SANKOFA Reading Group is an auxiliary of Women For Progress of Mississippi, Inc.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Link for article from Stanford Social Innovation Review
Using E-Readers to promote literacy in Africa
What’s Next: Curling Up with E-Readers (December 9, 2010) | Stanford Social Innovation Review
What’s Next: Curling Up with E-Readers (December 9, 2010) | Stanford Social Innovation Review
Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration
The Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University invites everyone out to events celebrating the birth of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University will host two events in recognition of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. The celebration will begin with the 16th Annual For My People Award Luncheon at 11:45 a.m., Friday, Jan. 14, at the JSU Student Center, 1400 John R. Lynch St. The luncheon, sponsored by attorney Isaac K. Byrd, is named for Walker's most loved poem and honors individuals who have distinguished themselves in the preservation of African-American culture. This year's honorees are: Hank Thomas, freedom rider; Dollye M. E. Robinson, JSU Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and the Mississippi National Council of Negro Women.
The Grammy award-winning Mississippi Mass Choir will perform a free concert at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 18, at the Rose Embly McCoy Auditorium. The choir is known for songs such as "Your Grace and Mercy," "Near the Cross" and "It's Good To Know Jesus."
The concert also will feature Amber Rose Johnson, the 2010 National Poetry Out Loud champion. Johnson, who won the title in April at the age of 16, beat out nearly 325,000 high school students nationwide. Johnson won after reciting Walker's "For My People." Joining Johnson will be Mississippi's Poetry Out Loud Champion John Eze Uzodinma of Jackson, Miss.
Both the luncheon and concert are free and open to the public. For more information, call 601-979-3935 or /1.3.11MLKDayMSMass.pdf Luncheon: http://www.jsums.edu/announcements/1.4.11Luncheon.pdf
See link below for flyer:
http://www.jsums.edu/margaretwalker/FMPMLK2011.pdf
The Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University will host two events in recognition of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. The celebration will begin with the 16th Annual For My People Award Luncheon at 11:45 a.m., Friday, Jan. 14, at the JSU Student Center, 1400 John R. Lynch St. The luncheon, sponsored by attorney Isaac K. Byrd, is named for Walker's most loved poem and honors individuals who have distinguished themselves in the preservation of African-American culture. This year's honorees are: Hank Thomas, freedom rider; Dollye M. E. Robinson, JSU Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and the Mississippi National Council of Negro Women.
The Grammy award-winning Mississippi Mass Choir will perform a free concert at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 18, at the Rose Embly McCoy Auditorium. The choir is known for songs such as "Your Grace and Mercy," "Near the Cross" and "It's Good To Know Jesus."
The concert also will feature Amber Rose Johnson, the 2010 National Poetry Out Loud champion. Johnson, who won the title in April at the age of 16, beat out nearly 325,000 high school students nationwide. Johnson won after reciting Walker's "For My People." Joining Johnson will be Mississippi's Poetry Out Loud Champion John Eze Uzodinma of Jackson, Miss.
Both the luncheon and concert are free and open to the public. For more information, call 601-979-3935 or /1.3.11MLKDayMSMass.pdf Luncheon: http://www.jsums.edu/announcements/1.4.11Luncheon.pdf
See link below for flyer:
http://www.jsums.edu/margaretwalker/FMPMLK2011.pdf
Scott Sisters Released From Prison
I attended the press conference at the Masonic Temple after the release of the Scott sisters on Friday, December 7, 2011. The sisters are strong, optimistic and ready to face the challenges that lie ahead of them. They want to be advocates for other women in prison and fully exonerate themselves from all charges. They were not pardoned, they sentences were suspended with stipulations:
1. They have to leave the State of Mississippi within 24 hours of their release and they are not allowed to return.
2. Gladys Scott must donate one of her kidneys to Jamie Scott
3. The Suspension can be reversed if its conditions are not met
Attorney Chokwe Lumumba, NAACP State President Derrick Johnson, NAACP CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, MS Conference NAACP, Malcolm X Grassroots Organization, Attorney Jaribu Hill, Free the Scott Sisters Committee, MIRA, and many others worked diligently to get the Scott Sisters released.
But most of all the Scott Sisters' release is a testament to the strength and power of a mother's love, their mother Mrs. Evelyn Rasco never stopped believing in her daughters' innocence and with devoted persistence worked tirelessly for her daughters' release. All the while raising Jamie's three children in Pensacola, Florida. Jamie and Gladys Scott are moving to Pensacola, Florida to live with their mother.
For more information about the Scott sisters click on the link below:
http://www.victimsofthestate.org/MS/Scott.htm
SANKOFA Reading Group will meet Monday, January 31
SANKOFA Reading Group will meet
Monday, January 31, 2011
6:00 PM
Margaret Walker Center (Historic Ayer Hall on Jackson State University's campus)
Book of the Month: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Monday, January 31, 2011
6:00 PM
Margaret Walker Center (Historic Ayer Hall on Jackson State University's campus)
Book of the Month: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
For more information please call: 601-982-3274 or email: astew44032@aol.com
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