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A Breakdown in Florida’s Cross-cultural Relations

Blacksonville .COMmunity .NETwork — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:19:10 +0000

Cross-cultural relations are breaking down in Arizona, Texas, and Florida. Last week, faculty from the African American Studies Department at the University of Florida sponsored an Arizona Anti-Ethnic Studies Law forum co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations in the Levin College of Law.

The audio version is now online at the AASP home page http://www.clas.ufl.edu/afam.

Stephanie Evans, UF Director of African American Studies, elaborates on what appears to be the resurfacing of Jim Crow laws in America.

The legal arguments presented in this forum can make an impact on the inevitable appeals processes in upcoming 2281 cases and offer important context for current legal issues around cross-cultural relations in Arizona, Texas, and here in Florida. In my opening comments I tie “conservative” movements together, especially the Arizona law, Texas curricular “revisions”, and the Dove World proposed “burn the Koran” fiasco happening in my back yard–which are clearly also related to larger issues including the Beck-Palin “rally” in Washington DC and the Mosque debate in New York.

The audio version of the Ethnic Studies Law forum and video (available online in about 2 weeks) are provided by the UF Sam Proctor Oral History Program. Both audio and video should be useful in classroom, campus, and community discussions about the necessary growth of Ethnic Studies in general and Black Studies in particular.

Especially helpful were the following points:

Dr. Kenneth Nunn’s constitutional microscope revealing the areas where HB 2281, as written, is arbitrary and makes no logical/legal sense; existing grounds for appeal based on Due Process, First Amendment, Equal Protection andinternational law

Dr. Samuel Stafford’s illumination of the pending demographic shifts in education and thus all social and political institutions; breaking down the popular interpretation of 2281 with a literal reading regarding the hiding-in-plain-sightcorporal/punishment-based K-12 language, which will definitely have an impact on the future prison population

Dr. James Davidson’s application of W.E.B. DuBois’s theories to forensic scholarship and historical archeology; how race research is complex, messy, and often socially repulsive to those in power because of the visceral response to atrocities of recent history, but how detailed scholarship makes race and intersectional studies intellectually as well as morally compelling.

These events are yet more evidence that Black Studies at the graduate level is most sorely needed in the South.

This historic effort was organized in response to the continuous backlash of racist propaganda and religious intolerance recently witnessed across America.

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The Gullah/Geechee Seminole Maroon Reunion in Fort Mose

Blacksonville .COMmunity .NETwork — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:07:10 +0000

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July 21^st, 2010

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Jacksonville, FL — The Northeast Florida Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Committee and “Collaborative Partners” within the City of Jacksonville will host the Annual Gullah/Geechee Nation International Music & Movement Festival 2010™, a four day, internationally renowned travel and cultural event. Jacksonville, Florida is the passageway of the Gullah Geechee Nation that extends upward to Jacksonville, North Carolina. Each year the annual festival migrates to different parts of the African Diaspora in observance of the unique and diverse Gullah/Geechee culture. This year, delegates, commissioners, and tribal representatives from various cultures will link up in South Carolina, S. Georgia and Fort Mose, St. Augustine along the route to Fort Lauderdale, and the Grand Bahamas Island.

AGENDA

On Thursday August 19^th, 2010 at 12:00pm, chieftess QUEEN QUET, along with many distinguished dignitaries will revisit the First Coast region in support of this year’s theme – “The Gullah/Geechee Seminole Maroon Reunion.”

Itinerary

The bus tour is open to the public for a donation of $35 and is scheduled to meet local residents at approximately 8:30am (Kmart, Lem Turner Road ). For trip details, please call (904) 962-7284.

Aug. 19 bus trip will leave from Kmart parking lot, 9459 Lem Turner Rd., headed for Nassau County to the historic Little Mount Olive Baptist Church, 941336 Old Nassauville Rd.,(CR 207 South) and will arrive at 10 A.M. for an ancestral tribute and libation ceremony at Goffinsville Park.

11:00am -Noon will consists of a fellowship brunch/lunch back at Historic Lt. Mt. Olive.

Noon we will proceed from Nassauville to American Beach for a short ceremony at Nana and then onward to Kingsley Plantation. .30 minutes will be spent at Kingsley Plantation and from there, we will proceed to Ft. Mosé in St. Augustine, FL. We will have a historic reunion at Ft. Mosé with dignitaries at approximately 4:00p.m. til 6:00pm, with return to Jacksonville by 8:15pm.

FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS WHO WISH TO CONTINUE TO FT. LAUDERDALE FOR THE TRAVELING FESTIVAL THROUGH AUG. 22ND >

On Friday August 20^th the Festival will continue south. Activities includes historic tours and reunion activities in both Fort Lauderdale and Miami, Florida. Discount rooms are available at the Ramada Inn. To obtain room specials, please mention “Gullah/Geechee travel” when calling 954-584-4000.

On Saturday August 21^st the grand reunion will rise early with dance and drum sessions, food and live music, educational panel discussions, traditional crafts and art presentations created by natives of the Gullah/Geechee and Seminole Nations. These family fun-filled activities will take place at Samuel Devloe Jr. Park and the African American Research Library and Cultural Center in the beautiful city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition’s Alkebulan Archive will launch a special exhibit that will be on display inside the African American Research Library and Cultural Center in the fall.

Sunday August 22^nd the participants at the festival will journey by cruise to Grand Bahamas Island. The activities on the island are sponsored by the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. They are looking forward to this international event returning to their country again this year. The journal from the event will become a part of their archives as well as the archives of the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition here in the Gullah/Geechee Nation.

The Jacksonville Coordinator for the Festival is Mr. Jermyn Shannon-El. For details, please email jermyn[at]blacksonville.com or contact the national number listed above.

Peace,

Kwame Sha
Co-Founder, Gullah/Geechee Nation International Music & Movement Festival™

For the first time in history the Gullah/Geechees and Seminoles will reunite in Florida with a kickoff ceremony in the celebrated St. Augustine, Florida at notable Fort Mose.

For additional accurate information on the Gullah/Geechee Nation, go to www.gullahgeechee.net and www.officialgullahgeechee.info

Hunnuh mus tek cyare de root fa heal de tree!

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Commissioner Mignon Clyburn

Blacksonville .COMmunity .NETwork — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:55:57 +0000

Biography of
FCC Commissioner
Mignon Clyburn

Mignon L. Clyburn was nominated as a member of the Federal Communications Commission on June 25, 2009, and sworn in August 3, 2009. Her term runs until June 30, 2012.

Commissioner Clyburn has a long history of public service and dedication to the public interest. Prior to her swearing in as Commissioner, Ms. Clyburn served for 11 years as the representative of South Carolina’s sixth district on the Public Service Commission of South Carolina (PSC). She was sworn in for her first term in July 1998, and was subsequently reelected in 2002 and 2006. She served as chair of the PSC from July 2002 through June 2004.

During her tenure at the PSC, Commissioner Clyburn actively participated in numerous national and regional state-based utility organizations. Most recently, Ms. Clyburn served as the chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ (NARUC) Washington Action Committee and as a member of both the association’s Audit Committee and Utilities Market Access Partnership Board. Commissioner Clyburn is also a former chair of the Southeastern Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (SEARUC).

Commissioner Clyburn was elected to the South Carolina PSC following 14 years as the publisher and general manager of The Coastal Times, a Charleston-based weekly newspaper that focused primarily on issues affecting the African American community. She owned and operated the family-founded newspaper following her graduation from the University of South Carolina, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Banking, Finance & Economics.

For well over two decades, Commissioner Clyburn has been actively involved in myriad community organizations. Prior to her appointment at the FCC, Commissioner Clyburn served on the South Carolina State Energy Advisory Council, the Trident Technical College Foundation, the South Carolina Cancer Center Board, the Columbia College Board of Visitors, the Palmetto Project Board (as secretary/treasurer) and has enjoyed previous service as chair of the YWCA of Greater Charleston and on the boards of Reid House of Christian Service, Edventure Children’s Museum, Trident Urban League and the Trident United Way. In addition, Commissioner Clyburn was previously appointed to the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee’s Common Ground School Improvement Committee and the Edventure Museum’s South Carolina Great Friend to Kids Committee. She also is a Life Member of the NAACP, a member of The Links, Inc. and the SC Advisory Council of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and was past president of the Charleston County Democratic Women and Black Women Entrepreneurs.

Commissioner Clyburn has received a number of honors and awards, including being selected as the 2006 James C. Bonbright Honoree (awarded by the Southeastern Energy Conference, Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia) and receiving the 2007 Lincoln C. Jenkins Award for business and community contributions presented by the Columbia (SC) Urban League.

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Black Millionaire Entrepreneurs

Blacksonville .COMmunity .NETwork — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:02:00 +0000

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Over the last 30 years, black America has experienced phenomenal growth in both its business leadership class and its actual number of millionaires. These self-employed entrepreneurs and corporate executives have come to be defined by what is now acknowledged as the “New Black Power.” As the August 1997 Fortune magazine proclaimed, from Wall Street to Hollywood, a new generation of African-Americans is seizing real power in the world of business. Within the music industry, young hip-hop artists are using hit records as a stepping-stone to business development and ownership. They are ambitious on a scale their predecessors never dared to reach for, and the most savvy members of the generation understand, in no uncertain terms, that money is power. It is this generations’ focus on wealth accumulation that distinguishes them from their predecessors.

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