Become a Vendor @ Happily Natural Day!! With thousands of natural hair, holistic health, afrikan culture enthusiasts in attendance - Happily Natural Day is a prime opportunity for your businesss to reach a target audience that is loyal, consistent and socially responsible.
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Happily Natural Day is an African Heritage festival committed to cultural awareness, holisitic health and social change. Happily Natural promotes the natural beauty of African people. Our festival features workshops, lectures, music and merchants with one of a kind products from around the globe. Our mission is to raise consciousness in the African community.
Patrons of the Richmond Noir Market will have the opportunity to participate in a weekly market featuring arts, crafts, plus health and body care products in addition to fresh produce from local organic farms. Educational opportunities will be made available to patrons in the areas of holistic health and small business administration to encourage optimum physical and fiscal health in the community. Businesses will be provided the opportunity to promote their products & services on a weekly basis via exhibitor booths at affordable, accessible rates. Businesses may also become sponsors and take advantage of print, radio, web and television advertising opportunities used to market Richmond Noir Market; while simultaneously raising awareness and educating the community of the importance of holistic health, entrepreneurship & economic empowerment.
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It is Black August and all eyes are focused on the city of Atlanta, the city that some refer to as The Black Mecca. Between August 14th and August 16th people from as far north as Canada traveled to Atlanta to participate in and commemorate the Black August 30th Anniversary and the 7th Annual Happily Natural Day. The Black August 30th Anniversary Weekend & 7th Annual Happily Natural Day served as a tribute dedicated to the promotion of political and cultural consciousness through art, fashion and music.
Kufi Hat
Submitted by Amy
What You Need:
Paper
Glue
What You Do:
Cut three inch by two inch strips of construction paper in black, red, yellow, and green. Have your children glue these strips onto a bulletin board border or sentence strip to make a Kufi Hat. When they are finished staple the hat and let them wear it [...]
The Miseducation of Black Children
Dr. Kmt G. Shockley
African American Images – www.africanamericanimages.com
ISBN 10: 0-913543-14-4
ISBN 13: 978-0-913543-14-6
Description
This book presents some of the most important information ever presented related to finding much needed ways to educate Black children. While a plethora of programs, projects, and acts such as No Child Left Behind continue
to impact what educators can [...]
Black! Empowerment Sessions
Saturday Feb 21, 2009 @ 5pm
Nubian Village Academy
2022 Sledd Street Richmond VA
Behind the Main Post Office off Chamberlayne Avenue
Join us for Relevant, Discussion, Real Talk & Discussions
Topic: Revolutionary Chic: Cultural Nationalism & Black Empowerment
Is voting for Obama enough, Can wearing a natural & speaking African languages free the African community? Join us for [...]
video courtesy of Moorishio De la Cruz: taken at Happily Natural Day Hip Hop Summit 2008
Black Anarchism (by Ashanti Alston):
article courtesy of the Liberator Magazine
[Fragments of a transcript of a speech given at Hunter College, NYC, on October 24th, 2003. Emphasis added in places.] Although the Black Panther Party was very hierarchical, I learned a lot from [...]
Black Rebellion
, a fascinating account of five slave insurrections, among them the story of the Maroons, escaped slaves in the West Indies and South America who successfully resisted larger British armies while living an independent existence for generations in the mountains and jungles of Jamaica and Surinam; of Gabriel Prosser, who recruited about 1,000 fellow [...]
Celebrate Black History
Oyotunji: A Yoruba Kingdom in America
Photographs by Dr. Babatunde Lawal
Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center
101 E. Broad St Richmond, VA 804.644.3900
Sat, Feb 7 @ 5pm
Enjoy!
Elegba Folklore Society’s Dancer & Drummers
Remarks by Dr. Christopher A. Brooks
Professor of Anthropology School of World Studies, VCU
Dr. Brooks has visited the Kingdom of Oyotunji & has [...]
The game for world domination is not a game of tribal ethnicity, nationalism or religion. In the game for world domination we are all on the same team and the game board is Planet Earth. We are competing with other races for the limited resources of oil, minerals and land for the benefit of the [...]
Friday August 13, 2010 / 9PM Until
Black August Commemorative Concert (in-door)
Othello's
1170 Sylvan Rd
Atlanta, GA 30310
Saturday August 14, 2010 / Noon to 7PM
Happily Natural Day (in-door)
South Cobb Recreation Center
875 Six Flags Drive
Austell, GA 30168
Saturday August 14, 2010 / 9PM Until
CREW LOVE: Official HND After Party
Luna Nueva
1148 Euclid Ave. NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
Sunday August 15, 2010 / Noon to 7PM
RBG Family Reunion &
Poets 4 Political Prisoners (in- and out-door)
Omenala Griot Museum
337 Dargan Pl
Atlanta, GA 30310
Friday August 27, 2010 / 9PM Until
Ancestral Libation Ceremony (out-door)
Richmond African Burial
15th & East Broad Street
VCU Parking Lot
Richmond, VA 23219
Saturday August 28, 2010 / 12 noon 8pm
Happily Natural Day (in-door)
Muhammads Mosque #24
104 Cowardin Ave
Richmond, VA 23219
Saturday August 28, 2010 / 9pm - Until
Juju Poetry Slam (in-door)
Register to Slam: 10 Slots
Tropical Soul
314 North 2nd Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Sunday August 29, 2010 / 12 noon 8pm
RE/Vitalize: Happily Natural Day (in-door)
Family Resource Center
2405 Jefferson Ave
Richmond, VA 23223
Hip Hop Needs The Balance of the Feminine Power
Greetings Relatives,
Last Night BET premiered their first music documentary “My Mic Sounds Nice” about the history of representation of females in hip hop & asked the question where is she now? Something I have been telling people in the past 7 years I have been rapping [...]
