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Nativity Play

Dear Parents,

I would like to invite you to come along and watch Foundation Stage children perform their Nativity play in the Infant hall on Monday 14th December There will be two performances of the Nativity, details as follows:-

9.30a.m. - Children who attend morning Nursery and Miss White's class
2.30p.m. - Childrenjwho attend afternoon Nursery and Miss Black's class

Admission to the performance of the Nativity is by ticket only. Each family will be allocated two tickets for the Nativity their child will be performing in. These will be sent to you with this letter. Please can I ask you to return any tickets you will not be using to the Infant office as soon as possible? These can then be allocated to the names of other family members who have registered on our waiting list. You can register for additional tickets on the slip below. Please note, there is no guarantee that you will receive additional tickets as these will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

I do hope you can join us.

Your Sincerely

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Civil Rights Activist Rev. James Lawson Honored with New Scholarship at Vanderbilt University

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A new scholarship fund has been established at Vanderbilt University to honor James M. Lawson Jr., a leading figure in the civil rights movement and an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The new scholarship was made possible by a gift from Doug Parker, an alumnus of the Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt, the CEO of American Airlines, and a new trustee of the university, and his wife Gwen.

The new scholarships will be given to students from underrepresented groups who have shown a commitment to civil rights and social justice.

Lawson, enrolled at the Vanderbilt Divinity School in 1958. While a student he helped organize sit-ins at lunch counters in downtown Nashville. In 1960, he was expelled from the university for his participation in civil rights protests.

Lawson completed his divinity studies at Boston University and then served as director of nonviolent education for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. From 1974 to 1999, Rev. Lawson was the pastor of the Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles.

Lawson returned to Vanderbilt as a distinguished visiting professor form 2006 to 2009. An endowed chair at the Divinity School was named in his honor in 2007.

Source: https://www.jbhe.com/2018/07/new-scholarship-at-vanderbilt-university-honors-rev-james-lawson/

The Obsidian Collection, an African-American Newspaper Archive, to Put Its Records Online For Free

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Source: Screenshot, Google Arts and Culture

by Adrienne Samuels Gibbs via chicagomag.com

Digitizing legacy. That’s the job of the curators behind The Obsidian Collection – archivists for The Chicago Defender, Baltimore Afro American and other historically black newspapers in the United States. Their task is massive: digitize every image and article from newspapers that played a central role in the Great Migration, Civil Rights and Jim Crow eras. But they won’t have to do it all alone. Google Arts & Culture is working with the Obsidian group on creating digital exhibits that can be free and searchable by anyone around the world.

That’s just the first step, and it’s huge.

“More than just digitizing it for researchers, I’m passionate about the next generation seeing how awesome we are and in changing the narrative permeating the American conversation right now about African Americans,” says Angela Ford, who is helming the project and is excited about how it will add a more accurate variety of African American image metadata to the Google brain trust.

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Harold Washington and Charles Hayes with a young Carol Moseley Braun cropped from the original published image, 1983 PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE CHICAGO DEFENDER—OBSIDIAN COLLECTION

“What happens is a lot of these archive collections speak in an echo chamber of libraries and archives where it just doesn’t get out to the laypeople.  What I love about Google Arts and Culture is you could be standing in line at the grocery store and viewing our archives. We’ll  keep rotating them in and out and keep pushing them through social media. We want everyone to see us.”

Eight exhibits are live on Google, giving people access to a wide range of images, from famed boxer Joe Louis at home in Chicago to coverage of a 1959 housewares show that illustrates how middle class black families lived at the time.

Obsidian already has an image of Harold Washington sitting with a young Carol Moseley Braun, except she was cropped out the image. There’s a water splattered image of children running through the spray of an open fire hydrant on 44th and Champlain, circa 1987. Even the mundane is fascinating, says Ford.

“The Defender had a housewares show in October 1959 and it was a big deal,” says Ford. “It cost a quarter to get in and we have pictures of all the black people promoting their products and Whirlpool was there with their miracle kitchen. We were separate from mainstream America and a lot of things went on in our community that shows a black middle class home.”

Ford is also working with her board—which includes people who have worked with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture—on the larger issues that include the creation of virtual reality online exhibits.

“Google Culture Institute in Paris has invented the capacity to create virtual 3D spaces from a photograph,” says Ford, discussing the possibilities involved in using old picture to create virtual realities. “The question is, are we altering the art?”

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“Google’s arts and culture strategy is that everybody in the world can access everybody in the world and that will create a new world,” says Ford. “We want to make sure we are part of that conversation.”

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Millicent Brown, left, 15, daughter of state NAACP President J. Arthur Brown, one of two black girls to enter Rivers High School in Charleston, S.C, chats with fellow students while awaiting a report from police and fireman concerning a bomb scare at the school on Sept. 3, 1963. (AP Photo)

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There’s an enduring myth that the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was “the first step” in the fight to desegregate schools. Rachel Devlin, an associate professor of history at Rutgers University, is looking to upend that myth. A Girl Stands At The Door, her new account of the black girls and teens who laid the groundwork for the historic ruling, draws from interviews and archival research to show that before Linda Brown, a 9-year-old, became the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case, a generation of black girls and young women from the Deep South to the Midwest fueled the grassroots crusade to strike down the “separate but equal” doctrine in America’s public schools and colleges.

Before Brown, some dozen lawsuits were filed on behalf of young black women attempting to enroll in all-white schools—and after Brown, black girls, almost exclusively, did the hard labor of walking through all-white mobs and sitting in previously all-white classrooms, with sometimes hostile classmates and teachers, in pursuit of school integration.

I spoke with Devlin about the black youth who led the effort to racially integrate schools and catalyzed the broader anti-segregation movement. The interview that follows has been condensed and edited for length and clarity.

Melinda D. Anderson: A disproportionate number of black girls were at the forefront of the school-desegregation movement from the late ’40s to the mid-’60s. Why were black girls continually chosen to break the color barrier?

Rachel Devlin: Interestingly, there are no written records about why girls were chosen over and over again in individual lawsuits. These choices were made on a level that was not always entirely conscious. Parents would explain why they should file a lawsuit, and girls agreed. Many of them said, “I was willing.” Other parents drafted their daughters, and the young women cooperated, yet most of the young women who participated were fully invested in school desegregation.

The other thing about girls is that they were good at it. To speak to principals and lawyers and the press you have to be poised, you have to be personable and diplomatic, and young black women had these attributes. They dealt with constant verbal and sexual harassment on the streets of southern cities, of northern cities, and they were acutely aware of their self-presentation in public. It was drilled into them as a way to protect their dignity. Also, very few African American girls and young women did not at some point in their lives work in a white home, and they had to learn how to navigate around white people.

But I want to be clear. This was not just about being accommodating—they knew how to stand their ground. Girls were good at combining different forms of bravery; they could be both stubborn and tough, but also project social openness. They had that sense of self-possession that was extremely useful in these situations.Anderson: You write that the language in the Brown v. Board of Education decision contains “the same moral conviction that inspired black girls to walk up to the doors of white schools and seek to cross the threshold.” In what way are these girls’ untold stories reflected in this landmark ruling?

Devlin: A black girl walking up the steps of a white school and announcing her intentions to go to school with white children was a radical act of social optimism.  Most white people—and a good many African Americans—in the late 1940s and early 1950s believed that white and black children would never be able to learn in an integrated setting. That racial hostility was intractable.

In fact, judges who ruled against these plaintiffs said just that in their decisions. By showing up at the schoolhouse door, these girls were asserting not only their right to attend historically white schools, but that they believed they were capable of sharing a classroom with white students. Their actions and moral clarity reflected their confidence that they and their white peers could coexist in the intimate setting of a school. The Supreme Court decision asserted this same presumption: that it was fitting, right, and possible for children of different races to attend school together in the United States.

Anderson: The battle for school integration sparked bitterness, anger, and even violence. Some of these black girls were elementary-school age. What was the physical and psychological cost of being first?Devlin: Tessie Prevost-Williams and Leona Tate integrated T.J. Semmes Elementary School in New Orleans, in third grade. Along with Gail Etienne, the three of them received the worst violence that I recorded in the book. Because they were so young and so little, people would punch them, trip them, spit in their food. They said they could hardly go to the bathroom because that was a very dangerous space. It was a war inside the school. Tessie, Leona, and Gail all said it was a living hell.

I think the resilience that these young women had is hard to imagine. One would think that it would have been a crippling experience, but they sensed from a very early age the weight and enormity of what they were doing. They came to understand the notion of sacrifice for social justice. The stamina that it took to survive was fed and reinforced by the magnitude of what they were accomplishing.

I think it’s very hard from a current-day perspective to imagine a child going through that. In some ways we just have to be astonished at what they did. America was effecting social change on the backs of young children, and we have to ask ourselves what this means about political change in this country, that we leaned on young children to do this work of racial reconciliation.

Anderson: You talked to some of these women in your research. How do they view the resegregation of schools today—what some have called the broken promises of Brown v. Board of Education?

Devlin: Of the nearly 30 people that I interviewed, to a person, they still very much believe in what they did. They tend to look at the broader changes that have happened as a result of Brown v. Board, the day-to-day interactions between white and black Americans in a society that is diverse and desegregated. They see a larger tableau that has been fundamentally altered because the schools desegregated—the ripple effects of the Brown decision.

They also understand that people within the black community question desegregation. Some of them have even been the object of complaints: If you hadn’t done this, we would still have all-black schools. But they say it had to be done. Millicent Brown, who was among the first to integrate schools in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1963, put it in a way that’s quite striking: “We could not have apartheid in the schools.”

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/05/rachel-devlin-school-desegregation/561284/

R.I.P. Dovey Johnson Roundtree, 104, Army Captain, Minister and Trailblazing Civil Rights Lawyer

Dovey Johnson Roundtree outside the United States District Court in Washington, about 1985. “As a woman, and as a woman of color in an age when black lawyers had to leave the courthouse to use the bathrooms, she dared to practice before the bar of justice and was unflinching,” the co-author of her memoir said. (Credit: via Dovey Johnson Roundtree)

by Margalit Fox via nytimes.com

The jurors were looking at her when they filed into court. That, Dovey Johnson Roundtree knew, could have immense significance for her client, a feebleminded day laborer accused of one of the most sensational murders of the mid-20th century.

Little had augured well for that client, Raymond Crump Jr., during his eight-day trial in United States District Court in Washington: Mr. Crump, who had been found near the crime scene, was black and poor. The victim was white, glamorous and supremely well connected. The country, in the summer of 1965, seethed with racial tension amid the surging civil rights movement.

Federal prosecutors had amassed a welter of circumstantial evidence — including 27 witnesses and more than 50 exhibits — to argue that on Oct. 12, 1964, Mr. Crump had carried out the execution-style shooting of Mary Pinchot Meyer, a Washington socialite said to have been a former lover of President John F. Kennedy.

By contrast, Ms. Roundtree, who died on Monday at 104, had chosen to present just three witnesses and a single exhibit to the jury, which comprised men and women, blacks and whites. Her closing argument was only 20 minutes long.

Now, on July 30, 1965, the jury, having deliberated, was back. The court clerk handed the verdict slip to the judge, Howard F. Corcoran. For most observers, inside the courtroom and out, conviction — and an accompanying death sentence — was a foregone conclusion.

“Members of the jury,” Judge Corcoran said. “We have your verdict, which states that you find the defendant, Ray Crump Jr., not guilty.”

Ms. Roundtree’s defense, which hinged partly on two forensic masterstrokes, made her reputation as a litigator of acuity, concision and steel who could win even the most hopeless trials. And this in a case for which she had received a fee of one dollar.

“As a woman, and as a woman of color in an age when black lawyers had to leave the courthouse to use the bathrooms, she dared to practice before the bar of justice and was unflinching,” Katie McCabe, the co-author of Ms. Roundtree’s memoir, “Justice Older Than the Law,” said in an interview for this obituary in 2016. “She was a one-woman Legal Aid Society before people used that term.”

Officer, Lawyer, Minister

Ms. Roundtree’s victory in the Crump case was not her first noteworthy accomplishment, and it was by no means her last. Born to a family of slender means in the Jim Crow South, Ms. Roundtree — or the Rev. Dovey Johnson Roundtree, as she was long formally known — was instrumental in winning a spate of advances for blacks and women in midcentury America, blazing trails in the military, the legal profession and the ministry.

As an inaugural member of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (later the Women’s Army Corps), she became, in 1942, one of the first women of any race to be commissioned an Army officer. Attaining the rank of captain, she personally recruited scores of African-American women for wartime Army service.

Ms. Roundtree in Washington about 1963, not long before she took on the greatest criminal case of her career, the United States v. Raymond Crump Jr., in which she won acquittal for a black man accused of the murder of a white Washington socialite. (Credit: via Dovey Johnson Roundtree)

As a Washington lawyer, she helped secure a landmark ban on racial segregation in interstate bus travel in a case that originated in 1952 — three years before Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat in Montgomery, Ala.

As a cleric, Ms. Roundtree was one of the first women to be ordained a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

In 2009, in a statement honoring the publication of “Justice Older Than the Law,” the first lady, Michelle Obama, said, “As an Army veteran, lawyer and minister, Ms. Roundtree set a new path for the many women who have followed her and proved once again that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can help to turn the tides of history.”

Yet for all her perseverance, and all her prowess, Ms. Roundtree remained, by temperament, choice and political circumstance, comparatively unknown.

“One has to start with the fact — and I think it’s an acknowledged fact — that the civil rights movement was notoriously sexist,” Ms. McCabe said in 2016. “There were many men who did not appreciate being ground up into hamburger meat by Dovey Roundtree. There are many, many white lawyers — male — in Washington who were humiliated by having been beaten by a black woman. And I think that played out in a number of ways. And one of those ways has been a diminution in the recognition that I think her accomplishments merit.”

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Marian Spencer, Civil Rights Pioneer and Alumna of University of Cincinnati, Honored with Building on Campus

Marian Spencer (photo via cincinnati.com)

via jbhe.com

Marian Spencer, a civil rights leader and the first African American woman elected to the city council in Cincinnati, Ohio, is being recognized by having a dormitory on the campus of the University of Cincinnati named in her honor. Ironically, when Spencer was a student at the University of Cincinnati in the 1940s, she was not permitted to live in campus housing because of her race.

Spencer was born in 1920 in Gallipolis, Ohio. She lived with her grandfather who was a born a slave. As a child, she remembers watching the Ku Klux Klan parade in the street in front of her house.

Spencer joined the NAACP at the age of 13. She was the valedictorian of her high school class and earned a bachelor’s degree in English at the University of Cincinnati in 1942.

Spencer became active in the civil rights movement and was a major figure in the fight to desegregate the city schools and parks. She was the first woman to chair the Cincinnati chapter of the NAACP and in 1983 was elected to the city council. Spencer also served on the board of trustees of the University of Cincinnati.

The board of trustees recently announced that the university’s new high-rise residence hall on Campus Green will be known as Marian Spencer Hall.

Below is a video of Marian Spencer discussing her life story. More information is available in the book Keep on Fighting: The Life and Civil Rights Legacy of Marian A. Spencer (Ohio University Press, 2015).

Source: https://www.jbhe.com/2017/12/university-of-cincinnati-names-a-building-after-an-alumna-and-civil-rights-pioneer/

R.I.P. Don Hogan Charles, 79, Lauded Photographer of Civil Rights Era

The photographer Don Hogan Charles in New York in the late 1960s. Among his better-known photographs was one taken in 1964 of Malcolm X holding a rifle as he peered out the window of his Queens home. (Photo Credit: The New York Times)

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Don Hogan Charles, who was the first black photographer to be hired by The New York Times, and who drew acclaim for his evocative shots of the civil rights movement and everyday life in New York, died on Dec. 15 in East Harlem. He was 79.

His niece Cherylann O’Garro, who announced the death, said his family did not yet know the cause.

In more than four decades at The Times, Mr. Charles photographed a wide range of subjects, from local hangouts to celebrities to fashion to the United Nations. But he may be best remembered for the work that earned him early acclaim: his photographs of key moments and figures of the civil rights era.

In 1964, he took a now-famous photograph, for Ebony magazine, of Malcolm X holding a rifle as he peered out of the window of his Queens home. In 1968, for The Times, he photographed Coretta Scott King, her gaze fixed in the distance, at the funeral of her husband, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Mr. Charles resisted being racially pigeonholed but also considered it a duty to cover the movement, said Chester Higgins, who joined The Times in 1975 as one of its few other black photographers.

“He felt that his responsibility was to get the story right, that the white reporters and white photographers were very limited,” Mr. Higgins, who retired in 2015, said in a telephone interview.

Even in New York, historically black neighborhoods like Harlem, where Mr. Charles lived, were often covered with little nuance, said James Estrin, a longtime staff photographer for The Times and an editor of the photojournalism blog Lens. But Mr. Charles, through his photography, provided readers a fuller portrait of life throughout those parts of the city, Mr. Estrin said.

“Few people on staff had the slightest idea what a large amount of New York was like,” he added. “He brought this reservoir of knowledge and experience of New York City.”

Malcolm X (Credit: Don Hogan Charles)

Exacting and deeply private, Mr. Charles came off as standoffish to some. But to others, especially many women, he was a supportive mentor.

“He’s going to give you the bear attitude, but if you look past that he was something else,” said Michelle Agins, who met Mr. Charles while she was a freelance photographer in Chicago and he was working in The Times’s bureau there.

The two reconnected when she joined The Times as a staff photographer in 1989.

“When you’re a new kid at The New York Times and you needed a big brother, he was all of that,” she said. “He was definitely the guy to have on your team. He wouldn’t let other people bully you.”

Mr. Charles took Ms. Agins under his wing, and she was not alone. “I’ve had many women photographers tell me that he stood up for them,” Mr. Estrin said.

That may be because Mr. Charles knew the hardships that came with belonging to a group that was underrepresented in the workplace.

At one Thanksgiving dinner decades ago, Ms. O’Garro said, he tearfully described the pain he felt on arriving at a New York City store for an assignment, only to be asked to come in through a back entrance. She added that while covering the civil rights movement in the South, he would often check the tailpipe of his vehicle for explosives.

Despite those obstacles, Mr. Charles went on to have a long career at The Times, covering subjects including celebrities like John Lennon and Muhammad Ali and New York institutions like the United Nations. In 1996, four of his photographs were included in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art on a century of photography from The Times.

Daniel James Charles (he later went by Donald or Don) was born in New York City on Sept. 9, 1938. His parents, James Charles and the former Elizabeth Ann Hogan, were immigrants from the Caribbean, Ms. O’Garro said.

After graduating from George Washington High School in Manhattan, he enrolled at the City College of New York as an engineering student before dropping out to pursue photography, although at the time it was just a hobby. He worked as a freelance photographer before joining The Times in 1964. He retired in 2007.

Mr. Charles never married and had no children. No immediate family members survive, though he was close with his three nieces and one nephew.

To read full, original article, go to: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/obituaries/don-hogan-charles-dead.html?_r=0

In Honor of Rosa Parks Day, TV One Premieres “Behind The Movement” Trailer; Movie Slated to Air in February 2018

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Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat 62 years ago was only the beginning.

Premiering on TV One in February, Behind the Movement offers a closer look at how the history-making Montgomery Bus Boycott was planned in just three days and ultimately led to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

A new trailer released today, provides a glimpse into Mrs. Parks’ thoughts as she sat on the bus that December evening.

“It was reported that I was tired and that wasn’t true,” states Meta Golding as Rosa Parks in the trailer. “I was tired of all the injustice, all the fear and indignity that they were putting us through. That’s the truth.”

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Meta Golding stars as Rosa Parks in TV One’s ‘Behind The Movement’ (photo via TV One)

Starring Meta Golding (“The Hunger Games”) as Rosa Parks, Isaiah Washington (“The 100”) as E.D. Nixon, Loretta Devine (“Waiting to Exhale”) as Jo Ann Robinson, Roger Guenveur Smith (“American Gangster”) as Raymond Parks and Shaun Clay as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Behind the Movement reveals the untold story of how a group of everyday people decided this incident was the right time to take a stand for their civil rights and demand equal treatment.

Premiering during Black History Month, this original made-for-television movie honors the contributions of many unsung heroes of this watershed moment in the Civil Rights struggle. The film recounts the inner workings and behind the scenes preparation that took place during three intense days between the fateful evening when Parks refused to give up her seat through the launch of this significant protest. While Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, there was a chorus of lesser-known heroes, including Rosa Parks, who galvanized the most successful boycott of its time.

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In a scene from TV One’s ‘Behind the Movement,’ Rosa (Golding) is finally allowed to make her one phone call to let her husband know she’s in jail (photo via TV One)

Behind the Movement is written by Katrina M. O’Gilvie and directed by Aric Avelino.  For TV One, Karen Peterkin is Director of Scripted Original Programming and shares Executive in charge of production duties with Tia A. Smith, Sr. Director of Original Programming & Production. Donyell McCullough is Senior Director of Talent & Casting; Robyn Greene-Arrington is VP of Original Programming, and D’Angela Proctor is Head of Original Programming and Production.

To read more, go to: http://www.eurweb.com/2017/12/in-honor-of-rosa-parks-day-tv-one-premieres-behind-the-movement-trailer-watch/

Shabazz Daughters Launch Malcolm X Legacy Clothing Line to Honor Father and His Principles

Malcolm X's Daughters L to R: Qubilah Shabazz, Gamilah Lumumba Shabazz Malaak Shabazz, Attallah Shabazz, Ilyasah Shabazz (Image: malcolmxlegacy.com)
Malcolm X’s Daughters L to R: Qubilah Shabazz, Gamilah Lumumba Shabazz Malaak Shabazz, Attallah Shabazz, Ilyasah Shabazz (Image: malcolmxlegacy.com)

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During a time in our country where the political climate has been heated and racial tensions were seemingly at an all-time high, the daughters of the late civil rights leader Malcolm X were using fashion as an avenue for social activism, Black Enterprise reported.

Ilyasah Shabazz, Qubilah Shabazz, Attallah Shabazz, Gamilah Lumumba Shabazz and Malaak Shabazz have all teamed up with the tech company Hingeto to create a clothing line that pays homage to their father’s legacy. The line, dubbed Malcolm X Legacy, features items that are inspired by the activist’s twelve principles which stressed the importance of human rights, education, economic independence, cultural pride, and justice. The collection features hats, t-shirts, sweatshirts, and will soon include artwork.

Leandrew Robinson, the CEO of Hingeto, told Black Enterprise that a clothing line like this is more fitting now than ever with all of the turmoil that has been happening within our country. “It was clear Malcolm’s principles are as relevant today as ever. We all thought it was imperative to represent his message and today’s human rights movement as a brand that people can outfit themselves in daily,” said Robinson. He also added that Colin Kaepernick has cosigned the new brand and has taken to Twitter to share info about the line.

Malcolm X Legacy’s site delves into his contributions to the Civil Rights movement. “Malcolm X will be remembered for his contribution to society of underscoring the value of a truly free populace by demonstrating the great lengths to which human beings will go to secure their freedom,” read the site.

To read more, go to: https://newsone.com/3760613/malcolm-x-daughters-launch-clothing-line/

Civil Rights Activist Autherine Lucy Foster Honored with Historical Marker at University of Alabama

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On June 11, 1963, Vivian Malone and James Hood, under the protection of federal marshals and the federalized Alabama National Guard, broke the racial barrier and enrolled as undergraduate students at the University of Alabama. That day, Alabama Governor George Wallace made a ceremonial stand in the schoolhouse door protesting the federal court order that called for the admittance of the Black students. But Malone and Hood were not the first Black students at the university.

Autherine Lucy Foster Historical Marker

In 1952, after graduating with an English degree from Miles College, Autherine Lucy Foster applied to the graduate program in education at the University of Alabama but was rejected because of her race. After a three-year legal battle, she was admitted to the university by court order. In 1956 Foster enrolled in a graduate program in education at the university. Angry protests by White students ensued. Foster was suspended three days later “for her own safety” and she was later expelled.

In 1988, the University officially annulled her expulsion. The next year she re-enrolled at the University of Alabama with her daughter, Grazia. Foster earned a master’s degree in elementary education in 1991 and participated in the graduation ceremony in May 1992 with her daughter, a corporate finance major. In 1998, the University of Alabama named an endowed fellowship in Foster’s honor and unveiled a portrait of her in the Student Union Building. She was recognized again in 2010 when the university dedicated the Autherine Lucy Clock Tower.

Recently, the Autherine Lucy Foster Historical Marker was unveiled on the Tuscaloosa campus near where the mob gathered to protest her presence at the university. A video of the dedication ceremony for the historical marker can be seen below.

Source: A Historical Marker at the University of Alabama Honors Autherine Lucy Foster : The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

CULTURE: Poet and Activist Nikki Giovanni featured on “On Being with Krista Tippett” Podcast

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Nikki Giovanni was a revolutionary poet of the Black Arts Movement that nourished civil rights. She had a famous dialogue with James Baldwin in Paris in 1971. As a professor at Virginia Tech, she brought beauty and courage by the way of poetry after the shooting there.

Today, she is a self-proclaimed space freak and a delighted elder — an adored voice to hip-hop artists and the new forms of social change this generation is creating.

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Source: Nikki Giovanni — Soul Food, Sex, and Space | On Being

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Ice Cube Honored with Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

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It’s hard to think that after roughly 30 years in the music industry and blessing the culture with hits like “F**k the Police” and both the Barbershop and Friday series’, that Ice Cube hasn’t already gotten a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But in reality, he actually hasn’t. That is, until today (June 12), when the hip hop icon was honored with his very own star on Hollywood Boulevard.

Director of Boyz in the Hood, John Singleton, was one of  people who spoke at Ice Cube’s star ceremony Monday afternoon. “The mark of a true man is how many people he influences in his lifetime,” Singleton said. “That’s how I see Cube.” Dr. Dre was also in attendance to watch his longtime friend and former N.W.A partner be honored. While the multi-faceted artist has definitely influenced many, he suggested the honor was still somewhat surprising.

“When you coming up doing music, movies, just trying to be creative, you never figure you’ll be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame one day,” he said.Ice Cube’s Walk of Fame ceremony comes only three days after the release of the 25th anniversary edition of the rapper’s politically-charged album, Death Certificate. Coincidentally, it is only three days before his 48th birthday.

To read more, go to: Clap For Him: Ice Cube Finally Honored With Hollywood Star

John Singleton-Produced Documentary “L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later” to Air April 18 on A&E Network

Director John Singleton (photo via Variety.com)

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A&E Network will mark the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots next month with a two-hour documentary from filmmaker John Singleton. “L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later,” set to debut April 18, tells the story of the civil unrest that shook the nation from the perspective of those who lived through a week of upheaval following a jury’s acquittal of four Los Angeles Police Department officers charged in the 1991 beating of African-American motorist Rodney King.

King’s arrest and savage treatment at the hands of veteran LAPD officers was caught on videotape by a local resident who gave the incendiary footage to KTLA-TV Los Angeles. KTLA’s coverage and airing of the nine-minute recording depicting cops kicking and beating King with batons while he was lying on the ground set off a firestorm of outrage and protest over the LAPD’s treatment of minorities.

The incident coincided with the dawn of the 24/7 news cycle fueled by the growth of cable news and the spread of home video recording technology.Singleton, a native of Los Angeles, was fresh out of USC film school and had just launched his career as a movie director with 1991’s Oscar-nominated “Boyz n the Hood” when the riots erupted on April 29, 1992, the day acquittals of the four officers were handed down by a nearly all-white jury.

Five days of violence and unrest left at least 55 people dead, more than 2,000 injured and inflicted more than $1 billion in property damage.“I believe the 1992 L.A. uprising has never truly been given a voice until now,” Singleton said. “We’ve attempted to chronicle the untold stories and unique perspectives of people whose lives were profoundly affected by this event. As a native Los Angeleno I know the actions of that three-day event didn’t just appear out of thin air. The city was a powder keg boiling at the seams for many years under police brutality and economic hardship of people of color.”

Among those featured in the documentary are actor-activist Edward James Olmos, police officers, rioters, bystanders caught in the crossfire and reporters who covered the upheaval. “L.A. Burning” hails from Entertainment One and Creature Films. The doc is directed by One9 and Erik Parker.

“L.A. Burning” is one of several TV productions in the works to mark the anniversary of the violence that shook Los Angeles and the world. Filmmaker John Ridley is behind the two-hour ABC special “Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992,” set to air April 28.  On April 18, Showtime will air the documentary “Burn Mother—–r Burn!,” examining the history of racial tensions and rioting in Los Angeles.

To read full article, go to: A&E Network Sets Los Angeles Riots ‘25 Years Later’ Documentary From John Singleton (EXCLUSIVE) | Variety

‘Rebel’ Cast Set: John Singleton’s BET Pilot Stars Danielle Moné Truitt & Giancarlo Esposito

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Danielle Truitt and Giancarlo Esposito (photo via deadline.com)

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BET has set the cast for Rebel, its two-hour police-drama pilot from filmmaker John Singleton. Stage actress Danielle Moné Truitt is set as the lead, Oakland cop Rebecca “Rebel” Knight, and Breaking Bad alum Giancarlo Esposito will play her lieutenant, who’s a friend and mentor. Mykelti Williamson, Cliff “Method Man” Smith and Brandon Quinn co-star.

The show examines the unique and conflicted relationship officers of color have with their jobs at a time when police forces are rife with brutality and misconduct. Officer Cole has excelled by playing by the rules but always has known that she must be better and smarter on the job because she is both black and female. After her brother is killed by police, Rebel soon becomes disillusioned with the system and is forced to take matters into her own hands and become a private investigator and a champion for her community. Caught between family loyalty and the fraternity in blue, Rebel’s actions set in motion a cause-and-effect crisis that can’t be undone.

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Williamson will play Rebel’s father Rene Knight, a strong but broken man. Although he loves his daughter dearly, he blames her for the death of her brother, Malik. Smith is TJ, Rebel’s ex-husband. They share a history in the military that bonds them for life. Although he’s moved on, there is still a lot of passion between them, and he can’t seem to stay away. Quinn will portray Rebel’s partner Thompson “Mack” McIntyre, whose decision to shoot at Rebel’s brother places him squarely between her career and her family.

Rebel is produced by MarVista Entertainment for BET and co-written, executive produced and directed by Singleton. Dallas Jackson also is an Executive Producer. Production on the two-hour pilot began this week in Los Angeles.

To read more, go to:  http://deadline.com/2016/06/rebel-pilot-cast-giancarlo-esposito-danielle-truitt-john-singleton-bet-1201769874/

Erika Alexander Joins ‘Bosch’; Malcolm Mays In ‘Snowfall’ Pilot

FX Picks Up John Singleton’s TV Pilot “Snowfall”

Director/Producer John Singleton
Director/Producer John Singleton

According to Deadline.com, John Singleton’s take on the beginnings of the crack cocaine trade in Los Angeles has found a new home. Originally bought by Showtime, John Singleton’s Snowfall pilot has now been picked up by FX, Presidents of Original Programming Nick Grad and Eric Schrier announced today.

Snowfall takes us on a wild ride through one of LA’s most fascinating cultural and social periods, and no one can tell this story better than John Singleton,” said Schrier. “The pilot script by John and Eric brilliantly depicts the era through the story of three captivating characters, and we can’t wait to see John’s execution of it.”

Singleton (“Boyz In The Hood”, “Baby Boy”, “Higher Learning”, “Shaft”) co-created and co-wrote the early-1980s set Snowfall pilot with Eric Amadio and will direct the pilot for FX Productions, with production set to start this summer. Justified’s Dave Andron will serve as an Executive Producer along with Singleton, Groundswell Productions’ Michael London, Amadio and Trevor Engelson. With the drug storm about to come, Snowfall focuses on a trio of main characters – ambitious dealer Franklin Saint, ex-Mexican wrestler and now gangster Gustavo Zapata and prodigal son Logan Miller.

“I have always been fascinated with that volatile moment in time before crack changed everything,” added Singleton. “It’s a tense, insane and sexy era that touched every aspect of our culture. I couldn’t have better partners for this journey.”

article by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (follow @lakinhutcherson)

Born on This Day in 1958: Michael Jackson, the Incomparable King of Pop

Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas has launched the #MJWeAreOne campaign in conjunction with MichaelJackson.com.

Fans worldwide are urged to use Instagram by sharing videos — using the hashtag #MJWeAreOne — honoring MJ and sharing ideas of how to make the world a better place.

The MJ Global Party has fans celebrating Jackson’s birthday in live-time around the world using the hashtag #MJGBP2014. Check out the website here.

The fifth annual Michael Jackson Tribute Festival of the Arts is underway in Jackson’s birth home of Gary, Indiana. The three-day festival celebrates Jackson’s life and career while helping revitalize part of Gary.

So on this day, remember the King of Pop in your own way. Listen to your favorite MJ song. Watch your favorite Michael video for the thousandth time.

Below I’m posting one of my all-time favorite Jackson songs and videos, the John Singleton-directed “Remember The Time” and I know I’m going to shake my head (for the thousandth time) when Magic Johnson says “Behold, great Pharoah Ramses!”, laugh (for the thousandth time) when Eddie Murphy’s eyes bug out at Iman crushing on Michael, stare in awe (for the thousandth time) at the dance moves, and lose it (for the thousandth time) when Michael sings the “Rah dah /dah dah dah / What about us, girl?!” part because it is just so uniquely Michael, uniquely musical and uniquely inspiring.

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John Singleton-Directed “Tupac” Biopic Acquired by Open Road Films for Wide-Screen Release

Tupac ShakurAccording to Deadline.com, Open Road Films has acquired U.S. rights to Tupac, the long-awaited feature film on the life of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur, directed by John Singleton. Written by Jeremy Haft & Ed Gonzalez and Singleton, the movie traces Shakur’s life from growing up as the son of activist Black Panther Party members in East Harlem, to reaching superstardom as a songwriter, music and movie star, to his position in the East Coast/West Coast rap war, to his untimely shooting death at 25 in Las Vegas after the 1996 Mike Tyson bout.

The film is being produced and financed by Morgan Creek Productions and Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films, and one of the executive producers on the project is Tupac’s mother, Afeni Shakur.  It’s a reunion of sorts for Singleton and Tupac, as Singleton directed him in the 1993 film Poetic Justice.

The casting will start shortly, for a late summer production start in Atlanta, Los Angeles and New York.

article by Lori Lakin Hutcherson

John Singleton Back as Director for Tupac Shakur Biopic

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After falling off the project two years ago, all eyes are on John Singleton to return to Morgan Creek’s untitled Tupac Shakur biopic — a film he’s long wanted to make.  Singleton has closed a deal to rewrite, direct and produce the biopic about the iconic rapper, which would follow his rise to being one of the most popular hip-hop artists as well as his murder following a boxing match in 1996 in Las Vegas. Morgan Creek is co-financing the film with Emmett/Furla/Oasis.

“Tupac was the guy who I planned to do a lifetime of films with,” Singleton said. “His passing deeply affected my life as well as countless people in this world. His life story is as important to my generation.”  The next move is to find the actor to play Shakur. Singelton will soon dive into rewriting the script, with hopes of beginning production sometime this June.

Singleton had once been linked to the project, but the deal fell through and the film has been in limbo ever since. James G. Robinson and David Robinson, along with Program Pictures’ L.T. Hutton, are also producing the pic.  The film’s long history also includes a legal battle between Morgan Creek and Shakur’s mother, Afeni Shakur, over the rights that eventually led to a settlement and Afeni becoming an exec producer on the project. Training Day director Antoine Fuqua attached himself after Singleton’s original flirtation, but bowed out after he couldn’t get the right script in place or find a lead (Morgan Creek tried an open casting, but that didn’t pan out).

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Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Kyle Abraham Hip-Hop Performance Pieces Captivate at Lincoln Center Out of Doors

Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s “Word Becomes Flesh” was performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors. (Photo: Ruby Washington/The New York Times)

In a split bill at Damrosch Park Bandshell in New York City, Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s “Word Becomes Flesh” and Kyle Abraham’s “Pavement” explored race, power and, most specifically, what it means to be a black man in contemporary society as part of the Lincoln Center Out of Doors series last Thursday night. Using spoken word, movement and music, Mr. Joseph takes on the issues confronting black fatherhood in “Word Becomes Flesh,” which program notes describe as a “choreopoem.” First performed in 2003 by Mr. Joseph, the work is a recitation of letters written to his unborn son. Now “Word” is reimagined for an ensemble cast of six. The performers share their fears about bringing a child — first addressed as “heartbeat” and later as “brown boy” — into the world.

Spurts of movement — diagonal runs from the wings; slow, exaggerated steps; and springy jumps — often serve to accentuate the wistful text, which magnifies the idea of multiple, insecure fathers-to-be. “You have an intrinsically intimate relationship with your mother,” one dancer says, “but your dad didn’t check out when you were in the womb.”

For all of its words, Mr. Joseph’s loquacious piece lacks poetry. Mr. Abraham’s “Pavement” is more elegiac, yet the thorny sightlines of the Damrosch bandshell did the piece few favors. Mr. Abraham is a beautiful dancer — unpredictable and spry, with the kind of articulation that is likely to become only more refined and subtle with age — but his packed productions are somewhat unconvincing.  “Pavement,” influenced by the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois and John Singleton’s 1991 film “Boyz N the Hood,” is set in the historically black neighborhoods of Pittsburgh. It was there, at 14, that Mr. Abraham first watched the Singleton movie; audio clips from the film are included in the production.

Tension is wonderful in a work, and Mr. Abraham’s propensity for moving his dancers in multiple directions — his movement phrases show a body swirling one way and then the next before evading momentum with a backward hop in arabesque — can be exhilarating. But the push and pull between narrative and dancing throughout “Pavement” gives it a choppy, locomotive feel. The film audio is overkill.

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‘Boyz n the Hood’ Reimagined by Interpretive Dancer Kyle Abraham

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The thirty-five-year-old choreographer Kyle Abraham has come a long way in just a few years. In 2006, he established his company, Abraham.In.Motion, and since then has produced dances that have earned him awards and critical acclaim. In December, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre will première a work that it commissioned from him. For someone whose career has taken off in such a big way, though, he retains a strong connection to his Pittsburgh roots, and shows great integrity in his dance-making, both of which were evident in his newest work, “Pavement,” which Abraham presented recently at Harlem Stage.

Abraham, who is African-American, went to high school in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, a historically black neighborhood, and in several of his previous works he drew on his experiences there. For “Pavement,” he went back to 1991, to reimagine the film “Boyz n the Hood,” about gangs in South Central Los Angeles, which was released that summer. He used the film as a springboard for examining life in Pittsburgh’s African-American communities in the Hill District and East Liberty Homewood and reflecting on the state of the black American experience in the two decades since its release.

But Abraham’s conception was even more sweeping. He also wanted to look at the history that had preceded the strife represented in “Boyz n the Hood,” and found a pertinent source in “The Souls of Black Folk,” the 1903 book by W. E. B. Du Bois, whose essays became instrumental in African-Americans’ struggle for equality in the twentieth century. Du Bois’s text made no appearance in “Pavement,” but Abraham included a quote from it in the program, which hovered over the dance: “Men call the shadow prejudice, and learnedly explain it as a natural defense of culture against barbarism, learning against ignorance, purity against crime, the ‘higher’ against the ‘lower’ races.” In the light of Du Bois’s words from more than a century ago, the realities as depicted in the film are sobering. From the perspective of 1991, when the ravages of H.I.V., crack addiction, and gang genocide were entrenched, not much seems to have gone right.

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Rage Team To Focus On Doom 4

As soon as Rage is ready for release this October, the team behind the game will focus on finishing the upcoming and long-awaited installment of the Doom series.  Not much has been revealed about the project since its announcement more than 3  years ago, but id Software co-founder John Carmack has recently in a interview with Gamespot shed some light:

As soon as Rage ships, the core tech team moves over to start making things happen on the Doom 4 project.  We’re going to move over to the Doom team and a lot of resources are going to migrate over there.

He continued on and also briefly addressed the technical aspects of the game:

The single-player is going to go 30 frames per second on the consoles. So we can have 30 demons crawling all over you on there. But the multiplayer is still going to be 60 frames per second, so it has the quality feel that Rage has.

Basically this will enable console players to have a better gameplay experience in terms of visuals, action and the overall atmosphere, although for a price cost in the form of lower framerate of 30 fps. Doom 4 will be using the latest id Tech 5 engine and does not have a release date as of now. More information, possibly along with some videos and screenshots, should be revealed this August at QuakeCon 2011 in Dallas, TX.

Rage is scheduled to come out on October 4th, 2011 for PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

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How Much is the Battlefield 3 Beta Worth? How about 4 billion MS Points

Been waiting for the Battlefield 3 beta to drop on Xbox Live? Well today’s the day…as long as you have over 4 billion Microsoft Points that you’ve been saving up.

If you head over to the Xbox Live Marketplace and try to download the Battlefield 3 beta, you’ll be prompted to pay 4,294,967,295 Microsoft points. For those of you still contemplating paying that price, it will run you $53,687,091.19. So dip into your bank account and hope that the game’s worth it.

  • Liquid September 29, 2011 at 11:26 AM

    That sounds about right.

  • killatia September 29, 2011 at 12:25 PM

    I think I’ll wait for the inedible price drop this holiday season ;P

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“Sometimes our communities do not have to define our future, but they do provide a framework for the richness of who you become.” –Jesse Iniguez

As part of our new Latino professionals series, Si Se Puede Attitude, Gozamos interviews Jesse Iniguez, founder of No Manches Clothing Company.

Gozamos:Where did you grow up, and how was your childhood growing up in that area?
Jesse Iniguez:
Growing up in the Back of the Yards, a poor working-class neighborhood on the Southside of Chicago, has helped shaped who I’ve become. As a rough neighborhood dealing with many struggles, the community has built a strong and creative character within me. We didn’t have much growing up, so my family and I created our own toys, games, and pastimes that brought us closer together.  Although there are many challenges in the neighborhood, we were blessed to have institutions such as Holy Cross, Seward School, and Davis Square Park that kept many of us engaged and out of trouble. Through these institutions I met mentors such as Father Bruce, Sr. Angie, Dave Coronado and Greg Michie, who influenced me and others to continue our education and become beacons of hope. It was individuals like them who became the pillars for our community. I was raised bilingual and bicultural. I remember that my father was clear that English was for school and Spanish was our way of living.  We would watch baseball and the Cosby’s and switch to fútbol and Sabado Gigante.  All in all, my childhood was full of happy memories.

What was your biggest challenge in your journey to success?
One of the biggest challenges along my journey was not having many role models that I could relate to. It was difficult for me to understand what my success would look like because I didn’t have many people around me that resembled me. Being the first in my family to advance in education limited my social capital. My mother and father only made it to third grade, and although education was very important to them, their support was limited because they didn’t understand the journey of education. As I grew an interest in business, my journey to success became even more complicated. It was a “live and learn” philosophy.  If not knowing anyone in business wasn’t hard enough, finding Latino business owners that I could learn from was even more difficult.

What role do you play in politics and social change in the Latino community, and what motivated you to play such a role?

JI: Since I was 16 I have been critically engaged in my community at many levels; anywhere from creating youth groups to managing a local chamber of commerce to becoming a candidate for alderman. Through it all, my primary role has been to remain actively engaged in my community. Although I have the option to reside anywhere else, I make a conscious effort to stay and attempt to become a positive role model for the community, the type of role model I wish I had growing up. I define my community far beyond a place where I reside, it is a place where I play sports, vote, go to church, and raise my family.

Tell me about your clothing line, No Manches Clothing. Do you feel you are portraying any specific message with your clothing?
JI: Our motto at No Manches Clothing Co. is “Enjoy Cultura,” and that is exactly what we are trying to portray. We started the business in 2006 because we wanted to express our culture in a positive and fashionable way, but couldn’t find anything out there. We wanted to be able to challenge the stereotypes and promote our culture with young urban Latinos across the country without having to be tacky or vulgar.  We were able to accomplish this by simply combining our sometimes self-deprecating humor, expressions, history and cultural knowledge and create t-shirts that reflected that.  The beautiful thing is that now our customers aren’t only Latinos, but people from other cultures and backgrounds. It feels good to be able to represent our culture well.

Why do you think that Latino Professionals should give back to their community?
The Latino community is growing rapidly, and I think we are at a crossroads. Like generations of immigrants who came before us, we need to support and educate those who come after us and set up a foundation for others to build from so that our community can be even more successful and a powerful influence in this country. My mother would always say, “Hay que poner nuestro granito de arena” (We need to plant our little grain of sand). Another quote that I hold close to the heart is “We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community…Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own” (Cesar Chavez). Very similar to business, giving to your community is an investment, whether it’s through time or resources, our return on investment is a stronger community.

Do you have any future plans, goals, or ambitions that you would like to share with us?
JI: One of my most exciting plans is resurrecting No Manches Clothing Co from a 2-year hiatus. I feel that we are stronger and ready to take No Manches to another level. Reconnecting with an old friend, Miguel A. Cambray, who has been a long-time Latino community leader and entrepreneur, we have been able to combine our expertise and strengthen the brand of No Manches.

Strong leadership attracts strong talent. Building our team from the ground up. we added new members like Hector Cambray, Jorge Perez, and Oscar Rosas (also Known as “Los Tres Manchados”), who all bring different talents that are taking this company to another level.  So stay tuned for our new designs, products, and our new and improved website.

What advice do you give to young Latinos and Latinas who are just entering the workforce?
JI: The best advice that I can give young Latinos was once given to me: “Never forget where you came from.” I didn’t understand what that meant at first, but over time it has become even clearer. You are whom you are because of where you come from. Sometimes our communities do not have to define our future, but they do provide a framework for the richness of who you become. Always remember that through resilience and adversity we could build stronger communities, that your success is the success for all of those who follow you.

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Blood Sugar Wars

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NingXia Red is powerful, energizing, and easy– you don’t have to cook it or do anything to it, unless you wanna count shaking the bottle as mild exercise activity. Even better, you can get NingXia Red to go — little packets to keep in your purse/car/backpack to ward off the whineys in the back seat AND increase your own physical stamina. No pokey-hole straws needed (cue the Hallelujah choir.)

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  • Therapeutic-grade essential oil—- Carefully selected for their health and flavor profiles, the blend of orange, yuzu, lemon, and tangerine essential oils found in NingXia Red is packed with 93% d-limonene– a powerful antioxidant. Along with NingXia Red’s flavor, these essential oils also aid in maintaining the body’s normal cellular function.
  • Great taste—The new NingXia Red, now Halal and Kosher certified, contains no artificial sugars and has a unique, balanced flavor essence of the Ningxia wolfberry. The natural flavor is further enhanced by zero-calorie stevia (Rebaudioside A), essential oils, plus blueberry, cherry, and aronia juice. In fact, when compared to other similar superfruit beverages in a major university study, the new NingXia Red was preferred by 77% of participants over all other options in a blind taste panel!
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Dessert Recipe!!!

I LOVE desserts! What could possibly be more fun and yummy than a dessert using Young Living Peppermint Vitality essential oil? Nah, I couldn’t think of anything either. So whip up some of this Key Lime Mousse with Raspberry Mint Compote and enjoy….. yummmmm

Key Lime Mousse

1.      2 Tablespoons lime zest

2.      3/4 cup fresh-squeezed lime juice

3.      3/4 cup creamy, raw honey

4.      5 ripe avocados

5.      Pinch Himalayan salt

Blend zest, juice, and sweetener in a Vita Mix blender until zest is blended smooth. Add the avocados and salt to the blender and continue until creamy. Chill until ready to serve.

Raspberry Mint Compote

1.      4 fresh bananas, diced

2.      2 pints fresh raspberries, halved

3.      6 fresh kiwis, peeled and diced

4.      2 Tablespoons raw, creamy honey, warmed in a dehydrator

1.      1 drop Young Living Peppermint Vitality essential oil

Prepare the fruit. Combine honey with the peppermint oil and gently toss with the fruit. Top mousse with compote and garnish with fresh mint.

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Serenity – Be Anxious for Nothing – My New Adventure

Yet again, the God of Redemption transforms my failure into success.

Two days ago I worked up a macrame piece and did not start with near enough cord. I was forced to cut the entire piece way shorter than planned and tried making the best of it by fraying the ends, hoping that would help with it’s sad appearance. When I was done, I looked at it and felt really disappointed because I did not like how it turned out. I just hoped someone out in the world would like it and buy it.

And then, one of my favorite things happened the next day. A lightning strike of inspiration hit me and I was able to transform an unattractive piece of art into something far more beautiful. My eyes spotted my Amazonite crystals in my clear plastic organizer just a few seconds before I happened to glance at my macrame piece. Bingo.

“Serenity” Mini Macrame Wall Hanging with Amazonite stones

I placed 4 pieces of Amazonite in a diagonal square on the macrame piece and suddenly the whole thing just felt alive and beautiful. I had this impression of the Amazonite pieces being like guardians/protectors surrounding the heart. The macrame pattern itself is one I have titled “Serenity”. This combination of serenity and protection of the heart brought to mind a popular Bible verse:

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

-Philippians 4:6-8

I am feeling a bit anxious about my newest grand endeavor. I am setting up an online shop for my macrame artwork and other handmade items. It’s been a dream of mine since I was a child to make things and sell them, and my sudden interest in macrame this past summer has really pushed me into seriously pursuing this dream. Having never actually started a business before, I feel a bit overwhelmed with all the details, but mainly I worry, “Is anyone going to buy my stuff?”

I’ll be honest: I don’t know what I’m doing. I’m just creating a lot of things because, like every artist, I feel a deep need to do so. I’ll go crazy if I don’t. Now more than ever, I feel it is imperitive that I express outwards, not just in my own safe private spaces. It’s time to release into the world that which comes forth through me. All of this is not just for me, it is meant for others as well. One day I’ll have the means, mentally and physically, to get my music out in the world, and I am working towards that goal with what I have when I have it. In the meantime, I have a blog that I must still write on, and now, artwork created with my own hands that needs to be sent out into the world. I feel a deep conviction that this is something I should do, even when my inner judge says it’s a foolish waste of time and resources. But when I look around my bedroom and see all of these macrame wall-hangings and other art pieces, each with specific stories and meanings, I am reminded again of the power of art, and how art in all it’s varied forms speak of the deeper truths of life. I often work through so much when I am creating, and the final products are a testament to my struggles and my ability to move through and transcend them. When I see them, I am encouraged in my life journey. Each piece carries a specific frequency that I believe has healing potential. I’d like to make this spirit of healing available to others who have open hearts to receive. I know I’m just one artist of millions, but I know my artwork is just as special and important as any other artist’s. There are people out there who will connect with my work, who need it and what it represents. It is my job to make my art available and I have to believe that eventually, these people will find it. I’ll do my best to promote my work, but ultimately I leave it in the hands of The Creator, the Weaver of stories and Source of serendipity. All I can do is obey the artist’s call to create and offer my sacrifice of joy to the world.

Serenity (right) and Serenity Mini (left)

I really love the “Serenity” pattern I worked up (can’t really say it’s original because I’m sure someone else has done it before) and especially this new happy accident. It carries a message I really need right now regarding my entire macrame craft as my brain starts drowning under endless details of business. I am reminded of the famous Serenity prayer:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

-Reinhold Niebuhr

I know I’m not the only one who needs to meditate on this prayer or Philippians 4:6-8. So let me make it clear for you, in case you didn’t realize it, that this entire blog post and it’s universal lesson was inspired by a bunch of knotted rope. This is what art is for me. When I engage the creative process, my art teaches me and reminds me of exactly what I need, if not in that precise moment then in a future one. All of my wall-hangings have a story, and I look forward to others having these physical stories in their homes and living spaces.

I’m currently in the process of setting up an Etsy shop online, and both of these Serenity pieces will be listed. I will also be making more variations of this pattern, including different colors, in the near future. If you’d like to reserve either of these pieces, go ahead and email me at In the meantime, make sure to check out and follow my new business’ Instagram account to see what else I’ve been creating:

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  1. Grrr….just realized it never posted my first comment for some reason, but it was saved on my phone, so here it is:
    Wow Grace! It sounds like we’re both in really similar seasons of our lives right now regarding our artwork. I love that I know someone in real life who is sharing the same sort of aspirations as me—it’s so encouraging and makes my own goals feel a little less lofty. Haha.
    It is a little scary though, isn’t it!? The hardest part about it for me is dealing with all the self-doubt that comes along with sharing my work with the world.
    I’m getting a lot better at letting it come and go and trying to remember what you mentioned in your post about knowing my own artwork is just as special and important as any other artist’s. It’s super hard when you see others people’s work and feel like it’s so much better than your own though. But I’ve come to a point personally where I’m like, I can either sit on my duff and compare myself to others ’till the cows come home, or I can use the tools that God gave me to create what I can and know that in the end that’s all that counts anyways.
    Love you and hope you’ve been feeling well pregnancy/mommy-wise! ❤

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Diana Forever: Celebrating 20 Years Since The Death Of An Icon - The Reykjavik Grapevine

Diana Forever: Celebrating 20 Years Since The Death Of An Icon

Diana Forever: Celebrating 20 Years Since The Death Of An Icon

Published November 10, 2017

Charley Ward
Photos by
Starkaður Sigurðarson

20 years ago, internationally beloved Lady Diana lost her life in a tragic “car accident” in Paris. Her glamorous lifestyle, relentless charity work and turbulent love life have cemented Princess Di as a mythical figure in the public’s collective conscious. She may be gone, but her memory most certainly lives on in the hearts and minds of the public. From the 10th to the 26th of November, a celebration of these shared and enduring ideas about Diana will be on display in ‘Diana Forever,’ an exhibition of original works by 12 Icelandic artists in Ekkisens and Gallery Port.

Curator Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir says, “As more people hear of the exhibition, we have more and more people coming to us and telling us a story about Diana or showing us a work about her that they did years ago. This is a big part of the exhibition as this material is on a line between art and popular culture. Because the public seems to own Diana, we can access a very wide swathe of society. At heart, the only art form is the stories we tell each other. We are trying to put those histories into a tactile thing.”

Art by Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir

The exhibition will showcase a variety of art forms, including performances, portraits, sketches, carpentry, video, text and podcasts. In addition, on Saturday, 18th of November at 19:00 there will be a live performance at Mengi by art duo Berglind Erna Tryggvadóttir and Rúnar Örn Marinósson, followed by another by Guðrún Heiður Ísaksdóttir and María Worms. Topping the night off will be a lecture about the Princess and an extra appearance by a very special guest.

The exhibition opens at 17:00 on the 10th of November at Gallery Port and Ekkisens. Wine and cucumber sandwiches, British style, will be on offer on opening night.

Artists Starkaður Sigurðarson, Andrea Arnarsdóttir and Auður Lóa Guðnadóttir

Opens 10th of November at 17:00 in Gallery Port and Ekkisens. Runs from 10th of November to 26th of November. Performance evening in Mengi on the 18th of November at 19:00

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Aretha Franklin: 1942 – 2018

Aretha_Franklin_1968Aretha Franklin, known as “The Queen of Soul,” passed away in her home on August 16, 2018 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. All of her accolades and accomplishments can be viewed HERE.

Here at The Grapevine Source, we are huge Blues Brothers fans, so we’d like to share with you what was posted on their Facebook Page. RIP, Aretha…and R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

In a land of giants, Aretha Franklin stood as one of the tallest. She had the soul of a lion, the strength of a warrior and the voice of unparalleled power and conviction.

THINK was a show-stopper that demonstrated her power as a performer. She also gave us an anthem for RESPECT and forever earned a place in our hearts.

From The Blues Brothers Facebook Page

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Category Archives: Short Sale Home Information

Buying Homes for Cash

When we talk to our customers and are preparing them to buy in todays market, we always try to explain that there is an unofficial hierarchy in purchase offers based on how they are paying for the property. Using the analogy of the childs’ game “Rock, Paper, Scissors” I offer “Cash, Conventional, FHA”. Home buyers who require financing for their home purchase can struggle to compete against buyers who have offers of all-cash. I go on to explain that in all price brackets South Florida Buyers are offering cash creating a highly competitive, multi bid situation where prices are bid higher then asking sometimes, even among cash buyers vying for the same property.
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Here in town over half the sales are cash! In the last 90 days in Coral Springs,FL 13 homes closed that sold with with VA loans, 50 sold with FHA loans, 64 sold with Conventional loans, and 99 sold for CASH.Having realtors who can creatively write your contract making your offer as strong as possible is a great boost to the buying power of customers using financing. Call Claudio and Robyn Petasne at 954-260-5570, Realtors experienced in buying homes for their clients. Making the most of your assets is both a science and an art that changes with the fluctuating South Florida Real Estate Market. !
Where are all-cash deals are the most prevalent? Cash deals represented 80 percent of home sales in June in Vermont; 58 percent in Nevada; 57 percent in Florida, and 51 percent in New York, according to RealtyTrac. Cash deals represent a very small percentage in Texas, Utah, and New Mexico.

The markets with the most all-cash transactions tend to have a high number of foreclosures and depressed home prices, which attracts investors and private equity firms, according to RealtyTrac. Here in Coral Springs and the surrounding area, 60% of the homes are distressed properties, combination of short sales and foreclosures.

The following 10 metros had 40 percent or more all-cash deals out of the total home sales in June, according to RealtyTrac:
1. Miami/Ft. Lauderdale: 64%
2. Las Vegas: 62%
3. Tampa, Fla.: 58%
4. Detroit: 56%
5. Orlando: 53%
6. New York: 49%
7. New Orleans: 43%
8. Memphis: 43%
9. Jacksonville, Fla.: 42%
10. Atlanta: 42%

So in review, when competing in the market to buy a home, you need realtors that know how to write a great offer, making the most of your financial assets. Claudio and Robyn Petasne are such realtors. Experienced and dedicated to helping you buy a home you will love and an investment that will prosper! If you have a suitcase of cash, that can always help too! Give us a call and see how we can help you. 954-770-6850
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Source: “Housing markets where cash is king,” CNNMoney (July 25, 2013)

Shop for Insurance Before you Buy your New Home

State Farm requests insurance increase

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – June 28, 2012 – State Farm has requested an average increase of 15 percent on its homeowners policies in Florida, its sixth rate hike request in less than three years.   According to an analysis of the request by the Sun Sentinel, the increase, if approved by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, would average 14 percent for single-family owners, 49 percent for renters and 27 percent for condo owners.   State Farm says the actual premium cost for a homeowner will vary, however, because it’s also bringing back a handful of discounts. The biggest one – a 10 percent cut in cost – would be granted owners who also use State Farm for their car insurance, for example. The company also says that a homeowner facing a 14 percent price hike could cut it down to 3 percent by opting for a higher deductible.   According to State Farm, it needs permission to raise prices because its “financial position has deteriorated significantly over the past several years.”   The Office of Insurance Regulation has final say over the increase, however. It has a meeting scheduled for July 25 to consider the request.

Citizens Insurance, one of the largest with holdings in Florida is also instituting major rate hikes and possiblly dropping many of their insured due to the high risk and costs of offering coverage in our Hurricane Prone state.

When you are considering purchasing a property the time to think about insurance is before you buy. Contact your insurance agent and discuss the type of property yuor looking for to get estimates on what the insurance will cost. You dont wany any surprises to keep you from moving into the home you desire.

Call me for some client recommended insurance agents. We only recommend agents that have been excellent in their knowledge, service, rates for our past clients. Reach Claudio and I at 954-770-6850

Tax Break for Short Sellers expires Soon!

Since 2007, homeowners whose banks have forgiven unpaid mortgage debt after a short sale, principal reduction or foreclosure have not had to count that money as income on their tax returns.   It’s meant savings of tens of thousands of dollars on the so-called “phantom income” depending on the amount of debt canceled and a person’s tax bracket.   But the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007 will sunset Dec. 31 2012

Accountants and Realtors are urging homeowners considering a short sale to put their properties on the market now so they can sell before year’s end.   A short sale is where the lender agrees to sell a property for less than what the homeowner owes on the mortgage. Banks are getting better at processing short sales, finalizing a contract can still take months

For Example: Bob Homeowner listed his home for a short sale with a good Realtor  after researching the best exit strategy from his underwater mortgage. He quickly had a full price offer of $105,000 and is currently under contract.A successful sale will leave him with $118,000 in unpaid loan debt. If the bank forgives that balance, the money is taxable income. Considering Bob’s tax bracket, he would owe about $29,500 in taxes on that canceled debt. Under the debt relief act, he won’t owe anything.

People selling their homes through a short sale or who are in foreclosure may have the unpaid balance of their loan forgiven by the bank. If so, that debt would be considered taxable income. The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act excludes that income from being taxed through Dec. 31, 2012.  If you are considering a short sale, you may want to put your home on the market now so a sale can close before the end of the year and qualify you to take advantage of the debt relief act before it expires.

What’s next?

A bill called the “Homeowners Tax Fairness Act” was filed in March that would extend the tax debt forgiveness program through 2015 if passed. It requires congressional approval.

If you want to find out more about Short Selling your house rather than facing foreclosure and the bankruptcy that often accompanies foreclosure contact us Claudio and Robyn Petasne at 954-260-5570.

As experienced Professional Realtors with Keller Williams Realty we have the knowledge and experience to help you through this financial struggle. Short Selling is a much better option than foreclosure for many reasons.

Please call to discuss how we can help you. You can also get more information at our Short Sale website

Professional Realtors are your best resource for Avoiding Foreclosure!


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CURE Water Treatment Skin Cream | Media Launch

CURE Water Treatment Skin Cream

End of the November’16, the Japan Famous brand, Cure introduced their latest innovative product, Cure Water Treatment Skin Cream.

You definitely heard of Japanese legendary water treatment therapy, where the motto is to heal your body naturally. The brand CURE promises to serve the same way. Moreover, I truly appreciate what they say in their brand concept…

No scent, No color, No preservative, natural ingredients and simple packages.
We dare not say “It will make you…” or “You will be….”
Because if it did not work the way we said, it would be a lie.

CURE Water Treatment Skin Cream

Cure Water Treatment Skin Cream has 2 main usages, as a toner and an emulsion. Contains harmless cosmetic grade silicon that covers skin to maintain hydration for a smoother and oil-free complexion.

It is a lightweight but intense moisturizer that is specially formulated to battle against dry skin. The texture of the product feels like a lotion rather than a cream. With its high concentration of the liquid, the cream has a high skin absorption rate as well.

Focus Points of Cure Water Treatment Skin Cream:

  • It is very gentle to the skin and suitable for the sensitive skin as well.
  • Used Hydrogen Water (75%) gives anti-oxidant effect – preventing skin oxidization for a more supple and radiant complexion.
  • Once applied and upon massage, cream becomes watery for a faster rate of skin absorption.
  • Non-greasy
  • No Color, No Fragrance, No Oil.

CURE Water Treatment Skin Cream

Before the launch of Cure Skin Cream, there was another Cure product that succeeded remarkably (which I was, unfortunately, unaware about) in the market, Natural Aqua Gel. Cure Natural aqua gel is a gentle skin exfoliator plush face wash that used the same activated hydrogen water technology.

I’m happy to get to know both of this innovative product and these two will be joining in my skincare routine soon. As soon as I’m done trying them out myself, I’ll post my in-depth review. But if you tried them already you can share your experience with me in the comment box below :)

Shopping info:

Cure Water Treatment Skin Cream | RM159
Cure Natural Aqua Gel | RM115
***Available at selected SASA stores in Malaysia

*** Press Release.

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    Miera Nadhirah
    March 7, 2017 at 5:41 am

    never quite heard of this brand yet, but it looks good..a bit pricey though… must go look see while I am in japan next week

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      Tamanna I.
      March 7, 2017 at 2:06 pm

      I agree… quite pricey.
      Fun fact, I didn’t know about it either until we were introduced at the launch 😜

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A Tasteful Twist

AtHome | Dec 7, 2017 | Guest Contributor

With fragrant blossoms, colorful fruit, and glossy evergreen foliage, growing your own citrus, such as Meyer lemons, Persian limes or even blood oranges, is very possible in Greenville with just a little know-how and care. Citrus do great outdoors all year long in sunny Florida, but here in the Upstate we need to bring our tender tropical babies indoors in the winter to protect them from frost, freeze, and our much-too-chilly weather. With proper care, you could be enjoying your own fresh blood oranges by the fireplace during the cold winter months.

The easiest and most popular indoor citrus plant is the Meyer Lemon, which is sweeter than the classic commercial varieties found at the grocery store. A close cousin to the Meyer lemon, and another favorite among home citrus growers, is the Persian lime with its tart and tangy taste. Blood Orange and Red Navel trees are both fantastic species of orange trees you can grow in containers indoors. The kumquat tree with its small oval bright orange fruit is another favorite indoor citrus plant. Available kumquat species include the delicious Nagami and the Centennial, which offers unique variegated foliage year-around.

Most citrus generally produce their fruit in the spring and fall, and then they have a time of resting to rejuvenate their nutrients and energy for the next fruiting period. This is a time of recovery for your plant, so don’t give up on it. It’s just resting from its fruit production.

Knowing when to bring your plant indoors is key. Most citrus can tolerate temperatures as low as 32 degrees. But as a general rule, your plant should be brought indoors when nightly temperatures consistently reach 40 degrees, on average. Also, to avoid frost/freeze damage be sure keep an eye out for those troublesome nights where temperatures unexpectedly plunge.

Growing potted citrus is a “fruitful” way to garden all year long, both outdoors and in.

Citrus Tips

Citrus tips courtesy of Martin Garden Center

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