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Rev. Dr. Al Sharpton, President/CEO
Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson, Chairman
Tamika Mallory, Executive Director
Michael Hardy, Esq., Executive Vice President
CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH
National Action Network New York City Chapter Political Action Committee Calendar of Events
National Action Network Political Action Committee Announcements
Monthly Meeting
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Time: 11:00am
Location: House of Justice 106 West 145th
Street in the Village of Harlem
Contact: For more information call Dawn L. Jones, Chairwoman (212)-281-3518 or Brenda
Ricketts, Co-Chairwoman (917)-723-4378.
Details: The NANPAC meets every fourth Saturday at the House of Justice unless otherwise
posted. Please be prepared to update your dues, sixty dollars a year or five dollars a month.
Meetings will take place immediately following the 9:00am the Rally and Radio Broadcast.
NANPAC
Voter Registration
Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013
Time: 12:00noon
Location: First Baptist Church Brooklyn, NY
Contact: College Fair Coordinator
Details: Free Admission
National Action Network Announcements
Join the National Action Network
Date: Every Saturday
Time: 9:00am
Location: House of Justice 106 West 145th
Street in the Village of Harlem
Contact: Dominique Sharpton 212 690-3070
Details: For live Radio Broadcast “Action Rallies” Sign Language Interpreted Tune in live on
WLIB 1190 AM radio On-line Stream www.nationalactionnetwork.net
Watch Rev. Al Sharpton Monday through Friday as he hosts PoliticsNation from 6:00pm to 7:00pm on MSNBC
Hurricane Sandy Relief
for Activists Affected by Hurricane Sandy
Date: Ongoing
Time: 10:00am to 6:00pm
Location: House of Justice
Contact: Tamika Mallory, Executive Director 877-626-4651
Details: Donations are being collected at the House of Justice to help efforts after Hurricane
Sandy.
Cancer Prevention Study-3
Date: Every Saturday in March
Time: 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: House of Justice
Contact: For more information, visit www.cps3manhattan.org or call Rosemary Perez-Bell at
212-237-3917
Details: Volunteer today for a cancer-free tomorrow. Enroll today for CPS-3. Tuesday, April
16, 2013 at Touro College Join the movement for less cancer and more birthdays. Enroll in the
American Cancer Society’s research study Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3). Register at
NAN Headquarters
NAN Annual Convention 2013
Date: Save the Date! April 3rd
to April 6th
, 2013
Time: 8:00am
Location: The Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers 811 Seventh Avenue New York, NY
Contact: Paul Persaud, Convention Coordinator Additional Information: Register at
www.nationalactionnetwork.net or call 877-626-4651 For NAN updates, follow us on twitter
@nationalaction and facebook.com/nationalactionnetwork
Details: Join NAN and Rev. Sharpton National Action Network Convention 2013 New York
City (Convention Registration is free)
National Action Network Presents
Measuring the Movement
Leadership Forum
Fifty Years After the March on Washington…Forty-five Years After the
Assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr…Where is the Movement?
Date: Saturday, April 6, 2013
Time: 8:00 am
Location: First Corinthian Baptist Church 1912 west 116th
Street and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Boulevard New York, NY
Contact: To Register for FREE, log onto www.nationalactionnetwork.net/For Tickets Call
(877) 626-4651
Details: Confirmed Panelists: Rev. Dr. Al Sharpton, President/CEO, Tamika D. Mallory,
National Executive Director, Rev. Michael Walrond, Senior Pastor, First Corinthian Baptist
Church, Marc Morial, President National Urban League, Rev. Dr. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., President
National Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Roslyn M. Brock, Chairwoman of the National Board of
Directors, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and others.
NAN New York City Chapter Announcements
Women’s Auxiliary
KJS Scholarship Fundraiser
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013
Time: 11:00am
Location: House of Justice
Contact: For Information: 212-690-3070
Details: Tickets: $20.00 per person/Kathy Jordan Sharpton, Chairwoman or Aisha Wilson,
President
Court Patrol
Central Park Five Court Appearance
Date: Monday, May 6, 2013
Time: 2:30pm
Location: Federal Court, 500 Pearl Street/Judge Rowland Ellis
Contact: December 12th
Movement and Freedom Party Call (718) 398-1766 for information or
Noami Jones, Chairwoman 410-948-8558
Details: Black Nation Stand and Fight Racism Self-Determination for the Central Park V,
Twenty-three years of Racist Injustice Must End…All Out Next Court Hearing and Rally
[Even New York City Council Voted for Bloomberg to Settle with CP5]
Thursday Night’s “Legal Nights”
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Time: 7:00pm
Location: House of Justice
Contact: For more information call Attorney Michael Hardy, Executive Vice President (212)-
690-3070
Details: Meet and Greet Local Attorneys discussing a variety of legal topics. Legal Rights are
held on every last Thursday of the month.
NAN NYC Chapter Committees Meetings
Arts and Culture Committee
Dream Mondays
Date: Every Monday
Time: 6:00pm
Location: House of Justice
Contact: For more information, contact Arnold Pinnix, Chairman.
Details: The National Action Network Arts & Culture and NAN Performing Activist
Committee Meeting.
Open Mike
Date: Every Friday
Time: 6:00pm
Location: House of Justice
Contact: For more information, contact Arnold Pinnix, Chairman.
Details: The National Action Network New York City Chapter will host Open Mike.
Change Choir
Date: Every Monday
Time: 7:30pm
Location: House of Justice
Contact: Kathy Jordan Sharpton
Details: The Change Choir meets every Monday and performs every Saturday morning at the
rallies.
House of Justice Deaf Club
Sponsors
You Have The Right To
Be Financially Strong
Date: Friday, April 19, 2013
Time: 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Location: House of Justice
Contact: Tanya Ingram, Chair and Donna Miles, Co-Chair. Donations: Checks or Money
Orders payable to: HOJ Deaf Club mail to HOJ Deaf Club Post Office Box 704 New York, NY
10039 email: [email protected] and [email protected] or Chris 917- 816-3505.
Details: Facilitated by Kensley C. Charles, Agent, New York Life Insurance Company
Admission is free – Refreshments will be served/The HOJ Deaf Club meets every Tuesday
evening.
Disabilities Committee
Date: Every Fourth Saturday
Time: 11:00am
Location: House of Justice
Contact: For more information call: Sandra Mitchell, President, (718) 388-3075, ext. 323 or
Pamela Childs-Bates, Chairwoman (212) 222-6439 or (646) 552-3465
Details: The Disability Committee meets on the fourth Saturdays of every month.
Health and Wellness Committee
Date: Every Fourth Saturday
Time: 11:00am
Location: House of Justice
Contact: For additional information, call Ms. Queenie Huling at (646)-239-8488
Details: The Health and Wellness Committee meets on the fourth Saturday of every month.
Men’s Auxiliary
Date: Every Saturday
Time: 11:00am
Location: House of Justice
Contact: William Griffin, Vice President (212)-690-3070
Details: Meetings will take place immediately following the 9:00am Saturday morning radio
rally.
NAN Sports Club
Date: Thursdays/Sundays
Time: 5:30pm to 7:00 pm/3:30 pm to 5:00pm
Location: House of Justice
Contact: Mr. Stan Mallory, 646.250.7309 or Arthur Robinson: 646-260-4469
Details: Tae Kwon Do & Aikido Self-Defense Classes By Master Spider Rodriguez, “the
Instructor of Champions” Adults/Children – 4 Years & Up $20 Registration Fee $30 Monthly
Stretch Classes
Date: Wednesdays
Time: 6:30pm to 7:15pm
Location: House of Justice
Contact: Mr. Ben Gooding, Space is Limited please call and book now 212 662-9508
Details: Single Class $10.00-Four Class Card $20.00 Registration $5.00
Second Chance Committee
Date:
Time:
Location:
Contact: Victor Pate, Chairman
Details:
Youth Move
The Power of
One Video Context
Date: April 6, 2013
Time: 3:30pm
Location: National Action Network Convention in New York City at the Sheraton Hotel New
York and Towers – 811 Seventh Avenue, New York City
Contact: Information: www.nationalactionnetwork.net or (212)-690-3070
Details: If selected, you will present your “Power of One” idea in front of four of New York’s
most influential business executives.
NAN Chapters Announcements
Bronx Chapter
Monthly Meetings
Date:
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Bright Temple A.M.E. 812 Faile Street Bronx, NY 10474
Contact: DaShawn Williams, President 646-281-8816 or George Crouch 240-688-2811, Vice
President or to learn more visit: www.nationalactionnetwork.net
Details: We would like to extend a special invitation for you to join us…”The Bronx Chapter of
the National Action Network.”
Brooklyn Chapter
Date:
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Bethany Baptist Church Marcus Garvey Boulevard
Contact: NAN Brooklyn Chapter
Details:
Queens Chapter
Date:
Time:
Location:
Contact: NAN Headquarters 177-06 129th
Street Jamaica, New York 11434 718-949-9500/718-
949-8500 http://www.facebook.com/queens.chapternan Rev. Phil Craig, Chapter President 347-
898-9221
Details:
Foundations Announcements
The Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Educational Center
Date:
Time:
Location: 3940 Broadway, New York, NY 10032 (165th
Street and Broadway)
Contact: Malaak Shabazz 212.568.1341
Details:
Harlem Mothers S.A.V.E.
Date:
Time:
Location:
Contact: Jackie Rowe-Adams, Co-Founder 2471 Frederick Douglas Boulevard/132nd
Street
Details: Come and support a Fundraiser for Mother’s who have lost children to gun violence.
The James E. Davis Stop Violence Foundation
Date:
Time:
Location:
Contact: Geoffrey Davis, Founder 298 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 347-853-9971
Details: Justice for Kimani Gray, 16 year old killed by New York City Police Department.
The Chris S. Owens Foundation
Date: Friday, April 26, 2013
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Prayer Vigil Malcolm X Boulevard
Details: Chris Foye Founder/President 350 Thompkins Avenue, Suite 1 Brooklyn, NY 11216
424-354-0545 [email protected]
Arts & Culture Announcements
SISTAAH Art Studio
Date:
Time:
Location: SISTAAH Art Studio 401 West 149th
Street in Harlem
Contact: (646)-590-2728
Details: Me & Big Sister Art Exhibition (and other Women We Adore) A Visual Art Exhibition
featuring the mixed media visual art of Wilhelmina Grant. An Open Your Eyes Exhibition
Freedom Now Art Exhibit
Date: February 22nd
– April 5th
, 2013
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building 163 West 125th
Street, 8th
Floor
Contact: Gregory Mills, Gallery Curator/Director/For More Information: Call Gwen Black,
Curator (212) 665-5313/[email protected] Follow us on:
httpc://www/facebook.com/FreedomNow.AnArtExhibit
Details: Exhibiting Artists/Film Presentation (The Mirable Sisters) & Talks
We All Really Matter
Date:
Time:
Location:
Contact: [email protected] www.weallreallymatter.org (find W.A.R.M. on
Facebook and Twitter) Need More Information? Give Us A Call: 212-939-1308
Details:
Labor Announcements
AFSCME New York:
Labor, Faith, Community Outreach Program
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013
Time: 8:30am to 2:30pm
Location: DC 1707 Headquarters, 420 West 45th
Street (Between 9th
and 10th
Avenues)
Contact: RSVP: DC 37 Political Action Department 212-470-8527 or
[email protected], DC 1707 or CSEA.
Details: We are under attach from all sides, our communities are at risk and its time we stand
together to build a better New York for ALL. Our training on May 4 will examine how we can
work more closely together to mover our city forward.
Faith Announcements
Convent Avenue Baptist Church
Worship Service
What is Happening Today?
Date: Every Sunday
Time: 7:00am Sunrise Service Main Sanctuary/8:00am & 11:00am ~ Main Sanctuary Rev. Dr.
Jesse T. Williams, Jr., Senior Pastor/11:00am ~ Lower Sanctuary Rev. Lydell C. Lettsome
Minister of Children & Youth/5:00pm
Location: Convent Avenue Baptist Church 420 West 145th
Street New York, NY 10031 (212)-
234-6767 www.conventchurch.com
Details: Sunday, April 7, 2013 Special Call Meeting (IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE
11:00AM SERVICE)
African American Experience Forum
MINISTRY Monthly Meeting
Date: Sunday, April 21, 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Convent Avenue Baptist Church John H. Saunders Educational Building Room 310.
Contact: Sister Ursula Hunter, President
Details: Meetings will take place immediately following the 11:00am worship service.
The Prison Ministry
Invites your to our
2013 Annual Worship Service
Date: Sunday, April 14, 2013
Time: 3:30pm – 6:00pm
Location: Convent Avenue Baptist Church
Details: Our theme “Our Men and Women at Risk”
Faith-Based Led Mayoral Candidate Forum
Date: Monday, April 8, 2013
Time: 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Convent Avenue Baptist Church 420 W. 145th
St. New York, NY
Contact: Call (718) 231-1033 for bus information & to RSVP for clergy seating.
Details: New York City Clergy Gathers from all Five Boroughs for: “The Signing of the
Covenant”/New York City Elected Officials Responsibility to Faith Based Leaders on Quality of
Life Issues for All New Yorkers Education Reform * Healthcare * Housing * Safer Communities
* Poverty & The Road to Economic Justice/Clergy attire requested.
Screening of Central Park Five
Date: Sunday, April 7, 2013/Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Time: 3:00pm/9:00pm
Location: Abyssinian Baptist Church Sanctuary/Channel 13 PBS
Contact: Delsenia Glover, President, Mattie Fletcher Powell Ministry
Details: Panelists include the films producer, Sara Burns, Yusef Salaam and Korey Wise, New
York State Senator Bill Perkins, Robert Reid and C. Vernon Mason.
Kathy Jordan Sharpton
Birthday Celebration
Date: Monday, May 13, 2013 (Her Actual Birthday)
Time: 7:00pm to 11:00pm
Location: Canaan Baptist Church 132 West 116th
Street, Harlem, NY
Contact: (212)-690-3070
Details: Hosted by: Roberta Flack, Freddie Jackson, Evangelist Valerie Boyd and the Rev. Dr.
Al Sharpton. Featuring: Marvin Sapp, James Hall, The Harlem Japanese Choir, Canaan Dance
The Word and others. The KJS Scholarship will be awarded. Color – Fuschia (you may join
Kathy in wearing)/A Free Will Offering Will Be Taken
Community Announcements
Manhattan Community Board No. 10
Monthly Meetings
Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building 163 West 125th
Street New York,
NY 10027
Contact: Henrietta Lyle, Chairwoman
Details: The community board meets on the first Wednesdays of every month.
Frederick E. Samuel Community Democratic Club
Weekly Meetings
Date: Thursday,
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Harlem Y.M.C.A. 180 West 135th
Street (Between Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and
Malcolm X Boulevards) Harlem, U.S.A.
Contact: Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright, County Leader and Hon. Wilma Brown-Phillips,
District Leaders, Ricky Davis, President and Melvin Alston, Vice President (212)-234-8879
Details: “Service Not Rhetoric” The democratic club meets every Thursday. Guest speaker is
William Thompson, Candidate for Mayor.
Frederick E. Samuel Community Democratic Club
Political & Social Action Committees
Monthly Meetings
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Frederick E. Samuel Community Democratic Clubhouse 190 West 135th
Street
Harlem, U.S.A.
Contact: Dawn L. Jones, Chairwoman (212)-234-8879
Details: The P.A.C. meets the fourth Thursday of the every month except December. We will
participate in a Kwanzaa Celebration at Kennedy Center. The forums will be held on the fifth
Thursdays of the month. The topics will include a Housing Forum Thursday, May 30, 2013;
Silence the Violence Forum Thursday, August 29, 2013 and Domestic Violence Forum on
Thursday, October 31, 2013.
Political & Social Action/Housing Committees
Fifth Thursday Forums
Date: Thursday, May 30, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Harlem Y.M.C.A.
Contact: Dawn L. Jones, Chairwoman, Political & Social Action Committees
Details: The next forum will be a joint committee Housing Forum: The Future of Affordable
Housing.
Women’s Committee
Presents
“Time To Party Again”
Date: Friday, April, 26, 2013
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Saint Phillips Church 204 West134th
Street (Between Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and
Frederick Douglass Boulevards)
Contact: (212)-234-6767
Details: Come on Out and Party With Donna, Valerie and Wanda and The Crew/DJ Yusef is in
the House/Food, Drinks & Raffle/Remembering friends that are no longer with us Kenny,
Lumpy, Tall, Veto and so many others/ Life it too short Tickets $20.00/At the door $25.00
Spring Fundraiser
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013
Time: 7:00pm
Location: To Be Posted
Contact: For more information contact Ricky Davis, President 718-544-4277
Details: Forthcoming
Monthly Legal Clinic
Sponsored by Assemblyman Keith L. T. Wright
Date: Thursday, April 4, 2013
Time: 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Harlem State Office Building 163 West 125th
Street, 9th
Floor
Contact: Call 212-866-5809 or send an email to [email protected] to schedule an
appointment.
Details: The first Thursday of every month. Do you need legal advice or help that requires the
assistance of an attorney? Walk-ins are welcome!
Association of Black Social Workers, Inc. New York City Chapter
General Membership Meeting
Date: Saturday, March 16, 2013
Time: 3:00pm
Location: ABSW main office – 1969 Madison Avenue (126th
Street) New York, NY 10035
Contact: Gloria C. Scott, President (212)-348-0035
Details: Community First!
Affiliated with the National Association of Black Social Workers.
December 12th
Movement
24th
Anniversary of the Arrests and Injustice of the Central Park Five
Date: Saturday, April 20th
, 2013
Time: 12:00noon/1:00pm March
Location: Assemble @ Central Park Entrance Malcolm X Boulevard & 110th
Street
Contact: Sistas Place 456 Nostrand Avenue Brooklyn Endorsements & Information Call (718)
398-1766
Details: Rally & March in Harlem
Entertainment Announcements
Rose Baby Enterprises
presents
Ready or Not Here I Come
You Can Tell The Devil That I Am Back
Date: July 21, 2013; August 3, 2013; September 14, 2013/August 24, 2013/September 28, 2013
Time: 5:00pm
Location: The Dempsey Theater 127 West 127th
Street (Between Malcolm X & Adam Clayton
Powell, Jr. Boulevards)
Contact: Lisa Evans-Graham, Director/Producer/Writer For tickets call 646-797-7227 or email
[email protected], credit card purchases http:/rosebabyenterprises3.eventbrite.com
Details: Adults: $25.00 in advance * $30.00 at the door
Vendors Wanted
Harlem Flea
Sponsored by the Parents Teachers Association of Public School/
Intermediate School 180
Date: Every Sunday in April
Time: 10:00am
Location: PS/IS 180 370 West 120th
Street New York, NY 10026
Contact: E-mail [email protected]
Details: The Harlem Flea is operated by the PTA at PS/IS180.
The African International Merchants Agency
Date: Thursday, April 11th
, 2013
Time: 6:00pm
Location: The Timbuktu Learning Center at the Historic House of the Lord Church 415
Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11217 (Between Nevins and Bond Streets) Rev. Dr. Herbert
Daughtry, Senior Pastor and Dr. Karen S. Daughtry, Executive Minister
Contact: E-mail: [email protected]/Telephone: 347-876-0123 or 0122
Details: Come Prepared to Shop at Our Vendors Market/Donations Accepted
Black Owned and Operated Small Business Announcements
PJ’s Bar & Lounge
J & J
Presents
Loving The Crew & P.J.s
Date: Wednesday’s
Time: 4:00pm Until
Location: 2256 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard & 133rd
Street Harlem, New York
Contact: Pat Peek, Proprietor 917-834-3092
Detail: Drink Special Free Until 7:00pm, $3.00 for ladies after 7pm and $5.00 for males
NBA All Star Games
Date: Every Sunday
Time: 1:00pm
Location: PJ’s Lounge
Contact: Andre C. Jones (646) 812-0920/[email protected]
Details: Come out and view the All-Star Game with us!
Jones Enterprises
Fundraisers
Date: To Be Posted
Time:
Location: PJ’s Lounge
Contact: Dawn L. Jones, Special Events Planner
Details: Come out and support the candidates for borough president.
DJ’s Card Creations!
DLJ’s Card Shop!
Date: Open Seven Days a Week
Time: Twenty-four/seven
Location: Mandala Soul-Centered Cultural Center 203 West 138th
Street (Between Frederick
Douglass and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevards) New York, NY 10030
Contact: Dawn L. Jones, Proprietor (917)-557-0109 ~ Shop-With-Us on Striver’s Row
CHOOSE JONESY COUTURE!
Details: Authentic African American Art Calendars, Notepads, Latte Mugs, Magnets and More!
Inspired fundraising helping churches, entrepreneurs, individuals and organizations raise money.
Couture Designed Cards For All Special Occasions/Full Service Card Shop
Specializing in Cards For All of Your Special Occasions
With the Exception of New Year’s/Valentine/Easter/Thanksgiving/Halloween Cards
Thursday, April 4th
, 2013 we commemorated the 45th
Anniversary of the Assassination of
the beloved Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968 and on Wednesday, August 28, 2013
marks the 50th
Anniversary of the March on Washington in 1963 he delivered his I Have
a Dream speech.
In Celebration of the 150th
Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, we have the
following DJNY Cultural Stop specials:
Address Books, Bookmarks, Calendars, Cards, Checkbook Planners, Magnets, Magnetic Note
Pads $5.00, Crosses, Mugs $10.00, Greeting Cards, Journals, Travel Glasses $15.00, Table Top
Clocks $20.00, Bible Covers, Tote Bag, Umbrella $25.00 Make Offer
Hon. Theresa Freeman, President, NYC Chapter
William Griffin, Vice President/President
Dawn L. Jones, National Board Member, Chairwoman
Brenda Ricketts, Co-Chairwoman
National Action Network New York City Chapter 106 West 145th
Street New York, NY 10039 (212)-690-3070
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