Project Enterprise Marketing Week 2010

These days small business owners manage everything, from their finances to their brand, online or electronically.  Business owners in-the-know are using the power of the internet, free software and other digital tools to be more effective.

Join PE to learn from industry experts who will help you harness the power of the digital age – and avoid its pitfalls – at Entrepreneur Week 2010.

Monday, March 15th:  6:00-8:30pm

Translation:  Giving Your Business Meaning

With Steve Stoute, Translation

Entrepreneurial legend, Steve Stoute, shares his personal journey from the music business to becoming one of the biggest and most respected marketing and advertising figures across industries.

Harlem Arts Alliance Workshop Series

Arts

March 1, 2010

Finding The Money Part 1

Proposal Writing Basics

Learn about the basics of writing a proposal for your nonprofit organization: key components of a proposal to a foundation or corporation and how the proposal should be packaged and more.

Workshop Leader: Luz Rodriquez, Foundation Center

Location: Countee Cullen Library, 104 West 136th Street (near Lenox Ave.)

Time: 6pm to 7pm

Cost: $15.00 Free for Harlem Arts Alliance Members

Kids and Height in Harlem?

News

At five-feet tall, 13-year-old Daniel Clark of Harlem in New York City is considered one of the easier boys to pick on simply because he is shorter than the rest of his classmates.

“He had been attacked, mugged, five times outside the school,” said Daniel’s father, Daniel Clark Sr. “Every time he leaves the house you have to, ‘oh my God, hope nothing happens to him.’”

Daniel has always been around the bottom tenth percentile for height. At his previous school, Daniel said was cut from sports teams, picked on, and had to work harder to prove his talents because of his height.

“I may be short in appearance, but not in personality,” Daniel said.

Unlike his son, Daniel Clark Sr. was already 6 feet tall when he was his son’s age. And although his mother is five feet tall, doctors said they are uncertain how tall Daniel will grow. His father says it’s hard to watch his son feel so set back because of his height.

ABC.news.com

HW Radio: Today Tuesday, February 23rd, at 2 pm

Fashion Week, Harlem Tourism & Malcolm X

Join us today Tuesday, February 23rd, at 2 pm for a conversation with HW beauty contributor Lynecia Burgess on beauty tips from Harlem to Houston, Harlem tourism with HW freelance writer Richard Daub regarding his six-part story Does This Bus Go To 125th Street and A. Peter Bailey Malcolm X associate, journalist, author, activist and speaker at WYNC’s MALCOLM X: Speaking in the 21st Century event last week.

Listen in: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/harlemworld

around the block, around the world

A Night With Marcus Samuelsson In Harlem

Food

“TRY this,” Marcus Samuelsson said, cramming a fragrant morsel of fried chicken into his guest’s mouth. “Good, right?”

Mr. Samuelsson, 39, the chef who first made his name at Aquavit, was at home with his wife, the model Gate Haile, testing recipes for his new restaurant, Red Rooster Harlem, which is to open in the fall.

Black History Month: Inventors

From V. Benson

The list of African American men and women inventors who have contributed to American industry is a long one, below is our short list of these visionaries:

1. There are no cities with tall skyscrapers because Alexander Mils invented the elevator, and without it, one finds great difficulty reaching higher floors.

Wilhelmina ‘Obatola ‘ Grant’s Women’s History Month art show

Arts

Former fashion model and two-time breast cancer survivor, turned artist/activist Wilhelmina ‘Obatola ‘ Grant will unveil her newest mixed media assemblage exhibition, Clock Strikes Thirteen, which pays homage to trailblazing Black female ancestors who have impacted society significantly, and who would have undoubtedly made even greater contributions if they had lived longer, healthier lives.  Only four of these heroines lived past age 60.  The exhibition features depictions of Fannie Lou Hamer, Hattie McDaniel, Audre Lorde, Minnie Riperton, Naomi Sims, Danitra Vance, June Jordan, Rosalind Cash, Syreeta Wright, Oni Faida Lampley, Roxie Roker, Shirley Horn, and Alaina Reed Amini.

Acorn reorganizes under new names

News

Devastated by a loss of funding and damage to its name, the long-rumored dissolution of Acorn has begun, a source close to the liberal advocacy group said.

Here in the city, home to one of Acorn’s largest branches, the group has shut down its operation and handed its Brooklyn lease over to New York Communities for Change, a new nonprofit organization formed by community activists and former staff and leaders of NY Acorn.

The new group is not affiliated with any national organization, a spokesman said. Its initial focus will be working to help people facing foreclosure, enforcing New York’s wage laws, preserving tenant rights and fighting state and local budget cuts that could impact low-income families.

‘Rolling Out’ Publisher To Head Sharpton Initiative

Rev. Al Sharpton, president and founder of the National Action Network, has appointed Munson Steed as Director of the Madison Avenue Initiative (MAI), a program under NAN that addresses fairness in advertising. The formal announcement will be made at NAN’s upcoming national convention in April.

Since its inception, the MAI has addressed the needs of minority-owned companies that do not receive their fair share of corporate and governmental advertising expenditures and the Initiative has already helped redirect millions of dollars to Black and Latino media. MAI has successfully pushed for corporations to make advertising purchases that approach the level of minority consumer patronage of their products in specific markets.

Gabby’s Beatnik Brydge: Please Don’t Stop The Music

Entertainment

As a recent NYU graduate and a music lover I cannot live without live music — I absolutely love it! So as you can imagine I was in my own corner of heaven with legendary NYC venues such as the Village Underground, The Blue Note, Café Wha, SOB’s and countless others all within walking distance of my University in the Village.

The President’s New Health Care plan

News

Making a last-ditch effort to save his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama on Monday put forward a nearly $1 trillion, 10-year compromise that would allow the government to deny or roll back egregious insurance premium increases that infuriated consumers.

Posted Monday morning on the White House Web site, the plan would provide coverage to more than 31 million Americans now uninsured without adding to the federal deficit. It comes just four days before Obama’s one-of-a-kind, televised health care summit with Democrats and Republicans.

Malcolm X, Before the Assassination

Community

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives

February 25, 1965, Vol. X, No. 19

Malcolm X: The Complexity Of a Man in the Jungle

The following article was written by Marlene Nadle for The Voice shortly prior to the assassination of Malcolm X. It is based on hours of interviewing Malcolm X at his Hotel Theresa office and attendance at rallies at the Audubon Ballroom and Manhattan Center.

The article is presented exactly as it was originally written. No attempt has been made to make it conform to the events of Sunday at the Audubon Ballroom.