This post comes from our sister site, KUUMBAReport Online (http://kuumbareport.com), and announces several important Pan-Afrikan events occurring in the Baltimore, Maryland area during the months of January and February, 2020.
Be sure to check this site’s Events Calendar, as well as subsequent posts, for other Pan-Afrikan events as they are announced to us.
If your organization is sponsoring a Pan-Afrikan event that it would like to see announced on KUUMBAEvents or KUUMBAReport Online, please be sure to contact us at cliff@kuumbaevents.com or cliff@kuumbareport.com.
January 18, 2020, 1:00 – 4:00 PM
Maryland Council of Elders
Town Hall on the Industrial Police Intelligence Complex (IPIC)
Harlem Park Recreation Center, 700 N, Calhoun Street, Baltimore, MD
The Maryland Council of Elders (MCOE) was founded in January 2018 after members of the grassroots community nominated several Elders at a public Town Hall Meeting to provide guidance and critical information on key issues impacting People of Afrikan Descent in the State of Maryland and Baltimore City. The MCOE has taken on that role with an understanding of the seriousness of the situation our people face. Thus, the MCOE has sponsored or co-sponsored several community Town Hall Meetings since 2018, the most recent of which were the October 12 Town Hall Meeting on Violence in the Community and several commemorations of the Kwanzaa Holiday. Now, the MCOE has taken on the issue of what they refer to as the Industrial Police Intelligence Complex (IPIC).
“The Maryland Council of Elders is increasingly alarmed by a system that is designed to harass, displace and criminalize our people and the communities we live in. We will discuss Policing in Baltimore, the School-to-Prison Pipeline and plans to criminalize, incarcerate and kill Black People, immigrants and the poor and War.”
The event will be held Saturday, January 18 from 1 to 4 PM at the Harlem Park Recreation Center, 700 N. Calhoun Street in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information, contact the Maryland Council of Elders at (410) 419-2999; (202) 628-6884; (443) 253-2643; by email at MarylandCouncilofEldersBmore@gmail.com; or on Facebook at “Maryland Council of Elders”.
February 8, 2020, 3:00 – 7:00 PM
Souls of Life Society
The Joy of Blackness: A Celebration of Black Life
Downtown Cultural Arts Center, 401 N. Howard Street, Baltimore, MD
Bro. King Obadele, Founder of the Souls of Life Society, a Pan-Afrikan Spiritual Organization in Baltimore City, has announced an ambitious addition to the efforts to bring a spiritual balance to the increasing chaos that has engulfed Baltimore, The Joy of Blackness: A Celebration of Black Life. The event will be held at the Downtown Cultural Arts Center, 401 N. Howard Street in Downtown Baltimore.
The event will feature a Keynote Address by Baba Imhotep Asis Fatiu, Founder and chairman of the Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement (PLM), one of the foremost Pan-Afrikan organizations in the City; presentations by the Egbe Akokorin, a local Elder Men’s group in Baltimore; musical presentations, “conscious karaoke” and dancing.
For more information, call (443) 743-7427 or leave a message at (410) 419-1226.
February 15, 2020, 5:00 – 11:00 PM
Our Victorious City
Emerald Dinner
Great Blacks In Wax Museum, 1601 E. North Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21213
Our Victorious City (OVC) was established in honor of Victorious Khan Swift, a very charismatic, creative and committed youth leader in Baltimore City who was tragically snatched from the living world on March 26, 2017, by an armed robber. Ironically, his assailant was likely one of the people he fought for along with other strong Pan-Afrikan activists in the long, often painful and usually thankless struggle for truth and justice on the streets of Baltimore City.
Victorious Khan Swift’s 22nd Earth Day (Birthday) would have been this coming February 17. Every year, in his honor, his mother, community organizer and Elder Mama Victory Swift, organizes the Emerald Dinner, which is held at the Historic Great Blacks In Wax Museum in East Baltimore. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, February 15.
Mama Victory Swift, Founder and Chairperson of Our Victorious City, offers these comments on her Facebook page:
“Party for a great cause! It is our pleasure to invite you to be a part of our 2020 celebration of Our Victorious City 3rd Annual Emerald Dinner & Dance to be held on Saturday, February 15, 2020, at The National Great Blacks In Wax Museum from 5 pm -11 pm Located at 1601 E. North Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21213. Included is a Museum tour from 5 pm – 6 pm. An OVC T-shirt is included per tickets/donations of $100.00 or more. The fundraiser is for the Victorious K. Swift Scholarship Funds and Our Victorious City Educator of the Year Scholarship. Scholarships will also honor and remember the lives of Councilman Kenneth Harris and Tariq Sharif Alston.
“The celebration will include:
*Dinner
*Dancing
*Raffle
*Silent Auction
*Dress to impress a semi-formal affair.”
For more information, call 833-9-VICTORIOUS (833-984-2867) or email ourvistoriouscity@gmail.com.