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Nov 30 – Dec 13, 2023
- Annual Winter Festival Returns to Prince George's
The 37th Annual Winter Festival of Lights opened in Prince George's County, Maryland November 24 and remains open until January 1, 2024.The drive–through outdoor festival is open daily.
- Ukraine, Now Palestine, Are American Blacks Neglecting Their Own?
Some have told me, but did you see how "evil Israel" destroyed that hospital in Gaza? My response: in many African American communities there was once a hospital, but now there are no hospitals to even bomb and as Sojourner Truth might had added, ain't we human?
- Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are: Renovating IN Gary, IN
SHORT TERM RENTAL, MARKETING/FURNISHING
When creating a modern, but traditional setting inside the renovated house, the first decisions centered around what furniture to keep. Interestingly, I found that it was often cheaper to buy new furniture than to have old furniture restored.
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Oct 19 – Nov 01, 2023
- Ena Re E Bitsa Kobo Ya Taemane / This We Call a Blanket of a Diamond
The "place of work" in this case, can be wherever hope resides. That is the hope to find a diamond, the shining stone that can fish out a man and his family from a life of want and lack overnight.
- Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are: Renovating IN Gary, IN
"PORTAGE MIDTOWN, SOUTH BEND, IN"
Howard Ways, an urban planner and educator based in Metro Washington, DC, supports Mike Keen's (of South Bend, IN) objectives but adds that his major concern is that people don't often separate economic gentrification from cultural gentrification.
- Activities
The link to get four free at-home COVID–19 tests is under COVID; Eriq La Salle is having a book signing and Chester Higgins a photography showing in New York City; Up Jump The Boogie, a dance performance, takes place in Cheverly, MD.
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Oct 05 – Oct 18, 2023
- Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are: Renovating IN Gary, IN
"COMING HOME"
(This article is part of a ten-article series.) On Monday, November 14, 2022, my brother and I joined a growing movement of small developers investing in a city that has experienced divestment for more than 40 years. On our street, four homes sitting on spacious 75–feet wide midwestern lots have been recently renovated.
- A Meditation on Maynard: Is a Meditation on American History
Pearl Cleage’s past plays and novels dealt with racism, sexism, and feminism with force - - and she does not hold back with this work either.
- Activities
The Apollo Theater’s Inaugural Festival of Arts & Ideas starts Friday; Dr. Makaziwe Mandela speaks in London for British Black History Month; and don’t miss the Children’s Africana Books Awards Ceremony and Festival Oct. 14 in DC. NAREB-HBREA Building Black Wealth tour starts in Houston, Oct 7. If you have a student loan, see Biden Unveils New Student Debt Forgiveness Plan under Money and Khismet Wearable Art is having a pop-up at Zawadi-DC Oct 14 -15.
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