Events

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Feb
25
Tue
2020
Black Men and Women United Weekly Meeting @ The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint Office
Feb 25 @ 8:00 am

GENERAL MEETING – OPEN TO ALL

Black Men United is comprised of black men and those who support black men. Members are those who participate in the organization’s activities; live, work, and serve in the organization’s community; advocate for justice on behalf of the organization’s community; and seek to give voice to those without voice. Members are people of faith, clergy, and representatives of diverse, non-profit and community organizations.

Based in San Diego’s 4th Council District, Black Men United’s community is African-American people, African immigrants, American Indian, Latino, and others who, by experience, consciousness and culture, empathize with the black experience.

Black Men United’s vision is to serve as a unifying, empowering and moral influence in its community.

Black Men United’s purpose is convene, guide and galvanize black men (and those who support black men) to enable and empower its members and its community to address their relevant spiritual, individual, interpersonal, societal needs.

Black Men United’s activities and achievements reflect a commitment to faith, constancy, individual and community development, justice, and inclusion. Much of BMU’s work is accomplished through its Committees.

Black History Month Family Art Night @ Mission Hills Library
Feb 25 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Registration for this event will close on February 25, 2020 @ 5:30pm.
There are 27 seats remaining.
Event Details
Please come join teaching artist Stacie Birky Greene for a fun and educational collage-making workshop.

“Three Folk Musicians” by Romare Bearden, a gifted African-American artist will be introduced.

Bring your creativity and make a masterpiece! All supplies will be provided.

Space is limited. Please register online.

PASSING THE TORCH – From Selma to Today @ Lincoln Senior High School
Feb 25 @ 5:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Join us for an evening with civil rights icon Professor Bernard Lafayette

The evening will begin with heavy hors d’oeuvres at 5:30pm – 6:30pm.

The “Passing the Torch” program will begin at 6:45pm – 9:00pm immediately followed by a book signing.

Join professor Bernard Lafayette who was appointed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the first national chairman of the Poor Peoples Movement, and coordinator of the Selma, Alabama voting rights movement

Program also features:

Heavy hors d’oeuvres

Student led expressions – connecting today’s social activism to that of the 1960’s

Spoken Word

Passing The Torch short film clip

Artistic expression of Ms. Amelia Boynton- the Matriarch of the voting rights movement

“In Peace and Freedom” book signing

Q & A

Gateway Educational Foundation & Institute works to preserve the rich history of the civil rights movement and honor the unsung heroes. We provide educational dialogues such as documentaries, films, passing the torch youth summits and assemblies, Kingian non-violence training workshops for adults and teens, effective black parenting classes to celebrate black heritage, and equip African American parents with culturally relevant parenting skills.

FANCY Expo Volunteer Meeting @ Valencia Park/Malcolm X Library
Feb 25 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Come volunteer at the 2020 FANCY Teen Girls Expo!

 

African-American Women in Film @ Jacobs Center, Celebration Hall
Feb 25 @ 6:30 pm
On Feb. 25, enjoy a FREE screening of Netflix’s “Never Heard” & “Together,” as part of Jacobs Presents: Black History Month Celebrations!

Join us on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 6:30 p.m. for a FREE Jacobs Presents: Black History Month Celebration event!

To commemorate African-American women in film, we’ll be screening scenes from Netflix’s “Never Heard” by local filmmaker Tamera Hill and the film short “Together” at Jacobs Center’s Celebration Hall. After the screening, there will be a panel Q&A discussion and Q&A, moderated by Black & Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chida Rebecca.

Never Heard” tells the story of a father who is incarcerated for a crime he swears he did not commit and his son who is lured into Los Angeles’ merciless drug world and forced between God and gang life.

A family must make a critical decision that will change their lives forever in the film short, “Together,” featuring Efé McWorther, winner of the 2019 D.C. Black Film Festival Actress of the Year award.

RSVP requested; not required.

Feb
26
Wed
2020
HoMEwork Networking Dinner (felony eligible Job Training + Life Skills) @ Southeast CommUnity Spot
Feb 26 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

IF YOU HAVE A FELONY, you are invited to attend (at no cost) our monthly networking dinner. We want to take an opportunity to introduce you to the building trades, and hopefully, a career.

Feb
27
Thu
2020
Alice Walker – Writer’s Symposium by the Sea Evening Interview @ Brown Chapel
Feb 27 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Writer’s Symposium by the Sea presents an in conversation with Alice Walker

About this Event

Feb
28
Fri
2020
Black Authority in the Post-Obama Era: History, Complexity & Identity @ University of San Diego
Feb 28 @ 10:00 am – 5:30 pm

Black Authority in the post-Obama era: History, Complexity, and Identity is a three-day nonresidential conference in the Group Relations tradition that will provide opportunities for us to collectively explore, experience , and learn about Black authority. A distinct feature of this conference is that, in this temporary organization, the entire staff is Black – that is, all are of African descent.

This will be the third time in the last two decades that a Group Relations Conference of this kind will be offered to build on Group Relations practice and theory around Black Authority. In this important moment in history, we will gather to examine and advance system dynamics and transformation. Each time we have gathered to encounter and explore Black authority in a given moment in history new and emergent dynamics have become available to us.

In this third conference on Black Authority, we will study and experience intergroup dynamics, authority relations, and leadership/followership dynamics, and we will participate, observe, and reflect on the mutual and complex relationships among identities, roles, valencies, groups, organizations, in a Black-led context.

All are invited to be open to the complex and nuanced dynamics – conscious and unconscious- when Blacks lead. What we shall emerge has not yet been fully revealed or created, and what we shall learn and develop lies in our collective conscious and unconscious about Black Authority. Please join us in this important work.

Conference Directorate

Diane Forbes Berthoud, Ph.D., Director

Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Director

Candice Crawford-Zakian, Psy.D., Director for Administration

For more information please email BlackAuthorityGRC@gmail.com

Black Authority in the Post-Obama Era: History, Complexity & Identity is sponsored by Group Relations International (GRI) and RISE San Diego.

Group Relations International – We simply work on a better world. Our focus is on group relations and community, social justice and spirituality. www.grouprelations.org

RISE San Diego – works to elevate and advance urban leadership through dialogue-based civic engagement, dynamic nonprofit partnerships, and direct training and support to increase the capacity of urban residents to effect meaningful community change. www.risesandiego.org

AAACE BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION @ County Operations Center - Commons
Feb 28 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm

Join AAACE at the County Operations center for a Black History Month Celebration featuring a live DJ, line dancing, an African Inspired Performance and keynote speaker Assemblymember Dr. Shirley Weber.

Special Thanks to our vendors: Urban League, BAPAC, Black Infant Health, San Diego City Black Employee Association, Café X, San Diego County Library, ROV, San Diego County HR

Pick A Flick: Black History Month @ Pacific Beach/Taylor Library
Feb 28 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm


Vote to select which classic film honoring Black History Month we’ll show on our big screen on Friday, February 28th at 2pm! You can vote by 2/14 in-person at the Circulation Desk or online on our Facebook poll. Select from:

Do the Right Thing (1989, R, 120 minutes)
Racial tensions grow in a Brooklyn neighborhood on the hottest day of the summer. Written and directed by Spike Lee.
Southside With You (2016, PG-13, 84 minutes)
Docudrama about Barack Obama’s first date with Michelle Robinson, his future wife, during the summer of 1989 in Chicago.
The PB Library screens free films on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of most months. Free popcorn is served.

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