Alike Hazziah & her daughter Ahyanna: Charlotte, N. C.;
Geor

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AVENGING THE ANCESTORS COALITION (ATAC)
presents its fourth annual
WATCH NIGHT/FREEDOM’S EVE
7:00pm on December 31, 2011
UNIA: 1609 CECIL B. MOORE AVE

Guest Speaker
J. JUSTIN RAGSDALE
Director of the Lest We Forget Museum

• Did you know that Watch Night/Freedom’s Eve is spiritual and cultural, not religious and congregational?
• Did you know that Watch Night/Freedom’s Eve for whites meant “watching” for the coming of their god but for Blacks it meant “watching” for the coming of their freedom?
• Did you know that Watch Night/Freedom’s Eve began at 7:00 pm for our enslaved ancestors on Dec. 31, 1862?

(*Space is limited, so you must arrive on time!)

 ALSO FEATURING:

THE BLACK AVANT-GARDE

LES GOODSON-TENOR SAX

SALIM WASHINGTON- TENOR SAX

DON PATE- BASS

MASIHIRO SAKUMA- DRUMS   

THE ANCIENT FUTURE ENSEMBLE:

TIBA KWABENA- VOICE-FLUTES-PERCUSSION

DANIEL CARTER- FLUTE-SAXES-TRUMPET

MOTOKI MIHARA- BASS

FEDERICO UGHI- DRUMS

AQUAH TCHERBU- VIBES PERCUSSION

$10 in advance

$12 at the door

Sponsored by ICNAS