7th Annual STOCK-ing EXCHANGE Holiday Party & Toy Drive 12/1/15

Please join the Brothers of the Kappa Xi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, inc for The 7th Annual STOCK-ing Exchange; our Annual Holiday Party and Toy Drive. Tuesday, December 1st, 2015 at 5pm at The Attic Rooftop & Lounge, 251 W 48th Street. 

***Please bring an unwrapped toy or a financial donation will be accepted***

#WallStreetAlphas #STOCKingExchange #AlphaPhiAlpha #KappaXiLambda #NYC

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. develops leaders, promotes brotherhood and academic excellence, while providing service and advocacy for our communities.

12/7/15 New York Public Library Book Discussion "Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide" with Joy-Ann Reid & Alexis Garrett Stodghill

FREE RSVP: info@souleouniverse.com   Monday, December 7, 6:30 - 8:30 PM Mid-Manhattan Library, 455 Fifth Avenue at 40th Street, Sixth Floor, New York, NY 10016   Joy-Ann Reid and Alexis Garrett Stodghill examine the complicated relationship between President Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton, and how their varied approaches to the race issue parallel the challenges facing the Democratic Party. They will investigate the following questions: Will Hillary Clinton's campaign represent an embrace of Obama's legacy or a repudiation of it? How is Hillary Clinton's stand on race both similar to and different from Obama's, or from her husband's? How do minorities view Mrs. Clinton, and will they line up in huge numbers to support her—and what will happen if they don't? This stimulating evening includes ample time for audience Q&A and book signing.

Joy-Ann Reid is a national correspondent for MSNBC. Previously, she was the host of MSNBC’s "The Reid Report," a daily program that offered her distinctive analysis and insight on the day’s news. Before that, she was the Managing Editor of theGrio.com, a daily online news and opinion platform devoted to delivering stories and perspectives that reflect and affect African-American audiences. She joined  theGrio.com with experience as a freelance columnist for the Miami Herald and as editor of the political blog The Reid Report. She is a former talk radio producer and host for Radio One, and previously served as an online news editor for the NBC affiliate WTVJ in Miramar, Florida. During the 2004 presidential campaign, she served as the Florida deputy communications director for the 527 "America Coming Together" initiative, and was a press aide in the final stretch of President Barack Obama's Florida campaign in 2008. Her columns and articles have appeared in the Miami Herald, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, South Florida Times and  Salon.com. She is currently producing a documentary, "The Fight Years"—which takes a look into the sport of boxing during the 1950s and 1960s in Miami. She graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a concentration in film, and is a 2003 Knight Center for Specialized Journalism fellow. She currently resides in Brooklyn with her husband and family. Follow her on Twitter @JoyAnnReid. *Photo Credit: Keith Major Alexis Garrett Stodghill is an award-winning, multi-media journalist. Currently a segment new media producer for MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts, previously she was a producer on the MSNBC show, The Reid Report, hosted by Joy Reid. She was also the Living and New York editor for  theGrio.com, formerly an NBC News site focused on African-American perspectives. She was part of  theGrio.com news team noted by The New York Times as one of the first to report in-depth on the Trayvon Martin case. She got her start in journalism and the Internet industry by developing leading sites such as  BlackPlanet.com,which she co-produced from the ground up. After moving to focus on online journalism for AOL Black Voices, which is now HuffPost Black Voices, she began to cover topics ranging from fashion to politics. Additionally, she has written for other outlets such as  NBCNews.com, The New York Daily News, Ebony, Jet, Clutch Magazine, News One, The Atlanta Post, Madame Noire and  BlackEnterprise.com.She has also provided on-air commentary regarding social issues, African-American women, and culture for MSNBC and radio. She graduated from Brown University. *Photo Credit: Keith Major Via Souleo Enterprises, LLC, Copyright © 2015 Souleo Enterprises, LLC, All rights reserved.

Bro/Sis Presents the 10th Annual Women's Holiday Tea 12/5/15

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol Presents  The 10th Annual  Women's Holiday Tea

Please join us at our 10th Annual Women's Holiday Tea taking place on Saturday, December 5th from 2:00PM to 5:30PM.  (Doors open at 1:30PM.  Program begins at 2:00PM).  This event will benefit programming for The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, a nonprofit organization providing comprehensive and long-term support services to youth of New York City. The Women's Holiday Tea is hosted by Gwynne Wilcox, a Co-Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol.  It is a time to network with other professional women and celebrate the work we do. We look forward to seeing you there! Click Here to Purchase Tickets! For sponsorship opportunities contact Veronica Hinds at  fundraising@brotherhood-sistersol.org or 212.283.7044.

Pictures from last year's Women's Holiday Tea. Photo credit: MalbroughPhotos  Click Here to purchase tickets.  For sponsorship opportunities contact Veronica Hinds at   fundraising@brotherhood-sistersol.org or 212.283.7044.

11/17/15 Awakening Our Democracy: Policing Bodies, Borders, and Rights at Columbia University, School of Law

The African American Policy Forum

Join November 17, 2015 at Columbia Law School to see #BlackLivesMatter's DeRay Mckesson, Barbara Arnwine, Kimberle Crenshaw and More on the Future of Our Democracy! RSVP - bit.ly/awakeningourdemocracy

Tweet your thoughts throughout the event to ‪#‎AwakeningOurDemocracy‬

FEATURING:
Barbara Arnwine (@barbs73), Transformative Justice Coalition
Dara Baldwin (@NJDC07), Public Policy Analyst, National Disability Rights Network
DeRay Mckesson (@deray), We The Protesters
James Forman Jr. (@JFormanJr), Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Samuel Rubin, Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Nicole Lee (@nicoleclee), Co-founder, Black Movement Law Project
Baher Azmy, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University; Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights

MODERATED BY:
Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks), Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law; Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

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Legacy of Trailblazer Shirley Chisholm '46 Highlighted at Annual Speaker Series 11/17/15

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Legacy of Trailblazer Shirley Chisholm '46 Highlighted at Annual Speaker Series Legacy of Trailblazer Shirley Chisholm '46 Highlighted at Annual Speaker Series Nov. 16, 2015 Shirley Chisholm '46 (center) announced her groundbreaking presidential candidacy, supported by celebrities like actor Ossie Davis (right). "What would it mean if President Obama or Hillary Clinton evoked Shirley Chisholm's name?" asks Zinga A. Fraser Ph.D., the new director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism, "because, in many ways, she not only paves the way for them, she provides a trajectory and strategy on how to create political coalitions that cross boundaries." Fraser, a former endowed post-doctoral fellow in women's and gender studies and recipient of the American Political Science Association's 2014 Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award, has organized this year's Shirley Chisholm Day talk, held on Nov. 17 in the Penthouse of the Brooklyn College Student Center. The keynote address will be delivered by Robin Kelley, the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at the University of California-Los Angeles. The annual event celebrates the legacy of Shirley Chisholm '46, who became the first major-party black candidate for president of the United States and the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination.  "She provides what Professor Kelley identifies as ‘the freedom dream'—that is, how we can reimagine and understand freedom, despite the outcome," adds Fraser. Chisholm's memoir Unbought and Unbossed details her grassroots, community-building efforts among a wide variety of constituencies, including blacks, whites, Latinos, lower-income and middle-class families, women across demographics, and the LGBT community. Her work with the last group, Fraser says, was ahead of its time and often overlooked by scholars. It also illustrates how difficult forging these alliances can be, even in a place like Brooklyn, which, according to Fraser, has one of the highest numbers of black women elected to public office in the country.   Chief among her responsibilities, Zinga A. Fraser, Ph.D., the new director of the Brooklyn College Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism, is looking forward to promoting Chisholm's continued importance to Brooklyn and beyond. "Chisholm also tells us a great deal about the possibility and importance of learning from political failures," says Fraser. "As much as her story is about the aspirational, groundbreaking work that she did, it's also about the constraints in coalition building. In the end, it wasn't her ability to connect these groups, but the inability of these groups to work together for a common cause. But even in her failure to get various coalitions to work collectively, she provides us with some of the playbook that would later be utilized by our current president." This semester is Fraser's first as director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism, whose archive, housed at the Brooklyn College Library, is the world's largest for Chisholm-related artifacts. Fraser took over the role from Barbara Winslow and is very excited about the efforts to raise Chisholm's profile as a central and influential figure in the contemporary political landscape. "The goal is to connect Chisholm's legacy to present-day conversations around race, gender, politics and social and economic inequality. Moreover, I hope to place Chisholm and her legacy in context with current issues that impact the Brooklyn communities she supported," says Fraser. "That is why we have had a wide array of speakers both national and local. So part of her legacy is the political empowerment of marginalized communities, as well as providing a model for political accountability. She advocated for those considered invisible by politicians and the media." Fraser is currently writing a book that is a comparative study of Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan, as well as other black women political figures, in the context of examining their political genius, the different strategies they used to affect change, and how they negotiated the intersections of racism, misogyny, and sexism. Fraser also hopes to raise awareness and funds to accomplish things like bolstering the archive, creating paid internships that will allow students to work on Chisholm-related projects and conferences and perhaps even financing scholarships in Chisholm's name. To learn more about Shirley Chisholm and the work of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women's Activism, please visit the project's website. See the Brooklyn College calendar for details about the Shirley Chisholm Day event. Source: Brooklyn College

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Black Girl Movement Conference at the Institute for Research in African American Studies of Columbia University

BLACK GIRL MOVEMENT CONFERENCE

 

DATE & TIME: 

THURSDAY, APRIL 07, 2016 5:00PM

***SAVE THE DATE***

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                                                                                                                                                        Photo by Lorenshay Hamilton age 16

April 7- 9, 2016

“Black Girl Movement: A National Conference” is a three-day gathering at Columbia University in New York City to focus on Black girls, cis, queer, and trans girls, in the United States.   Bringing together artists, activists, educators, policymakers, and black girls leaders themselves, this first national conference on Black girls seeks to address the disadvantages that Black girls in the United States face, while creating the political will to publicly acknowledge their achievements, contributions, and leadership.

Black girls are among the most significant cultural producers, community connectors, and trendsetters, rarely are their contributions recognized or appreciated. At best, they remain invisible in our public discourse or people assume that all Black girls are doing fine and are “resilient” enough to overcome any structural obstacles put in their way. Nevertheless, the vast majority of Black girls in the United States are in crisis. They face significant barriers to educational achievement, economic and political equality, and are the recipients of deeply embedded racial and gender biases in the media, public policy, philanthropy, and research. 

As a result, the planning of this conference has been done by an intergenerational and cross-institution coalition because the most innovative work being done on and with black girls often are in silos and without the full benefits of a collaboration, funding, and public visibility.  "Black Girl Movement" is an opportunity change that reality through raising public consciousness, advancing research, policy, and community programming, and developing a resource sharing platform.  Most importantly, this conference will highlight Black girls’ agency and ingenuity in order to elevate their voices and solutions toward improving the life outcomes of Black girls in the United States.

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Location: Columbia University, Morningside Campus

The Black Girl Movement is proud to have the following organizations as Co-Sponsors.

Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies
Columbia University Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Columbia University Office of the President
Dean for Social Sciences Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
Fordham University African and African American Studies
A Long Walk Home
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol
Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Girls for Gender Equity

Source: IRAAS.com

New York Urban League 29th Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities Fair

29th Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities Fair

Saturday, November 14, 2015

11:00AM-3:30PM

Http://www.nyul.org/HBCU

29th Annual HBCU Fair, in partnership with the New York Urban League Young Professionals, attracts over 3,000 New York City high school students, out-of-state high school students, and their parents. Located at the Riverbank State Park facility in Harlem, the event features more than 45 HBCUs, some of which provide on-site admissions and scholarship awards, and also includes interactive workshops on college admissions, applying for financial aid, preparing for the first year in college, and succeeding on standardized entry exams.

29th Annual Historically Black Colleges and Universities Fair

Saturday, November 14, 2015

11:00AM-3:30PM

Pre-Register Today!

Riverbank State Park

679 Riverside Drive at 145th Street

New York, NY 10031

Partners:

Malcolm Bernard HBCU Fair

Riverbank State Park

NYUL Young Professionals

Source: New York Urban League 

Send Care Packages to Bro/Sis College Freshmen

Send Care Packages To Bro/Sis College Freshmen This fall we have 30 new students in college.  The first year of college can be exhilarating and also overwhelming: being away from home for the first time and learning to navigate life as an adult are just some of the things that can be a bit stressful.  Send a little cheer and support today by donating to our Care Package Campaign.  Your gift will allow us to send care packages to our college freshmen, to remind them that we are always here for them. The cost to purchase and mail each care package is $100.  Help us to make our goal of $3,000.  This little pick me up will help our students tackle mid-terms and triumph through their first semester, knowing their Bro/Sis family has their back.     14 seniors participated in our CAP Bootcamp this summer and got a head start on their college applications. Over 80% of our membership successfully enter and graduate from college.               Our seniors participate in college tours to 12 to 15 diverse institutions.      About Our College Advisory Program Through our College Advisory Program (CAP) our members receive individualized support and guidance, gain access to SAT preparation, attend college fairs where Bro/Sis alumni share their college experience, attend workshops on the college process, and receive assistance with their application, personal statements and essays.  Membership participate in tours to 12 to 15 diverse institutions which gives them exposure to different options for college.  CAP also provides alumni support designed to ensure our members continue their studies and graduate.  This includes laptops and financial support for school supplies and fees.  In addition, each summer we help place dozens of our alumni in summer jobs. Learn More

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