Category: Lecture / Discussion
Blogging While Brown
The 2nd annual Blogging While Brown Conference will be held at the University Center in Chicago,Illinois on June 19-20, 2009. Blogging While Brown was created to give Bloggers of Color an opportunity to meet, discuss current issues affecting them, and learn about the latest technology that will assist them with publishing their work. The conference [...]
Heads Up! A Soulful Celebration of Our HAIRitage
Melba Tolliver, New York City’s first Black TV news anchorwoman, was fired when she wore her Afro to cover the White House; now a Black family lives there.
Mount Morris Park Talks with Quincy Troupe and Margaret Quincy Troupe
The Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association (MMPCIA) launches Mount Morris Park Talks, a new series of free monthly conversations between the community and leaders, news makers, artists, authors and thinkers who live in the Harlem area. This series is MMPCIA’s 21st century take on the cultural and intellectual salon tradition that flourished and inspired [...]
A History of Black Republicans —
1854 to 1932
The Harlem Republican Club invites the public to RSVP for its next talk entitled “A History of Black Republicans — 1854 to 1932“. The event will be presented by Claude Sharrieff-Frazier. The event is free but you must RSVP to attend. Date: Thursday, April 9, 2009 @ 6:30 pm Location: Harlem Republican Club, 309 West [...]
National Black Writer’s Conference Celebrates the Life & Work of Octavia Butler
The National Black Writers Conference Bi-Annual Symposium celebrates the life and work of renowned speculative fiction author Octavia E. Butler in a daylong symposium to be held on Saturday, March 28, 2009 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Medgar Evers College- 1650 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11225. “Octavia Butler was the first black woman [...]
Translating Science to Policy — Protecting Children’s Environmental Health
The Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, in collaboration with its lead community partner, WE ACT for Environmental Justice, is hosting a day-long conference that will focus on three major environmental health concerns affecting children: air pollution, pesticides, and endocrine disruptors in consumer products. The purpose of the conference is to share research findings from [...]
Project Enterprise — Panel Discussion with Napoleon Barragan, Rafael Rodas and Raphael Benavides
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Project Enterprise — You In the Headlines with Susan Taylor from Essence Magazine
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Project Enterprise — The Sweet Smell of Media Success with Lisa Price of Carol’s Daughter
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Project Enterprise Entrepreneur Week — Getting the Media Attention You Deserve
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D.I.V.A.S. 2nd Annual Girls’ Empowerment Conference
D.I.V.A.S. of DeWitt Clinton High School (Diverse, Intelligent, Virtuous, Ambitious, Sisters) are calling all girls aged 13 to 19 years for their 2nd Annual Girls’ Empowerment Conference. The D.I.V.A.S. are a high school sorority that strives to inspire young women to be all that they can be. Conference Date: March 28th — Registration Deadline: March [...]
Harlem’s Hip Hop Culture Center — Teaching the Babies
The Hip Hop Culture Center, located in the Magic Johnson Theater on 125th Street, has utilized its massive 8,000 square foot facility to serve as a classroom, rehearsal space, and more importantly a vehicle to educate the community.
Children of Children Keep Coming — Booking Signing and Performance at Harlem’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Children of Children Keep Coming is an awe-inspiring contribution to literature. A breathtaking form of poetic expression, this unique work presents a riveting chronicle of the African American experience in the United States. The dramatic odyssey opens with two anonymous slaves running to catch the Freedom Train, where at journey’s end they hope to [...]
Sarah Jones on Sounding Black
Black is not just a skin color; it’s a quality of voice. Sarah Jones, the Tony Award-winning performer, talks with linguist John McWhorter about what it means to sound black today. They look at how Barack Obama has used “blaccent†to drive audiences wild. Source, H/T
