Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Join SABC's members @ 2nd Annual “Drumvoices for Ahaji’: A Festival of the Arts”



2nd Annual “Drumvoices for Ahaji’: A Festival of the Arts”

Recalling sea-changing periods of intense artistic, cultural, educational and political fervor locally and all across the US, a festival, titled ''Drumvoices for Ahaji,” will take place on Saturday, July 13, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm., at the Women's Civic Improvement Club of Sacramento, Inc., 3555 3rd Avenue in historic Oak Park, Sacramento, CA 95817. Cost: Sliding Scale $5-$15.Partial proceeds from the sales will go toward the Jones Scholarship Fund.

Panelists, actors, authors, poets, scholars, musicians, visual artists, theoreticians, vendors, booksellers and community organizers will participate; all while honoring and fund raising in the name of the late George Austin “Ahaji” Jones(1931-2009)--a true “renaissance” man--and Robzene Jones (1930-2008), Sacramento educators whose combined teaching experiences totaled 60-plus years.

The featured author Dr. Eugene B. Redmond will celebrate the release of his latest book, "ARKANSIPPI MEMWARS: Poetry, Prose & Chants, 1962-2012"(Third World Press). Dr. Redmond is the Poet Laureate of East Saint Louis, Illinois, Emeritus Professor of English, Founding Editor of “Drumvoices Revue” and former Chairman of the Creative Writing Committee at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He taught at California State University, Sacramento, as a professor of English and Poet-in-Residence in Pan African Studies for 15 years.

The afternoon program will also feature: a panel discussion, drumming, vendors, poetry, art displays, book signings and music. Other program participants: (partial list): Dr. David Covin, Barbara Range, Dr. Otis Scott, Maasai Hatten, Lisa A. Lacy, Lawrence Dinkins, Jr., aka NSAA, Margo Rose Brunson, Esutosin Omowale Osunkoya, Artist Dr. Tchaka Muhammed, Lori Jean Robinson, William A. Parker, Selwyn Jones, , Imani McCain, Delores Brown &, Thomas-Whit Ellis,Artist Gloria Gandy, Malik Saunders, Betty Davis@Culture Collection, Artist Lawrence Sullivan, Artist Shirley Sanders, Kakwasi Somadhi, Elizabeth Smoot aka "JahbaszdrELIZtry" Artist Daphne Burgess, Framed by Frankie Edwards Lee and NIA Women of Purpose.

For more info contact: Faye Kennedy, faye@bluenilepress.com or call (916) 484-3749

CA Legislative Black Caucus -CLBC blasts U.S. Supreme Court decision on the nation's landmark Voting Rights Act


CLBC blasts U.S. Supreme Court decision on the nation's landmark Voting Rights Act

 
SACRAMENTO - June 25, 2013 - The nine-member California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) today harshly criticized the United States Supreme Court for its decision to strike down Section 4 of the historic Voting Rights Act on 1965. CLBC Chair and Assembly member Holly J. Mitchell said, "Today, the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have declared with their ruling on Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act that state practices that could serve to deny minority citizens their lawful right to vote do not need to be scrutinized in advance of their implementation.
It's a sad day in America. The door to nefarious and biased voting requirements, such as the use of driver's licenses as mandatory voting ID cards, has been swung wide open. The curtain to America's voting booths has been pulled shut in face of potentially hundreds of thousands of lawful African American voters across our nation who might now be fully denied their lawful right to vote through the application of invidious state-sponsored and legally sanctioned discriminatory voting practices."


Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act was an important provision that prohibited discrimination in voting and required states covered under the Act to obtain U.S. Justice Department "preclearance" before implementing any changes with respect to a U.S. citizens' right to vote.

"The members of the CLBC call upon Congress to right this grievous wrong handed down by our highest court in our land," Assembly member Mitchell said.

For more information on the CLBC and the CLBC's 'Agenda 2020' policy initiatives, please go to blackcaucus.legislature.ca.gov.

SABC's 41st Anniversary Celebration Gala


 
Sacramento Area Black Caucus’ (SABC)

41st Anniversary Celebration Gala

“Sharing Our Past Strengthens Our Future”

Saturday, June 29, 2013

6:00p.m. Gala Reception at 2 locations:

underground books, 2814 35th St., Sacramento, CA 95817

&

40 Acres Art Gallery, 3428 3rd Ave., Sacramento, CA 95817

 

Artists participating and supporting SABC’s 41st Anniversary Gala Celebration

Barbara Range, Curator, Brickhouse Art Gallery

Shonna McDaniels

Frank Blackwell

Frankie Lee Edwards

Daphne Burgess

Chelle Brantley

Gerry GOS" Simpson

C. Riley

7:00p.m. to 9:00p.m. Program at the historic Guild Theater, 2828 35th Street, Sacramento, CA 95817
 
 

SABC's Meetings

 

Membership Information


 
     The Sacramento Area Black Caucus meets at 7:30pm

  on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month

    at 4413 18th  Ave., Sacramento, CA 95820
Sacramento Area Black Caucus
Mail:P.O. Box 5528;
Sacramento, CA 95817
Phone:(916) 484-5025/