December 2012 archive
Catch the HEALINGS exhibition
feat. Art by TTK
Closing ceremony is This Sunday Dec.30th at 4pm. so it is your last chance !
Skylight Gallery @ Restoration Plaza
1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn New York,
3rd floor
718-636-6949
Refreshments will be served.
A winter jam packed with events @ Brooklyn Public Library >> Click
A winter jam packed with events @ Brooklyn Public Library >> Click
A self-absorbed Black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and psychic horrors of chattel slavery, and eventually the redemptive power of community and rebellion as she becomes a member of a freedom-seeking Maroon colony. Written by L. J. Allen-2
Nationally known author reflects on losing childhood home in Detroit
By Dream Hampton
…By the mid-’80s, my brother moved from the mowing crowd to the trespassing crew. Crack seemed to make its nationwide debut on the east side of Detroit, and unlike the boys his age who sold it, my brother, who’d taken to hanging with older boys, became a user.
Read the full story in The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121220/OPINION01/212200331#ixzz2GPrOE4AY
A Onetime Bklyn Drug Dealer, Now Working to Combat a Plague of Gun Violence
By VIVIAN YEE
Rudy Suggs, a former drug dealer in Brooklyn, now works as a “violence interrupter” for Save Our Streets Crown Heights.
On and around the street corner where one of his friends was once gunned down, Mr. Suggs now breaks up fights before people run home to get their weapons. The neighborhood kids who saw him selling and fighting when they were young are now teenagers whom he counsels not to go down the same path.
Mr. Suggs’s services as a “violence interrupter,’’ one of four who work for Save Our Streets Crown Heights, part of the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center, are in high demand, with shootings still prevalent in the neighborhood. » CONTINUE
The Lo-End Theory Polo concert & swap feat. Sean Price, Buckshot, Roc Marciano, Meyhem Lauren and Lo-Lifes Thirstin Howl 3rd,
January 20. 2013 at Highline Ballroom
Showtime @ 4:30 PM
Doors open @ 2:00 PM
Tickets: http://shar.es/h8p5E