D7DN: R+B, Old School, Hip Hop, Caribbean, Jazz 12/10-tonight--Copley Marriott--23 Ebony Winter Gala 2010 (United Minority Professional)

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1.     The 23rd Ebony Winter Gala 2010                                                       (TONIGHT--12/10--8pm-2:00am)

 

2.     Shop Locally & Vote for Dudley Storefront                                                                      (12/10-12/16)

 

3.     Interfaith Fundraiser & Peace Walk to Benefit Haiti                                       (12/11--1:00-5:00pm)

4.     Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony: Building Eliot Square--Roxbury                                   (12/15--5:30pm)

 

5.     The Boston Red Sox and El Mundo invite you to Fenway in support of Sociedad Latina       (12/15--6pm)

6.     The New Jim Crow  (author...Michelle Alexander)                                                       (A MUST READ)

 

7.     Apartments at 122 Elm Hill Ave for rent

 

Details below...

 

 

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1.   The 23rd Ebony Winter Gala 2010  (TONIGHT--12/10--8pm-2:00am)

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2.    Shop Locally & Vote for Dudley Storefront  (12/10-12/16)

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Shop Locally & Vote for Dudley Storefront

There are a number of events in Dudley Square this week as part of holidays on Main Streets

 

1. Vote Allan's Formal Wear

As part of the citywide storefront decorating contest, we have nominated Allan's Formal Wear In Dudley   as our district winner.  We need you to go online to www.holidaysonmainstreets.com to vote for him and make him the citywide winner. by tomorrow, Friday.

 

Secondly, Saturday we want you to come to Dudley and window shop or actually shop. You will find some unique gifts at some of the stores at the bottom of the attached flyer. We are highlighting some of our many new African stores at 1127 Harrison Ave., and 11 and 33 Roxbury Street (silks, jewelry, Ethiopian  and Somali spices and clothing, tea caddies from Dubai,etc.) There are also two African restaurants in at 1127 with food from Somalia, and Sierra Leone. )  Pepper Pot Jamaican Restaurant and Eddy's Dominican Restaurant are popular  venues. Between 12-5 there will be some dancing and folks talking about their countries.

 

Also get Afro-centric cards, silver bangles, and Angels from A Nubian Notion-along with a listing of all the businesses; At CJ Page one (a telephone store) get  fancy jewelry and church hats. Mr. G's Mall has antique furniture and dishes. Hamill Gallery has African Art, and our Open Studios artists will be at Hibenia Hall this Sunday.

 

So come and explore Dudley.  Also there are  19 other Main Streets with lots of interesting gift items and events over the next few weeks. 

 

Joyce

 

HOLIDAYS ON MAIN STREETS-DUDLEY SQUARE

SHOP LOCALLY

 

HOLIDAY EVENTS:

 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9

HALEY HOUSE: ART IS LIFE  ITSELF-FEATURING DENNY CORBY, THE MAGNIFICENT MUSICIAN AND VOCALIST VALERIE STEVENS.  AT HALEY HOUSE CAFE AND GALLERY FROM 7-10 P.M. FOR MORE INFO CONTACT NINA LANEGRA AT 617 935-3244 OR EMAIL ARTISLIFEITSELF@GMAIL.COM

CAFE TATANT-ROXBURY'S NEW SUPPER CLUB-ROXBURY CENETER FOR THE ARTS ANNOUNCES A NEW VENUE FOR JAZZ, RYTHM & BLUES AND SWEET SOUL MUSIC EVERY THURSDAY IN DECEMBER. ETHNICA CATERER WILL PROVIDE DINNER AND LOCAL ARTSITS WILL PROVIDE THE MUSIC.- RAJULARI BARNES JAZZ PROJECT.  DINNER AT 6; JAZZ AT 7:00. FOR INFORMATION WWW.MADISON-PARK.ORG

 

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11                 

AFRICAN FESTIVAL-BUTIMANI AFRICAN MARKETPLACE-1127 HARRISON AVE-(INCUBATOR BLD. ON BLAIRS PARKING LOT)-THERE WILL BE MUSIC , FOOD TASTING; AND  AN ARRAY OF AFRICAN SILKS SPICES, TEA CADDIES FROM DUBAI; JEWELRY, EAST AND WEST AFRICAN CLOTHING,ETC AT THIS LOCATION AND AT MABRUUK FASHIONS, 31 ROXBRUY STREET, KABBA'S AFRICAN MARKET, 29 ROXBURY STREET. HOURS 12-5. FOR DETAILS 617 541-4644 OR JOYCE.STANLEY2@VERIZON.NET

 

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12

ARTROX HOLIDAY ART AFFAIR-UNIQUE GIFTS  FROM ARTISTS FROM GREATER ROXBURY AT HIBERNIA HALL, 184 DUDLEY STREET FROM 11:00-6:OO.  FOR INFO GO TO AGPOFGLASS@AOL.COM

 

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15

HISTORY SPEAKS SERIES; SOMALI ROXBURY-ROXBURY HAS BECOME A CENTER FOR THE ALMOST 6000 SOMALIS THAT HAVE SETTLED IN BOSTON. A PANEL OF SOMALI RESIDENTS WILL SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH YOU AT HALEY HOUSE FROM 7-9 PM. WWW.DISCOVERROXBURY.ORG

 

THURSDAY,DECEMBER  16

TROPICAL FOOD'S KWANZAA TASTING-CHEF NADINE NELSON, OF EPICUREAN SALON, WILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS, TREAT YOU TO A BUFFET AND DO COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS WITH INDGREDIENTS FORM THE MOTHERLAND. AT HALEY HAOUSE CAFE, 12 DADE STREET FROM 6-7 PM $20. WWW.TROPICALFOODS.NET

CAFE TATANT AT ROXBURY CENTER FOR THE ARTS-CORNELL COLEY  & HIS AFRO-LATIN ENSEMBLE.

DINNER AND JAZZ OR JUST JAZZ.  WWW.MADISON-PARK.ORG

 

HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS;

JEWELRY-A NUBIAN NOTION,MABRUUCK FASHION,C.J. PAGE ONE, DUDLEY SQUARE JEWELRY; ASHLEY STEWART; ROYCE SPECIALTY SHOPS; NEW YOR FASHIONS

CLOTHING: ASHLEY STEWART, ROYCE SHOPS; NEW YORK MEN'S , NEW YORK FASHIONS; MANHATTAN;

SPICES & FOODS FROM AFRICA & THE CARIBBEAN: TROPICAL FOODS INTERNATIONAL,MERKATU ETHIOPIAN MARKET; INDIAN OCEAN HALAL MARKET; KABBA'S AFRICAN MARKET; PEPPERPOT JAMAICAN RESTAURANT, EDDY'S DOMINCAN RESTAURANT

AFRO-CENTRIC CARDS, GIFTS ANGELS ETC.-A NUBIAN NOTION

COMPLETE BUSINESS LISTING WITH ADDRESSES AT A NUBIAN NOTION 140 DUDLEY STREET

 

 

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3.     Interfaith Fundraiser & Peace Walk to Benefit Haiti (12/11--1:00-5:00pm)

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Interfaith Fundraiser & Peace Walk Responds to the Growing Humanitarian and Public Health Crisis in Haiti Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010 To benefit Haiti ~ particularly the public health efforts to prevent the spread of cholera and other diseases Arts & Crafts Sale Date: Saturday, Dec.11, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Location: First Baptist Church in Newton                  848 Beacon Street, Newton Centre, MA  02459 Offering art for sale from African Authentics and the Haitian Artists Assembly including stone sculpture from Zimbabwe, scarves, cards, jewelry, paintings, and Haitian artwork. Co-sponsors: PeaceWorks, City Mission Society of Boston, African Authentics and the Haitian Artists Assembly. For more information, contact Sarah Mausner, PeaceWorks, Inc. at  peaceworks@rcn.com. Village People by Sabina Jean Peace Walk Sponsored by Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage Myrtle Baptist Church gather @ 1:00 p.m.; leave @2:00 p.m. (21 Curve Street, West Newton, MA 02465) Arrive at First Baptist Church in Newton around 3:30 p.m. Prayer Service @ 4:00 p.m. at First Baptist Church Please bring bars of soap to send to Haiti

 

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4.     Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony: Building Eliot Square--Roxbury  (12/15--5:30pm)

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 THE CRUZ COMPANIES

JOHN B. CRUZ CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.

 CRUZ  MANAGEMENT CO., INC.

CRUZ DEVELOPMENT CORP.

 

INVITES THE COMMUNITY TO OUR ANNUAL

 

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2010

AT 5:30 P.M.

 

THE COX BUILDING

ONE JOHN ELIOT SQUARE

ROXBURY, MA 02119

 

Please join us for some Holiday Cheer…in the Spirit of the Season.

Hope to see and hear you there.

 

REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED!!! 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 617-445-6901

OR EMAIL DWHITING@CRUZCOMPANIES.COM.

 

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5.     The Boston Red Sox and El Mundo invite you to Fenway in support of Sociedad Latina  (12/15--6pm)

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Sociedad Latina Youth Development for Community Change Dear Friends, The Boston Red Sox and El Mundo are teaming up for a holiday celebration in support of Sociedad Latina youth and families. All proceeds from ticket sales will go directly to Sociedad Latina, as we continue to empower local Latino youth to rise above the statistics, finish high school, enter college, and gain employment. On behalf of Sociedad Latina youth, families, board members and staff, I invite you to join us at Fenway Park on Dec. 15. And if you can't make it, please consider making a donation to Sociedad Latina online through Network for Good. Happy Holidays! Alexandra Oliver-Davila Executive Director

 

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6.     The New Jim Crow  (author...Michelle Alexander)

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 The New Jim Crow

Need a gift idea for the holiday? This book is for anyone who wants to fix our broken criminal justice system. Buy the book and join author Michelle Alexander in the new year to talk solutions.

Dear Lorraine,

We’ve all heard the statistics, and most of us have simply become numb to hearing them. For many people, the over-incarceration of Black people is simply a fact of life. It shouldn’t be.

Thanks to legal scholar and professor Michelle Alexander¹ we now have a new book that explains how we ended up with a criminal justice system that targets and endangers Black communities, as well as ideas on what we can do to free ourselves from that system’s clutches.

When we put the book — The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — in the hands of 20 ColorOfChange members to review, the response was unanimous. In addition to giving the book glowing reviews, they all wanted the entire ColorOfChange community to know about it.

It’s why we’re now inviting you to get your own copy (and one for your friends or family as well, in time for the holiday season), as well as participate in a conference call with Professor Alexander in the new year to discuss it.

You can get your copy here:

http://act.colorofchange.org/go/284?id=2483-627207&akid=1771.221421.Nq62Nc&t=4

Professor Alexander’s book outlines the evolution of drug laws and how their ongoing effects on Black America parallel the role that segregation played in the period following the Civil War and preceding the Civil Rights Movement.² And it raises questions about what it will take to build a movement that can reform the broken drug laws that fuel high incarceration rates.

Criminal justice reform is key to our community — a third of Black men will spend part of their lives in prison,³ and Black children are more than six times more likely to have a parent incarcerated than White children.⁴ ColorOfChange members have demonstrated time and again that they want to change the status quo. More than 59,000 ColorOfChange members called on Congress to remove the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine, and nearly 25,000 sent a statement to Senator James Webb of Virginia, thanking him for his attempts to overhaul our approach to incarceration.

We believe — and the ColorOfChange members who read and reviewed the book agreed — that the book will help us, as everyday people, stand with even more power to advocate for change. Ms. Alexander is herself a longtime member of ColorOfChange.org, and she’s agreed to speak with those of you who read the book, and answer any questions you have. We’ll contact you again early in the new year with more information about how to participate in that conference call, which is sure to be informative and powerful.

Here’s what ColorOfChange.org members are saying about The New Jim Crow:

“This book explains how this new Jim Crow came to be and how deeply ingrained it is now in the American psyche. Unless we really understand how this happened, we’ll never break this vicious cycle of African-American overincarceration… How many family members of prisoners lie about their relatives in the penal system in an effort to mitigate the stigma of criminality? This system penalizes entire families. [The book] was such an eye opener."
— Irma, Washington, DC

“This book will give you a good understanding of the system, its historical roots, its origins in the War on Drugs, the complicity of the police and legal system leading to mass incarceration of people of color, and the tragic result of creating a permanent caste system based on color. It opened my eyes and stirred my soul.“
— Larry, Freeland, WA

“This isn’t a fight for the lawyers. This is a fight for regular people, the non-experts, the advocates, the sympathizers, the human beings who care and want to care more. Fertile ground for change is wherever we are, however we are, and accessible to those of us with less than sizable monetary wealth or a law degree.”
— Thuha, Fountain Valley, CA

For more on The New Jim Crow and to get your copy, click here:

http://act.colorofchange.org/go/284?id=2483-627207&akid=1771.221421.Nq62Nc&t=6

Thanks and Peace,

-- James, Gabriel, William, Dani, Natasha and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
   December 9th, 2010

Help support our work. ColorOfChange.org is powered by YOU -- your energy and dollars. We take no money from lobbyists or large corporations that don't share our values, and our tiny staff ensures your contributions go a long way. You can contribute here:

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References:

1. “The New Jim Crow,” article by Michelle Alexander in Mother Jones, 03-08-2010
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/279?akid=1771.221421.Nq62Nc&t=9

2. “Legal Scholar Michelle Alexander on ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’,” Democracy Now, 03-11-2010
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/283?akid=1771.221421.Nq62Nc&t=11

3. “Too Long Ignored,” The New York Times, 8-20-2010
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/598?akid=1771.221421.Nq62Nc&t=13

4. “Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic Mobility,” Pew Charitable Trusts, 9-2010
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/603?akid=1771.221421.Nq62Nc&t=15

Additional resources:

“More than 1 in 100 U.S. adults are in prison,” New York Times, 2-29-2008
http://act.colorofchange.org/go/281?akid=1771.221421.Nq62Nc&t=17  

From: James Rucker, ColorOfChange.org  info@colorofchange.org 

 

 

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7.   Apartments at 122 Elm Hill Ave for rent

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