If There Is Not Time

Always good to plan ahead, but for those who do forget to thaw something out, can’t decide what to cook, get home late, or are bushed they can stop by Spokane’s Phat Truck coming soon to Spokane Washington. That’s not FAT it’s PHAT which stands for Pretty Hot and Tasty.  Our menu will provide a balanced dinner, lunch or midnight snack.

But if you are not in an area served by Phat Truck you might want to plan ahead. See cousin Jameelah Carter’s article COOK, THERE IS ALWAYS TIME in DC Cooking Examiner.

Scholarship Application Deadline May 25, 2012

The Center for Student Opportunity’s <http://www.csopportunity.org/>  Opportunity Scholarship is a $2,000, four-year renewable scholarship awarded to first-generation college students graduating in the high school class of 2012 (entering the college class of 2016) enrolling at a CSO College Partner.

Scholarship winners may serve as monthly guest bloggers on the Opportunity Scholars web blog <http://csopportunityscholars.org/>  to share insight and perspective about their transition to college and successes thereafter.

ELIGIBILITY:
∙Current high school (or home-schooled) seniors attending school in the United States.
∙Neither parent has earned a four-year college degree.
∙Must be attending a CSO partner college or university. A complete list of CSO College Partners can be viewed here: http://csopportunity.org/college_partners/coll_partners.aspx.
∙Seek financial aid and scholarship support for college.
∙Involved in extracurricular and leadership programs in school or in the community.

Application: http://www.csopportunity.org/scholarship/
Deadline: May 25, 2012
Do not hesitate to contact Chelsea M. Jones with any questions or concerns.

Chelsea M. Jones
Outreach and Student Support Associate
Center for Student Opportunity
4641 Montgomery Ave., Suite 513│Bethesda, MD 20814
phone: (301) 363-4224 | fax: (301) 951-7104
cjones@csopportunity.org <mailto:cmartin@csopportunity.org>  | www.CSOpportunity.org <http://www.csopportunity.org>

Congratulations to Granddaughter of Edward Thomas, Jr.

Spokane local grandpa’s granddaughter Rachae Thomas is seen in a national AT&T television commercial. She is following in Ed’s footsteps – he was seen in television commercials himself a few years ago – and on a billboard too!

Ms. Thomas projects a bright, fresh, positive and professional image.  See for yourself.

 

SUMMER YOUTH ACADEMY

Looking for something for your kids this summer? How about 10 weeks of fun in a safe, caring environment!

Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Outreach Center

Summer Youth Academy

$470 per child, per month

10 weeks of fun in a safe, caring environment!

June 25-Aug. 31

Weekly swim & field trips

Literacy & Craft Activities

Contact: Jeani-Liz Brickner

Interim Children’s Services Director

Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Outreach Center

 

P: 509-455-8722

F: 509-455-7801

www.mlkspokane.org

 

845 S. Sherman St.

Spokane, WA 99202

 

Jeff Mooring: Let’s Talk Chocolate Diamonds

Morning

Here’s hoping you have a great day. Thought I’d share this.

I’ve recently become aware of a high powered ad campaign by a decent sized jewelry company. They’re marketing something called chocolate diamonds. These are stones that were previously considered of no value because of their appearance. You hire the right agency to write the right copy and they come up with it.

Chocolate Diamonds   “they’re anything but vanilla”

 I’m more convinced than ever that my idea of selling dirt would work. How’s this?

         Save the earth, buy a bag.  ???? 

Great day to you. B N Touch.

Jeff  Mooring
Let’s Talk Spokane

 

 

Rudolph Bowman Scott: Spokane Black Pioneer

Pat Bayonne-Johnson is photographed here visiting the gravesite of a Spokane Black pioneer – Rudolph Bowman Scott. He and his wife are buried at Fairmont Memorial Park. Read her article about all of this man’s accomplishments beginning with serving with the Union Army in the Civil War and including being the first Black man to hold a federal position in the northwest.

Pat is 4comculture’s in-house historian. She works with the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society and serves at the Spokane Public Library downtown on Tuesdays  helping people find their roots.

Patronize Black-Owned Businesses

The Afterword – Slate

In 2009, Maggie Anderson and her family pledged that they would patronize black-owned companies whenever possible, so she scoured the Chicago area for black-owned supermarkets, dry cleaners, gas stations, pharmacies, and clothing stores. Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest To Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided Economy is the story of their experiment in conscious consumerism. Anderson discovered that black businesses lag behind businesses of all other racial and ethnic groups in every measure of success. In the Asian community, a dollar circulates among local shop owners, banks, and business professionals for up to 28 days. In the Jewish community, a dollar circulates for 19 days. In the African-American community, a dollar is gone within six hours. The interview runs about 29 minutes.

Spokane Black Entrepreneurs – Let’s Start here!

Do you know of other minority businesses in Spokane or online? Tell us about them in the reply/post comment box below.

Bob and Jay’s Walk

Jay, a friend and photographer, asked if we could walk together some time. In early March my Euro-American friend and I walked the Manito Park – Cannon Hill Park Loop. It was a mild between seasons sort of day. The duck pond at Manito Park was still frozen but very little snow. The Cannon Hill pond was not frozen but no new greenery was yet to be seen. The Japanese Garden was still closed for the winter. We saw many joggers, dog walkers, family groups, and bicyclists enjoying the day. Everyone was smiling and welcoming, but Bob was the only African American to be seen.

 

See more in the series An African American Walks.

Do African Americans in Spokane walk? If so, where? I would like to take your walk and post the photographs here.

Greetings From Pacific Lutheran University

Hello!
We are excited to offer this Chamber Music Theatre Work free to the public in celebration of African American Women in Women’s History Month.  Please, will you spread the word through your network!
Thank you!
Melannie Denise Cunningham
Director of  Multicultural Recruitment
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA  98447
253-535-8716 or 1-800-274-6758
Go on our Virtual Tour:
http://video.realviewtv.com/education/plu/

 

EMERGE: (The Play) 7 Women 7 Stools

Sat. Mar 3 @7:30 PM 

Fox Theater 1001 W Sprague Ave Spokane WA

Sponsored by Spokane Community Gospel Choir

Emerge, a play that takes you on a journey through the lives of seven very different women: a grandmother, a college student, an abused woman, a cancer survivor, an overworked housewife, a hustler, and a mistress. These women relive past struggles, feelings and pains, and transform from the pains of life to the pinnacle of success in an effort to Emerge.

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