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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Fw: 2-Part Intellectual Property Workshop: Dec 6 & 13
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
FINE ART IMAGES OF ANCIENT AFRICAN KINGDOMS, EMPIRES AND CIVILIZATIONS
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Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- New website, MyAmazinRoots.com, features fine art images of ancient Africa. The images debunk the stereotypical and racist views of Africa as a dark continent by showcasing Africa's Ancient History through fine art. The various paintings, drawing and illustrations have all been meticulously restored and enhanced over the past few years. Much of it has never been seen by most present day Africans and African Americans - yet Africa's fine art and depictions of Africans in fine art has occupied space in some of the world's most prominent museums abroad for centuries. The owners of the web site describe their work as the result of the collaborative efforts of research and graphic art, but stress that it was born out of a prayer - A prayer for our children, a fervent prayer for all the ills that plague far too many of them. From the toxic effects of drug and gun infested communities, to the crumbling schools of low expectations to lead poisoning, the unprecedented phenomenon of black on black crime and homicide, and the prison industrial complex. Their looming concerns that the gains of the civil rights movement were being derailed with many of our youths lost and dying, with seemingly no public outrage and indignation. That prayer they contend, was answered with the call to "show my people who and whose they are - who they were created to be since the beginning of time - wonderfully and marvelously made, in my (God's) image and that I LOVE them." And that's the genesis of MyAmazinRoots.com The web site's objective is to vividly portray to Africans and the world, the truth of who they are - from the progenitor of humanity itself as the world's true Adam and Eve to the progenitor of the world's advanced civilizations. And it accomplishes that with vivid fine art depictions of Ancient African Kingdoms, Empires and Civilizations. It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words. However, they also have a featured video and an accompanying fine art book. A portion of all sales will benefit HBCUs. For more details, visit www.myamazinroots.com | ||
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AN AWARD FOR NATURAL BEAUTIES: AMERICA'S NEXT NATURAL MODEL 2012
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 29, 2011 CONTACT:
-- $1,000 in cash, an Adrian Alicea photo shoot, an Iman Cosmetics makeover, Going Natural Hair Care products, endorsements and more -- Nationwide (BlackNews.com) -- Out of hundreds of beauties, only ten will compete for an Adrian Alicea photo shoot, an Iman Cosmetics Makeover, $1000 in cash, free Going Natural Hair Care products, endorsements and a whole lot more. All this takes place online in one of the fastest growing social communities today, Going-Natural.com, with over 25,000 members. The annual pageant, also known as Miss Nappturality, can best be described as America's Next Top Model meets American Idol on the web. The competition offers aspiring models a chance to expose their beauty while taking their natural talents to the next level. An advanced I-community will decide which one of the beauties deserves their vote and who they will promote via their social media network "like-buttons." Companies interested in benefiting from this type of social network promotion can apply for sponsorship. In their pursuit of endorsements the competing models are eager to feature sponsored items. America's Next Natural Model aims to promote the beauty of natural hair but also to add an additional dimension of diversity to the world of beauty. The growing enticing price list is not just to attract aspiring natural models. The purpose is also to inspire Black beauties to take off their wigs and weaves and dare them to shoot natural, says organizer Liong-A-Kong. The author of Going Natural How to Fall in Love with Nappy Hair continues, "The world is missing out on the beauty and uniqueness that African hair naturally offers and I am eager and exited that this pageant exposes some of the unknown possibilities." Miss Nappturality's 4th season starts in January of 2012 and lasts eight weeks. The deadline for models to apply is Dec. 18, 2011. Companies interested in sponsoring can call 718-395-2537. For more info, visit www.Going-Natural.com. | ||
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Craisin Crisis! Dried Fruit Recalled Due To "Hair-Like Metal Fragments"
Craisin Crisis! Dried Fruit Recalled
Craisins, which for years have battled an inferiority complex against raisins, suffered another blow to their reputation this weekend, when manufacturer Ocean Spray announced a recall of thousands of bags due to "the possible presence of very small hair-like metal fragments." The fragments, like the dried cranberries themselves, will do nothing to enhance your salad-eating experience. [ more › ]
Craisin Crisis! Dried Fruit Recalled Due To "Hair-Like Metal Fragments"
Jamie Feldmar
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:52:17 GMT
African-American - News
African-American - News November 28, 2011 President Obama has said that one quality he prizes highly in his judicial appointments is empathy. The CIA, Kwame Nkrumah, and the Destruction of Ghana (United Black America) Video: Rice: Race and poverty "a witch's brew" (CBS News) Mass. Anti-slavery hub to reopen after restoration (York Dispatch) Pa. Exhibit showcases legendary black photographer (WTOP-FM Washington) Demographic shifts favor Obama in 2012, study says (Bangor Daily News) Why African Americans aren'tembracing Occupy Wall Street (Lucianne) | ||
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Get Your Charity Together: Wyclef Put On Blast Once Again About What Yele Haiti Is Doing With Their Donors’ Money
Get Your Charity Together: Wyclef
The mayor of the city of North Miami may have thought Wyclef‘s do-gooder-ness was worthy of recognition last week, but people are stil giving him and his Yele Haiti foundation the side-eye.
Yele Haiti’s coffers swelled to $16 million in 2010, the most the charity had ever received. But less than a third of that went to emergency efforts, and $1 million was paid to a Florida firm that doesn’t seem to exist, The Post has learned.
Jean’s charity, which he founded in 2005 with his cousin Jerry Duplessis, was already troubled when the earthquake struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. The Post reported in 2008 that it had never filed a required tax form detailing its spending with the IRS.
The group lost $244,000 in 2009. But hours after the earthquake hit, Jean took to Twitter to beg for $5 donations. An avalanche of donations poured in.
Almost immediately, allegations surfaced that the former Fugees singer had used the charity’s cash for his own benefit. Critics found that four years earlier Yele Haiti had steered $250,000 to a Haitian TV station controlled by Jean and Duplessis.
Jean held a Jan. 18, 2010, press conference to tearfully defend Yele Haiti’s reputation.
“Have we made mistakes before? Yes,” Jean said. “Did I ever use Yele money for personal benefits? Absolutely not. Yele’s books are open and transparent.”
The earthquake killed between 200,000 and 300,000 Haitians and left a million homeless. The country is still in the grip of a cholera epidemic.
For all the desperation, records show that Yele Haiti spent just $5.1 million for emergency relief efforts, including food and water delivery to makeshift survivor camps, according to a review of the charity’s 2010 tax filings, which were obtained by The Post.
Yele Haiti paid five contractors to accomplish its goals, including P&A Construction — which received $353,983 and is run by Warnel Pierre, the brother of Jean’s wife, Claudinette.
A purported Miami business called Amisphere Farm Labor Inc. received a whopping $1,008,000 as a “food distributor.”
No trace of the company could be found last week in the Sunshine State, but records show the company’s head, Amsterly Pierre, bought three properties in Florida last year, including a condo in an upscale waterfront community.
The firm incorporated in August 2008 but never filed any of the subsequent financial paperwork required to do business in Florida, according to the Florida Department of State.
The address listed for the business is an auto-repair shop in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, where a worker said he had never heard of Pierre or Amisphere. Pierre did not return a call for comment.
Yele Haiti also paid $577,185 to a company called Samosa SA, based in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, as a “bulk water supplier.” But some of that money went to rent a house for Yele Haiti volunteers on Samosa’s property at the inflated price of $35,000 a month.
“Given the fact that Yele Haiti was involved in a swirl of controversy after the earthquake in Haiti, it’s all the more reason to be more transparent to ensure donors that their funds are going to help people,” said the Better Business Bureau’s Bennett Weiner.
In Clef’s defense, a lot of charities’ hands have been tied by red tape and political BS in Haiti following the earthquake, due to the fact that the outbound government at the time wasn’t necessarily all that interested in seeing the country move forward. Yele also wouldn’t be the first American-based charity to partner with people who didn’t necessarily have the best intentions when it came to actually helping Haiti.
But you would think, at this point, Wyclef would do a better job of covering his a$$ and making sure everything he and Yele did was on the money…
Get Your Charity Together: Wyclef Put On Blast Once Again About What Yele Haiti Is Doing With Their Donors’ Money
EditorialGrrl
Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:36:33 GMT
Bronx Power Outage Leaves Rehab Center Patient Dead
Earlier this morning, a transformer exploded in the Bronx, causing a power outage in the Gun Hill section. One of the affected buildings in the area was Eastchester Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, and one of the patients on ventilators died, according to the Post. [ more › ]
Bronx Power Outage Leaves Rehab Center Patient Dead
Jen Chung
Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:35:22 GMT
Lady Rhea, a No-Nonsense Bronx Witch
| Lady Rhea, 60, a Wiccan high priestess, helps run the Pagan Center of New York and sells homemade candles imbued with customized spells to achieve things like health and wealth or love and luck. | ||
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African-American - News
African-American - News November 27, 2011 This is normally the spot to keep track of the latest Republican efforts to keep Americans from voting for Democrats by keeping them from voting. Herman "Chocolate Walnut" Cain To Iowans: "I Can Bring Black Vote" (WDBZ-AM Cincinnati) Oops! TV station typo labels African Americans in line for Black... (Daily Mail) "Stand for Freedom" To Hold Multilingual, Community Press Briefing On Voting And March (Harlem World) Racists! More Blacks Supported Tea Party Movement Than Support #Occupy Movement (Gateway Pundit) 'The Human Story behind Race' SMCM performance: Dec. 7-11 (Examiner) Nation's top literary awards go to African-American Women (Our Time Press) | ||
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Holiday Candlelight First Friday! + Bronx Seaside Trolley
Holiday Candlelight First Friday! + Bronx Seaside Trolley
Date: December 2, 2011
Experience the magic of the mansion by candlelight and decorated for the holidays. Christmas trees inspired by children’s holiday stories are featured throughout the house. Do a little holiday shopping, delight in music by the a cappella Metropolitones, and enjoy holiday refreshments. The free Bronx Seaside Trolley makes a continuous loop from the #6 Pelham Bay Park subway station to BPMM to City Island. Registration requested.
Start time: 5:30 pm
End time: 8:30 pm
Contact phone: (718) 885-1461
Location: Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (in Pelham Bay Park)
Holiday Candlelight First Friday! + Bronx Seaside Trolley
Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:00:08 GMT