The Harlem Fine Arts Show

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The Harlem Fine Arts Show



Join us for the 2011 Harlem Fine Arts Show (HFAS 2011), a continuation of the tradition of the National Black Fine Arts Show, which art aficionados have enjoyed at New York’s Puck Building for 14 years.

Past notable guests have included: Gayle King, Congressman and Mrs. Charles B. Rangel, Spike Lee, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, New York City and State Government Officials, Susan L. Taylor, Oprah Winfrey and many others.

HFAS 2011, sponsored by Amtrak and Grey Goose, is one of the largest and most prestigious collections of works featuring

African-American emerging and established artists from around the world. More than 100 artists and internationally renown galleries will be featured including Poncho Brown, Leroy Campbell, Robert Carter, Najee Dorsey, Ray Grist, Woodrow Nash, Michele Wood and E&S Gallery.

Susan L. Taylor, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Essence Magazine and DeMarco Morgan of WNBC-TV New York will serve as the hosts for the Opening Gala Reception on Friday, February 25.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Friday, February 25
9am - 3pm: Art History & Ancestry Day sponsored by Diversity Prep Magazine

6pm -11pm: Opening Gala Reception to benefit Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention

Saturday, February 26
10am -10pm: Fine Arts Exhibition, Assembly and South Halls

11am, 1pm & 3pm: Lecture Series - Collecting Art, Appraising Art, and Aging & the Arts

5pm-8pm: Cocktail Reception to benefit Brotherhood/Sister Sol

Sunday, February 27
10am-12pm: Ecumenical Service

12pm-2pm: Continental Breakfast

12pm-8pm: Fine Arts Exhibition

Bring the Family - All Ages Welcome

Over 10,000 People expected to attend HFAS 2011
Avoid the Lines, Purchase Your Tickets Online Today

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4th Annual Getting Rich by Giving Back Panel Event

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol & The Diversity Committee of
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP present...

GETTING RICH BY GIVING BACK
Reinforcing the Stepping Stones of Your Journey
Wednesday, February 2
6 – 8:30pm

Featuring 
* Susan L. Taylor, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, ESSENCE; CEO & Founder, National CARES Mentoring
* Jonathan Rose, President, Jonathan Rose Companies
* Nina Wells, former Secretary of State, State of New Jersey
* Paul T. Williams, Jr., President, Dormitory Authority, State of New York
* Susan Chapman (Moderator), SVP Global Real Estate & Workplace Enablement, American Express


TICKETS: $40
Space is limited. 
Full Open Bar & Hors D’oeuvres


REGISTER: http://grbgb2011.eventbrite.com/


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Business Basics: Everything You Need to Know (and some things to remember) 6/9/10

Columbia-Harlem Small Business Development Center presents:

Business Basics: Everything You Need to Know to Start a Business (and some things to remember):

We have invited a Certified Public Accountant and a small business lawyer to share information on various small business topics and to answer your questions. Topics covered will be:

• corporate structures and tax implications of each
• Partnership agreements
• Employment agreements, laws, and tax requirements

There will be time for attendees to ask specific questions regarding their business.

The workshop will be conducted in english and spanish. Space is limited. Please RSVP by going to: http://bit.ly/awYRcS or email sbdc@columbia.edu

You can also find this event on FaceBook @
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/New-York-NY/Columbia-Harlem-Small-Business-Development-Center-SBDC/64915024384

Twitter: ColumbiaSBDC
Facebook: Columbia-Harlem SBDC

Civil Rights Activists Gather for 50th Anniversary of SNCC

A national symposium celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee will take place on Thursday, April 22, and Friday, April 23, 2010, at Brown, sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies. The symposium is free and open to the public.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A national symposium celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) will take place on Thursday, April 22, and Friday, April 23, 2010, at Brown University, sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies.
The symposium, “Come Let Us Build A New World Together,” will feature a series of conversations among SNCC activists, scholars, students, and the general public, examining the history of the organization and its continuing relevance in American society. The symposium will emphasize SNCC’s grassroots organizing tradition, philosophy, and strategies.
The symposium will feature a number of distinguished participants including:

• Robert P. Moses, former SNCC Mississippi Project director, MacArthur “Genius” Award winner, and founder of the Algebra Project;
• Vincent Harding, former advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. and noted scholar of African American history;
• Judy Richardson, former SNCC field secretary and associate producer of the award-winning PBS series Eyes on the Prize;
• Maria Varela, former SNCC field secretary and MacArthur “Genius” Award winner;
• Muriel Tillinghast, former SNCC field secretary and interim general manager of WBAI.

Through a series of panels, the symposium will focus on such topics as the eruption of the student sit-in movement that began Feb. 1, 1960, and the spread of student-initiated protest across the American South; the movement by students from protest to grassroots organizing; the leadership role of women within a full-time grassroots organizing movement; the challenges of the grassroots political philosophy of SNCC; the tensions between student activists in SNCC and leaders from other established civil rights organizations; the impact of the Cold War and decolonization on SNCC’s organizing work; Black Power and the expansion of African American elected officials; and the lessons learned and continuing relevance of the history and memory of SNCC for American civic culture.

TeleSeminar: Career, Reinvented - 22 March, 2010

"Career, Reinvented."

Event Details:

• Date: Monday, 22 March, 2010
• Time: 8:00 p.m. (Eastern) (according to www.time.gov)
• Duration: 60 minutes

My guests are Jodi Brockington, founding principal of NIARA Consulting and Malla Haridat, founder/CEO of New Designs for Life. I am looking forward to us having a lively and informative conversation as we address the what, why and how of navigating career reinventions and why it should really be an on-going exercise -- not something triggered due to economic turmoil. This tele-seminar couldn't be timelier, and I am so glad you're going to participate in the discussion.

If you want to invite others to join us, please share with them this url link:

http://sterlingchoices.net/CareerReinvented.html

*See* you on the 22nd of March!

All the best,

Jacquette M. Timmons
President, CEO
jacquette@sterlingchoices.net
Sterling Investment Management, Inc.
110 Wall Street, 11th Floor - PMB #0057
New York, NY 10005-3101
p 212.807.9599 f 212.859.7305
http://www.sterlingchoices.net

Sterling is committed to helping you BE different so that you can do something DIFFERENTLY!
Jacquette M. Timmons
President, CEO
jacquette@sterlingchoices.net
Sterling Investment Management, Inc.
110 Wall Street, 11th Floor - PMB #0057
New York, NY 10005-3101
p 212.807.9599

$5,000 Verizon Wireless/UNCF Scholarships for High School Seniors

In honor of Black History Month, UNCF and Verizon Wireless (VZNW) have partnered to support high school seniors who are college-bound. The 2010 UNCF/VZNW Black History Month Essay contest is designed to allow qualified high school seniors the opportunity to earn college scholarships for the 2010-2011 academic year. If you know of high school seniors with permanent residency in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Maine, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Eastern Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland or the District of Columbia, please tell them of this opportunity to receive a Verizon Wireless Black History Month scholarship and prize package. Seniors must apply by March 15, 2010. Twenty-five eligible students will be selected for the 2010-2011 academic year. The winners will receive scholarships of up to $5,000 and select students will also receive a personal technology make-over including an HP Netbook, a Motorola DROID cell phone and/or Verizon Wireless gift cards. Tell your high school senior about this contest today.

Executive Order to Strengthen the White House Initiative on HBCUs

Thank you Kimberly Wright for the information on

Executive Order to Strengthen the White House Initiative on HBCUs

Executive Order Signing to Strengthen the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities

White House East Room

4:40 p.m. EST

The President will sign a new executive order strengthening the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the White House East Room. This event demonstrates the President's strong appreciation for the historic role these institutions have played in educating our citizens and the Administration's commitment to assisting HBCUs with accomplishing their mission.

Expected Attendees

Approximately 60 HBCU presidents and students

Members of Congress

Members of the President's Cabinet

Special Performance

The Virginia State University Trojan Explosion Drum Line

The Trojan Explosion Marching Band performs at all home football games and most of the away games. The VSU Drum-line has performed for eight consecutive years at the Honda Battle of the Bands event, the longest continuous streak in the nation for being selected to perform there for over 70,000 band fans from around the country. In 2009, the drum-line won the Big Apple Classic competition at Madison Square Garden.

HBCUs: A National Resource

HBCUs are a source of accomplishment and great pride for the African American community as well as the entire nation. The Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, defines an HBCU as: "...any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans, and that is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association determined by the Secretary [of Education] to be a reliable authority as to the quality of training offered or is, according to such an agency or association, making reasonable progress toward accreditation." HBCUs offer all students, regardless of race, an opportunity to develop their skills and talents. These institutions train young people who go on to serve domestically and internationally in the professions as entrepreneurs and in the public and private sectors.

Historical Overview of the HBCU Initiative

· In 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed Executive Order 12232, which established a federal program "... to overcome the effects of discriminatory treatment and to strengthen and expand the capacity of historically black colleges and universities to provide quality education."

· In 1981, President Reagan, under Executive Order 12320, established the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, which expanded the previous program and set into motion a government wide effort to strengthen our nation's HBCUs. In 1989, President George Bush signed Executive Order 12677. This executive order established a Presidential Advisory Board on Historically Black Colleges and Universities to advise the president and the secretary of education on methods, programs, and strategies to strengthen these valued institutions.

· In 1993, President William Jefferson Clinton signed Executive Order 12876. This executive order required for a senior level executive in each agency have oversight in implementing the order, and that the Office of Management and Budget be involved in monitoring implementation of the order.

· On Feb. 12, 2002, President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13256. This executive order transferred the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities to the Office of the Secretary within the U.S. Department of Education. Previously, the White House Initiative was housed in the Department's Office of Postsecondary Education.

Proposed Funding in the 2011 Budget for HBCUs

• The President's FY 11 budget supports this objective. In the Department of Education budget alone he's proposed $98 million in new money for HBCUs in 2011.

· This includes a 5% or $13 million increase for the Strengthening HBCUs program and support for the $85 million in mandatory funding for HBCUs in the pending Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act.

· The Budget also includes $20.5 million for the HBCU Capital Financing program, to provide HBCUs with access to financing for the repair, renovation, and construction or acquisition of educational facilities, instructional equipment, research instrumentation, and physical infrastructure. This funding will support $279 million in new loans in 2011, more than $100 million more than in 2010. The Budget also provides $64.5 million for the Strengthening Historically Black Graduate Institution program, a $3.1 million or five percent increase.

· To ensure students can afford college, the Obama Administration has nearly doubled the aid available in the Federal Pell Grant program, from $18.2 billion in the 2008-2009 award year to a proposed $34.8 billion in 2011-2012. These funding increases support both a growing number of students eligible for Pell Grants and an increase in the maximum Pell Grant award from $4,731 to a proposed $5,710. Pell Grant awards for students at HBCUs will increase by about $400 million (to a total of $900 million) since the start of the Administration. The Budget also proposes to make Pell Grant funding mandatory, and index the maximum award to the consumer price index plus one percentage point.

The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, Inc. presents: Getting Rich By Giving Back - March 11th

Dear Friends and Supporters:

On Thursday, March 11th, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol will host its 3rd annual Getting Rich By Giving Back panel. The law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP will host the event. The firm is located at 1285 Avenue of the Americas at 51st Street and 6th Avenue – Concourse Level.

The theme of the event is: Leveraging Your Networks For Greater Net Worth: Success Stories From the Fields of Business, Non-Profit, Media, Law and Politics.

The event will begin at 6pm with a networking reception that includes open bar and hors d'oeuvres. The panel will begin promptly at 7pm.

All information is attached and can be found at: http://www.brotherhood-sistersol.org/GRBGB.shtml

Leaders in their respective fields will be on the panel:

Theodore V. Wells, Jr., Partner & Co-Chair, Litigation Department, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
A partner and co-chair of the Litigation Department, Theodore V. Wells, Jr. has extensive litigation experience. In 2006 The National Law Journal named Mr. Wells "Lawyer of the Year" and over the years has repeatedly selected him as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America and as one of America's top white-collar criminal defense lawyers. Mr. Wells also has been recognized as one of the outstanding jury trial lawyers in the United States by numerous publications including Chambers USA 2006 which noted he is recognized by many as "the greatest trial lawyer of our generation."

Susan Chapman, Global Head of Operations, Citi Realty Services, Citi
Recently named on of the 50 most powerful black women in business, Susan Chapman manages the day-to-day operations for Citigroup Realty in 96 countries. She holds the number two spot in their business unit, which is responsible for all mergers and acquisitions and bringing new properties into the portfolio.

John Payton, President & Director Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund
The President and Director Counsel of the United States' preeminent human rights law firm, John Payton has extensive experience in the private and public sector. He has most recently been a partner at the Washington firm of Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr. His practice there ranged from complex commercial matters to the most challenging of civil rights issues. He has argued many of the central affirmative actions cases in recent years before the United States Supreme Court.

Len Burnett, Co-CEO & Publisher, Uptown Media Group
An industry veteran and highly successful entrepreneur with over 20 years of publishing experience, Len Burnett has successfully launched 7 major magazines with exceptional advertising growth. He has served as publisher of publications that include, Uptown, VIBE, VIBE Vixen, and co-founded the urban publishing company Vanguarde Media, where he was Group Publisher of Honey, Heart & Soul, Impact and Savoy.

This promises to be an exciting conversation and a wonderful and intimate opportunity to meet and network with business, non-profit, media, and law & politics experts as well as professionals in an array of fields who are in attendance each year.

This event will sell out and we suggest you purchase your tickets immediately through the above listed link.

We hope to see you on March 11th -

Khary Lazarre-White
Executive Director & Co-Founder
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, Inc.

www.brotherhood-sistersol.org

NY Alumni Sports (NYAS)

NY Alumni Sports (NYAS) was founded in 2009 by long time friends Roland Guevara, David Lucas & Kris Foreman. NYAS was designed to bring that inner athlete and collegiate spirit out of you.

The Brotherhood SisterSol ~ Voices 6 hosted by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien

Save the date for Voices 6, to be hosted by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on May 6th, 2010

Consider volunteering