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| Ruby Dee returns to Karamu tomorrow. Story below. |
Once upon a time, the
Phillis Wheatley Association was black Cleveland’s premier service
organization, a centerpiece of community civic and social engagement. It has
stood in midtown for nearly 80 years in a landmark building at 4450 Cedar
Avenue.
The agency will hold its
annual meeting today starting at 5:30PM featuring the aptly named Phyllis Cleveland, Ward 5 city
councilwoman.
The visionary Jane Edna Hunter founded the
agency in 1905 to meet challenges and struggles of prejudice that she and other
African American women faced in housing and employment and housing. Today the
agency’s services include daycare, musical training, programs for seniors, and
environmental education/team building and experiential education programs.
Phillis Wheatley owns and operates Camp Mueller, one of less than a handful of
African-American owned and operated residential camps in the country.
Richard C.
King, Jr. is the agency’s interim executive director.
Call Anissa
Ali-Jackson at 391-4443, ext.12 and let her know you will be there.
Leadership training offered
Interested in improving
your leadership skills and helping to create a better Cleveland? Consider
signing up for the Neighborhood Leadership Development Program. Applications
for the next cohort are being accepted until this Monday, July 29.
To apply, or for more
information, visit the NLDP website at www.nldpcleveland.com
or contact Yvonka Hall either by phone [216.776.6170] or email
[yhall@NLDPCleveland.com].
The
legendary Ruby Dee, star of stage and screen, who first performed at
Cleveland’s Karamu House in the late 1940s, has returned as an iconic presence
on Karamu’s west wall.
Tomorrow,
local artists and the community are invited to attend the unveiling and installation
of the Ruby Dee Mural at the corner of East 89 Street and Quincy Avenue in
Cleveland’s Fairfax community.
The
ceremony starts at 4PM
and festivities will conclude at 7PM.
Sankofa
Fine Arts Plus commissioned nationally renowned muralist Kent Twitchell to work
with select local artists and community members to honor Dee as part of
“Artovation” mural project.
Twitchell
is a faculty member at the Fresco School in Los Angeles. His monumental murals
have become tourist attractions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles.
The
Ruby Dee installation will be forty feet tall and thirty-six feet wide.
Founded
in 1999, Sankofa Fine Art Plus was founded in 1999 as a nonprofit organization
dedicated to developing, educating and advocating for African American and
other underrepresented visual artists through community collaboration. For more
info, call 216.200.6737 or e-mail info@sankofafineartplus.org.
Interfaith
Ramadan dinner this Sunday
Cleveland’s
Council on American-Islamic Relations will host its annual interfaith Ramadan
dinner this Sunday, July 28.
The event
begins with registration at 6:30 p.m. at the Islamic Center of Greater Cleveland,
6055 W. 130th Street, Parma.
Deepa Kumar,
a Rutgers University professor and author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, will be the featured
speaker.
The event is
open to the public and free to interfaith guests. Reservations are required and
may be made by calling 216.830.2247.
Ramadan is an
annual month-long period of prayer, fasting and reflection observed by Muslims.
Benefit
Golf Outing this Monday
The
Cleveland Minority Organ Tissue Transplant Education Program [MOTTEP] and The Leonard C. Rosenberg
Foundation will host the 8th Annual "Gift of Life" Golf Outing at StoneWater
Golf Club in Highland Heights this Monday.
Proceeds
from the day's events will support the programs and services of Cleveland
MOTTEP.
To
participate call 216.229.2690.or email lindad.kimble@cdcare.org.
For
more information about Cleveland MOTTEP and details regarding the upcoming golf
event, please visit www.clevelandmottep.org
Hold these dates:
August 25: Cleveland’s One World
Festival, featuring, among many: Nana B. Kool (Afro Pop from West
Africa), the Kasthan Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, the Shaw High School
Marching Band, belly dancers, and stilt walkers.
August 28: local commemoration
on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and
Freedom.
