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Fw: PR: New Rosa Parks Stamp, 100th Birthday Celebration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 29, 2013 CONTACT: Matt Clower or Andy Ellis (334) 670-3196 TROY UNIVERSITY AND THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE LAUNCH ROSA PARKS' 100TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION WITH HISTORIC STAMP UNVEILING Montgomery, AL (BlackNews.com) -- U.S. Postal Service officials will unveil a new historic Forever Stamp honoring civil rights leader Rosa Parks at the site of her famous arrest during a 100th birthday celebration for Ms. Parks on Monday, Feb. 4, hosted by Troy University's Rosa Parks Museum in historic downtown Montgomery, Alabama. The event in Montgomery will be held in conjunction with two additional events on the same day in Michigan. The Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit and The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn will join the Montgomery Rosa Parks Museum in celebrating the unveiling of the commemorative stamp on this historic occasion. The three events are expected to draw stamp collectors, admirers and civil rights leaders from all over the country. Parks, whose December 1, 1955 arrest aboard a Montgomery city bus served as a catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, is being honored by the U.S. Postal Service on her centennial birthday with a Forever Stamp, which is always equal in value to the current First Class-Mail one-ounce price. In Montgomery, Bridgett Carol, the Director of Marketing for the U.S. Postal Service Alabama District and Donnie Snipes, Postmaster for Montgomery, will unveil the new Rosa Parks stamp during the celebration of Parks' 100th birthday, which will also feature, art, poetry and reflection on Parks' life and accomplishments. The Montgomery celebration event will also feature: * Award-winning poet Nikky Finney reading her poem "Red Velvet," which is about Rosa Parks. * Dr. Riche' Richardson, an associate professor at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, will present a lecture entitled "Rosa Parks at 100." * Museum Director Georgette Norman and Curator Daniel Neil will present the "Rosa Parks 100th Birthday Wishes Project." A collection of more than 1,400 "wishes" for the future of the city of Montgomery and the nation inspired by Parks' life. Many of these "wishes" have been turned into a series of silkscreen posters, which will be presented to local elected officials and leaders for display around Montgomery. The celebration event will be held at 6 p.m. at Whitley Hall on Troy University's Montgomery Campus. Admission is free and open to the public and press is welcome to attend. About the Montgomery Rosa Parks Museum: Constructed on the site of the Empire Theatre where Rosa Parks was famously arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery Bus, the Rosa Parks Museum opened in December 2000 with the mission of preserving and interpreting the story and lasting legacy of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. For more information or about this or other museum events, contact Museum Director Georgette Norman at (334) 241-8608, or email at gmnorman@troy.edu or visit www.troy.edu/rosaparks. -END- This information has been distributed through BlackPR.com and BlackNews.com, properties owned by Diversity City Media, but the content or opinions expressed within are those of the author and/or represented company or organization. Need A Black Expert to Interview? Visit www.BlackExperts.com Forward email   Diversity City Media | 750 Cross Pointe Road, Suite Q | Columbus | OH | 43230

Fw: CASUAL KARAOKE AT COVE LOUNGE! TOMORROW AT 7PM!

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NEW THIS MORNING

Two months after private landlords agreed to give priority to Superstorm Sandy victims for hundreds of market-rate apartments, only one apartment lease has been signed because the "affordable" apartments are too expensive, The Wall Street Journal writes: http://on.wsj.com/Vrl1V9   New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn received the endorsement of influential pastor, Rev. Calvin Rice of New Jerusalem Baptist Church in Jamaica, Queens, for her mayoral campaign, the News reports: http://nydn.us/TKUKRc *  Three years after the state allowed the release of partial match DNA data to investigators, law enforcement officials say they knew of no cases solved in New York City because of a lead generated by a partial match, The New York Times writes: http://nyti.ms/123pbUO Rep. Charles Rangel's favorite nonprofit, the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, received $21 million in state funding but critics say the group has done little with the money or its mandate to stimulate the local economy, the Post writes: http://bit.ly/Y8aifp The News writes that the New York City Board of Elections' ideas to compensate for slow electronic ballot machines that were forced on them by the state Legislature, are absurd: http://nydn.us/WanWA6 * The Times writes that Cuomo's plan to require police to videotape interrogations of people charged with serious crimes is a positive step towards curbing wrongful convictions: http://nyti.ms/YblMPa NEW THIS MORNING

Crooks, cops and courts never rest

Crooks, cops and courts never rest (New York Daily News) Inspector Rodney Harrison, Commander of the 32nd Precinct in Harlem stands next to his precinct map, which, while one of the smaller precinct confines in the city geographically, does contain one of the city's notorious "Impact" zones, whereby rookie officers are sent into some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in New York for an intense period ... (more)

Fw: [FCNYC] ADMIN: Stop n Swap in Harlem on Feb 23rd

Harlem STOP `N' SWAP® Saturday, February 23, 2013, 12pm-3pm Salvation Army Harlem Temple 540 Lenox Avenue, NY 10037 (Entrance at the corner of 138th Street) Clear out clutter and help reduce NYC's waste at GrowNYC's Stop 'N' Swap by bringing clean, portable, reusable items to donate to a new home, or simply take home items that are useful to you. It's all FREE! No furniture/large items. Please arrive by 2pm if you have things to give away. Visit www.GrowNYC.org/swap for more info or call 212-788-7964. __._,_.___ Reply via web post Reply to sender Reply to group Start a New Topic Messages in this topic ()   Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use • Send us Feedback . __,_._,___