“Phoenix Risen: The Art of Cartoonist David Brown” and other links…
blackmoney.com: “Phoenix Rising [continues] at AAMLO, 659 14th St. in Oakland through October 20. Arts workshops are being planned at the museum. For more details, visit davidgbrown.com or call AAMLO at 510-637-0200…”
“Black Youth Vote!”
From the desk of Jazzmyne PR: “Black Youth Vote! (BYV!) is a national grassroots coalition of organizations and individuals committed to increasing political and civic engagement among black youth and young adults between the ages of 18-35. The iThink2012 Campaign is made possible with support from the Open Society Foundations, Workers Voices, Boule Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Youth Engagement Fund and Tides Foundation-BCEF. Co-convened by NCBCP and A. Philip Randolph Institute, the Unity '12 Campaign is a national non-partisan effort to turn out Black voters. For more information, visit www.ncbcp.org or www.unityvoterempowermentcampaign.org.”
“President Jeffries Pushes Education, Pan Africanism in Chicago”
“The World African Diaspora Union (WADU) President Leonard Kweku Jeffries declared ‘African people are in a state of war.’ The solution to our problem he said begins with reading and studying the work of our great scholars because our ‘children need to know the story’ of our greatness as a people. The President was in Chicago on October 13, 2012 as part of the WADU 5th Pan African Congress anniversary tribute and to promote the union of the Diaspora with Africa. …Contact: 718-523-3312 http://www.wadupam.org/”
To listen to Dr. Jeffries speak online, listen to “LIBRadio Sampler: Doctoral Warriors for the African Mind” here in the kinté space.