Sprite Step Off is the largest national step competition EVER – with 30 events in over 20 cities, teams from all across the country can compete in Sprite Step Off for a share of $1.5 million prize pool. Competing teams will also donate over 1 million hours of community service over the course of the competition, working alongside the national Sprite Step Off Service Challenge.
PAVE (Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment) hosted a fundraising event on the evening of September 17, 2009 in downtown Los Angeles’s gorgeous performing arts complex at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion..The evening’s festivities included a silent auction, guest speaker Dave Pelzer, and performances by Catch Me Bird dancers and an assembled group of local LA talent who performed a dance about Removing the Mask alongside spoken word poet Steve Connell. Angela Rose, founder of PAVE, was in attendance and gave opening and closing remarks while Wanda Colon served as the mistress of ceremonies throughout the night.
Interactive One today announced the launch of BlackPlanet Rising (www.blackplanetrising.com), the first comprehensive platform to provide tools, information and connections for African Americans to give back their time and resources to the community. Interactive One will seek to activate African Americans through a broad cross-platform outreach program leveraging the Radio One stations, and its own robust online platform which reaches more than nine million monthly unique visitors and includes the original social networking site, BlackPlanet.com.
The President gives a speech directly to Americas students welcoming them back to school. He emphasizes their hope and potential but makes clear they will need to take responsibility for themselves and their education to reach that potential. September 8, 2009. (Public Domain)
Who can EVER forget? Take a moment of silence. Light a candle. Say a prayer. Do not forget what the cities in the Gulf region went through in late August 2005. Where were you? What did you do? What have you done? How were you affected?
Article I wrote for July 2009 edition of JENESIS magazine (www.jenesismagazine.com) about the AIDS epidemic in DC. I’m just cropping it down to fit this blog and placing it here in case you missed seeing it online. There’s been a lot of discussion about DC in particular over the past several months after learning that rate has been on the rise.
I began the sketches for what would ultimately become Obama 2012 in March 2007, a month after Barack Obama declared his candidacy. I had spent much of the previous 18 months living abroad as an entrepreneur and statesman of sorts, and I was slightly out of touch with the pulse of life on the street in the United States.
In an effort to reflect more of a diverse voice to Sunday morning talk shows centered around politics, Roland Martin has partnered with TV One to launch “Washington Watch.” The first episode will air on September 27, 2009 at 11:00am.
Test 1 Million, a corresponding campaign produced by the Black AIDS Institute, kicks off an effort to test one million people in one year by next National HIV Testing Day (June 27, 2010).
in the midst of the political protests in Iran, green is earning a new significance, a sign of solidarity, a “way for them to express their opposition and their unhappiness with the way the election was conducted
I thought including a few excerpts with some background on the protests currently going on in Iran may be helpful to some readers. Feel free to comment with more resources and links.
On the heels of a photo finish win in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay last summer in Beijing, Olympic gold medalist Cullen Jones joins forces with the USA Swimming Foundation and ConocoPhillips in an effort to reduce the drowning statistics among minority youth.
The hilarious folks at FunnyOrDie.com collaborated with Common, Ryan Perez, and Eric Appel to put together the song/video called “Dow Jones.” Check it out!
Peas In Their Pods was formed in March of 2007 to bring awareness about the epidemic rate at which African American children are abducted or endangered. The RILYA Alert is in honor of Rilya Wilson…
On Saturday, May 9, Campbell Soup Company will join forces with the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) to Stamp Out Hunger! across America in order to provide assistance to the one in eight Americans who struggle with hunger.
