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Statement From NABJ on Washington Post’s Wesley Lowery Trespassing Charge While Covering Ferguson Last Year

The National Association of Black Journalists expresses concern with the decision by prosecutors in St. Louis County, Mo. to charge Wesley Lowery of The Washington Post with trespassing and interfering with a police officer.

The charges stem from an incident that took place as Lowery, 25, was in Ferguson, Mo. in 2014 to report on the shooting death of Michael Brown, a black teen, by a white police officer.

“Reporters have every right to do their jobs, pursue the truth and publish it,” NABJ President Sarah Glover said.

The association is troubled by the action taken by prosecutors and believe it to be a direct assault on the free exercise of the First Amendment, which ensures journalists can practice their craft. Journalists understand citizens, including journalists, must respect the rule of law, but as the Supreme Court of the United States noted in its 1972 decision in Branzburg v. Hayes,”... without some protection for seeking out the news, freedom of the press could be eviscerated.”

The organization believes Lowery acted reasonably in pursuit of news and information needed by the public in the aftermath of the shooting death of Brown and in light of ensuing unrest in Ferguson. The initial decision to release Lowery without filing charges also suggests that authorities themselves believed that his initial arrest could have been an abuse of power and discretion. The organization encourages local officials to drop the charges filed against Lowery so journalists can operate without fear that doing their jobs will lead to them being jailed.

Washington Post executive editor Martin Baron called the charges “outrageous.” Lowery is a former NABJ board member.

An advocacy group established in 1975 in Washington, D.C., NABJ is the largest organization for journalists of color in the nation, and provides career development as well as educational and other support to its members worldwide.

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“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

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World Premiere of An American Soldier, a Two Act Opera

by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang to Continue Opera Theatre’s New Works, Bold Voices Series in 2018 New York, NY, February 9, 2016 — At a press event yesterday in New York, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis General Director Timothy O’Leary announced details for the continuation of the company’s groundbreaking New Works, Bold Voices series — including the 2018 world premiere of An American Soldier, a full length opera by critically acclaimed composer Huang Ruo and Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang. The opera will be the fourth world premiere in the series, which emphasizes the creation of American works, the telling of compelling modern stories, and themes of common humanity in today’s world. The opera originally premiered in a 60-minute version in 2014 as part of Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative. It will be expanded into a full-length work for its premiere in St. Louis.

Previously announced world premieres in Opera Theatre’s New Works, Bold Voices series include 2013’s Champion, 2014’s “27,” and the upcoming world premiere of Shalimar the Clown, based on the novel by Salman Rushdie. An American Soldier tells the story of the tragic death of Chinese-American Army Private Danny Chen, who took his own life while stationed in a guard tower at a base in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Based on the ensuing courts-martial of Chen’s fellow soldiers, An American Soldier addresses issues of patriotism, cultural identity, belonging, and otherness. Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Artistic Director James Robinson, who previously collaborated with Huang Ruo on the American premiere of Dr. Sun Yat-sen at The Santa Fe Opera, will direct.

Composer Huang Ruo has been lauded by The New Yorker as “one of the world’s leading young composers” and by The New York Times for his “distinctive style.” His diverse compositional work spans from orchestra, chamber music, opera, theater, and dance to cross-genre, sound installation, multi-media, experimental improvisation, folk rock, and film. His opera Paradise Interrupted received its world premiere at the Spoleto Festival USA in 2015. Another performance of the opera is coming up at Lincoln Center Festival in 2016 before going on tour to Asia and Europe. His opera Dr. Sun Yat-sen will receive its Canadian premiere in 2017 at the Vancouver Opera. He was also recently named the composer-in-residence for the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. pg. 12

Librettist David Henry Hwang is one of America’s leading playwrights, acclaimed by TIME as “the first important dramatist of American public life since Arthur Miller.” His many plays include M. Butterfly (which earned him his first Tony nomination and award), Golden Child, Yellow Face, Chinglish, and Kung Fu. Named America’s most-produced living opera librettist

by Opera News, he has written four works with composer Philip Glass, and collaborated on projects with Osvaldo Golijov, Phil Collins, Elton John, and Unsuk Chin. In 2014, he became the director of Columbia University’s School of the Arts’ M.F.A. program in playwriting.

“We are thrilled to be working with Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang on this project,” said Timothy O’Leary, General Director of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. “As artists, they embody the kind of probing, meaningful work we aim to advance through Opera Theatre’s New Works, Bold Voices series. It’s an honor to be collaborating with them, and with our friends at the Washington National Opera, who commissioned and premiered the first version of An American Soldier. Through the moving story of Private Danny Chen and his family, this is a work that addresses the very question of what it means to be an American.”

Operas from the New Works, Bold Voices series have already established themselves as significant new additions to the American operatic repertoire, earning strong reviews during their premieres in St. Louis and continuing on to important subsequent productions. Terence Blanchard and Michael Cristofer’s Champion receives its West Coast premiere in a coproduction with SFJAZZ and Opera Parallel in February 2016. Its East Coast premiere will be announced in March 2016. Similarly, Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek’s “27” opens at Pittsburgh Opera in February 2016 and will make its New York debut in October 2016.

The world premiere of An American Soldier is made possible by the Fred M. Saigh Endowment at Opera Theatre and with leadership gifts from the Whitaker Foundation, the Berges Family Foundation, and the Ferring Family Foundation. The opera will receive its world premiere during Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’s 2018 Festival Season, opening June 3, 2018. Details about additional performance dates and casting will be forthcoming.

About Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is one of the leading American opera companies, known for a spring festival of inventive new productions, sung in English, featuring the finest American singers and accompanied by members of the St. Louis Symphony. As of its 40th anniversary 2015 Festival Season, Opera Theatre has presented 24 world premieres and 25 American premieres (including the 2015 production of Handel’s Richard the Lionheart) — which may be the highest percentage of new work in the repertory of any U.S. company. Described by the Sunday Times of London as “one of the few American companies worth the transatlantic fare,” Opera Theatre of Saint Louis annually welcomes visitors from nearly every state and close to a dozen foreign countries. Although the size of the theater typically limits box office income to less than a quarter of the budget, the company has consistently produced work of the highest quality while never accumulating a deficit.

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Opera Theatre also has a long tradition of discovering and promoting the careers of the finest operatic artists of the current generation. Among the artists who had important early opportunities at Opera Theatre are Christine Brewer, Susan Graham, Nathan Gunn, Patricia Racette, Thomas Hampson, Jerry Hadley, Dawn Upshaw, Sylvia McNair, Erie Mills, Dwayne Croft, Kelly Kaduce, and Lawrence Brownlee. Opera Theatre has always been known for distinguished leadership: founding general director Richard Gaddes was succeeded in 1985 by general director Charles MacKay, with famed British stage director Colin Graham as artistic director and Stephen Lord (1992 – present) as music director. Timothy O’Leary was named general director in October 2008 with acclaimed stage director James Robinson succeeding the late Colin Graham.

Opera Theatre is a sustaining member of the Arts & Education Council of Greater Saint Louis, and receives major support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Regional Arts Commission, and the Missouri Arts Council.

Generous leadership support for the services of the St. Louis Symphony is provided by Jack C. Taylor and the Taylor family.

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I don’t have to tell you that 2015 was a remarkable year. The late basketball coach Jim Valvano said that If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. If you’re like me, that is what your year looked like, and if we’re lucky, this year we’ll laugh a little more, think a little more, and help someone else do the same.

I am certainly looking forward to helping people achieve more of their goals in 2016.

Hopefully one of those goals is to get out and enjoy our great city! Here are a few things to get you started this month. I certainly hope that you will join me in making this a phenomenal year!

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ARTIST AS BOOKKEEPER Monday, February 1, 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.

Accountant Eric Hansen will guide you through the tax maze and offer suggestions that could save you money and a lot of aggravation. As part of our Every Artist Insured campaign, you’ll also find out how the tax-related provisions in the Affordable Care Act will affect your 2015 and 2016 tax returns.

CROWDFUNDING SCHOOL Monday, February 15, 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.

Learn how to bring your creative idea to life. First, Jamey Stegmaier, president and founding partner, Stonemaier Games, and author of A Crowdfunders Strategy Guide: How I Kickstarted My Dream Company, will share helpful tips. Next, we’ll take a more detailed look at the anatomy of a successful campaign with Alvaro Aro (filmmaker), Eric Christensen (STL Up Late), Mike McCubbins (graphic novel author) and Susan Stang (photographer). Finally, Attorney Benjamin Siders, Lewis Rice, will discuss crowdfunding legal issues.

COPYRIGHT CLINIC Monday, February 29, 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.

Do you have pressing questions about copyright? Here’s your chance to learn the basics from Prof. Yvette Joy Liebesman, Saint Louis University School of Law. Then you’ll have an opportunity to spend 15 minutes talking to a volunteer lawyer. Consultations will be scheduled in person that evening and may not be available if you do not register in advance.

Business Edge workshops are held in the Regional Arts Commission’s building, 6128 Delmar. Free parking behind the Pageant or in the MetroLink lot.

Tuition: $10 in advance; $15 at the door. Registration form. If you need a scholarship, please contact us.

St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts (VLAA) serves the arts community by making referrals to lawyers and accountants; mediating arts-related disputes; publishing concise how-to guides; sponsoring seminars and public forums; providing guest speakers; maintaining a content-rich website; collaborating on arts advocacy initiatives; and facilitating access to the national volunteer lawyers for the arts network.

VLAA is supported by the Regional Arts Commission; the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts 6128 Delmar, St. Louis, MO 63112 314/863-6930; vlaa@stlrac.org

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I’ve Been to the Mountaintop Readers Theater in Five Voices

Friday, February 26, 2016 7 p.m.

Word on Shaw (Corner of Shaw and Tower Grove) 4265 Shaw Blvd St. Louis, MO 63110 Donation $10.00 $12 @ the Door

Call 314-607-8919 for ticket information or go to A Call to Conscience on Facebook.com to order tickets.

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Friday, April 22, 2016 6:30-10:00 PM THE BERG EVENT SPACE A fundraising event to benefit Missouri Alliance for Animal Legislation.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR NOW FOR YOUR TICKET TO ENDING PUPPY MILLS! We’re moving to warmer weather but have all the fun of Mardi Growl still in store!

This year’s event will be even bigger and better -- a night YOU will want to celebrate!

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Joe Gfaller, Director of Marketing and Public Relations (314) 963-4293, jgfaller@opera-stl.org Maggie Stearns, National PR Consultant (203) 770-1634, stearns.maggie@gmail.com Sarah Thompson, PR | Communications (314) 963-4291, (314) 884-8306, sthompson@opera-stl.org OTSL website: www.ExperienceOpera.org OTSL box office: (314) 961-0644

Opera Theatre Announces Casts for 2016 Festival Season Season includes world premiere based on Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown, three classic masterworks — Puccini’s La bohème, Verdi’s Macbeth, and Strauss’s Ariadne on Naxos, and the second annual Center Stage concert.

Single tickets to the new season go on sale Saturday, February 27.

St. Louis, MO, February 9, 2016 — Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is pleased to announce the complete casts for its 2016 Festival Season. The season features OTSL’s signature combination of compelling new operas and masterpieces by beloved composers, including Giacomo Puccini’s eternally popular La bohème, Richard Strauss’s moving comedy Ariadne on Naxos, Giuseppe Verdi’s magnificent and murderous Macbeth, and the highly anticipated world premiere of Jack Perla and Rajiv Joseph’s Shalimar the Clown, based on the much-admired novel by Salman Rushdie. The season also includes the second annual Center Stage concert, showcasing the talents of OTSL’s young artists. The company’s 2016 Festival Season begins Saturday, May 21 and continues through Sunday, June 26.

Casting highlights include the return of former OTSL Gerdine Young Artist Hae Ji Chang in her principal role debut as Mimì alongside Cardiff Singer of the World finalist Lauren Michelle as Musetta in La bohème. Significant debuts include Roland Wood in the title role of the company’s first-ever production of Macbeth, Marjorie Owens and AJ Glueckert as Ariadne and Bacchus in Ariadne on Naxos, and Andriana Chuchman (Boonyi Kaul / India Ophuls) and Katharine Goeldner (Peggy Ophuls) in the world premiere of Shalimar the Clown. Returning favorites include Sean Panikkar in the title role in Shalimar the Clown, Gregory Dahl as the American ambassador Max Ophuls, Julie Makerov as Lady Macbeth, and Levi Hernandez as the Music Master in Ariadne on Naxos. As always, many returning artists are alumni of Opera Theatre’s young artist programs, including So Young Park (Zerbinetta) and Cecelia Hall (Composer) in Ariadne, Aubrey Allicock (Bulbul Fakh) and Jenni Bank (Firdaus Noman) in Shalimar, and Bradley Smoak (Colline) in La bohème. The season also features 38 members of OTSL’s current young artist programs – including 30 Gerdine Young Artists and 8 Richard Gaddes Festival Artists.

Season conductors include OTSL’s acclaimed Music Director Stephen Lord, as well as debuts by Emanuele Andrizzi, Rory Macdonald, and Jayce Ogren. All four directors for the new season return after recent triumphant productions at OTSL: Artistic Director James Robinson (who last directed Emmeline in 2015), Ron Daniels (who directed Il tabarro and Pagliacci in 2013), Lee Blakeley (who directed the American premiere of Richard the Lionheart in 2015), and Seán Curran (whose critically

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acclaimed production of The Pirates of Penzance was named “Operetta of the Year” by Opera Now in 2013).

All main season productions at Opera Theatre are accompanied by members of the St. Louis Symphony and are performed in English, with projected supertitles. Concerts and special events, such as Center Stage, feature music sung in its original language. Performances are presented in the Virginia Jackson Browning Theatre of the Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Webster University. Productions are performed in rotating repertory, making it easy for audiences to enjoy all four productions of the festival in a single weekend.

Subscriptions to the 2016 season are currently available, starting at $82 for a two-opera Wednesday or Saturday matinee series and $170 for a four-opera evening or matinee series. Special packages are available for K-12 educators, audiences under 45 years of age, and audiences travelling from out of town.

Single tickets go on sale February 27, 2016, with prices starting at $25. To purchase tickets or for more information, visit ExperienceOpera.org or call the box office at (314) 961-0644.

Detailed casting information for each opera during the 2016 Festival Season continues on the following pages.

THE 2016 REPERTORY *Debut artist LA BOHÈME Giacomo Puccini (1896) Nine performances: May 21, 25, 27; June 2, 4 (m), 8, 12, 15 (m), 25 Conductor: Emanuele Andrizzi* Stage Director: Ron Daniels Set Designer: Riccardo Hernandez Costume Designer: Emily Rebholz Lighting Designer: Christopher Akerlind Wig and Makeup Designer: Tom Watson Choreographer: Seán Curran Chorus Master: Robert Ainsley Mimì: Hae Ji Chang* Musetta: Lauren Michelle* Rodolfo: Anthony Kalil Marcello: Anthony Clark Evans* Schaunard: Sean Michael Plumb* Colline: Bradley Smoak Benoit/Alcindoro: Thomas Hammons Parpignol: Eric Ferring Customs Officer: Robert Mellon* One of the most performed operas of all time, La bohème has gripped audiences for over a century.

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dressmaker, Mimì. Set to lush, irresistible music, Puccini’s masterpiece never fails to move audiences to both laughter and tears.

Opera Theatre’s new production of La bohème is made possible in part with production underwriting from the Engelhardt Family Foundation.

MACBETH Giuseppe Verdi (1865) Seven performances: May 28; June 1, 10, 16, 18 (m), 22 (m), 26 Conductor: Stephen Lord Stage Director: Lee Blakeley Set Designer: Alex Eales* Costume Designer: Mark Bouman* Lighting Designer: Christopher Akerlind Wig and Makeup Designer: Tom Watson Choreographer: Seán Curran Chorus Master: Robert Ainsley Macbeth: Roland Wood* Lady Macbeth: Julie Makerov Macduff: Matthew Plenk Banquo: Robert Pomakov Malcolm: Evan LeRoy Johnson Macbeth is a thriller from start to finish — from the eerie prophecies of witches, to Lady Macbeth’s arresting sleepwalking scene, to the chilling and bloody finale. Inspired by Shakespeare’s tale of ruthless ambition and murder, this classic Verdi masterwork is set to some of the most magnificent music in all of opera.

Opera Theatre’s new production of Macbeth is made possible by lead corporate sponsor Centene Charitable Foundation.

ARIADNE ON NAXOS Richard Strauss (1916) Six performances: June 5, 9, 11 (m), 18, 22, 24 Conductor: Rory Macdonald* Stage Director/Choreographer: Seán Curran Set Designer: James Schuette Costume Designer: Amanda Seymour Lighting Designer: Christopher Akerlind Wig and Makeup Designer: Tom Watson Chorus Master: Robert Ainsley The Prima Donna (Ariadne): Marjorie Owens* The Tenor (Bacchus): AJ Glueckert* Zerbinetta: So Young Park* The Composer: Cecelia Hall*

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The Music Master: Levi Hernandez The Dancing Master: Matthew DiBattista Harlequin: John Brancy* The Major Domo: Ken Page* Naiad: Elizabeth Sutphen Dryad: Stephanie Sanchez Echo: Liv Redpath Brighella: Benjamin Lee* Scaramuccio: Miles Mykkanen* Truffaldino: Erik Van Heyningen The wealthiest man in Vienna has hired both divas and clowns to perform two separate shows at the end of a lavish dinner party. When dinner runs long, the artists are stunned to find they must all take the stage together. What results is a mashup of slapstick comedy and deeply profound romance — mixing coloratura fireworks, spectacular arias, and tender surprises.

Opera Theatre’s new production of Ariadne on Naxos is made possible in part with major production support from Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden and with production underwriting from The Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation - Mabel L. Purkerson, M.D., Trustee and Leigh & Jean Mason.

SHALIMAR THE CLOWN Jack Perla and Rajiv Joseph (2016) Six Performances: June 11, 15, 17, 19, 23, 25 (m) Conductor: Jayce Ogren* Stage Director: James Robinson Set Designer: Allen Moyer Costume Designer: James Schuette Lighting Designer: Christopher Akerlind Wig and Makeup Designer: Tom Watson Choreographer: Seán Curran Video Designer: Greg Emetaz Chorus Master: Robert Ainsley Shalimar: Sean Panikkar Boonyi Kaul / India Ophuls: Andriana Chuchman* Max Ophuls: Gregory Dahl Peggy Ophuls: Katharine Goeldner* Firdaus Noman: Jenni Bank Bulbul Fakh: Aubrey Allicock Abdullah Sher Noman: Thomas Hammons Pyarelal Kaul: Justin Austin* Gopinath Razdan: Geoffrey Agpalo The world premiere of Shalimar the Clown features music by acclaimed composer Jack Perla and libretto by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph, based on the novel by Salman Rushdie. The third opera in OTSL’s New Works, Bold Voices series, Shalimar the Clown is the story of Shalimar and his beloved Boonyi, who have grown up together in a pastoral Kashmiri village, making people laugh as acrobats and dancers in a traditional folk theater. They fall in love, a romance that culminates in a joyful wedding. But when the new American ambassador meets Boonyi, he seduces her from her home with the promise of a

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new life, sending Shalimar down a dangerous path of revenge. Mr. Perla’s score resonates with the musical traditions of Kashmir, using tabla drums and sitar as the heartbeat that underscores this poetic and powerful story. Shalimar the Clown is conducted by Jayce Ogren and directed by OTSL Artistic Director James Robinson (2015’s Emmeline, 2014’s “27,” 2013’s Champion).

The world premiere of Shalimar the Clown is made possible by the Fred M. Saigh Endowment at Opera Theatre and with leadership gifts from the Whitaker Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Berges Family Foundation, and the Ferring Family Foundation, with an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and with generous support from OPERA America’s Opera Fund.

Audience development programs surrounding Shalimar the Clown are made possible by PNC Arts Alive and OPERA America’s Opera Fund.

CENTER STAGE A Young Artist Showcase Concert One Performance: June 21 Conductor: Stephen Lord Stage Director: James Robinson Assistant Conductor: Roberto Kalb Chorus Master: Robert Ainsley After a triumphant inaugural concert in 2015, Center Stage returns to showcase OTSL’s talented 2016 Gerdine Young Artists and Richard Gaddes Festival Artists. Over 1,000 young artists applied from across the nation, with 500 auditions heard in 6 cities, but only 38 of the top singers were chosen to be a part of this season, making OTSL’s young artist programs among the most selective in the country. Usually seen in ensemble roles during mainstage productions, these talented young singers take center stage in a onenight-only concert, accompanied on stage by the members of the St. Louis Symphony. The concert will feature iconic moments from opera’s greatest hits and cherished rarities. ** About Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is one of the leading American opera companies, known for a spring festival of inventive new productions, sung in English, featuring the finest American singers and accompanied by members of the St. Louis Symphony. As of its 40th anniversary 2015 Festival Season, Opera Theatre has presented 24 world premieres and 25 American premieres (including the 2015 production of Handel’s Richard the Lionheart) — which may be the highest percentage of new work in the repertory of any U.S. company. Described by the Sunday Times of London as “one of the few American companies worth the transatlantic fare,” Opera Theatre of Saint Louis annually welcomes visitors from nearly every state and close to a dozen foreign countries. Although the size of the theater typically limits box office income to less than a quarter of the budget, the company has consistently produced work of the highest quality while never accumulating a deficit.

Opera Theatre also has a long tradition of discovering and promoting the careers of the finest operatic artists of the current generation. Among the artists who had important early opportunities at Opera Theatre are Christine Brewer, Susan Graham, Nathan Gunn, Patricia Racette, Thomas Hampson, Jerry Hadley, Dawn Upshaw, Matthew Polenzani, Sylvia McNair, Erie Mills, Dwayne Croft, Kelly Kaduce, and Lawrence Brownlee. Opera Theatre has always been known for distinguished leadership: founding - more pg. 50

general director Richard Gaddes was succeeded in 1985 by general director Charles MacKay, with famed British stage director Colin Graham as artistic director and Stephen Lord (1992 – present) as music director. Timothy O’Leary was named general director in October 2008 with acclaimed stage director James Robinson succeeding the late Colin Graham.

Opera Theatre is a sustaining member of the Arts & Education Council of Greater Saint Louis, and receives major support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Regional Arts Commission, and the Missouri Arts Council.

Generous leadership support for the services of the St. Louis Symphony is provided by Jack C. Taylor and the Taylor family. ###

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After three successful years, Dance St. Louis returns with its very own commissioned production, PNC Arts Alive New Dance Horizons IV. But this year has an added twist. In celebration of Black History Month, PNC Arts Alive New Dance Horizons IV celebrates St. Louis’ legendary black artists such as Maya Angelou, Miles Davis, Dick Gregory, and more. It’s all happening at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on February 26-27.

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Dance St. Louis unites three nationally renowned African American choreographers from across the country with three local professional dance companies to create three unique, moving and distinct world premieres inspired by legendary black St. Louis artists.

This year’s participating choreographers are Bebe Miller, a native New Yorker and Bessie Award winner; Robert Moses, founder of San Francisco-based Robert Moses’ Kin and Stanford University choreographer-in-residence; and groundbreaking pioneer Dianne McIntyre, regarded as “one of modern dance’s reigning divas” with a career spanning more than 40 years.

Dianne McIntyre’s world premiere is “When We Come to It,” and her inspiration is author and poet Maya Angelou. Angelou’s poem “A Brave and Startling Truth” will be recited during the world premiere, and the work also features the music of trumpeter and composer Lester Bowie, who was raised in St. Louis and married to St. Louis soul singer Fontella Bass. pg. 56

McIntyre is setting her work on three former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater principal dancers who now reside in St. Louis—Antonio Douthit-Boyd, Kirven Douthit-Boyd and Alicia Graf Mack—and a local dance ensemble, which was cast in September 2015 specifically for New Dance Horizons IV. Bebe Miller’s work is “Line Up Low Down,” and her inspiration is one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, Miles Davis, who was born in Alton, Illinois. It’s Miller’s first time working with the music of Miles Davis, whose “groove is a constant reminder of how to seize the moment,” says Miller. Bebe Miller is setting her work on St. Louis modern dance company, MADCO. Robert Moses’ work “Gunshots/Daffodils/Moans/Still,” draws musical inspiration from and uses samples from a mix of St. Louis cultural legends, including gospel singer and preacher Reverend Cleophus Robinson, civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory and more. He believes his “work is about violence in general and gun violence in particular.” Robert is setting his work on St. Louis-based contemporary dance company, The Big Muddy Dance Company.

Dance St. Louis received a $75,000 grant award from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of PNC Arts Alive New Dance Horizons IV. Dance St. Louis is one of only two arts organizations in the St. Louis metropolitan area to be awarded a grant by the Foundation in the area of “Arts and Cultural Heritage” this past year.

Don’t miss PNC Arts Alive New Dance Horizons IV on February 26-27 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $20, and are available by visiting dancestlouis.org or calling 314-534-6622.

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Globalizati union organizing. Sadly, the hyper-exploitation of Globalization, our modern world market system, has contributed to a gulf of economic woes. In this country in particular, the controversy has centered on outsourcing and the loss of U.S. jobs among the working class and increasingly among white-collar workers. We hear a lot from fiscal conservatives about too much tax and spend, claiming that the government is too big, but what seems to be missing is not enough attention paid to everyday families and how they’re faring financially with such sweeping transformations from an industrial-based society to a largely service-and-knowledge economy, driven in part by globalization.

workers shifted or was fobbed-off to developing countries. So it appears that the only group to benefit thus far in a more global economy is the rich who’ve seemingly become even richer.

Professionals Feeling the Pain The U.S. is increasingly competing and trading on a worldwide scale. Missouri Representative Richard Gephardt (D-1977 –2005) was a loyal supporter of President Clinton but he was a “protectionist” adamantly opposed to free trade and with strong union alliances, he vigorously opposed it. But Republicans held sway and NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) was pushed through, implemented in 1994. Similar trade policies followed such as the

The pinch was almost immediately felt for blue-

latest -- TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement)

collar workers whose wages mainly stemmed from

proposed by President Obama, but has yet to be

the manufacturing sector. It’s that “giant sucking

approved by Congress.

sound” that presidential candidate Ross Perot, (an independent) impishly forewarned in 1992 about the rush of jobs leaving the country due to international free trade agreements. Many factory jobs have long gone mainly to Asia with the term sweatshops taking on special currency, renown for child labor, poor working conditions, piecework, low pay and anti-

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ion and its Pitfalls moving to foreign countries. When calling helpdesk

of diminishing returns of services to consumers and

personnel for technology support, for example, many

recipients occurs. This is particularly problematic

on the other end of the phone speak with accents

during times when low-and-moderate income families

like someone from Asia, usually India. Not only are

and others are in the throes of an economic crisis.

information technology and call-center operators working for American companies overseas, but also customer service and back-office jobs, accounting, architecture, advanced engineering design, news reporting, stock analysis and medical and legal services, according to a 2010 University of California study that concluded that roughly 14 million white collar jobs are at risk.

Decline of Public Social Service Welfare reform policies during the Clinton Administration in 1996 placed a five-year cap on how long recipients could receive assistance (in some states its less). For Missouri there’s a five-year limitation, but it could be reduced. When families are no longer eligible for public assistance, the safety net will go away. At one time, the safety net was touted as assurances that a family would rarely if ever plunge

Even government jobs, local, state and federal,

to financial doom. In addition, a scarcity of homeless

have declined due to shrinking tax bases and

shelters, psychiatric hospitals and drug treatment

budgets driven by the constant drumbeat of too

programs has led to devastating consequences.

much bureaucracy and too many regulations. “You

Homelessness and hunger have spiraled; many on the

must keep administrative cost down,” is a constant

streets living a hand-to-mouth existence are wracked

warning from critics of government and non-profit

with alcohol and drug addiction; others have serious

staff positions. Billionaire Republican presidential

mental disorders. Most tragic are single mothers with

candidate Donald Trump reportedly said: “There are

children who no longer qualify for public assistance

too many” government employees “making too much

due to state caps and not enough jobs to tide them

money.” Yet cutting office staff can have a negative

over. Commensurate is the explosion of prisons that

impact not only on productivity and morale, but also

in some states are more prevalent than institutions of

creativity, talent and talent development and program

higher learning.

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and so families are still climbing out of the muck Publically funded universities are now on the proverbial chopping block. As they say, “Death by a thousand cuts” as this has been going on for well nigh 20 years. Governor Bruce Rauner (R – Illinois) has held up signing the state budget for so long until some public universities have been forced to have massive layoffs or even worst could soon shutter their doors completely. His reasoning is that he wants the state government to be more “business friendly.”

and mire of a nasty economic recession.

Troubles in Cities Michael Moore’s film Roger ‘n’ Me renders a poignant example of the economic vortex in Flint, Michigan that so many were swept into. Moore, born and raised in Flint, issued a searing critique of how the city, once bustling, was reduced to a crumbling rustbelt with General Motors, its major industry, closing several auto plants, from 80 thousand employees in 1978, 50 thousand in 1992

Even though corporate leaders via chambers of

and as of August 2015, according to the Detroit

commerce, media, lobbyists and pressure groups

News, GM employs roughly 7,200 workers in the

such as Citizens United touted the new economy for

Flint area, of approximately 300 thousand people.

creating unfettered growth and enhanced prosperity, unequivocal evidence is mounting that not enough attention has been paid to negative consequences (anticipated and unanticipated) particularly in the shortrun. Namely, too many workers have fallen through the cracks. Perhaps workers didn’t move fast enough by retooling, retraining or going back to school to avoid unbearable financial hardships, but be that as it may -- the new economy has not been kind to many.

With the valuation of homes going underwater, many homeowners have been too financially strapped to pull up stakes and move to where jobs are more plentiful

The failure to provide clean water in Flint, while catastrophic, portends the tip of the iceberg in how not only the business community failed its workers but also the government. It was Governor Rick Snyder’s (R-Michigan) emergency manager policy that created the problem. The emergency manager reports directly to the governor, bypassing the city’s elected officials. To save tax revenues, the emergency manager switched the water supply from Lake Huron (the third largest fresh-water lake in the world) to the contaminated Flint River. This resulted pg. 62

in a lead poisoning disaster, affecting all citizens,

And while parts of the St. Louis region are over-

creating untold health hazards, including long-term

developed, others such as North St. Louis look like a

developmental problems for the city’s children, which

warzone. Hopefully, President Obama’s executive

specialists assert are irreversible. At the same time, the

order calling for prioritizing federal spending in the

governor is still dragging his feet in fixing the problem

most needed areas could turn some of this around,

and not supporting Medicaid Expansion (part of the

particularly if the National Geospatial-Intelligence

Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare), leaving many

Agency chooses North St. Louis (near the

low-to-moderate income residents without healthcare

demolished Pruitt Igoe site) as its new headquarters.

and getting sicker and sicker. The atrocities perpetrated against Michigan’s own citizens have been staggering.

The FBI is now investigating this man-made disaster.

One of the reasons the small municipality of Ferguson preyed on its residents with excessive ticketing was due to declining revenues. In

There are other cities like Flint all around the

retrospect, city officials and police should have

country reeling from joblessness and deteriorating

known that their brutal tactics exacted against

infrastructures. E. St. Louis experienced its decline

their own people to supplement their salaries and

even more dramatically and longer ago. The closing

operations were grossly ill fated and immoral.

down of the meat packing industry that dotted the area began the unraveling; and it’s been languishing for decades. North St. Louis City has also felt the

The Dwindling Social Compact

brunt. There are few companies (and most don’t hire

The lost of the concept of a closely knit social

residents from the area); small businesses are failing

contract between business, government and its

as they struggle to stay afloat and there are very few

citizens, while engaging in blind economic progress

stores, such as drug stores, grocery stores, cleaners

can only be construed as one of the most inhumane

and hardware stores. Needless to say a declining tax

decisions ever perpetrated against American

base and erosion of services and institutions ripples

families. Economic inequality has only widened

throughout negatively impacting transportation,

along with stagnant wages and living conditions. At

schools, housing, all creating the perfect storm.

the same time, many businesses are opposing raising

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the minimum wage. Last year in St. Louis, there was

constantly seeking to expand new markets for trade

robust debate to raise the minimum wage from $7.25

or buying and selling. Hopefully increased trade

per hour to $11 an hour by 2018. While the Board of

with African countries is on the horizon.

Alderman passed a bill calling for increasing wages, it was struck down in court in October right before it was to take effect.

Like the industrial revolution, which ushered in manufacturing of mass products, it also brought disruption to a previous agrarian society.

Whereas globalism has many critics, it has some

Eventually, the old ways of the farming economy

upsides, anti-imperalism and non-alignment have been

gave way to a more industrialized one and the

muted, despite tensions in the Middle East. The end of

rest is history. Similarly, globalization is replacing

the Cold War opened doors of closed societies of the

industrialization, exacerbating market volatilities in

Soviet Union, now Russia and Eastern Europe. Other

the short-run with predictions that in the long run it

examples are the establishment of the European Union,

will gradually evolve to a more stable and efficient

a political economy comprised of 28 member states,

system. Unfortunately, workers can least afford

which has the second most traded currency after the

problems on the front end, shouldering the burden

U.S. The European Union is also the biggest trading

of massive economic and political disruptions

partner with the U.S. followed by Canada, China,

without thoughtful public policy solutions. Workers

Mexico and Japan. Moreover, Communist China now

are not merely instruments of production or cogs in

has a capitalist economy.

machines. They’re important human resources that if ignored will be at our peril.

Even though the economic embargo has not been lifted against Communist Cuba, the U.S. is reestablishing

While one ought not get in the way of economic

diplomatic relations and Americans are now flocking

progress, during these turbulent times, social

there in droves, including U.S. Senator Claire

investments ought to be stepped up, not eviscerated.

McCaskill, (D-Missouri). The main reason some might wonder? Simply put, nations such as the U.S. are

Said Nelson Mandela, freedom fighter and first Black pg. 64

African president of South Africa: “Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.”

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Although Dr. Ben Carson’s number is declining in almost every national poll, nonetheless in nearly every gathering I attend, I am hearing comparisons of presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and the similarities are not complimentary, typically among African Americans. How do they match? Let us compare some of their ideals and principles.

Thomas said “Perhaps some are confused because they have stereotypes of how blacks should be and I respectfully decline, as I did in my youth, to sacrifice who I am for who they think I should be.” You must remember that Thomas is a conservative justice and has come down against Roe v. Wade and school desegregation.

In addition Thomas dissented in the Supreme Court’s landmark decisions in June 2015 to uphold the federal tax subsidies of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and the constitutional rights of gay couples to get married. This is only a sample of the rulings of Justice Thomas.

Let us now compare him to Dr. Ben Carson. After graduating from Yale in 1973, Carson enrolled in the School of Medicine at the University of Michigan, choosing pg. 94

While both Carson and Thomas identify themselves as AfricanAmerican, their beliefs, mannerisms and basic behavioral patterns may vary slightly from people who are depicted as black. I hope that Carson nor Thomas will not hold themselves separately from some form of ethnic influence, nor from the development of social, political, economic, and educational interactions of our time.

Carson’s performance, attitude, and language, indicates his desire to be a party follower and supporter, and he demonstrates his desire to go along with the standards of the Republican Party, so he will be accepted as an elite individual.

My personal opinion is that Carson and Thomas will try to conform to whatever group they are in at the time. They appear to obey and adopt to impress or gain favor or acceptance from the Tea Party and other people.

Likewise they seem to be motivated by the need for social rewards rather than the threat of rejection, and so it appears that their cultural identity is the foundation or groundwork on which every other aspect of their being is built.

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to become a neurosurgeon rather than a psychologist.

Recent controversial statements have surfaced contradicting his choice of a career when he said “I was offered a full scholarship to West Point. I didn’t refuse the scholarship outright, but I let them know that a military career wasn’t where I saw myself going”. Some media outlets indicates that he had misrepresented the facts surrounding the West Point offer.

Carson and Thomas share the same view of the Affordable Care Act when Carson said in October 2013, “Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. And it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control.”

In 1998 in which he discussed his belief that the pyramids in Egypt were built as granaries, not as tombs for pharaohs. “My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain. Now all the archaeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs’ graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it. And I don’t think it’d just disappear over the course of time to store that much grain”. And to the opportunity of a Muslim becoming the President of the United States, Carson stated “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that.”

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It is the cornerstone of what makes them who they are and they seem to share a sense of companionship that involves the same beliefs, interests and basic principles of existing that are not in the interest of the African American community or the nation.

With issues such as terrorism, politics and religious differences overwhelming the media these days, the need for cultural awareness should become more important for Carson’s and Thomas’ sense of self and how they relate to others.

Once again, I must quote Dr. Carted G. Woodson: “Negroes sometimes choose their own leaders, but unfortunately, they are often the wrong kind. Negroes do not readily follow persons with constructive programs. Almost any sort of exciting appeal or trivial matter presented to them may receive immediate attention and temporarily at least liberal support.

When the bubble collapses, of course, these same followers will begin to decry Negro leadership and call the misrepresentatives of the group rascals and scoundrels. Inasmuch as they have failed to exercise foresight, however, those who have deceived them should not be blamed so much as those who have liberally supported these impostors. Yet the fault here is not inherently in the Negro, but in what he has been taught.” Dr. Carter G. Woodson-The Miseducaction of the Negro-1933-Associated Publishers.

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Share your Story Dear friends: I have been asked to write a chapter in a book that will address colorism in education. My chapter will focus on “acting white.”

Specifically, when I was growing up, I was a “smart” student. My top performance in school, doing homework, raising my hand to answer questions, etc. often drew the accusation from my African American classmates and friends that I was “acting white.”

Now, I know there are psychologists out there who say this is not true and does not exist. But alas, it was absolutely true for me. I have written about this in past works. I will do so again for this new book. I do know that many young folks today who continue to have such allegations hurled at them so feel free to share this email with whoever and have folks email me directly.

I did a survey on this very question about 7 years ago and the results were consistent with my experiences decades ago. I’d like to update my earlier survey. I would love to hear from anyone out there who has a similar/related story either involving yourself or someone you know. I would like to include your story in the chapter. I will conceal your identity if you request.

Do you have a story to share? If so, please email to me at: norwood@wulaw.wustl.edu.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead Kimberly Norwood , Professor of Law | Washington University School of Law pg. 98

CROWDFUNDING SCHOOL Monday, February 15, 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.

Learn how to bring your creative idea to life. First, Jamey Stegmaier, president and founding partner, Stonemaier Games, and author of A Crowdfunders Strategy Guide: How I Kickstarted My Dream Company, will share helpful tips. Next, our panel will take a more detailed look at the anatomy of a successful campaign with Alvaro Aro (filmmaker), Eric Christensen (STL Up Late), Mike McCubbins & Matt Bryan (graphic novel author and illustrator), Susan Stang (photographer) and Mallory Nezam (moderator). Finally, Attorney Benjamin Siders, Lewis Rice, will discuss crowdfunding legal issues.

COPYRIGHT CLINIC Monday, February 29, 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.

Do you have pressing questions about copyright? Here’s your chance to learn the basics from Prof. Yvette Joy Liebesman, Saint Louis University School of Law. Then you’ll have an opportunity to spend 15 minutes talking to a volunteer lawyer. Consultations will be scheduled in person that evening and may not be available if you do not register in advance.

Business Edge workshops are held in the Regional Arts Commission’s building, 6128 Delmar. Free parking behind the Pageant or in the MetroLink lot.

Tuition: $10 in advance; $15 at the door. Registration form. If you need a scholarship, please contact us.

St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts (VLAA) serves the arts community by making referrals to lawyers and accountants; mediating arts-related disputes; publishing concise how-to guides; sponsoring seminars and public forums; providing guest speakers; maintaining a content-rich website; collaborating on arts advocacy initiatives; and facilitating access to the national volunteer lawyers for the arts network.

VLAA is supported by the Regional Arts Commission; the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts 6128 Delmar, St. Louis, MO 63112 314/863-6930; vlaa@stlrac.org

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Redefine the Life in Your Lifestyle I know that it’s been a while since I’ve e-mailed you, I truly hope that all is well!

I also hope that you’ve been able to stay up to date with all the happenings via Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Between my recent trip to Mexico and the latest additions at the Meditation Lounge, there’s been way more to share than there is time, but I do the best I can!

Healing Spa is Back!

So I want to tell you quickly that right after Journey Meditation this Sunday, the Healing Spa starts at 5:15pm! I haven’t offered this experience since October so I know that many of you are super excited about this.

If you haven’t yet been, it’s a beautiful experience...

You will be in a group setting with soothing, healing music to help you relax while you focus your intentions on the clarity or healing you seek. I’ll spend 15-20 minutes per person laying hands and sharing the spiritual insight that I receive for you.

Please Register in Advance Our standard classes no longer require advance registration, however due to the nature of this experience, I’ll need to limit how many people attend so advance registration is required in order to attend.

You can sign up online HERE or call 314-441-6929 to get signed up over the phone.

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Classes Offered 5 Days a Week In case you’re out of the loop, we now have meditation and yoga classes at the Meditation Lounge 5 days a week and our rates are still in the introductory phase! A single class is $10, but you can save by signing up for a Monthly Membership (starting at $35 p/m), or Pay-As-You-Grow Class Passes (starting at $40) - either way you save! Check out all of your options and view the class schedule and all of the services that we’re offering at www. selenaj.com!

I’m looking forward to seeing you in classes this Sunday!

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The Progressive Movement in the United Stat the beginning of the 20th Century. Its basic p implemented by the rich were corrupting the to correct these actions, leaders of the movem regulating the railroads, creation of the refere enact laws without the legislative branch of go instead of by state legislatures, and the enactm higher taxes on higher incomes. These initiati help of presidents Theodore Roosevelt and W – the survival of the fittest was rejected – and capitalistic markets which sometimes have un being of people was implemented. The core va and even violence should be addressed by imp creating an efficient workplace, and governme change for the people.

One of the ways of exposing these excesses wa the element of fear created by depressions, exp in America, push for Americans to register an development – like the initiative, referendum officials.

We need a 21st Century Progressivenism that and beyond. Social psychologists have shown to compensate for their own lack of self-estee presidential season you hear white males talk feel that they have been unable to talk about t Obama they do not see someone that looks lik 219 years? Dr. King explained that Jim Crow w the 19th Century during the Populist Movem to fight the money interests who were interest

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tes occurred around 1900-1920 or roughly premise was that irresponsible actions way of life in the United States. In order ment called for breaking up financial trusts, endum – a process that allowed the people to overnments, the direct election of the Senate ment of a graduated income tax which levied ives were implemented into law with the Woodrow Wilson. In effect, social Darwinism an approach to deal with the harshness of nplanned dislocations which harm the well alues were that greed, poverty, class warfare, proving education, the environment, ent should play a role of creating positive

as to challenge corporate greed, expose pose fear mongering about immigrants nd vote and implement voter-led policy m, and the recall vote against corrupt elected

t takes our country into the new millennium n that people will use prejudicial attitudes em during financial downturns. During the king about how since President Obama they their whiteness. When they look at President ke them. How do you compare 8 years with was a psychological motif implemented in ment to kill blacks and whites coming together ted in gaining power.

It is that same motif that is finding its way into the first half of the 21st century with billionaires running for president telling you how concerned they are for the middle class.

They used their power in the Congress to knock down provisions in the Dodd-Frank Law designed to separate the functions of providing a firewall to protect consumers from going back into a financial crisis. They have used their power on the United States Supreme Court which ruled in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that spending of money by unions, corporations and other groups constitute speech and therefore is protected by the First Amendment. This decision laid the groundwork for Super PACS which has allowed unlimited amounts of money to flow through political campaigns with no accounting of who spent the money on which candidates.

The Supreme Court struck down the major provision in the 1965 Voting Rights Act which made sure that the fundamental right to vote would not be infringed upon by States’ Rights arguments designed to disenfranchise blacks, Latinos and the elderly.

It is a historical fact that during the Progressive Movement during the 20th century the initiatives implemented in the United States experienced economic growth, prosperity of working people, the middle class and even the rich. We already know what works and what doesn’t work from experience. The American people must exercise their power through voting to make sure that we do not get duped by exercising the vote in the presidential election because Voting Matters. We must come together and vote to implement the 7 Accesses: Access to economic justice Access to equality Access to the means of making a living by making a livable wage Access to capital markets Access to quality education no matter where you live Access to Affordable Healthcare Access to having property rights We must reject the fear mongering of the conservative right: Financial Greed Depressions/Financially led Recessions Anti- Immigrant sentiments

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OUR BONES/

OUR ASHES/

OUR MINDS

In his nicely crafted review essay “The Anger of Ta-Nahesi Coates” (New York Review of Books, February 11, 2016 issue), Darryl Pinckney raises the penultimate question of our day:

“Which is better: to believe that blacks will achieve full equality in American society or to realize that white racism is so deep that meaningful integration can never happen, so make other plans?”

In the first choice of response, the word “equality” really ought to be “power,” so that the second choice would appear with better advantage. Moreover, the word “power” might provoke certain neoliberal, colorblinded readers to have epiphanies. We recognize, of course, that Pinckney is writing for the NYRB audience, and some liberties of vision are simply forbidden. One must not trample on the tender sensibilities of an august readership. For the 1% of the readership that has achieved post-humanity, even the common sense phrase “white racism” will be deemed micro-transgressive.

For that portion of the readership that is still capable of being enlightened, however, Pinckney’s offense is weaving a male-centered discussion of anger. In order of reference he names: Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, DuBois, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Leroi Jones, Malcolm X, Paul Coates, George Jackson, Eric B & Rakim, Robert Hayden, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Michael Brown, Prince Jones, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delaney, and Harold Cruse. The deliberate absence in what purports to be a liberal overview of the growth and development of post-Reconstruction anger are the invisible threads named: Ida B. Wells, Sandra Bland, Barbara Jordan, Anna Julia Cooper, Fannie Lou Hamer, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, Toni Cade Bambara, Michelle Alexander, Alice Walker, Joyce Ladner, Ann Petry, Mary McLeod Bethune, Margaret Walker, Angela Davis, Tarika Wilson, Sonia Sanchez, Wanda Coleman, and Elaine Brown. Had Pinckney dared to weave a dense fabric, we might have nominated him for an award for prescience.

In fairness to Pinckney, we recognize that his voice is hedged by the rules of the game. He was employed to write in a tradition of counter-anger that one associates with William Stanley Braithwaite and Alain Locke and Nathan A. Scott, Jr. If one has a sliver of understanding about the neoliberal and protofascist designs of contemporary publishing, one is aware that Pinckney is embroiled in autarky --”forcible separation from the rest of the world” in the footloose interpretation used by Jeffry A. Frieden in Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2006). One must turn to the Oxford English Dictionary to recover a better definition of autarchy. The game demands that Pinckney situate Ta-Nahesi Coates and Between the World and Me inside the discursive WEB (Wright/Ellison/Baldwin mechanism of emotional assurance). The game has an old, rather ignoble history. Therein, Pinckney has implied authority to play riffs on sagas of black fathers and sons. He can use lightweight pg. 108

historical and cultural analyses and comparisons to defang the modest revolutionary potential of Coates’s prose, to transform the promise of a flame into a flicker. He will not cause the NYRB readership to suffer a single moment of cognitive indigestion. He speaks in the pages of the NYRB as effectively for his kind of people as Donald Trump speaks on the airwaves for his race and Hillary Clinton speaks for her gender.

Pinckney is an experienced player in the five rings of our national intellectual circus.

And the sales of Coates’s book shall not be significantly diminished.

However much Pinckney’s review essays is a heartfelt reading of the roots of Coates’s alleged anger, what one reads may be other than what one gets.

Although we lack grounds for accusing Pinckney of insincerity or want of moral integrity ----after all he is playing a literary game without spilling blood, we should not ignore how Werner Heisenberg’s Uncertainty (or Indeterminacy) Principle functions within the game. A few black and non-black readers among us may experience acid reflux as they grasp the implacable rightness of Coates’s success where tamed anger is unexceptional and welcomed. In territories where belief that the social destiny of black people is fixed in a dualist tradition has no funk-appeal, we recognize the severe limits of literary persuasion and why Between the World and Me is a highly accomplished but incomplete representation of authentic anger. Indeed, I dare to imagine that were our nation more literate, Coates and his publisher could have entitled his book A Father’s Law rather than Between the World and Me in order to expose just how much the obscenity of domestic genocide in the United States of America is complicit with irreversible changes in world order.

I have reasons, which I care not to interrogate, for repeating the following paragraphs from August 7, 2015: Dread is the real deal in the United States of America and elsewhere. The Dream is an evil fiction that attempts to enslave people, and too often it succeeds beyond the expectations of its authors.

Ta-nehisi Coates has produced a first-rate secular jeremiad, an honest meditation on Dread. There is a thin but critical line between a sermon and a jeremiad. Coates is neither a priest nor a preacher.

You sit in the desert, secure in your idiosyncrasy. You and the ghost of Claude McKay sit in the sand and take bets on who shall be the first to see Time’s unerring terrorism, with much help from Nature, dispatch the millions of people who worship in the temples and cathedrals and mosques of white supremacy.

Thus, I announce as a response to Pinckney’s penultimate question of our day that I have chosen to make other plans.

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Malcolm McCrae, better known as “Airbrush Assassin”, was born August

24, 1980 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and currently lives in Southern Missouri. He is a full-time artist, educator, speaker and author that embraces creativity and art as a lifestyle. He has been a leader as an airbrush artist for over 15 years, producing a number of instructional videos and books. He has recently launched his anticipated www.MalcolmMcCrae.com, a revolutionary online training course tailored for teaching artists, educators and students the skill of airbrushing. As a self taught artist Malcolm remembers how difficult it was for him as a creative kid growing up being labeled with ADHD. His memoir To Live, To Create to Inspire “How art saved my life” depicts his journey from sleeping in an abandoned building as a teen in the unforgiving Ohio winters to his rise as a successful artist, educator, speaker and author.

Through the years he has travelled nationally and internationally inspiring the world through his art and his message of living, creating and inspiring. He especially focuses on working with urban youth and believes art has the opportunity and power to change lives. Mr. Malcolm McCrae is a leading authority on increasing the achievement of today’s students, especially those labeled “at-risk youth” through art. As a recognized authority in arts education, Mr. McCrae has been an invited keynote speaker at regional and national conferences, school systems, colleges and universities. He has recently been the keynote speaker at the National Arts and Education conference in New Orleans, LA, the Texas Arts and Education conference and the California Arts and Education Convention in Los Angeles California. With a culturally relevant approach he uses Hip-Hop and urban art as a tool to closing the achievement gap in classrooms across the world. He is known for his dynamic, interactive and creative presentations to artist, teachers, parents, and students.

Malcolm was determined to follow his dreams, and at an early age he began working out of his basement, on street corners, in a music store, and eventually had his own shop making over $100,000 a year. He used his skills to earn money for his family and to stay out of trouble. Malcolm is currently traveling the country speaking and teaching, which is one of his true passions, instructing workshops and classes inspiring and teaching the next generation of artists. He is a regular contributor to numerous domestic and international magazines, for which he writes art criticism.

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Missouri Arts Council announces special guest to attend Missouri Art Awards

Announcement from Missouri Arts Council: The State of Missouri and the Missouri Arts Council welcome Jane Chu, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts to the presentation of the 2016 Missouri Arts Awards 2 p.m., Wednesday, February 10, 2016 Rotunda, State Capitol Building, Jefferson City In June 2014, Jane Chu became the 11th chair of the National Endowment for the Arts since the agency was founded in 1965. She is a native Midwesterner and long-time Missourian.

Jane Chu was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Arkansas. In 1997 she joined the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation as vice president of community investment. She subsequently became vice president of external relations for Union Station, fund executive at the Kauffman Fund for Kansas City, and in 2006, president and CEO of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, the position she held when President Barack Obama tapped her to lead the NEA. Register NOW to attend Citizens’ Day at the Legislature, and attend the Missouri Art Awards ceremony (it’s free).

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She has read and lectured at universities throughout the United States and has served as teacher at Wellesley College and the University of Missouri-Columbia, which, in 1995, conducted a two-day symposium on her work and published the papers in a special issue of the AfroHispanic Review. Howard University Press at Washington D.C. published in 1999 a collection of critical essays on her work: Singular Like A Bird: The Art of Nancy Morejon, compiled and prefaced by Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Ph.D. An anthology of her poems (Richard brought his flute) edited

by Mario Benedetti, Visor Books, was published in Madrid during the Spring of 2005. She has produced a number of journalistic, critical, and dramatic works. One of the most notable is her book-length treatments of poet Nicolás Guillén.

which Spanish and African cultures fuse to make a new, Cuban identity. Much of her work—and the fact that she has been successful within the Cuban regime—locates her as a supporter of Cuban nationalism and the Cuban Revolution. In addition, she also voices the situation of women within her society, expressing concern for women’s experience and for racial equality within the Cuban revolution; often black women are protagonists in her poems, most notably in the widely anthologized Mujer Negra (Black Woman). Her work also treats the grievous fact of slavery as an ancestral experience. Her work treats political themes as well as intimate, familial topics. Critics have noted her playful observations about her own people, her effective use of particularly Cuban forms of humor, and her regular “indulgence” in highly lyrical, intimate, spiritual, or erotic poetry.

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Key points to remember, it is artificial and a foreign substance to your body in which your body does not know how to process. Including the fact that if key ingredients are consumed in high doses it can be toxic to your body.

Additionally, this has only been consumed since the 1980s and we do not know of any definite long term effects on your body.

Do you believe that if you drink sugar free that you are automatically making a healthier choice? WRONG. There are so many unknowns related to sugar substitutes and dangers that you may not be aware of. Here are 3 things to consider.

What is Aspartame? a white, crystalline, odorless, slightly watersoluble noncarbohydrate powder, C 14 H 18 N 2 O 5, synthesized from amino acids, that is 150–200 times as sweet as sugar: used as a low-calorie sugar substitute in soft drinks, table sweeteners, and other food products.

Chemical Name: aspart(yl phenyl) a(linine) m(ethyl) e(ster), the powder’s chemical name Definition derived from: http:// dictionary.reference.com/ In the body, aspartame is broken down into phenylalanine, aspartic acid, and methanol. Methanol can be toxic in high amounts, but the amounts that result from the breakdown of aspartame is lower than with many “natural” foods. For example, drinking a liter of diet soda would lead to consumption of 55 milligrams (mg) of methanol, as compared to as much as 680 mg of methanol from a liter of fruit juice.

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ggs are eggs, bacon is bacon and toast is toast just as paint is just paint and a canvas is a blank sheet to create something new upon. This is how I approach breakfast, with a mind of taking common items we eat all the time and making them into something special. The result on the face of the person eating the food is something just as special. More than just great tasting dishes, I create smiles.

It’s said that the eating process starts with smells and visuals. If this is true, and it is, then should not the food we make have just as much care and attention to detail in the look of it as much as the cooking? But most of us can’t seem to take the time to develop certain presentation skills that each meal really requires and this is a serious problem.

Why? Because science has proven through the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto, “The Hidden Messages In Water” that when certain concentrated thoughts are focused on water/ liquid matter the structure of that matter changes. So what thoughts do we have when we look at a poorly made meal? How do we feel when we can see burnt toast and under cooked eggs? Just the sight of a poorly made meal can change our whole attitude and once OUR attitude changes, then our thought on that food changes on some level the structure of that food as well.

This is one reason I strive to makes meals that create smiles, so that in turn the structure of the food they are consuming is at its best.

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Please join us for an evening about African painted dogs with Dr. Greg Rasmussen, the founder of the Painted Dog Conservation organization in Zimbabwe and Painted Dog Research Trust.

Greg will kick off our 2016 Speaker Series Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m.

The cost is just $10 a person for this chance to meet and question this fascinating, dedicated conservationist. Greg has appeared at our Speaker Series several times before, and his visits always bring new tales about painted dogs and new findings from his field research.

The one-hour Speaker Series program will be held in Tyson Research Center’s Living Learning Center. Come to the Endangered Wolf Center’s front gate at 6750 Tyson Valley Road, Eureka, MO 63025, and you’ll be directed to the Living Learning Center.

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Missouri History Museum Lindell and DeBaliviere in Forest Park St. Louis, MO 63112

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2016 ST. LOUIS

Visionary

The St. Louis Visionary Awards celebrates the numerous contributions and achievements of women who work in or support the arts in the greater St. Louis region. Founded in 2003 by Grand Center, Inc., the St. Louis Visionary Awards is now presented by an independent committee of women dedicated to promoting the arts in St. Louis.

From established working arts professionals and arts educators to emerging artists and community impact artists, each year’s honorees are always truly “visionary”. To date, 75 such extraordinary women have been honored as Visionaries.

AWARDS

Monday, April 25, 2016 The 2016 St. Louis Visionary Awards Deborah Patterson and Cynthia Prost, Co-Hosts 6:00PM - 8:00PM The Sun Theater 3625 Grandel Square St. Louis, MO 63108

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Black In Time Series

An animated black history web series for the whole family.

Season # 1 # 2, And # 3, DVD’s at: BlackArchaeologist.com https://www.facebook.com/BlackArchaeologist/videos/886767681406592/ Copyright © 2016 - All rights reserved.

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Portfolio Fundraiser Moves to Artist's Studio

Janet Riehl's "Women & Wardrobe: The Riehl Collection" exhibit has finished it's successful run at The Portfolio Gallery and Education Center. It brought in $2,000 to help with much-needed building repairs. Many people went home with framed ($150) and unframed ($50) prints they love, and a good time was had by all.

Folks have said they would have loved to have seen the show, and were sorry they missed it. Janet has decided to host At Home evenings on Wednesdays from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. so you can! Come visit, enjoy the work, and of course buy whatever calls to you.

Any profit realized will continue to benefit Portfolio Gallery.

If you'd like to come, please contact her at janet.riehl@gmail.com.

Janet and Robert Powell, director of Portfolio Gallery and Education Center appeared on Fox 2 news. http://fox2now.com/2014/07/29/women-wardrobe-and-art-on-a-cell-phone-atportfolio/# Janet and her art was featured in the Alton Telegraph. http://www.thetelegraph.com/news/home_top-lifestyle-news/50095336/Artists-workmakes-Riehl-results#.U-Tbf1Ao7qC

Come on out! Meet some new people and enjoy some playful, colorful, and sensuous art inspired by African Women.

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RICKKITA EDWARDS

CARDIO-CORE & MORE AT NORTH COUNTY REC. CENTER

TIMES: MON WEDS FRI 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

She teaches a class 2 Mondays a month at Faith Miracle Temple 7:15 pm - 8:00 pm.

(ALL CLASSES ARE FREE)

COMING SOON! WAIST-NOT FITNESS PERSONAL TRAINING #GETWAISTEDBYRICKKITA

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New African Paradigm Study Group (NAPSG)

is an organization dedicated to the empowerment and education of our community through book study and our lecture series. We have brought many African scholars to St. Louis to awaken our people and to get on one accord to face the challenges in our community.

The NAPSG is in need of your help so we are currently seeking new members to help us continue to be able to meet the demands of our lecture series and our study group.

Our study group meets every 3rd Sunday at Sabayet, 4000 Maffit, St. Louis, MO. at 4:00 p.m.

Please join us on our journey for knowledge of self, our gods, and our Ancestors.

Contact James Steward at (618) 977-8191 for more information.

Also, Like us on FaceBook.

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Debra, Has issued a $100 challenge

Help African Non-Profit Open Store African businesses, just like African people, have a responsibility to share their skills and resources with the people. When African businesses are dedicated to our people...

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Art of Healing

Your Ad or Article could be here!

Contact us if you have a contribution to the ART OF HEALING. pg. 170

Hidden Jewels of North St. Louis

To all: I am trying to close in on my target for this project, please do two things: Support it with a donation as small as $10.00 and Forward this e-mail to friends, family and colleagues in hopes they can support as well.

This link includes both the IndieGoGo site, and my St. Louis on the Air Interview.

Why Hidden Jewels of North St. Louis Matters For those who just want to go straight to the campaign site go here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/hidden-jewels-of-stl/x/46548#/ Let’s make this project happen!

Thank you!

-Phillip W. Johnson, Producer of the #Ferguson Film Fire this Time

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Ajuma Muhammad Author of 101 Proven and Effective Strategies for Empowering Black Boys

WATCH NOW!

1 0 Strategies

f o r E m p o w e r i n g B l a c k B oy s 1. Black boys should maintain a healthy relationship with God. 2. Black boys should honor and always respect their parents.

3. Black boys should embody greatness in everything they do.

4. Black boys should take pride in their history and culture.

5. Black boys should empower their community through leadership and service.

6. Black boys should be role models in their communities.

7. Black boys should honor, respect and protect the black woman.

8. Black boys should work to establish an economic foundation in their communities.

9. Black boys should travel internationally to better understand their place in the world.

10. Black boys should love themselves!

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Walking the Blue Line: A Police Officer Turned Community Activist Provides Solutions for the Racial Divide

By Terrell Carter Bettie Youngs Book Publishers

$15.00 paperback

“As I recall my experiences, I find it incredulous that people in law enforcement honestly believe and say that a racial divide and racial profiling don’t exist. An officer’s mind is divided: first, between the police and the general public and second, between the police and minorities.”~ Terrell Carter Walking the Blue Line follows the author’s experiences growing up as a black child in St. Louis, MO, a racially charged city still trying to overcome its divided past, and his five year journey as a law enforcement officer which led him to reevaluate his views on citizens and police alike. Readers are taken on a compelling journey as he details personal stories of the challenges of navigating this new world, including how he had to testify against a former partner for falsifying a major drug arrest.

Terrell details the thoughts and tactics of police officers based on their training in the police academy and lessons they learn on the streets and how this information can help citizens better understand why officers do what they do while still holding them accountable for protecting and serving their communities.

Walking the Blue Line can be ordered from www.terrellcarter.net, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and traditional booksellers.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For More Information Contact: Angelia D. Bills, MSW Vice President of Communications (314) 615-3604 (314) 309-6778 abills@urbanleague-stl.org

Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Inc. Receives $250,000 Grant from Citi Foundation for Youth Tech Workforce Initiative St. Louis (October 23, 2015) --- Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Inc. received $250,000 to work in collaboration with the City/County Workforce Board and Tech boot-camp Academy along with higher educational partners to provide 250 youth with 21st century IT skills training and credentialing that leads to long-term IT-related employment in the St. Louis region.

“The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis runs innovative, proven programs that connect young adults to jobs in urban centers”, said Michael McMillan, President and CEO of the Urban League. “Working in partnership with America’s Promise Alliance and the Citi Foundation, we will provide IT skills training that will better prepare more low-income youth in St. Louis creating pathways to academic and career success.”

The Youth Opportunity Fund Program is designed to support direct-service programs that empower urban youth, ages 16-24 that are St. Louis City and County residents. A total of 12 grants were awarded to nonprofit organizations in 10 of the largest U.S. cities: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Newark, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. For more information about the Youth Tech Workforce Initiative, please call (314) 679-3500.

The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Inc. is a social service and advocacy organization that works to fulfill its mission of Empowering Communities and Changing Lives. Programs are offered in the areas of Economic Empowerment, Meeting Families Basic Needs, Educational Quality and Equality and Civic Engagement and Social Justice.

About America’s Promise Alliance America’s Promise Alliance leads an alliance of organizations, communities and individuals dedicated to making the promise of America real for every child. As its signature effort, the GradNation campaign mobilizes Americans to increase the on-time high school graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020 and prepare young people for postsecondary enrollment and the 21st century workforce. For more information, visit www.americaspromise.org.

About the Citi Foundation The Citi Foundation works to promote economic progress and improve the lives of people in low-income communities around the world. We invest in efforts that increase financial inclusion, catalyze job opportunities for youth, and reimagine approaches to building economically vibrant cities. The Citi Foundation’s “More than Philanthropy” approach leverages the enormous expertise of Citi and its people to fulfill our mission and drive thought leadership and innovation. For more information, visit www.citifoundation.com. ###

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THE COURSES AT FOREST PARK St. Louis, MO • New Location

About Ted Rhodes:

SATURDAY & SUNDAY August 6 & 7, 2016

• Professional golfer who played Forest Park in the 1930's when people of color were only allowed to play on Sunday evenings and Monday mornings. A bell would ring on Mondays at noon indicating that all people of color must leave the course.

• Winner of 150 UGA Tournaments and the Negro National Open in 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1957.

• Inducted into the African American Golfers Hall of Fame and National Black Golf Hall of Fame.

• Mentor and golf instructor to Lee Elder, Jim Dent, Althea Gibson, entertainer Billy Eckstein, boxing champion Joe Louis, and many others.

• Tiger Woods openly credits Rhodes for paving the way for him to win his first Masters.

• Posthumously granted membership into the PGA in 2009.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: WWW.TEDRHODES.ORG • TEDRHODESGOLF@AOL.COM FACEBOOK.COM/TEDRHODESGOLF (877) 913-9009

Event details announced March 15, 2016

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Thanks to Everyone for your loving support!

Watch Tillie’s Corner History on Channel 9 OR Watch the Live Stream Monday, February 22, 2016 7 pm

Living St. Louis | Ruth Ezell, Producer

Click Link to Watch Live Stream

Mon Feb 22, 2016 7 pm http://ninenet.org/local-productions/living-st-louis

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46 Years

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Jan. 30th

Afro World 46th Anniversary Kick off Celebration 46% off one item at Afro World

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Dr. King Jr. free movie 11 am 1pm & 3pm Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A Historical Perspective at Afro World Bring a can good to share with those in need

Black History / Award Gospel Celebration featuring Gospel Recording Artist, Lady E, Gospel Rap Mike Dyson & others Time: 3pm-5pm at Afro World Bring a can good to share with those in need

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orld Mar. 5

Meet/Greet Author Dr. Eugene Redmond Time: 3pm-5pm at Afro World

Mar. 12th

Local Author’s book signing Lydia Douglas, Stanley Pitchford, Marie Elliot & Artist Antoinette Crayton Time: 3pm-5pm at Afro World

Mar. 26th

Meet Actress/life coach Redina Medley with a one act excerpt of Herstory “the new Harriet Tubman” Time:5pm-8pm at Afro World

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Feb. 6th

Meet/Greet Dr. Johnson author of “The Black Biblical Heritage” Time: 3-5pm at Afro World

Feb. 13th

In-Store Jazz concert featuring Jazz recording artist Ron Wilkinson Time: 3-5pm at Afro World free gift for the ladies

Feb. 20

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Bring a can good to share with a local food pantry

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Conversation with journalist Sylvester Brown founder of the “Sweet Potato Project:” speaking on what’s next for our community. th Time: 3-5pm at Afro World Bring a can good to share with those in need

Author series meet/greet Authors; Keith Antone Willis Sr. “10 Laws of the Ultimate Rainmaker”, John E. Fortson, “According to God’s Word”, & HC Armstrong “Who Are You!” Time: 3-5pm at Afro World th

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May 7th

Meet /Greet /Conversation/ with Founder Harriet “Rosebud” largest female Milner in the US Time: 5pm-7pm $10/can good.

Light refreshments served In-store hat show featuring “Rosebud Hat Show” Harriet Rosebud theme 46th meet 26th Anniversary Times:11am & 3pm $10 adv $15 at the door at Afro World

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Oct. 1st - 31st

Nov. 25th

Dec. 10th - 17th

Dec. 31st

Breast Cancer Awareness month 20% off all wigs at Afro World

Black Friday fun for all Time: 10am-6pm buy one 50% off sale. at Afro World “Soulful Santa”tm pictures books, fruit & treats for the children From 1pm - 5pm cost $10 plus can good for a local pantry at Afro World Kwanzaa Celebration featuring Actress Redina Medley & Poetic Percussionist David A.N. Jackson Time: 3pm-5pm at Afro World *Bring a can good to share with those in need

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Closing in on my goal for “Fire this Time” - if everyone would do two things 1) support the making of this film with just a $20.00 donation and 2) encourage 2 of your friends to do the same - it will allow me to license some additional footage and photos - you can donate now by going here: http://www.cmt-tv.org/#!join-the-team/c1195 CMT-TV.org is a 501c3 non-profit organizations thus your donations are tax deductible - thank you - the making of this film will help me attract more resources which will allow real community filmmaking in STL -Phillip W. Johnson Producer of the #Ferguson Film Fire this Time

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