Check Out New Book for Soulful City Dwellers

A manual for the soulful city dweller,
traversing the wonders and dangers
of the concrete jungle...

Urban Soul Warrior is an interactive book about living an extraordinary and powerful life. Full of ideas and exercises to inspire and empower readers to consciously map their inner journeys, and infuse their daily lives with awareness, meaning and beauty. Written in an urban voice, both ancient and modern concepts are combined to create this amazing guide. Urban Soul Warrior gives a new generation of readers the tools to overcome feelings of guilt and worthlessness, to master their minds, bodies, and souls in an urban world of endless beauty, danger, and possibility.

Available at online booksellers, and in bookstores everywhere!
www.urbansoulwarrior.com.

Lalania Simone is an author, artist, and mystic. She grew up in a tough inner-city neighborhood, gaining both street savvy and educational opportunities. Her early questioning of religious dogma launched her lifelong spiritual journey. She has spent the last ten years working with those who seek the tools to make a deeper connection with themselves and the universe. The fusion of Lalania's esoteric knowledge and her experience in urban society creates a unique Urban Soul Warrior perspective.

THIS WEEK: Will Power, Jessica Care Moore at Apollo Theater

Tickets available at APOLLO THEATER
253 West 125th Street
Harlem, NYC

Box Office Hours:
Mon, Tue, Thu & Fri: 10AM - 6PM
Wed: 10AM - 8PM Sun: 12PM -6PM

Call 212.531.5305 or visit www.apollotheater.org

Ticketmaster at 212.307.7171 or www.ticketmaster.com/venue/6

Eisa Davis' "Angela's Mix Tape" is MUST SEE Theater!

new georges
and
Hip-Hop Theater Festival
present

by EISA DAVIS
directed by LIESL TOMMY

with Kim Brockington, Denise Burse,
Eisa Davis, Ayesha Ngaujah and Linda Powell

"On this mixtape, style will dictate,
we bounce back and forth in time..."

Using the rhythms of music and memory, Eisa Davis tells the story of a radical upbringing on the dividing line between Oakland and Berkeley, California -- in a family that includes her aunt, professor and activist Angela Davis.

Time shifts between the 70s, 80s, and 90s as smoothly as a DJ fading from song to song. Each track, each memory, has a built-in switch to the next, for theatrical momentum that keeps on building.

The music crosses styles and decades, but it's hip-hop and a b-girl stance that keeps the piece bouncing in the present.

APRIL 6 - MAY 2, 2009
8:00 pm
Mondays through Saturdays
[except April 9, show is at 7:00 pm]
[special student matinee on April 25 at 3pm]

OHIO THEATRE
66 Wooster Street • NYC 10012
[between Spring and Broome, in SoHo]

$20 general admission / $35 premium seating (reserved)
On Mondays, the price is "pay-what-you-will" (at the door only)
For tickets, call 212.868.4444 or visit www.smarttix.com
For group rates, call 646.336.8077

Design: Clint Ramos, Jane Shaw, Sarah Sidman, Jessica Jahn • PSM: Ryan Radeuchel • ASM: Danielle Teague-Daniels • Props: Johnson Henshaw • Production Manager: Mark Sitko • Associate Producer: Anna Hayman • Casting: Paul Davis/Calleri Casting • Press: Jim Baldassare

www.newgeorges.org - and - www.hhtf.org

JLove Calderon's Got A New Look!

click the image below to check out the new look for www.jlovecalderon.com

Join Us in Honoring OCTAVIA BUTLER

Octavia Butler is considered a master storyteller in the genre of speculative fiction. Her work explores themes such as race, gender, power, sexism, and spirituality. The National Black Writers Conference Bi-annual Symposium honors the work and life of this great writer. This symposium will explore her work in particular and the impact of speculative fiction in the literature of Black writers.

The program features readings and panels on the world renowned author and her contribution to literary writing. Participating writers include L.A. Banks, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, and Nnedi Okorafor.



Join us

Saturday, March 28, 2009
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
(registration begins at 10 am)
This event is open to all!

Founders Auditorium
Medgar Evers College, CUNY
1650 Bedford Avenue • Brooklyn, New York 11225
Phone 718.270.6983 • Email writers@mec.cuny.edu

FEE: $10 general admission ($5 for seniors, students, and faculty)

www.mec.cuny.edu/blacklitcenter

Co -Sponsored by the Medgar Evers College, CUNY Department of English; Up South, Inc.; Barnes & Noble; the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce & Industry; NY Council for the Humanities, and the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program
do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Tune In to OFF THE PAGE w/ Esther Armah (FRI)

CENTRIC PRODUCTIONS
presents

Off The Page!

on WBAI 99.5 FM Radio

Friday, March 6, 2009
11 am - 12 Noon
www.wbai.org

TUNE IN, TURN ON
for the
Twice Monthly Talk Show
about the World of Books!

Hosted by
International Journalist,
Playwright, and Author
Esther Armah

Friday's Book Pick: Something Like Beautiful
Topic: Motherhood & Depression

Tune in as asha bandele, author of Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother's Story, reveals her personal truths about becoming a mama and becoming depressed. She explains who she became, how she coped, how dark her world turned, how society contributes to the internal judgement and pain, and how she found her light again.

Passionate, Provocative, Powerful!

The Community Awareness Series
of the Jersey City Free Public Library
in recognition of Women History Month

Celebrates A Woman of Distinction
NANA CAMILLE YARBROUGH

Known for her dedication to perpetuating cultural awareness among African Americans, Nana Camille Yarbrough has used her broad range of talents to serve as a voice of inspiration and hope within her community. Nana Camille Yarbrough's multifaceted career has included work as a dancer with the famed Katherine Dunham Dance Company, a singer, an actress of stage, television and screen, radio show host, and currently a television producer. Her 1975 album, The Iron Pot Cooker, has been heralded as a precursor to modern rap, and of her four acclaimed children's books, Cornrows was awarded the Coretta Scott King Award of Excellence. Her spiritual and cultural journey has led her to the position of Griot. Nana Camille Yarbrough was enstooled by the Ga people of Ghana. Her stool was the stool of Harriet Tubman.

Join us for an evening with
NANA CAMILLE YARBROUGH
and her band ANCESTOR HOUSE

THIS SATURDAY
MARCH 7, 2009
8:00 pm

Miller Branch Library
Cultural Arts Auditorium
489 Bergen Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07304

FREE ADMISSION • FREE PARKING
adult/guardian must accompany children

We are also celebrating
the 30th Anniversary
of Nana Camille Yarbrough's
Landmark Childrens Book
"CORNROWS"

Books Will Be On Sale!

for more information:
201.547.6907 ▪ casmbl@yahoo.com

www.ancestorhouse.net

We Remember Wilbert "Bill" Tatum

Wilbert "Bill" Tatum
Publisher Emeritus and Board Chairman of
New York Amsterdam News

Visitation and Funeral Service is Open to the Public

Visitation:
Thursday, March 5, 2009
6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Provenzano Lanza Home
43 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003
(Between 2nd and 3rd Streets)

Service:
Friday, March 6, 2009
10:00 am to 12 Noon
The Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive
(between 120th and 122nd Street)
New York, NY 10027

Family Request:
In lieu of flowers, the family requests
that donations be made in Mr. Tatum's name
to the Amsterdam News Educational Fund
34 East Third Street
New York, NY 10003

For more information, callThe Terrie Williams Agency at 212.316.0305

photo credit: New York Amsterdam News