Patronize Black-Owned Businesses

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

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

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

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

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

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

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

Sat. Mar 3 @7:30 PM

Fox Theater 1001 W Sprague Ave Spokane WA

Barbara Jordan born this day

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Diane Lloyd

Barbara Jordan, born February 21 1936, was one of the most respected and influential American politicians of the 20th century. She captured the attention and admiration of the nation with her intelligence and integrity, eloquent oratory, ardent defense of the Constitution, and staunch advocacy of equal rights for all American citizens.

This stamp was released as the 34th in the Black Heritage stamp series in September 2011.

In 1976 Barbara Jordan, a congressional representative from Texas, was the first African American and the first woman to be chosen to deliver the keynote speech to the Democratic Party National Convention. The Democratic Party today would do well to listen to this speech and reaffirm the principles that are the foundation of the party.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMX58A6vII

Jerrelene Williamson: African Americans in Spokane

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

BOOK SIGNING

Hope you were able to get out to Barnes and Noble in the Valley last Saturday to have your copy of African Americans in Spokane signed by Jerrelene Williamson and benefit the Martin Luther King Jr. Family Outreach Center with a percentage of your purchases. If you haven’t bought a copy yet, it is available for check out at the Spokane Public Library, Spokane County Library, Spokane Community College Library, Eastern Washington University Library, Whitworth University Library and Washington State University Library.

Can We Take The Pledge?

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

2012 Legislative Campaign Kick Off

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

FROM THIS DAY FORWARD…
WILL YOU BE THERE TO RAISE YOUR VOICE FOR JUSTICE?

A. PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE, SEATTLE CHAPTER and Washington Christian Leaders Coalition

Invite you to join us for our 2012 Legislative Campaign Kick Off
Jobs * Education* Gang Prevention
We’re organizing for our future”

Key Note Speakers:
Rev. Carey Anderson, Senior Pastor
First African Methodist Episcopal Church

Jeff Johnson, President
Washington State Labor Council

WHEN:
Saturday February 25, 2012
TIME: 10:00 AM TO 12:00 AM
(VIP Candidate Meet and Greet 9:00 AM)

WHERE:
First African Methodist Episcopal Church (FAME)
1522 14th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122

This event will educate and prepare our community for our legislative day activities in Olympia
February 29, 2012.
People get ready 2012 is here!
The people’s movement starts today to organize for a better future tomorrow.
Will you be there?
For more information contact Seattle APRI at (206) 770-7697 or email us at APRISeattle@hotmail.com

The Loving Family

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

Photo Booth

The view from The New Yorker’s photo department.

In 1950, a young man from Central Point, Virginia, went seven miles down the road to hear some music. Seven brothers named the Jeters were on that night, playing bluegrass in a farmhouse. The young man had come for the music, but couldn’t help noticing a young woman in the audience. The man, Richard Loving, was white; the woman, Mildred Jeter, was black and Cherokee. Seventeen years later, as a result of their meeting, the Supreme Court struck down Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act, along with anti-miscegenation laws in fifteen other states, ending the legal prohibitions against interracial marriage.

Patricia Stephens Due Dies

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Robert Lloyd

The New York Times

“Unsung Foot Soldiers.”

Patricia Stephens Due, whose belief that, as she put it, “ordinary people can do extraordinary things” propelled her to leadership in the civil rights movement — but at a price, including 49 days in a stark Florida jail — died on Tuesday in Smyrna, Ga. She was 72.

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