Events

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

bispublications7.eventbrite.com

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                                                                                     

This ongoing case brought by the St Jago hills developers to remove evict and continue the dispossession of the Jamaican Rastafarian Movement  from the ancestral lands of Pinnacle which is part and parcel of the First Free Slave Village in the colonies at Sligoville St Catherine Jamaica

GROSS INJUSTICE ONCE AGAIN BY THE JAMAICAN GOVERNMENT AND THE ELITE SLAVEMASTER CLASS ANS THEY SEEK TO RETAKE ALL LANDS PURCHASED BY OUR ANKHCESTORS

Marketing Mogul seminar is Back By Popular Demand. If you are a business owner who wants help creating a powerful marketing strategy, or improve the one you have. Then Derrick M. Guest, CEO of Griot's Roll Film Production & Services Inc. and the 2011 Charles B. Benenson Project Enterprise Entrepreneur of the Year wants to help you.  In having a successful marketing strategy Griot's Roll has been able to grow its business. Now we want to help you to grow yours. 

Sponsored By:

Stacie N.C Grant, CG Enterprise

Scott M MeBane, New York Life Insurance Company

Check out the schedule of activities posted on www.LocksConference.com

Annual International Locks Conference (AILC) /Expo brings alive the essence of social change, and the benefits of wholistic health  and wellness by  featuring local, regional and national arts
and crafts merchants exhibiting the finest quality hand crafted jewelry, natural body and hair care products, Afrikan artifacts and Indigenous and
cultural fashions, poetry cafe, self-defense and belly dancing workshops; visual art and cultural edutainment, Afrikan/Kuumba marketplace, live musical performances, spoken word, children’s activities, workshops, lectures, cultural fashion
shows and natural hair show and competition.

AILC also features leading experts from the natural wholistic health & natural hair care field, world-renowned scholars, activists, and artists from a myriad of professions who utilize the Expo as an annual autumn family gathering, spiritual renewal, and networking opportunity.

The Annual International Locks