Category Archives: Black History and Me
Well-Being, School Performance, and Life Expectancy
Psychologist Valerie Purdie-Vaughns
Professor Sir Michael Marmot
AfroBeat Radio – Ntozake Shange Tribute 10:30pm – 12:00am Nov. 7, 2018
You are invited to listen to Afrobeat Radio and The Critical Joy Series collaborative Tribute to Ntozake Shange, 10:30pm – 12:00am (EST) November 7, 2018. Join AfroBeat Radio Host Wuyi Jacobs, Critical Joy Series -co-producer – Dr. Carol Marie Webster, and Dr. Halifu Osumare, Professor Emerita African American and African Studies – University of California, Davis and Livelong friend of renowned author and activist Ntozake Shange.
The evening will include live interview with Halifu Osumare, along with segments from the May 17th AfroBeat Radio Osumare/Shange reunion interview – with Shange reading from her 2017 publication Wild Beauty, New and Selected Poems.
To Listen Live click on the following link: Afrobeat Radio/Critical Joy (November 7th – 10:30 – 12:00am).
Ntozake Shange
Rest in Peace Ntozake Shange!
It was an honor to meet and work with Ntozake Shange this spring in New York City on Halifu Osumare’s Dance in Blackness, A Memoir book tour. Below is the podcast of one of Shange’s last interviews with her good friend Halifu Osumare, and Afrobeat Radio host Wuyi Jacobs.
Photo: © Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
Harlem Arts Alliance honors Halifu Osumare
On Monday October 1st at 6:30 pm at Aaron Davis Hall, The Harlem Arts Alliance honored Halifu Osumare for her lifetime of “artistic & scholarly gifts to our collective global artistic community” during their annual Arts Advocacy Month meeting dedicated to Transforming Advocacy for the Arts into Creative Action within our communities. I accepted the award on Dr. Osumare’s behalf and was join in the evening’s celebration by artists Nkumu Katalaya, Lacresha Berry and Christy Ayala and Rob Ayala.
L – Dr Carol Marie Webster R – Joyous Pierce, Administrative Director of Programs – Harlem Arts Alliance (Photographer – Darryl T. Downing)
Joyous Pierce, Nkumu Katalay, Lacresha Berry, Christy Ayala and Rob Ayala (Photographer – Darryl T. Downing)
Nkumu Katalay (Photographer – Darryl T. Downing)
Lacresha Berry performing TUBMAN (Photographer – Darryl T. Downing)
Lacresha Berry, Rob Ayala, Joyous Pierce, Christy Ayala, Nkumu Katalay, Carol Marie Webster, Voza Rivers – Chairman Harlem Arts Alliance (Photographer – Darryl T. Downing)
Farewell Arthur Mitchell Rest in Peace
I cannot even begin to express my sadness at the loss of Arthur Mitchell… God Speed!!
Workshop Today! Critical Joy/Ecstatic Reasoning (CJ/ER)
September 19, 2018 Critical Joy/Ecstatic Reasoning (CJ/ER) – Blackness Protracted Workshop
AfroBeat Radio at BROOKLYN COMMONS, 388 ATLANTIC AVENUE, BETWEEN BOND & HOYT STREETS, BROOKLYN, NY 11217
REGISTER at the door. More Information: HERE
Though embodied practices that center on African Diasporic (Black) body technologies of reasoning in and through ecstatic joy, CJ/ER workshop is an exploration and examination of critical joy that is embodied and thereby potentially resurrective. In CJ/ER workshop the body’s abilities are directed to manufacture (real and/or imagined) spaces/place for reconstruction, reconfiguration, and realignment of self-to-self, self-to-community, and self-to-divine. CJ/ER workshop participants will be guided through techniques and experience processes for igniting Critical Joy/Ecstatic Reasoning into daily life, and discovery and re/imagine inner embodied resources for navigating through and making sense of life in a problematic world.
When: 8:30 – 10:00 pm Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Where: BROOKLYN COMMONS, 388 ATLANTIC AVENUE, BETWEEN BOND & HOYT STREETS, NYC 11217
REGISTER at the door. More information HERE
Meeting a writer
RESPECT!!!
Rest in Peace….
Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon
Some people’s work inspire movements, some save lives, some remind us that we are essential and provide balm to our wounded spirit, and some make us strong and fierce, Womanist scholar Rev. Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon‘s life and work did all this and more!!! Rest In Peace!!!
https://www.presbyterianmission.org/story/the-rev-dr-katie-geneva-cannon-dies/
Power Analysis/Reclaiming-Reimagining/KnowingYourWorth
(Rev. Dr. Katie G. Cannon, the Rev. Dr. Eboni Marshall Turman, The Rev. Dr. JoAnne Terrell, moderated by Rev. Kymberly McNair)
