Oct 03 – Oct 16, 2024
Sharpton and Central Park Five Members Get Out The Vote In Battleground Pennsylvania
About ten days after Yusuf Salaam and four other boys started to confess to a rape and attack, real estate magnate Donald Trump called for the return of the death penalty in full–page advertisements in all four of New York’s major newspapers. Today, the justice system has exonerated Salaam and the four others, and Salaam sits on the New York City Council. He, with Al Sharpton, warns people not to vote for felon trump.
5 Tips to Retire 5 Years Early
More than half of nonretired people say they don't think they will have enough money to live comfortably, according to a Gallup poll. Despite the dour feelings, all is hardly lost. Not only are there ways to improve your retirement readiness, you may even be able to move that retirement date up by 5 years. With planning, perseverance, and maybe some tradeoffs, it's often possible.
Blue Eyed Soul Sung by Brown Eyed People
"Blue Eyed Soul sung by Brown Eyed People" went beyond staging biographical Wikipedia-like sketches set to music. They streamed in a second storyline that held the stories together and gave the presentations luscious depth and lasting meaning.
Douglass Frederick Interpreter Delivers 1857 Dred Scott Speech
In light of the current U.S Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, what did Frederick Douglass have to say about a Supreme Court gone rouge in the 1857 Dred Scott decision? Nathan Richardon's new film presents a six–minute contextualized version of
the full eight page speech written by Douglass.
Soap Success Empowers Women
The soap program started after the Port of Harlem Gambian Education Partnership stopped supporting the Baobab Youth Development Association's mobile (cell) phone recharging service. John Christie, an Australian doctor whom I met in Cuba, funded the original revenue generator. Christie is a friend of my friend Kym Chandler. John and Kym were there for a visiting doctor's program. I was there with the late Nestor Hernandez, covering his jazz/photography cultural trip.
Activities
At the “Moss H. Kendrix: Reframing the Black Image” exhibit at the Alexandria Virgina Black History Museum, you can now buy Gambia River Soap in the gift shop. Under “Health,” find the link for Americans to order free COVID-19 test kits. Also find links to hear Vice President Kamala Harris on Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast and to read about New York’s reparations study.
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