Saturday, June 10, 2017

what the hell is rosa parks' house doing in berlin, germany?????????????????

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04/10/2017 03:27 am ET | Updated Apr 10, 2017

What Is Rosa Parks’ House Doing In Berlin?

Detroit planned to demolish the home, so now it’s in an artist’s yard in

Germany.

By Mary Papenfuss

If you want to visit the home where civil rights legend Rosa Parks lived, you have

a trip ahead of you — all the way across the Atlantic Ocean. That’s because her

home is in the backyard of an American artist living in Germany.

It seems like back-of-the-bus treatment for the black woman who had the guts in

1955 to refuse to give up her seat to a white man in Alabama and go to the back

of the bus. Instead, she gave birth to the civil rights movement.

Why is her home in Berlin? The short answer is that Detroit planned to destroy it.

When Parks’ niece Rhea McCauley found out, she paid $500 for the home, which

Parks moved to in 1957, and cast around for ways to save it. She reached out to

artist Ryan Mendoza, who happened to be in Detroit at the time and had previously moved a house from the city to Europe for an art project.

Though they both appealed to Detroit’s mayor to protect the building, they said the mayor had no interest. So Mendoza and volunteers disassembled the home,

packed it in shipping containers, transported it to Germany, and put it back together in an expensive operation that took several months, reported Deutsche Welle.

“It is something that is precious,” McCauley told The Associated Press. “It is priceless, yet it is being mistreated. That’s what I saw and that’s how it felt. So

when I met Ryan and he said, ‘Let’s bring it to Berlin and restore it,’ I said yes.”

Mendoza, who was born in New York, is stunned that Germany ended up with

what he considers a treasure. “The Rosa Parks house should actually be a

national monument and not a demolition project,” he told Deutsche Welle.

“The basic question, the fundamental question I ask myself: ‘Is the house

worthless or is the house priceless?’ For the American institutions so far the

house has been deemed worthless,” he told Agence France-Presse. “It was put

on a demolition list; that’s not a detail.”

Mendoza believes it’s apt that the house now stands in a country that tore down

a wall and was removed from a nation that plans to build a wall.

Rosa Parks’ niece Rhea McCauley (right) stands outside her aunt’s home, now in Berlin.

Hundreds of people turned out to see the official unveiling of the home in Berlin

last week. The interior still needs some work, but Mendoza has installed a sound

exhibit for the home including a telephone interview with Parks.

McCauley said she hopes one day the U.S. will “grow up” and ask for its treasure

back.

Friday, June 9, 2017

chokwe antar lumumba likely next mayor of jackson, mississippi

Jackson,Mississippi

just Nominated Radical Activist Chokwe Antar Lumumba to Be the Next Mayor

A fresh model for economic and social-justice politics is emerging in the South.

By John Nichols Twitter

MAY 3, 2017

Chokwe Antar Lumumba (Lumumba for Mayor)

When Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, NAACP president Cornell Williams Brooks, and actor Danny Glover joined thousands of Mississippians in marching for labor rights two months ago, economic and social justice activist Chokwe Antar Lumumba was in the thick of it. “I stand for workers’ rights,” Lumumba said, as the marchers converged on a Nissan plant where workers have been organizing for union protections. “[The] struggle does not cease and so we’re constantly in the battle of how we create self-determined lives for people. And we believe in human rights for human beings and you cannot support human rights if you’re not prepared to support workers’ rights. And so, we live in a world where you have so many with so little and so few with so much. And so, we’re trying to change that dynamic right here [in Mississippi]—we want to change the order of the world.”

James Brown and Dr. Nathan Hare on the Good Foot

Marvin,

To answer your question, that’s part of what messed us up. Say you’re orthodox, as most people are, that means you dance or box or do anything with the right foot (we’re not talking of the wrong fit just now) backing you up, leading with the other. For most people they are starting with or pivoting off their left foot, for others it’s just the reverse but no matter, because they are doomed to comply or deal with other people coming from an orthodox approach, meaning they’re doubly challenged (as they say of people retarded). So you think of your right foot as your good foot, but for many of us it’s injured or sore, so we think of the other one as our good (not injured or sore) foot; and some of us don’t have a good foot at all, and ain’t had it for years, many injured in childhood without access to adequate medical care; so all of that just goes double. Then we might get to using the other foot as our good foot, i.e., our backup foot, until the other one heals; and just thinking of which foot is good (if neither is) confuses us again. So getting on the good foot gives us pause, so the scramble to get on the good foot becomes a syncopated frenzy of confusion James Brown called a dance (all the more if we don’t know what syncopated is, on account of our edjumacation), don’t care what it is. Like we be grinning all the time because we hurting somewhere in our self, but expected to thank God and put on a good face; so speaking of feet we can get turned upside down.

Don’t start me to talking cause I’ll tell everything I know.

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FINALLY TUPAC SHAKURS MURDERERS CONFESSES

2pac Shakur died broke says Afeni Shakur Interview

Demetrius Shipp Jr on Playing Tupac in Movie “All Eyez On Me” And More! ...

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Thursday, June 8, 2017

we love africa

This event is to honor and uplift our Black and African community. We will be showcasing the richness and diversity of the Black and African culture through food, dance, music, and fashion. We will be collaborating with Black and African businesses to help give them a platform in the community while encouraging people to purchase products and services from them. This event as a whole will unify and bring together communities who may feel that they are alone or marginalized in this era of gentrification. We will encourage standing together, standing tall, and working together to make our community flourish.

black arts movement events calendar

The Black Arts and Culture Calendar is back!

6/1-6/17- Hela- The Live Oak Theater- Time Varies
6/1-6/3- The 10th annual Rafiki Coalition Black Health and Healing Summit- 601 Cesar Chavez Street- Time Varies
6/2- LyricsLounge 510- MLK Cafe- 9 PM
6/3- Take Back our Streets: Community Breakfast- 9 AM
6/3- Father Daughter Dinner Dance-Geoffrey's Inner Circle- 6PM
6/3- Oakland Carnival and Wellness Festival- Mosswood Park- 12 PM
6/3- Millsmont Farmers Market -7700 Mountain blvd- 9 AM
6/6- Speak Easy- Berkeley Repertory- 7PM (Every Tuesday)
6/6- The Oakland Queer+ Trans Open Mic-440 Grand Ave- 6PM
6/8- Black Fatherhood Film: Oakland Screening- Oakstop- 6PM
6/11- Talk of the Town: NLC Oakland's Community Building Forum- Greenlining Institute- 10 am
6/14- Nights at the Libertine- The Libertine Oakland- 8PM
6/14- Take Back Our Streets: Speaking Against Violence- Youth Uprising- 5 PM
6/16- Diner Maison Noire: Dinner + Conversation w/ Mame-Fatou Niang- Bissap Baobab Oakland - 7PM
6/17- African Nights- Miliki Restaurant- 9PM
6/17- Juneteenth Celebration: Friends of the Negro Spirituals- West Oakland Public African American Museum and Library at Oakland- 1 PM
6/17- 1st Annual Oaktown Reggae Festival
6/17- Soulful 70’s Party- Geoffrey's Inner Circle- 8 PM
6/17- 6/18- Zuvaa Pop up Shop- Oakstop- Time Varies
6/18- 30th Annual Berkeley Juneteenth Festival- 11 AM
6/24- The Oakland African Initiative Expo- Omni Community Center- 6 PM
6/25- Oakland Juneteenth- 3233 Market st- 11 AM

*All events are subject to change, check directly on sites for cost, update in location and times*
Did we miss your event? Don't let it happen again!

all eyez on me

The Fanfare and National Scope to Support the Challenges of Tupac Movie by Bennie Boom

By Maurice Brian Henderson

Not often has there been a clarion call, a hearkening and lyceum for people, viewers and patrons to proceed with action. Bennie Boom's soon to be released movie on Tupac Shakur entitled "All Eyez on Me" is surely the suggest to do so.

The value proposition is that it is important to support this film as the opus reconsideration of Black males as Endangered Species and America Most Wanted. I know that this is the period of enlightenment which warrants a film like this as a social paradigm shifting. It is the circumstance of work left undone

I stress the belief that Black Lives Matter and "All Eyez on Me" is the summation that Hip Hop has, still and will always matter as a fact floundering and missing pages of black males as a species and gender.

I have known Bennie Boom from his student enrollment at Temple University and his Philly tenure which included a peer group of prominent figures such as Grammy Award winner Jill Scott and Tony Awardwinner Black Ice. As a faculty member in Temple University's Pan-African Studies/ Community Education Program, I was blessed to have a leading role in his senior year film project that also featured Lois Moses, bestselling, awardwinning and critically acclaimed writer of books, films, plays and spoken recordings. The need assessment is for everybody, everyplace, elsewhere and anyhow of local, national and abroad to become talking heads and agent provocateurs for this purposeful film that will be released on June 16th which is three days before the annual emancipation celebration of Juneteenth dateline of June 19th. This film should not be referred to as the refrain and lasting namesake of failure such as the most recent Broadway play that mainstream and hip hop generational audiences refused to attend during its brief theatrical stint on the Great White Way of New York.

Let all of us be diligent, dutiful and participatory in contacting all of our friends, family members, constituents, neighbors, comrades, colleagues, associates, co-workers, siblings, relatives and offspring about the importance of this literary and cinematography expression presented by Bennie Boom. You still have time to make a call, text, email and even go the official website and download promotional material to post in the hangouts of bars, barbershops, beauty salons, laundromats, supermarkets, pool halls and other frequent and routine gathering places. The internet is the distinctive factor to explore the significance of this film especially through the footnotes provided in social media analysis "7 Revelations about the Tupac Shakur Biopic from Director Bennie Boom." Lets make sure that we put the word out as most importance through social fabrics of tweet, facebook, instagram and all other connectors to listserves, websites, chat sites, meet-up groups, etc.

Lets use all of our current strands of outreach to motivate those contingent of groups, organizations, facilities, centers, secret societies, institutions and bodies of socialization to put the word out about this landmark and pivotal historical event when Bennie Boom's film "All Eyez on Me"is released on June 16, 2017. Check the internet and go to the official website of the film or its director and keep them posted of your progressive intentions

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Maurice Henderson is a Faculty Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Public Health Initiatives and a nationally syndicated columnist. As the Founder of the National Black Arts Spoken Word Tour, he created and produced the critically acclaimed national touring production entitled "To Be Young, Black and Gifted with Rap." He can be reached at (267) 230-0317 or mauricebrianhenderson@yahoo.com

call to oakland city hall: increase arts and culture funding

Dear OCNC Members:

Two weeks ago OCNC members along with with the Refund Coalition showed up strong and prepared to tell our elected officials how they should invest in arts, housing, and jobs - budget for the town. We waited until 12AM to get in front of our city councilmembers. Exhausted and frustrated the process we stood firm on our demands to prioritize communities. We have another chance to make our voices heard. They need to keep feeling our energy!!

FRIDAY, JUNE 9TH --
THUNDERCLAP ACTION!!

Let your voice be heard!

FRIDAY, JUNE 9TH -- OCNC will be using THUNDERCLAP to amplify our message nationwide around arts and culture as a racial and economic justice strategy. We will be sending out details this Friday asking you to join our campaign.

What is Thunderclap? - Thunderclap is the first-ever crowdspeaking platform that helps people be heard by saying something together, ALL AT ONCE. It allows a single message to be mass-shared, flash mob-style, so it rises above the noise of your social networks.

TOOLKIT for Friday, June 9th:

Sign Up for our Thunderclap Campaign by Friday (6/9), 12 noon (email to come with more details). These talking points can be used to drive more personal posts on FB, Twitter, IG, etc.

MONDAY, JUNE 12TH --
SPECIAL BUDGET MEETING!!

MONDAY, JUNE 12th -- a day of action, performances and civic engagement at City Hall's Special Budget Meeting at City Hall. We are asking supporters and members to come to City Hall at 4pm for a rally and participate in the meeting’s open forum.

AGENDA for Monday, June 12th:

4:00-4:45pm

Rally outside of City Hall - Lineup of performances and speakers take place.

4:45-5:30pm

Enter City Hall to pack chambers and sign up for Open Forum and additional agenda items as people's time permits.

5:30pm

Special Budget meeting begins. Open Forum starts (first 15 people who are signed up get called up first!)

6:00pm

Agenda items begin.

We are asking all members to turn out in big numbers at Monday's City Council meeting!RSVP on Facebook and invite all of your friends and family!

We have a few t-shirts left so arrive on time to get one!

If you haven't already done so, fill out a speaker card.
For a speaker card, go to https://solar.oaklandnet.com/Speaker/form.
1) Put "Open Forum" in as the agenda item you wish to speak on.
2) Don't forget to check YES in the form under "Wish to speak"
3) Remember, even if you can't speak, you can cede your time to others who can!

Use these Talking Points to drive home the point that during this time of crisis, we NEED MORE INVESTMENT IN OAKLAND'S PEOPLE #FORTHECULTURE

Make your elected officials say YES to more
arts and culture funding to #KeepOaklandCreative!

FIRESIDE CHAT WITH #REGULARSONLY

OCNC had the pressure of meeting with some of Oakland's local tastemakers this past Saturday. We teamed up with @RegularsOnly to host a Fireside chat where we broke bread and discussed ways we can share effort to ensure we have a voice in the future of Oakland's art scene, and beyond.

We are currently working on a social media strategy that we'll be sharing with you in the coming weeks. Please be on the look out!

Take a look at OCNC's budget policy memo here. We have be sharing this with Oakland’s elected officials.

If you have any questions, please send an email to keepoaklandcreative@gmail.com

Be on the look out for regular reminders and updates on developments with the budget process.

Until soon!
#KEEPOAKLANDCREATIVE

marvin x experience ona move

2nd Annual Passion Africa Fashion Show, Friday, June 9, 7:30PM, Berkeley Technology Academy, 2701 MLK, Jr. Way

Berkeley World Music Festival, Friday, June 9, La Pena's, 8pm
Saturday,June 10,MLK Jr. Civic Center Park, noon --6pm
Sunday, June 11, People's Park, 1-6pm

Lola's African Night and fashion Show, June 17, 9pm., Miliki Restaurant, Oakland
Male, Female and Child Models are needed for the Lola's African Apparel Fashion Show in Oakland at Miliki Restaurant on Saturday June 17th.

Berkeley Juneteenth, Sunday, June 18, 11AM-7PM, Alcatraz and Adeline, Berkeley.

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