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.
10 Year Anniversary of the framing and kidnapping of Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown)!!!
TODAY MARCH 19th Marks the 10 Year Anniversary of the framing and kidnapping of Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown)!!!
During the 1960’s, Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (then known as H. Rap Brown) rose to popularity as one of [...]
Leonard Peltier: Statement of solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Leonard Peltier was a leader of the American Indian Movement in 1976 when he was arrested and charged with the deaths of two FBI agents during a shootout at the Pine Ridge Reservation of the Oglala-Lakota Nation. He has now been imprisoned for 34 years — one [...]
For Akua Njeri (Deborah Johnson)*
by Titilope Sonuga
These booking photos of Akua Njeri – then Deborah Johnson – were taken the day of the assassination of her husband, Chairman Fred Hampton, and 25 days before the birth of Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.
2337 West Monroe
December 4th, 1969
on the cusp of a new year
You
19 years old
lay sleeping
carrying
a [...]
Remembering Althea Francois, beloved Louisiana Black Panther, prison abolitionist, ‘pillar in our struggle’
Althea Francois
“Althea Francois joined the Black Panther Party in New Orleans in 1970 as a community worker,” writes the Black Panther Party legacy and alumni website, It’s About Time. Althea made her transition on Christmas Day 2009 at age 60.
“She was 19 [...]
Filmmaker Angela Carroll on her new film ‘Angela Y. Davis: Radical Pedagogy’
by Minister of Information JR
Up and coming filmmaker Angela Carroll has jumped on the independent film scene in a major way with three films set to come out in 2010. She just finished editing the new film about police terrorism in Oakland, “Operation [...]
Minister of Information JR is FREE!
Join POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. and Pam and Ramona Africa for a Power to the People Victory Celebration tonight, Monday, Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m., Black Dot Cafe, 1195 Pine St., West Oakland – YOU are invited!
by Mary Ratcliff
Minister of Information JR speaks at the Black Panther Party’s 43rd [...]
My thoughts on ‘Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers take a stand in New Orleans’
Author: Orissa Arend
Published 2009 by the University of Arkansas Press
by Elbert “Big Man” Howard
“Showdown in Desire” is a unique book – a case history detailed in “spoken word” by a great variety of participants, who, allowed to tell their stories [...]
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 [...]
