Clemente In Context/Clemente En contexto

Clemente In Context is a panel discussion and book lecture that will be held at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American Culture.  This event will be held on December 10, 2011, from 12pm to 4:30pm.  The Lewis Museum is located at 830 East Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland.

Clemente In Context profiles the life of Major League Baseball great Roberto Clemente; both his athletic prowess on the field, and his humanitarianism off of it. This event will also highlight the struggles that he faced, as well as other African Americans and Afro Latinos in general, the struggles and trial and tribulations with bigotry & segregation in his time, as well as contemporary struggles.  The panel discussion will include sports journalist Danny Torres, actor Modesto Lacen (who currently stars in a play on Broadway about Clemente's life), and author/activist Kevin Alberto Sabio.

Following the panel discussion will be a book lecture based on the book "Raise Your Brown Black Fist: The Political Shouts of an Angry Afro Latino", authored by Kevin Alberto Sabio.  He will be speaking on the struggles of Afro Latino identity, and the issues Afro Latinos face in gaining recognition and acceptance from the mainstream society, and also the Black and greater Latino communities.

The event is FREE, with standard museum admission ($8, $6 for students). Books by participating authors will be available for sale at the event.

Clemente In Context is part of a broader exhibit at the Reginald F Lewis Museum; Beyond Baseball: The Life of Roberto Clemente, and Indivisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas.  Both exhibits will be showing at the Lewis Museum until December 30th.

FMI: (443) 263-1800
www.AfricanAmericanCulture.org

PLM Afrikan Marketplace

Since my time here in Baltimore, I have been lucky enough to be able to network and politic with a number of like-minded brothers and sisters out here.  One of those groups of brothers and sisters dedicated to the uplift of our people/community is called Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement, or PLM for short.  These dedicated young brothers and sisters have created many programs to help engage the community in; one of such is their monthly Afrikan Marketplace.

Their monthly Afrikan Marketplace brings together the local community and Black business owners, gaining support and exposure for these Black-owned businesses, and also instilling the local residents with a sense of Ujamaa and Umoja (cooperative economics, and unity).  They are circulating Black dollars within the Black community, trying to keep our money in our own community.

PLM's Afrikan Marketplace is held every 3rd Saturday of the month from 1pm-7pm.  As of this posting, the next Afrikan marketplace will be held on Saturday, November 19th.  The Marketplace is held at the Maggie Quile Druid Heights Community Center, located at 2140 McCulloh Street  here in Baltimore, MD.  For those of you interested in participating,  PLM can be contacted at 443-257-2470, or you may email them at acefund04@gmail.com.

As I like to say when promoting their Afrikan Marketplace on other cyber locales....SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY!!!!  SUPPORT BLACK BUSINESSES!!!!!!!!  

Winter Season 2011/2012

Here is the latest Schedule of Events listing that we have.  The listings will be periodically updated when we receive new information.  Hope that this helps you all.....

AfroLatin@s Now! Conference
November 3-5, 2011
New York, NY
www.afrolatinoforum.org

Annual Black Authors Literary Festival
November 5, 2011
Richmond, VA
www.theannualauthlitfestival.com

Christian Writer's Literary Festival
December 10, 2011
Baltimore, MD
www.christianauthorsontour.com

Zora Neale Hurston Festival for the Arts & Humanities
January 21-29, 2012
Eatonville, FL
www.zorafestival.com

New Years Book Jubilee
January 28, 2012
Dallas, TX
www.texaslit.com

National Black Herstory Conference & Awards
March 22-24, 2012
Atlanta, GA
www.blackherstory.org

National Black Writers Conference
March 29-April 1, 2012
Brooklyn, NY
www.nationalblackwritersconference.org

When new information comes our way, we will update the list, and repost the Schedule of Events.  We are more than just a one-time event....WE ARE A MOVEMENT!!!!!

New Start

Who are we?

WE.....Are the Universal African Literary Arts Movement & Expo.
We are an independent grassroots event aimed at highlighting and promoting the endeavors of African descended peoples in the field and industry of literature: from authorship, to publishing, to distribution.

Now...what does that long-winded explanation mean?

Quite simply put...we're a networking group, and teaching tool.  We help independent authors, publishers, poets, and other artists to get the word out to the masses about their various works.  We generally send out e-blasts to the members of our Mailing List, informing them of the various literary and cultural functions and events that they can attend to showcase and/or sell their work(s).  We seasonally send out e-blasts of our Schedule of Events listing (updated ever so often when new information comes to our attention).  We also send out e-blasts helping to promote some of our members' works within our own network.  

ALSO.....we have an annual event (that hasn't been so annual) called the Universal Africana Literary Arts Expo (or 'The Expo' for short), where we gather together to showcase our brothers and sisters in the various fields that they occupy: publishers, book clubs, bookstores, comic books, art (graphic and otherwise), magazines, the Black Press, as well as authors and poets.  We're even considering including Bloggers....

We have profile pages across the various Social Media platforms; MySpace, Facebook, various Ning.com sites.  Since it costs a bit of cash to have your own website, We considered having a blog page as a decent alternative.  We wanted an alternative way to reach the masses outside the blog posts on those various social networking sites.

So...here we be.

We will continue to post our Schedule of Events list here; we used to use our Facebook page, but now they are taking away that function.  That way, we can keep the masses informed, and those NOT on our Mailing List can have access to this same information.  We've been going strong since we first started this venture in 2008; we're looking to continue on strong into the future.

Uhuru sase, y paz