#09.24.2016

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CHARLOTTE, NC SAT SEP 24 - 1:00 PM MARSHALL PARK 800 E 3rd Street Show Up For Charlotte https://www.facebook.com/events/330644163949646/?ti=icl

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09.24.2016

Today, Romano was greeted by a stranger. The person had thought that Romano was someone else.

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI

SAT SEP 24 - 10:00 AM

Calder Plaza 300 Ottawa Avenue NW

GRAND Opening WATCH PARTY

Our Grand Rapids African American Museum and Archives has been chosen to host a Watch Party and stream the opening of NMAACH live from Washington DC thru the Lift Every Voice Campaign. The September 24, 2016, Grand Opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture will be a global moment in history. The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the 19th museum of the Smithsonian Institution and is located at the foot of the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The museum provides for the collection, study, and establishment of programs and exhibitions related to African American life, history, art, and culture. It is a place where people can learn about the richness and diversity of the African American experience; it is a place of meaning, memory, reflection, laughter, and hope.www.graama.org

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LOUISVILLE, KY

SAT SEP 24 - 10:00 AM

Louisville Urban League 1535 W Broadway

Books & Breakfast Louisville

This month our theme is MENTAL HEALTH. This is a subject that is often overlooked and undervalued but has huge effects on everyone in some way. Come out and contribute to the conversation as we go into the second year of Books and Breakfast! Free books, free food, free love!

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BROOKLYN, NY

SAT SEP 24 - 2:30 PM

Flatbush Library 22 Linden Blvd

Strategy Session On Gentrification hosted by Equality for Flatbush

Come together with your neighbors, community activists and lawyers to organize and STOP displacement and police harassment in #Flatbush and #EastFlatbush! Are YOU tired of... ● High rents and landlords forcing people out of their rent-stabilized apartments? ● All the new construction ofV luxury condos while we can’t find affordable housing? ● NYPD constantly harassing you? ● Feeling that there is nothing you can do to change things??? To get involved with Equality for Flatbush : Please Join our TEXT Loop call or text: [phone] OR add your email to The Equality for Flatbush Organizers and Members Organizing List : [email protected] or Contact: In English : [email protected] [phone] En Español [phone] En Kréyol [phone]

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BROOKLYN, NY

SAT SEP 24 - 2:00 PM

BROOKLYN MUSEUM 200 Eastern Pkwy

Children, Not Criminals: Rethinking School Discipline

With school suspensions and in-school arrests representing the primary pathways to the criminal justice system for young women and men of color, it’s increasingly clear that non-punitive disciplinary alternatives are an essential step in advancing social and racial justice in our schools and communities. Come hear from national and local advocates and practitioners about the crisis of the school-to-prison pipeline and learn about the positive outcomes they have achieved through innovative alternatives.

Speakers will include:

Fania Davis, a leading national voice on restorative justice and Co-Founder and Executive Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY)

Monique Morris, co-founder of the National Black Women’s Justice Institute and author of the critically acclaimed Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools; 

Ashley Ellis, Restorative Practices Director for Good Shepherd Services at the School for Democracy and Leadership in East Flatbush, a partner school in the Brooklyn Restorative Justice Project. Brooklyn Community Foundation

President Cecilia Clarke will moderate the panel discussion. This event is free with museum admission.