Thu, Jul 08, 8p
Rawn James, Jr
What the Ketanji Brown Jackson and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi appointments could represent for the future of the Supreme Court?
A graduate of Yale University and Duke University School of Law, Former DC assistant attorney general Rawn James, Jr. has practiced law for two decades in Washington, D.C., where he lives with his wife and their two sons.
He is the author of Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and the Struggle to End Segregation and The Double V: How Wars, Protest and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military.
Health/COVID-19
COVID-19 Self Test
free
Recorded and Upcoming End-of-Life Planning Webinars
Referral Service: The National Partnership for Hospice Innovation
For in-home elderly medical care (versus a more risky emergency room visit)
1-844-438-6744
Theater
Homegrown (Spoken Word)
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Fri, Jul 9-Sun, Jul 11
Art
Struggle: From the History of the American People
Jacob Lawrence
The Phillips Collection
Washington, D.C.
now-Sun, Sep 19
Black History
Abolition Commemoration Day
Mon, Jul 12
(New York State commemorates the Abolition Act, which passed the New York State Legislative on March 31, 1817 and abolished slavery effective July 4, 1827.)
Becoming Douglass Commonwealth: From D.C. Disenfranchisement to Full Democracy
CR Gibbs start around 12:18 minutes
Voices of the Freedom Riders
By The Obama Foundation
Frederick Douglass Walking Tour
Baltimore
Lou Fields, 443-983-7974
Civic Involvement
Making Progress On Gender Equality: It’s Time For More Transparency
The Brookings Institution
Thursday, July 8, 2021, 10a - 11:15a
Festivals
*Uhuru Marketplace
Philadelphia
Sat, Jul 17
*African World
Detroit
Fri, Aug
20-Sun, Aug 22
*Capital Jazz
Columbia, MD
Sat, Sep 4-Sun, Sep 5
*Weequahic Park House Music Festival with a Splash of Soca
Newark
Sat, Sept 11
*Visit
Nubian K Essentials' booth