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Community Honors Mayor Harold Washington’s 90th Birthday

A trip down memory lane and Karaoke sing-a-long

Chicago, IL: We Can, Inc., a committee comprised of successful African American businessmen and women, is holding a birthday bash in remembrance of (April 15th) the late Mayor Harold Washington Birthday Thursday, April 12, 2012, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Josephine’s Hardtimes Cooking Restaurant, 436 E. 79th St., Chicago, IL.

Bring your favorite pictures of Mayor Washington and share your memories of Chicago’s first African American mayor on stage and join in on the Karaoke sing-a-long for a fun-filled evening.

The Masters of Ceremony will be NBC 5’s Emmy Award journalist Art Norman who is a fixture on WMAQ-Channel 5’s newscasts. In broadcast for 30-years, Norman is Vice President of the National Association of Black Journalists. He has his own signature segment, “Art Norman’s Chicago,” which airs bi-weekly on NBC 5 News at 5 p.m.

Tickets for seniors are $25.00, others $50.00. All are welcome.

As Chairman of Black Wall Street Chicago, I am pleased to be a member of the new We-Can Business Organization, helping to promote this event for community support, as well as reflect that part of the most significant and most memorable moments of my 40 year public service career was as a youth leader serving as a key youth and young adult coordinator for the 1983 and 1987 historic campaigns of Chicago's First Black Mayor, Harold Washington.

Mark S. Allen

773-392-0165