Synopsis: Though apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, economic injustices between Blacks and Whites remain unresolved. As revealed in Yoruba Richen’s incisive Promised Land, the most potentially explosive issue is land.

The film follows two Black communities as they struggle to reclaim land from White owners, some of whom who have lived there for generations. Amid rising tensions and wavering government policies, the land issue remains South Africa’s ticking time bomb, with far-reaching consequences for all sides. Promised Land captures multiple perspectives of citizens struggling to create just solutions.

Friday, June 25 is the deadline for submission of up to 10 images for the 4th annual East of the River exhibition at Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions. Artists living, working, or personally invested in the areas east of the Anacostia River in D.C. may make a submission.

• Doctors Without Borders
  
• World Vision
  
• Clinton/Bush Haiti Fund
• TransAfrica Forum

Saturday, June 26, 2010
10:00-11:30a
U Street Metro Station, 10th and U St NW
RSVPs required -- $10 suggested donation

Join a walking conversation in one of D.C.'s eminent examples of urban revitalization: the U Street Corridor. We'll discuss the factors behind the transformation of this diverse community, including public and private transit-oriented and mixed use redevelopment, and revitalization within a culturally and architecturally historic neighborhood.

The tour will start at the 10th Street entrance of the U Street/ African American Civil War Memorial/Cardozo Metro Station and examine sites along the U St/14th St commercial corridors and the adjacent residential area.

Our guides will be Otto Condon of ZGF Architects and Scott Pomeroy, longtime resident and former Executive Director of the 14th & U Main Street program.

The renovated Eastern Market is open and jewelry designer Anthony Driver, who is best known for bold silhouettes and hammered metal adornments couldn't be happier. “People are out enjoying themselves and business has picked up,” he says. In addition to his creations, Driver now carries products created by 125 women in Ugandan refugee camps and marketed by the nonprofit Paper to Pearls.

Eastern Market is also now home of the city’s first public 24-hour WiFi spot. Hot spots allow those with a computer, personal digital assistant or other equipment with digital Wi-Fi capability to connect to the Internet for free.

Note: Find Driver at his booth on 7th Street, NE near North Carolina Avenue, SE in front of Port City Java.