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OUR TIME PRESS March 12 – 18, 2015 |
THE CALENDAR
(For full calendar, check online: www.ourtimepress.com)
Saturday, March 14
10:00-3:00pm – TAX PREPARATION
HELP! Volunteers from the Medgar Evers
College Accounting Department will assist.
Medgar Evers College, 1650 Bedford Ave.,
Bklyn.:Rm. 2008 718-270-5195
Sunday, March 15
3:00pm Black History Great Debate: “Is
Bill Cosby Being Lynched, Yes or No?” Dr.
James McIntosh vs Journalist Mary Alice
Miller.
John Henrik Clarke House, 286
Convent Avenue, Harlem, NY
Saturday, March 21
10:00-3:00pm – TAX PREPARATION
HELP! Volunteers from the Medgar Evers
College Accounting Department will assist.
Medgar Evers College, 1650 Bedford Ave.,
Brooklyn; Room 2008
Contact: 718-270-5195; FREE
10:00am-3:00pm: COLLEGE FAIR/
Career Day at First Baptist Church of
Crown Heights with more than 40 colleges represented. 450 Eastern Parkway.
Subway: 4 or 5 to Franklin; 3 to Nostrand. Michelle Goudy: 917-826-4123.
1:00pm-6:00pm: Sistas’ Place hosts
an African Bazaar featuring Tribal
Truths Collection wear by Brenda Brunson Bey, Leather Locs by Sherlock, Ta
Ankh Creations (knitwear & crochet
accessories), Kiini Ibura Jewelry by
Melody and hats and things by Sylvia.
African Bazaar at Sistas’ Place, 456
Nostrand Avenue, are about enjoying
the finest in clothing, jewelry and accessories produced by African people
for African people. And at about 3 pm,
Viola Plummer will be making remarks
about the plebiscite and what it means
for us. (718) 398-1766
Monday, March 23
7:00pm-8:30pm: Schomburg’s Women’s Jazz Festival 2015 Celebrates Great
Women of Blues and Jazz, curated by Toshi
Reagon. Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture; Tickets $25, $30.
Tuesday, March 24
3:00-5:00pm: Schomburg Education
and Teachers College’s Center on History and Education present: A History Education Roundtable: Challenging American
Inequality: Historical Literacy Matters
Why have we traditionally looked
to historical knowledge as a building
block of democratic participation and
a central component of what it means
to be an American? How can history
pedagogy be framed as a challenge
to social and economic inequality?
How do we reach young learners to
appreciate the study of history as integral to their quality of life and the
well-being of American democracy?
Remarks: Thomas James- Provost and
Dean of Teachers College and Acting Director of the Center on History and Education. Panelists: Khalil
Gibran Muhammad, Director of the
Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture, The New York Public Library; Prithi Kanakamedala,
Assistant Professor, Department of
History, Bronx Community College;
THE BROOKLYN ANTI-VIOLENCE COALITION
CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND
oman of Courage
WAwards
Luncheon
The sEVENTH Annual
SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015
at MT. PISGAH BAPTIST CHURCH
212 Tompkins Avenue
(Entrance on Dekalb Avenue)
12:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
HONORING WOMEN
WHO HAVE DEDICATED
THEMSELVES TO SERVING
THEIR COMMUNITIES
WOMAN OF COURAGE AWARD:
Hazel N. Dukes
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES AWARD:
Yvonne Ajago
POLITICAL EMPOWERMENT AWARD:
Olanike Alabi
COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD:
Darma Diaz
CLERGY AWARD:
Pastor Gwendolyn H. Dingle
LEGAL SERVICE AWARD:
Justice Deborah A. Dowling
PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD:
Pauline Latham
LAW ENFORCEMENT AWARD:
Michelle McLeod
EDUCATION AWARD:
Dr. Shelia Tranumn
TRAIL BLAZER AWARD:
Joni A. Yoswein
THERE IS NO COST FOR THIS EVENT. R.S.V.P. Bianca Robinson 347.216.1346 bavcinc'aol.com
Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of
Asian-American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University;
and Tim Bailey, Director of Education, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of
American History. Moderator: Yohuru
R. Williams, Associate Vice President
for Academic Affairs and Professor of
History, Fairfield University. Hosts:
Bette Weneck, Associate Director of
Teachers College’s Center on History
and Education, and Deirdre Hollman,
Schomburg Center’s Director of Education and Exhibitions.
Thursday, March 26
OPENING: The Fifth Annual NEW
VOICES in BLACK CINEMA FESTIVAL
kicks off with Ben Bowman’s “Knucklehead”, a hard-hitting Brooklyn drama starring Alfre Woodard and Gbenga Akinnagbe
(“The Wire”) as a dysfunctional mother-son
pair. Screening hosted by Martin Majeske,
ActNow Managing Director, is followed
by a Q&A with Bowman and Akinnagbe.
Details to be provided in next week’s Our
Time Press, the event’s community media
sponsor. For more information, www.actnowproduction.org.
Saturday, March 28
10:00am-6:00pm: National Black Writers Conference 2015 Biennial Symposium:
“Voices of Liberation and Resistance & a
Tribute to Danny Glover”@ Medgar Evers
College, CUNY, 1650 Bedford Avenue,
BK, Founders Auditorium. The NBWC focuses on activism, liberation and resistance
in literature and the arts. 718-804-8883;
CBL hotline: 718-270-4811. The cost of
the 2015 NBWC Biennial Symposium is
$10 ($5 for students, faculty and seniors).
Registration is available prior to the symposium and onsite. Visit the Web site for more
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information, www.centerforblackliterature.
org or nbwc2015.eventbrite.com.
12:00noon-3:00pm: The Brooklyn Anti-Violence Coalition will present their 7th
Annual Women of Courage Awards Luncheon, honoring Hazel Dukes, State Committeewoman, 57th AD, and Olanike Alabi
at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church. Open to the
Public. No charge. RSVP: Diana Robinson:
347-216-1346.
9:00a-4:00p: Take Diabetes Risk Test!
FREE! Offered by the Delta Sigma Theta/
Brooklyn Alumnae Chapter in conjunction with the American Diabetes Association for Alert Day! Find out if you are at
risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes at the
Bedford-Stuyvesant Family Health Center,
1456 Fulton Street.
Tuesday, March 31
7:00pm: A Celebration of the Activism of Barbara Smith. Panel Discussion
moderated by Susan Arbetter. Milne
200, Downtown Campus, SUNY Albany. Barbara Smith, pioneering activist,
will discuss her new book, “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty
Years of Movement-Building with Barbara Smith” (2014). Smith, organizer,
writer and publisher, has played key roles
in multiple social justice movements.
She is Public Service Professor in the
School of Social Welfare at UAlbany,
and a former member of Albany’s Common Council. Co-sponsored by SUNY
Press and Rockefeller College of Public
Affairs & Policy. RSVP-Space is limited:
[email protected].
NEXT YEAR
February 2016:
Our Time Press celebrates 20 years as
the largest Black-owned community paper in
Brooklyn, New York. www.ourtimepress.com