  HAPPY JUNETEENTH! / HAPPY BLACK MUSIC MONTH!
 This Month, Pledge to: Attend a Jazz Concert! Spread Good News! Remember Your Ancestors! Beat Your Drums! Celebrate Your Freedom! Blow Your Sax! Set Someone / Something Free! Buy (Non-Bootleg) Black Music!
2012 UNCF 30th Anniversary Walk for Education Los Angeles
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7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Walk
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Post Walk Festivities & Entertainment
WHERE - Coliseum Dr. and Menlo Ave., behind the Natural History Museum. With its expanded, carnival-like setting in Exposition Park, the UNCF Walk for Education is a wonderful family-oriented event full of entertainment, celebrities, great food, recreation and important information about the value of UNCF’s historically black colleges and universities. Parking is $10.00 (Carpool if you can!)
2012 Performing ARTs Academy June 4 through July 13th
Amun Ra Theatre's Performing ARTs Academy - June 4-July 13th, Mon-Fri from 8am - 5pm.
Ages 7 - 13. Tuition for the 6
weeks is $475.00.
Participants will learn from professional performers
in a safe, supervised environment.
Classes include: acting, oral interpretation, public speaking, dance/movement, music creative writing & visual arts. A Mandatory Open House and Informational
Meeting will be held on June 2, 2012 at 3:00pm at Amun Ra Theatre. kenethacarr@gmail.com. Amun Ra Theatre is a not-for-profit,
professional performing arts ensemble.
info@theamunratheatre.org
615-482-7482
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June 5 is Primary Day! Are you ready to vote? Have you researched the issues? Have you vetted the candidates? Have you reminded your friends and family members to remember vote? Will you do so again on June 5th? Are you prepared to help someone get to the polls? Come June 6, I hope you will be able to say, "I voted!"
WHERE THE ACTION IS:
Formerly "T'Keyah Fights City Hall"
which was formerly the "Do Something" and sometimes the "T'Keyah's Two Cents" columns of this
newsletter, this is what the action should
be...
Unfortunately, the California
State Assembly just defeated State Senator Mark Leno’s SB 1506 – Penalty Reform for
Simple Possession. This bill would have
added California to the list of 13 other states and the federal government that
currently treat the simple possession of drugs as a misdemeanor. It was co-sponsored by the ACLU, Drug
Policy Alliance, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and the NAACP. As a long time supporter of NABSIO, a
prison outreach program, I am all too familiar with the disproportionately
devastating effects that drug laws have on black and brown people. Please contact your state
representative and let them know that you will not allow this setback to be a
final defeat. You can still voice your opinion through the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights petition at https://secure3.convio.net/ebc/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=241&utm_campaign=bnb-10120504-war-on-drugs&utm_source=hp&utm_medium=homepage&s_src=bnb-10120504-war-on-drugs&s_subsrc=hp
Dance Theatre of Harlem at Marcus Garvey Park Halfway through their Caribbean tour, the Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble returns to perform for the Harlem community at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park, Harlem, New York. Come and see them right after a great success in Kingston, Jamaica, and right before they appear in performance in The Bahamas!
DATE: June 8, 2012 TIME: 6:00 pm
LOCATION: Richard Rodgers Amphitheater at Marcus Garvey Park
DATE: June 8, 2012 TIME: 6:00 pm
LOCATION: Richard Rodgers Amphitheater at Marcus Garvey Park
WHERE THE ACTION IS:
Formerly "T'Keyah Fights City Hall"
which was formerly the "Do Something" and sometimes the "T'Keyah's Two Cents" columns of this
newsletter, this is what the action should
be...
California
Voters: There is still time to weight in on “The California DISCLOSE
Act (Assembly Bill 1648), which would bring true transparency to state
elections, ensuring that top donors for every political ad are shown in the ads
themselves, allowing California voters to see who is trying to buy their
support. Thanks to Assemblymember Julia Brownley (the bill’s author) amending
it to be an 'urgency' bill, the next vote will not come until after this important
June 5th election. Sign
the California Clean Money Campaign
petition in support of the bill, at http://www.caclean.org/petition/. Learn more at http://cleanandfairsf.org
petition
WHERE THE ACTION IS:
Created by the late, great Vernon Jarrett, ACT-SO is the NAACP's Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics - a national mentoring program and competition for high school students. This year's Beverly Hills / Hollywood NAACP winners are:
Dance: Jazmin Thomas (Gold) Uyoata Udi (Bronze) Anthony
Patrick (Silver); Dramatics: Patrick Bucknor (Gold) Dashawn Barnes (Bronze) Khamal White
(Silver); Drawing: Sophia Zarders (Gold) Olivia Jones (Bronze) Shaheed Bouey
(Silver); Music- Instrumental
Contemporary:
Keeland
Bowers (Gold) Aaron Shaw (Bronze) Lawrence Shaw (Silver); Music Vocal Classical: Justin Lewis (Gold) Daniel O’Brien (Bronze) Pollyanna Leung
(Silver); Music - Vocal
Contemporary:
Darynn Dean (Gold) Katherine Eason (Bronze) Daniel O’Brien (Silver); Oratory: Khamal White (Gold) Khalil White (Bronze); Original Essay: Ariana Seymore (Gold) Lailah Y. Fofana (Bronze)
Savannah Duplissea (Silver); Painting: Sophia Zarders (Gold) Nylah Scypion Butler (Bronze) Amani Washington
(Silver); and Photography: Olivia Jones (Gold) Savannah Duplissea (Bronze) Nylan Scypion-Butter (Silver). A showcase featuring the winning performing artists will raise funds to send all of the first place winners to the national competition this summer in Houston.
WHERE THE ACTION IS:
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking is the high-pressure
injection of water, sand and chemicals underground to
dislodge rock formation, allowing oil or gas to flow up a well. Despite uniform opposition by
environmental groups, fracking is considered by some to be an answer to our
energy crisis. Food and Water Watch warns
that fracking threatens our air, water and climate. Learn more and sign their petition
asking Congress and President Obama to ban hydraulic fracturing nationally at http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/fracking/fracking-action-center/
Back by popular demand, NAACP Theater Image Award Recipient Cheryl Francis Harrington will be presenting her one woman play "I Met Someone!" at The East Theatre @The Complex, 6468
Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90038. Friday
June 8, 7:15pm, Thursday
June 14, 7:00pm & Thursday June 21, 7:45pm http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/236351
WHERE THE ACTION IS:
On June 16, 1933, the U.S. enacted The Banking Act of 1933,
establishing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and banking
reforms that protected citizens against speculation.
Known as the Glass-Steagall Act, for its
Congressional sponsors, Senator Carter Glass and Representative Henry Steagall,
this law kept commercial banks separate from high-risk investment banks. The
government agreed to insure the deposits we make in commercial banks through
the FDIC, and the banks not to gamble on those deposits. In 1999, the repeal of Glass-Steagall
paved the way for the financial crisis and the massive Wall Street bailouts
that have crushed so many unsuspecting investors and homeowners. There is a movement now to
reinstate Glass-Steagall. Learn
more and sign the
Credo Action (http://www.credoaction.com/) petition urging Congress to enact a new Glass-Steagall
law to protect the public from “too-big-to-fail Wall Street banks” at http://www.credoaction.com/campaign/glass_steagall/?rc=homepage.
The 6th Annual Leimert Park
Village Book Fair We Real Cool: Celebrating
the Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
On Saturday, June 30, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., book lovers, of all ages will converge to celebrate
the written word on the Vision Theatre Backlot at 43rd
Place and Degnan in historic Leimert Park. The festival will feature over 150 celebrity
readings, book signings, writing workshops, panel discussions, poetry readings,
stage performances and musical performances. Themed after the Black Arts Movement
of the ‘60’s and early 70’s, the festival will pay tribute to
literary trailblazer, Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000). The author of dozens of books, autobiographies, anthologies
and poems, Brooks, an Illinois Poet Laureate, was the first black
author to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first black woman to hold the
position of poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. One of Brooks most
well known short poems is “We Real Cool,” written after spotting young boys in a pool hall during school hours. The 2012 line-up includes Sheryl Lee Ralph to
talk about her book, Redefining Diva and Black Arts Movement catalyst Amiri
Baraka who will be featured on the main stage. Isabel Wilkerson will discuss the
history behind her Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Warmth of Other Suns. www.leimertpartbookfair.com. 323.730-0628 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
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MUAH! MUAH! MUAH!
Thank you to: everyone who received me so warmly when I popped in to open the Najwa Dance Corps's annual "Tell It Like It Is" Poetry and Dance Concert; present and former C.H.A.R.M. Mentoring and Outreach Services Board Members Michele Traylor, Bessie Carter, Gerald Lewis, Jamaal Buchanan, Crystal Porter (past Board Chair) Al Demming, Shuntella LeRoy, Myrna Grant, and Malcom Munson for all of your hard work and support; all ongoing supporters of my Popcorn and Lemonade Mini FunRaiser; Karen Walker, Aliyah Burchette, Renee Black,
Congratulations to: Fremont Centre Theatre on its production of Holding On ~ Letting Go, directed by
James Reynolds, starring Barry Wiggins, Iona Morris,
Amentha Dymally and Jill Remez; the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for clarifying the methodology
for calculating the State’s five percent net metering cap thereby
dramatically expanding opportunities for California ratepayers to go solar; and - Sheryl Lee Ralph on the completion of her book, Redefining Diva go on
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The Crystal News respectfully acknowledges the life and transition of:
Dr. Rosentene
Bennett-Purnell, (Cousin) Isidro Casanova, (Uncle) William Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Graves,
Victoria Russel, Ada Sharpton and Donna Summers.
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We are blessed to have known their warm heart, bright smiles and good works. We are inspired to follow their brave and noble examples.
Have you hugged someone you love today?
Stay Tuned...
C.H.A.R.M. Mentoring and Outreach Services will hold its 2012 Scholarship Ball at 12 noon on Saturday, July 21, 2012 in Alsip, IL. Get your tickets now at www.mycharm.org!
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