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BWOPA/TILE Leadership Summit Nov. 1st in Emeryville

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12 years ago

October 26, 2014

Black Women Organized for Political Action (BWOPA) will hold a summit in Emeryville on November 1st at the Hilton Garden Inn, located on 1800 Powell Street.

The event kicks off at 8:30 AM with breakfast, and ends at 3:30 PM with a networking mixer.

All seven chapters of BWOPA (Oakland, Fresno, Hayward, Richmond, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Stockton) will be represented as well as community leaders from across California.

Keynote speakers include Minyon Moore, and Tanya Acker, CNN commentator, and co-host of the TV show “Hot Bench,” with introduction from Bev Kearny.

Expert workshop panels will address community mobilization, and preparation for public leadership.

Laniece Jones, Press Advisor, said that BWOPA focuses on core issues of education, health, economic development, and criminal justice reform. Also, that these issues are dealt with best when experiences and practices can be shared.

Jones said that the goal of the summit is to get people empowered, and encourage people to make an impact on their communities.

Earlier in the year, during a recruitment effort by BWOPA, State President, Dezie Woods Jones said, “Whether you’re in the church house, or in the health house, or education, somebody’s making decisions about your life; look at the health care issues we’re dealing with now, the job training issues. If you’re not part of structuring that [is] making those decisions, then you’re reacting to something somebody else is making for you.”

Tickets for the event are $150, if purchased by October 31st, and $165 onsite. Tickets can be purchased at bwopatileleadershipsummit.eventbrite.com. More information about BWOPA can be found at bwopa.org.

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District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, Rev. Dr. Amos Brown, Pastor Emeritus of Third Baptist Church, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie. Photo by Linda Parker Pennington.

By Linda Parker Pennington

The Fillmore Community Ambassadors held its first annual Juneteenth Wesley Johnson White Horse Awards ceremony on June 19 inside the newly reopened Fillmore Heritage Center.

The event featured awards for former San Francisco mayors London Breed and Willie Brown, along with Third Baptist Church Pastor Emeritus, Rev. Dr. Amos Brown.

The Koret Heritage lobby at the newly reopened center at 1330 Fillmore St. held a standing-room-only, culturally diverse and multi-generational audience while the art gallery featured photos of Fillmore community members in action, red Japanese lanterns, art and calligraphy, and Chinese artwork, giving the space a multicultural feel.

Addressing more than 100 Black and Asian attendees, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie stated “San Francisco is reliant on the Black community, and we must invest in this community.”

District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood acknowledged that “the Fillmore community has had a difficult history. Thanks to Rev. Amos Brown’s continuous focus on accountability and resistance, you hold us accountable and continue to inspire us.”

Mahmoud is referring to the Fillmore’s Japanese residents who were forced from their homes and sent to concentration camps during World War II. Black people occupied those homes until the return of their Japanese neighbors and then gave them back, while homes that had been unoccupied were lost. The presence of the Asian community on Juneteenth is a testament to that shared history.

In receiving his honor, Amos Brown elicited a powerful spontaneous call-and-response, where members of San Francisco’s many Black churches proudly shouted out the names: “Bethel AME! Providence Baptist! Jones Memorial! Glide!”

Awards program Master of Ceremonies Shawn Richards of Brothers Against Guns warmly introduced Breed, highlighting her many accomplishments, particularly on “March 16, 2020, when she became the first mayor to shut down a major U.S. city due to COVID-19, saving thousands of lives.”

The audience was captivated by Breed’s emotional speech touching on past traumas, present conditions, and future hopes for the neighborhood where she grew up.

She recalled another trauma of the neighborhood during the City’s redevelopment era in the 1960s, where Black residents were forced to move with a promise of being able to return that was largely unfulfilled.

“We remember when this land was just a field because they bulldozed hundreds of Victorian homes that Black people owned. They built the Fillmore Center, where most Black people can’t afford to live or start their own business. But we are still here.”