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    Wells Fargo to Lend $55 Billion to Women-Owned Businesses

    by  • March 15, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Lisa Stevens

    Wells Fargo Bank has announced it will lend a total of $55 billion to women-owned businesses by the year 2020. The announcement was made recently by Lisa Stevens, Wells Fargo lead executive for Small Business and West Coast Regional Banking president, at the Hispanas Organized for Political Equality (HOPE) 22nd Annual Latina History Day...

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    Baby Born With HIV Cured, Say Scientists

    by  • March 15, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Health, HIV, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    This image shows Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins’ Children’s Center in Baltimore. A baby born with HIV appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, Mar. 3. AP Photo/Johns Hopkins Medicine.

    By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who is now 2 1/2 and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection. There is no guarantee the...

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    Terralyn Mosby, Advocate for HIV/AIDS Awareness

    by  • March 15, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Health, HIV, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Terralyn and her older brother Quincey Mosby, who often uses his poetry to express himself.

    By Jesse Brooks National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a time to share knowledge and shed light on the often-overlooked impact of the disease on women and families in our communities. The official commemoration was March 10, but events happen all month. Often buried within the data on the general AIDS population...

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    “One Man’s Battle: An African American Journey”

    by  • March 15, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    The Africana and African American Studies and Friends of the Library group at Contra Costa College presented a book signing this week with Rufus Battle, author of “One Man’s Battle: An African American Journey.” The book, a tale of struggle and redemption, tells his story of living in a “sharecropper’s shack near a Louisiana...

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    State of Emergency” Conference on Under-Performing Children

    by  • March 15, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Contra Costa College and Community Engagement Initiatives (CEI) are presenting a “State of Emergency” conference Saturday, April 6 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to “discuss challenges and issues facing under-performing children, their families and communities.” The conference, which will be held at Contra Costa College at 2600 Mission Bell Drive in San Pablo,...

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    Africans In America

    by  • March 8, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, Featured, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Elebiti (in green) and Egungun masquerader is being led from the temple beginning the procession.  The man in Blue is the head of Egungun worshippers in the Ile-Ife city of Nigerian.

    Egungun Festival of Nigeria’s Yoruba Ancestors The Egungun is a secret society among the Yoruba people of Ibadan, Oyo, and Modakeke, Gbongan Osun State, Nigeria. The major Egungun festival takes place in June, when members of the society come to the market place and perform masked dances. The masks represent ancestral spirits. It is...

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    True Vine Ministries’ “Men of Iron” Program Helps Youth

    by  • March 8, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Back row, from left to right: Bryce Manuel, Darius Falcon, Armani Wright, Jovonni Temple, Dennis McCinton; Front row, left to right:  Kamal Frazier, Asante Dunn, Jacari Ward, Balall Nasher, Christopher Grigsby, Ajani Patillo.

    By Ashley Chambers Men of Iron (MOI) is an organization that seeks to provide  a positive influence for young boys in Oakland, Seeing the lives of young Black men taken away by countless homicides and incarceration, six deputy sheriffs started the program in 2007 in response to the lack of positive male role models...

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    Hugo Chavez Aided Hurricane Katrina Victims

    by  • March 8, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    hugo Chavez

    By Post Staff As millions of Venezuelans mourn the death of 58-year-old President Hugo Chavez, a number of local residents remember the controversial leader’s efforts on behalf of the poor in his country and the U.S. Under Chavez, the CITGO – Venezuela Heating Oil Program has provided low-cost heating oil to 1.7 million people...

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    Math Streaming at St. Andrew School Helps Bridge the Gap

    by  • March 8, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Rev. Robert Lacy, Jr. of St. Andrew Private School in Oakland.

    By Ashley Chambers Students across the nation can boost their math and science scores from the comfort of their computer screens by tuning in to live stream sessions conducted by Rev. Robert Lacy Jr. of St. Andrew Private School in Oakland. As a teacher of math and science for the past 15 years, Lacy...

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    Gigi Crowder Wins Mental Health Association Award

    by  • March 8, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, South County

    Gigi Crowder

    Gigi Crowder has received the Mental Health Association of Alameda County’s Distinguished Achievement Award for her work as ethnic services manager in the county’s Behavioral Health program. Crowder received the award for her “commitment to cultural diversity in mental health” and  “the outstanding work she does to honor the consumer and family voice regarding...

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    Celebrate Harriet Tubman at Peralta Colleges

    by  • March 8, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Harriet Tubman

      History, says Wanda Ravernell of Omnira Institute, is not a subject you study. It is something you live with. Day in and day out, we live with the choices made in the past, choices that continue to affect us. “It is important to know that history,” said Ravernell,  “because it frames the choices...

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    Senior Travel Troupe Meeting

    by  • March 8, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, South County

    The Senior Travel Troupe will discuss upcoming excursions for adults 50+ Monday, April 1, 10 a.m. to noon at the Senior Community Center, 13909 East 14th St. in San Leandro. Learn the affordable, exciting and fun way to travel. Preregistration is required to attend this free meeting. Priority registration for all trips  will be...

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    Teens Walk and Ride to Win a Bicycle at Bancroft Middle School

    by  • March 8, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, South County

    Pictured left to right:  SLUSD Boardmember Diana Prola, Safe Routes to School Coordinator Lisa Jackson, Bancroft Middle School Principal Jonathan Ferrer, Isaac Silva, Vice Principal Fabiola Fernandez, Vice Mayor Michael Gregory.

    Bancroft Middle School sixth grader Isaac Silva won a brand new 24-inch mountain bike this week as part San Leandro’s Safe Routes to School Program. The bicycle was presented Monday by Vice-Mayor Michael Gregory, along with San Leandro School Board Trustee Diana Prola and Safe Moves Coordinator Lisa Jackson. Bancroft Middle School students took...

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    Dr. E.N. Crawford Celebrates 40 Years of Preaching the Gospel

    by  • March 1, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, Secretaries and Clerks, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Dr. E.N. Crawford

    Raised in Oakland, Dr. E.N. Crawford accepted Christ at the age of 13. He acknowledged his call to the Gospel ministry in 1973, making him the youngest  preacher in the California State Baptist Convention. Crawford took on an active role as part of the ministerial staff at the Union Baptist Church, where he became...

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    Cramer’s “I Design” HIV Education

    by  • March 1, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Mondo Guerra

    By Jesse Brooks Acclaimed photographer and HIV advocate Duane Cramer is partnering with Project Runway star Mondo Guerra on the national HIV education campaign “I Design,” which encourages people with HIV to become personally involved in their treatment. “I Design” kicked off the second year of its initiative on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day,...

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    Voting Rights Needed Now More Than Ever

    by  • March 1, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Politics and Government, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Congressman John Lewis discussed the need to resurrect the civil rights activism of the 60’s and 70’s when he visited with Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Gay Plair Cobb and Paul Cobb on a recent trip to Oakland. Gay Cobb,a former NAACP student leader at Queen’s College, who corresponded with Malcolm X, was also an original freedom rider and attended the March on Washington where she heard Lewis speak.  Paul Cobb was at Howard University when he helped organize a bus boycott with Marion Barry and worked with John Lewis, Jesse Jackson and Julian Bond when he directed the Southern Elections Fund in Atlanta.  Photo by Stephen V. Brooks.

    By Jesse Jackson The Supreme Court this week heard a challenge to the Voting Rights Act in the case of Shelby v. Holder. On the same day, across the street in the congressional rotunda, a statue honoring Rosa Parks was unveiled. And one week later, the nation will celebrate the 48th anniversary of Bloody...

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    Jazz Talent Competition for Teens and Adults

    by  • March 1, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Jazz Search West 2013, a Bay Area’s Jazz talent search for adults and teens 15 and up, is holding four competitions at Jazz venues in San Francisco and Oakland during the month of March. Contestants will perform at the venue of their choice in front of a panel of judges chosen from Bay Area...

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    500 Attend African American Organizations Making Connections

    by  • March 1, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, General Articles, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    From  left to right: Congresswoman Barbara Lee, founding Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale, and Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson at the 2nd African American Organizations Making Connections at Laney College on Feb. 23. Photo credit: Reginald James.

    In celebration of Black History Month, Supervisor Keith Carson and community leaders held the African American Organizations Making Connections 2013 conference, “Strategies and Outcomes for Our Black Community,” Feb. 23 at Laney College in Oakland.  More than 500 people attended. “The Black community faces many challenges, including high unemployment, Black-on-Black violence and poor health...

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    Problem Gambling Summit Tackles Cultural Barriers

    by  • March 1, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Terri Sue Canale

    Problem gambling crosses the lines of culture, race and economic status—impacting more than a million people in California. The 2013 Problem Gambling Training Summit, hosted by the California Office of Problem Gambling (OPG) on March 4-5 in San Diego, will focus on prevention and treatment approaches tailored for the state’s diverse populations. “There is...

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    Deborah Ale-Flint Leads Port of Oakland

    by  • March 1, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Deborah Ale-Flint

    By Tanya Dennis Acting Executive Director Deborah Ale-Flint has become the first African-American woman to serve at the helm of the Port of Oakland, the fifth busiest container port in the country. She had previously worked since 2010 as aviation director at the Oakland International Airport, another first for an African-American woman. A resident...

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    Celebrate Women’s History Month with City Attorney Jayne Williams

    by  • March 1, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, South County

    San Leandro City Attorney Jayne Williams

    The San Leandro Public Library is hosting a talk with San Leandro City Attorney Jayne Williams in celebration of Women’s History Month. Williams was recently selected by the legal periodical The Recorder for its 2012 “Women Leaders in Law” list. She heads the law firm Meyers Nave’s Crisis Management Practice. Her prominence in the...

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    Students “Reaching Back, Moving Forward”

    by  • March 1, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, South County

    Black History in SoCo

    The Black Student Union (BSU) at San Leandro High School hosted a Black History Month program on Monday, Feb. 25 with the theme “Reaching Back, Moving Forward”. The event was  supported by parents LuTillian Hudson and Angelia Foxall, and donors   included Starbucks, Piccadilly Restaurants, D.R. Roberts Event Management, Best Burgers, Rock & Roll Japanese...

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    Oakland Housing Assistance for Tenants and Homeowners

    by  • February 23, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Tanya Dennis is fighting to save her home.

    By Tanya Dennis The Oakland Housing Assistance Office, which will help homeowners and tenants in fear of losing their homes, held a grand opening at its new office at 250 Frank Ogawa Plaza on the 5th floor in Oakland. Supported by Oakland officials, grass root organizations and legal assistance groups, the office will provide...

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    Writer-Activist in New Fight to Save Home

    by  • February 23, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, Sacred Sounds, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    By Tanya Dennis Two years ago in 2011, I broke the locks on my foreclosed house in Berkeley and repossessed my home. By the time the sheriff was due to arrive a month later to evict me again, I had begun working with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), and with the...

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    “Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson”

    by  • February 23, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Eslander

    “Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson,” is a new book that tells the story of a woman of unusual accomplishments—an anthropologist, a prolific journalist, a tireless advocate of women’s rights, an outspoken anti-colonial and antiracist activist, and an internationally sought-after speaker. Yet historians for the most part have confined Essie...

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    Darlene Lawson, 75, Fought for Equal Education

    by  • February 23, 2013 • Africans in America, Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Darlene Lawson served on the Oakland Board of Education from 1983 to January 1993. Here she celebrates her second inauguration with five of her seven children: Loretta Little, Vida Byrd, Billie Wright, Annette Wright and Charlene Byrd.

    By Ken A. Epstein Businesswoman Darlene Ann Lawson-Scott, 75, who left a lasting impact on Oakland schools during two terms on the Board of Education, died on Jan 13. A fighter for equal education for flatland children and families, she was the first African American woman to be elected to the school board. Known...

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    Tuskegee Airman George Hardy, 87, Broke Down Racial Barriers

    by  • February 23, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Black Church Information, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Retired lieutenant colonel George Hardy, 87, helped break down military racial barriers as a Tuskegee Airman, a topic he’ll be talking about at a Black History event called ‘They Dared to Fly’ in Lakeland.

    By Josh Rojas A Tuskegee Airman, retired lieutenant colonel George Hardy, 87, fought fascism in World War II and helped break down racial barriers in the American military. “When I went into the service in ‘43, racial segregation was rigidly enforced,” Hardy said. “No fraternization, that is, mixing with races. So, we were completely...

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    A Global Response to Sexual Violence

    by  • February 23, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Kim Thuy Seelinger

    Courtesy UC Berkeley Public Affairs How do we effectively respond to sexual violence during war, and how can we better protect people during and after violent conflicts? International scholars, policymakers, human-rights advocates and foreign military leaders will take up this issue and more at the Missing Peace Symposium 2013 in Washington, D.C., co-hosted last...

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    Mississippi Ratifies 13th Amendment Banning Slavery

    by  • February 22, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    By Huffington Post Mississippi lawmakers have officially ratified the Constitution’s 13th Amendment, which banned slavery in 1865. 148 years after three-fifths of the states voted to approve the amendment, Mississippi’s legislature finally took steps to fix the glaring oversight last month. According to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, the decision was inspired by the Oscar-nominated film...

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    Larry Gayden Appointed Senior Controller at East Bay YMCA

    by  • February 22, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Larry B. Gayden

    Larry Gayden brings over 27 years of experience to his new position as Senior Controller of the YMCA of the East Bay. “Larry is highly versed in all aspects of financial and accounting issues for non-profits, and we are fortunate to have him on board,” said Robert Wilkins, CEO of the Y of the...

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    Civicorps Job Training Center Opens in West Oakland

    by  • February 22, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Civicorps Job Training Center 2

    Civicorps will hold its official opening of its new headquarters at 1425 5th St. across from the West Oakland BART station on Thursday, Feb. 28. Civicorps has provided educational and employment opportunities for 50,000 underserved Oakland youth and young adults since it began 1983. The organization helps young adults, ages 18-24, obtain a high-school...

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    Rampant Violence in Oakland Takes Life of Young Student

    by  • February 22, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Kiante Campbell

    By Ashley Chambers Senseless violence on the streets of Oakland has claimed the lives of many hopeful young people in recent months. As of Feb. 11, the city reported nine homicides this year, eight of which were young men and women under the age of 25. On Feb. 1, 18-year old was shot and...

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    Oakland’s Margo Hall Plays a Woman Who Got “Played”

    by  • February 22, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Entertainment, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Margo Hall

    By Sandra Varner/ Talk2SV.com Currently running at The San Francisco Playhouse through March 16 is the aggressive and arresting Broadway hit, “The MF with The Hat” from playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis (Jesus Hopped the “A” Train). “The Hat” is bold, edgy, powerful and callous with a cast up to the task of parlaying the...

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    Memorable Accomplishments of C’Aubrey O. Peoples, 56 Years at Fouche’s Hudson Funeral Home

    by  • February 15, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    C’Aubrey O. Peoples, General Manager of Fouche’s Hudson Funeral Home.

    Corporate officers and staff of Fouche’s Hudson Funeral Home in Oakland  are honoring  C’Aubrey O. Peoples. Peoples’ career spanned 56 years with Fouche’s Hudson, from apprentice embalmer to general manager. The demands and changes in the funeral industry over these decades made him exceedingly resilient. His ability to manage the company and maintain a...

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    Bay Area Home Depot to Hire 1,500 Workers

    by  • February 15, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    By Danielle Savage Home Depot stores across the nation are hiring 80,000 part-time and full-time workers to handle the company’s busy spring home and garden rush. About 1,500 of these jobs will be at Bay Area stores, according to Katherine Ellison, Corporate Communications Specialist for Home Depot. The positions will include cashiers, lot attendants...

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    Paid Transportation Internships for High School Students Available

    by  • February 15, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Education, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    MTC Executive Director Steve Heminger.

    The Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s  annual High School Internship Program is seeking student applicants for paid summer internships in local transportation agencies throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. High school sophomores, juniors and graduating seniors in the nine counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma  of the...

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    Macy’s Salutes Gordon Parks in Celebration of Black History Month

    by  • February 15, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County, Special Interests Articles

    Gordon Parks

    Macy’s will honor the legacy of American cultural hero Gordon Parks in celebration of Black History Month with a special film series event and exhibit at Macy’s Union Square on Thursday, Feb. 21. In partnership with The Gordon Parks Foundation and the American Black Film Festival, the “Gordon Parks: Black American Icon” event will...

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    Malique Amenhotep Shines a Light on African History

    by  • February 15, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    Malique Amenhotep

    By Ashley Chambers It is crucial that African Americans to do whatever it takes to know their history, which is rooted in Africa, says entrepreneur and Oakland native Malique Amenhotep, who has been an avid researcher all his life, studying the lives of Harriet Tubman, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and others....

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    SF Foundation Calls for Nominations for 2013 Community Leadership Awards

    by  • February 15, 2013 • Bay Area, Berkeley, Marin County News, News Articles, Oakland News Articles, Richmond News, San Francisco, South County

    The San Francisco Foundation announced this week  a call for nominations for the 2013 Community Leadership Awards. Each year, the awards celebrate visionary leaders doing extraordinary work to strengthen Bay Area communities. Winners are those who  confront societal or civic issues, address health or environmental concerns, or promote arts and humanities. One of the...

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