Free Stuff in Boston

30AM.Black Dolls on Parade - the exhibit: an invitation from The Friends of Dudley Branch Library Inc. Come Saturday, February 23, 2008 from 10:30AM-3:30PM to the library at 65 Warren Street, Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Fred Wesley of the James Brown Band performs at Berklee Performance Center on Feb 28FRED WESLEY Concert tix Contest
for Feb 28th at Berklee Performance Center

AboutBlackBoston.com web site visitors have a chance to win complimentary tickets to see Fred Wesley in concert with the Berklee Music of James Brown Ensemble on Thursday, February 28, 8:15 p.m. at the Berklee Performance Center. To be eligible to win, please click here. Winners will be chosen randomly. Thanks!
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FEB 28th at 6PM - Cultural Icon Amiri Baraka Speaks
(download info) at Hibernian Hall and the Roxbury Center for Arts.

ACT Roxbury are pleased to announce that noted cultural worker and activist Amiri Baraka will speak on Thursday, February 28, 2008 from 6pm-8pm. The talk will take place at Hibernian Hall. There is a five dollar donation.

Address: Roxbury Center for Arts at Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, Suite 100
Roxbury, MA 02119. Phone: (617) 541-3900 ACT Roxbury www.actroxbury.org

Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa , and Europe. His awards and honors include an Obie, the American Academy of Arts & Letters award, the James Weldon Johnson Medal for contributions to the arts, Rockefeller Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts grants, Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the Poet Laureate of NewJersey.

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Dear Friends of the Arts,
a note from Laura Montgomery
of the Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery

Please be invited to the Artists’ Reception for Sketches of Spain at the Cambridge Multi Cultural Arts Center- Featuring the work of two BHCC Art Gallery Photography Alums Don West and Hakim Raquib.

Exhibition dates: 2.7.08 - 2.29.08


Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center

41 second street CAMBRIDGE , MA 02141
www.cmacusa.org

Artist’s reception: 2. 21. 2008
6 - 8pm

Hakim
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617.373-4421

Hakimphotography
76 Atherton street
Jamaica Plain,MA.02130
617 373 4421 studio 617 291 1820 cell

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    Coming up on the “Basic Black” television series on WGBH 2, a PBS Channel.

    Tonight! February 21 at 7:30pm on WGBH 2
    Kenya: Working Towards Peace

    Kenya erupted in violence and chaos after its presidential election in late December 2007. At the beginning of 2008 the crisis escalated killing 1,000 people and displacing over 500,000 more from their homes. Host Kim McLarin is joined by three members of
    Boston’s Kenyan community: Karimi Gituma, activist and founder of VUMA Kenya, John Mugane, Professor in African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and Paul Waithaka, independent television producer

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    A Conversation with Author and Professor Randall Kennedy
    February 28 at 7:30pm on WGBH 2

    Randall Kennedy’s writings on race in America have been called provocative and engaging, while some view them as damaging to the black community. Professor Kennedy’s new book is “Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal.” In conversation with host Kim McLarin, Kennedy outlines his views on who is black, who speaks for the community and who can really be called a “sellout.”

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