What Can Today’s Black Leaders Learn From The Leadership of Brother Malcolm X

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Malcolm X

[COMMUNITY EVENTS]

1. BEPAA Master Leadership Class

“What Can Today’s Black Leaders Learn From The Leadership of Brother Malcolm X”

Speakers: Brother William Sales- Educator, Activist and Scholar; Ilyasah Shabazz – Author & Daughter of Malcolm X

Dr. John Henrik Clarke House, 286 Convent Avenue

Harlem, New York City.

Sunday, May 17, 2015 3:00 PM Call 347-907-0629 to RSVP

Or RSVP on Facebook at following link:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1051733004866978

 

2. “What Can Today’s Black Leaders Learn From The Leadership of Ancestor Patrice Lumumba”

Professor Yaa-Lengi Ngemi-Educator, Author, Activist and Scholar Maurice Carney-Executive Director Friends of the Congo

Dr. John Henrik Clarke House, 286 Convent Avenue, Harlem, New York City.

Sunday, May 24, 2015 3:00 PM

Admission Free Call 347-907-0629 to RSVP or RSVP  on Facebook at following Link:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1612181492361169/

3. FAREWELL PARTY AND  81ST BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FOR BETTY DOPSON

ON MAY 31 THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF CEMOTAP AND OTHER WELL WISHERS WILL HOST A FAREWELL PARTY AND  BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FOR SISTER BETTY DOPSON.

Sister Dopson has left NY and returned to her Home in Ohio.  She  left on Wednesday, May 6th but has agreed to return on the 31st for a  celebration and tribute to the work she has done here in NY.

The Celebration will be held at  St. Albans Family Life Center, 172-17 Linden Boulevard, Jamaica, NY 11434

TRUCE CALLED THAT NIGHT FOR ALL AFRICAN PEOPLE  WHO APPRECIATE THE DECADES OF WORK AND WISH THE BEST FOR SISTER BETTY DOPSON.

4. Join us at Sistas’ Place in celebrating African Liberation Month May 2015:

Friday, May 8th – 7 pm film showing: “Concerning Violence” based on Frantz Fanon’s book, “The Wretched of the Earth” this documentary uses rare archival footage of Amilcar Cabral, Robert Mugabe and interviews during the Southern African Liberation Struggles to define what is violence in a colonial context.  Narrated by Lauryn Hill.

Concerning Violence – Official Trailer – YouTube

Friday, May 15th – 7 pm Film showing “Let the Fire Burn” about the bombing 30 years ago of the MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia.

Thursday, May 21st – 6:30 pm: Panel discussion with special invited guests on the Zimbabwe Liberation Struggle then and the fight against sanctions now.

Friday, May 22nd – 7 pm film showing “African Liberation Day” In 1973 over 40,000 people assembled in Washington, DC and other cities to declare their support for African Liberation.  

All programs above at Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn.

Saturday, May 23rd across the Diaspora in celebration and in declaration of African Liberation Day we call for the lifting of the sanctions against Zimbabwe.  Come out to African Square, 125th Street & Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard at  1 pm for a March & Rally in Harlem.

For further information (718) 398-1766

Spread the Word!

6.
FROM SISTAS PLACE
T.K. Blue is back at Sistas’ Place on Saturday, May 9th in two sets at 9 & 10:30 pm.  Featuring songs from his latest releases, TK will be joined by Carlton Holmes on piano, Paul Beaudry on bass and Vince Ector on Drums.
As you know space is limited at Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, so call to make reservations (718) 398-1766.  Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.

Let me know if you’re coming!
Colette

7. The New York Chapter of the National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO) in conjunction with the International African Arts Festival (IAAF) will host its 46th Annual Malcolm X Awards Program.

The 2015 award recipients for this year are Attorney Gloria Brown-Marshall, Professor James Blake, and a special posthumous award to broadcaster Eddie Ellis.

Attorney Marshall has become the first Black woman to get credentials covering the Supreme Court. She is the author of ‘Race, Law and the American Society (1607 to Present)’ and is an associate Professor at John Jay College.

Professor Blake is the founder of a mentoring and employment program called the Varied Internship Program (VIP), he served as the chairman of the Southeast Queens Chapter of the Million Man/Woman March and is a tenured Professor at the Borough of Manhattan  Community College (BMCC).

Eddie Ellis spent 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. In his incarceration he uncovered in 1979 that 87% of the prisoners came from communities of color. He was a member of the Harlem Branch Black Panther Party, founder of the WBAI radio broadcast “On The Count” and founder of the nonprofit Center for Nu-Leadership on Urban Solutions.       

This program will take place Sunday, May 17 from 3pm to 5pm, at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Center, 1360 Fulton St., Suite 401, located on the corner of Marcy Ave. and Fulton St., in Brooklyn, N.Y. 11216

Suggested minimum donation is $7.00

For further information call (718) 789-3264 or email [email protected]

8. HIP HOP MINISTER CONRAD TILLARD ON ALL POLITICS ARE LOCAL RADIO SHOW THIS FRIDAY

The hosts of All Politics Are Local, America’s #1 political Hip Hop radio show, will have Reverend Conrad Tillard on as a monthly guest co-host. He will discuss national issues from a Hip Hop perspective. Reverend Tillard is the senior Pastor of Nazarene Congregational Church in Brooklyn, New York.  While he was the Nation of Islam Minister of Mosque #7 in Harlem, New York, and went by the name of Conrad Muhammad, Reverend Tillard counseled and guided the Hip Hop community away from beefs and violent conflicts during the 1980’s and the 1990’s in the United States.  Because of his leadership in the Hip Hop community, Reverend Tillard earned the name the Hip Hop Minister. In 1998, he founded a community-based organization called CHHANGE (Conscious Hip Hop Activism Necessary for Global Empowerment). Although Reverend Tillard converted from the Nation of Islam to the religion of Christianity in the 2000’s, he still advocates for the empowerment of the Hip Hop community. The show will continue its’ conversation on who will control the Whitehouse in 2016: the Democrats or the Republicans. Later on in the show, the hosts will debate and discuss Hip Hop to rap music. This week’s rap topic: Has Hip Hop redefined the European standard of beauty in the world?  All Politics Are Local is aired live every Friday on Rutgers Radio www.wrnu.info from 6 to 9PM.

Ed Riley, the show’s creator, executive producer and co-host of All Politics Are Local, leads the show.  The other show co-hosts and contributing staff members include the following:  James Mtume- Legendary Music Producer, Respected Community Activist, and Noted Social Critic; Bashir Akinyele- Community Activist and Educator; Jonathan Alston- Educator;  Marcus Reeves- BET.com Entertainment Journalist and Social Critic; Thais Marques-Youth Activist and Social Critic; Chris Randall, Social Critic; Joel Brower, radio engineer; Allen S. Gordon- Hip Hop journalist and educator; and Mitzi Miller- the former Editor–and–Chief of Ebony Magazine!  All Music directed by DJ Rhino.

The lively and intellectually critical round table show, discusses various Hip Hop, entertainment, and political issues.  The show is broadcasted live from the Rutgers-Newark campus radio station atwww.wrnu.info in the Paul Robeson Student Center in downtown Newark, New Jersey from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Our sound range reaches up to 1,000,000 people. The listeners of All Politics Are Local come from different countries, political parties, ethnic groups, religions, and cultures.  Callers worldwide can chime into All Politics Are Local’s call-in number at (973) 353-5746.

All Politics Are Local is broken up into two segments.  The first hour is the political side of the show and second hour, called the College Entertainment Revue, is the entertainment side of All Politics Are Local.

Since its’ inception, the show has been able to book a variety Hip Hop artists, Hip Hop activists, community activists, clergy members, intellectuals, and political leaders, such as Rev Al Sharpton, President of the National Action Network and host of MSNBC’s Politics Nation; Rev Jesse Jackson, Founder and President of the Rainbow/Push Coalition; Rev Herbert Doughtry, Legendary Civil Rights Activist; Stephen Sweeny, New Jersey State Senate President; Camelia Valdes, Passaic County Prosecutor; Sheila Oliver, New Jersey’s former State Speaker of the House; Chairman of the New Jersey State Democratic Committee John Wisniewski; Chris James, Executive Director of the New Jersey State Democratic Committee; Felipe Luciano, Newark, NJ’s Communication Director; New Jersey State Senator Sandra Cunningham; New Jersey State Senator Nia Gill; New Jersey’s Essex County Freeholder Carol Clark; Barbara Buono, NJ State Senator and NJ’s Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate; Ted Green, East Orange, NJ City Councilman; Amiri Baraka, Jr, Newark City Hall’s Chief of Staff; Dennis Van Roekel, the former President of the National Education Association; Lily Garcia, the Current President of the National Education Association; John Abeigon, Newark Teachers Union Leader; Cami Anderson, Newark Board of Education Superintendent; Peter Englot, Vice Chancellor of Rutgers University’s Newark Campus; Tony Vauss, Irvington, NJ Mayor;  Raymond Lesniak, New Jersey State Senator; Rahiel Tesfamariam, Washington Post Columnist; Mildred Crump, Newark Councilwoman-At-Large; Ron Rice, Jr, Newark West Ward Councilman; Donald Payne, US Congressman; Mayor Robert Bowser of East Orange, NJ; New York State Assemblyman Charles Barron; Mayor Dwayne Warren of Orange, NJ; Darin Sharif,  Newark Central Ward Councilman;  Mayor Jamel Holly of Roselle, NJ; John Thompson, candidate for Mayor of East Orange, NJ; Kevin Taylor, candidate for Mayor of East Orange, NJ; Lester Taylor, Mayor of East Orange; Eldridge Hawkins, candidate for Mayor of West Orange, NJ; Junius Willaims, Rutgers-Newark’s Abbott Leadership Institute Professor; Barry Carter, Star Ledger Columnist;  Bob Law, Legendary National radio talk show host; Dan Ivers, Star Ledger reporter; Walter Hudson, Penns Grove, NJ Community Activist; Tim Wise, Anti-Racist Educator; Dr. Ron Danials, National President of the Institute of the Black World; Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Retired City University of New York History Professor; Kathy Shorr, Photo-Journalist; Walton Hudson, Penns Grove, NJ Community Activist; Tamika Mallory, Justice League, NYC; Chicago’s great peace activist Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina Church; Rodolfo Rodriguez, candidate for Mayor of West Orange, NJ; Joe Krakoviak, West Orange, NJ Councilman and Mayoral candidate; Airickca Gordon-Taylor of the Mamie Till Mobley Foundation and the spokesperson for the Emmett Till family; Laura Cohen, Rutgers University Professor of Law; W.R. Bolen, New York Times bestselling author of Total Frat Move; Randi Weingarten, National President of American Federation of Teachers; Newark Education Workers Caucus; Charles Barron, New York State Assemblyman; Ashley Spillane, President of Rock the Vote; Bob Braun Star Ledger news columnist; Violence Interrupters Executive Director Tioh Hardiman; Imamu Amiri Baraka; Dominique Sharpton (the daughter of Civil Rights leader the Rev Al Sharpton), The National Action Network;  Fredrica Bey, founder of the Women In Support of the Million Man March; Dr. Robert Curvin, Rutgers University Professor; Dr. Tommy Curry, Texas A&M University Professor; Poet Autum Ashante; Larry Hamm, State Chairman of the Peoples Organzation for Progress; Salaam Ismial, President of the National United Youth Council; Bilal Qayyum, Co-Organizer of the National Black on Black Conference; Dr. Akil Khalfani, Director of the Africana Institute at Essex County College; Ron Rice, New Jersey State Senator;  Mark Diionno, weekly columnist of the Star Ledger; Ralph McDaniels, Legendary VJ of Video Music Box; Hip Hop artist Rapsody; Hip Hop artist Chuck D of Public Enemy; Hip Hop artist Lupe Fiasco; Hip Hop artist Vinny of Naughty By Nature; Hip Hop artist Freekey Zekey of the rap group the Dip set; Hip Hop artist Hakim Green of Channel Live; Hip Hop artist Do It All of the Lords of the Underground; Hip Hop Artist Jasiri X; Hip Hop artist/activist Vigalantee; Victor Trammell, Hip Hop Journalist for Your Black World; Sundown of the Hip Hop group Actual Proof; Conrad Tillard, the former executive director of CHHANGE (Conscious Hip Hop Activism Necessary for Global Empowerment and the current Senior Pastor of Nazarene Congregational United Church of Christ in Brooklyn; New York City; Imam Mustafa El Amin of Masjid Ibrahim; Pastor David Jefferson, the Chairman of Rev Sharpton’s National Action Network in Newark, New Jersey; Donny Nuri Wilson, member and organizer of the Newark Anti-Violence Coalition; Al Tarik Onque of Stop Shootin;  Earl “the Street Doctor” Best; Monika Boyd, of Parents of Murdered Children and VOCAL (Voices of Change and Liberation) Coalition member; Minister Ismail Muhammad, National Assistant to the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan; Ras Baraka, Mayor of Newark, NJ; Donald Payne, US Congressman; Luther Campbell of 2 Live Crew; Jasmine Mans, Newark Poet; James Mtume, world renowned music producer, artist, community activist, and the former co-host of the popular 107.5 WBLS FM’s Open line radio talk show in New York City’s tri-state area; Marquis Aquil-Lewis, member of the Newark Board of Education Advisory Board; and Mitzi Miller, the former Editor –and-Chief of Ebony magazine!

 

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