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Post by Sapphire on Feb 1, 2008 0:07:59 GMT -5
It's here! Happy Black History Month 2008...
Back by popular Demand! Because of its overwhelming success last year, the lovely ladies of Omega Omicron E-Sorority, Inc. have been invited back to Hazerville Elementary School to present its unique and informative Black History Month program entitled “The Legacy: Our Past, Our Future."
Black History Month is a time to celebrate, remember and honor the important people and events in Black history. With that in mind, this dynamic and educational program will highlight the contributions and achievements of historical figures in Black history. It is our hope that the Kings and Queens of our past (our legacy) will inspire the youth of today (our future) and encourage them to achieve.
The event will take place in the auditorium of Hazerville Elementary School on Tuesday, February 12 at 3 p.m. (EST). It’s open to students, parents and the entire e-community. All are welcome.
We hope to see you there!
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Post by Ms. RedamnDickulous on Feb 1, 2008 0:14:40 GMT -5
Hey Sapphy, Do you need any e-volunteers?
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Post by Sapphire on Feb 1, 2008 0:21:40 GMT -5
Hiya Reflection! Sure, that would be great. We love to get the e-community involved. Let me check with my e-sorors to see the best way for you to participate. Thanks a bunch!
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Post by Julie Art on Feb 1, 2008 10:47:44 GMT -5
Hey Sapphy, Do you need any e-volunteers?  *takes notes* |
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Post by QUIET As Kept on Feb 1, 2008 10:52:24 GMT -5
OOOOOO~OOOOOOO!
This is going to be a great event, e-sorors!
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Post by Sapphire on Feb 1, 2008 16:47:52 GMT -5
Bumpin' for the people...
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Post by Sweet&Chic on Feb 1, 2008 19:57:29 GMT -5
OOOOOOO~OOOOOO
This will be a great event!!
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Post by Gamma on Feb 3, 2008 20:35:56 GMT -5
OOOOOOOOOOOOO~OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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Post by Sapphire on Feb 4, 2008 0:11:59 GMT -5
*Waves @ Gamma*
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Post by Mrs. Eyes on Feb 4, 2008 15:26:01 GMT -5
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Post by Julie Art on Feb 4, 2008 15:55:11 GMT -5
OK, I'm going to go ahead and do mine for the kids.
Children, mine is on Sidney Poitier:
Sir Sidney Poitier, born February 20, 1927, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Grammy-winning American actor, film director, and author. He broke through as a star in acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world.
In 1963, Poitier became the first black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor - for his role in Lilies of the Field. The significance of this achievement was later bolstered in 1967 when he starred in three very well received films - To Sir, With Love, In the Heat of the Night, and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - making him the top box office star of that year.
Poitier has directed a number of popular movies such as Uptown Saturday Night, and Let's Do It Again (with friend Bill Cosby), and Stir Crazy (starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder). In 2002, 38 years after receiving the Best Actor Award, Poitier was chosen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive the Honorary Award, designated "To Sidney Poitier in recognition of his remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being."
He was born of Bahamian parents enroute to Miami, Florida. He spent his early years living on Cat Island which had 4,000 residents at the time and no electricity.
Poitier was first married to Juanita Hardy from April 29, 1950 until 1965. He has been married to Joanna Shimkus, a Canadian-born former actress of Lithuanian descent, since January 23, 1976. He has four children by his first marriage and two children by his second marriage, all girls. His fifth daughter is actress Sydney Tamiia Poitier.
He has written two autobiographical books, This Life (1980) and The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (2000). In January 2007, the latter became an Oprah's Book Club selection.
The following is timeline of Poitier's acting career:
1947 Sepia Cinderella- Extra
1949 From Whence Cometh My Help- Himself- documentary
1950 No Way Out- Dr. Luther Brooks
1951 Cry, The Beloved Country- Reverend Msimangu
1952 Red Ball Express- Cpl. Andrew Robertson
1954 Go, Man, Go!- Inman Jackson
1955 Blackboard Jungle- Gregory W. Miller
1956 Good-bye, My Lady- Gates
1957 Edge of the City- Tommy Tyler Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Something of Value- Kimani Wa Karanja
Band of Angels- Rau-Ru
The Mark of the Hawk- Obam
1958
Virgin Island- Marcus
The Defiant Ones- Noah Cullen- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
1959 Porgy and Bess- Porgy- Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1960 All the Young Men- Sgt. Eddie Towler
1961 A Raisin in the Sun- Walter Lee Younger- Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Paris Blues- Eddie Cook
1962 Pressure Point- Doctor (Chief Psychiatrist)
1963
The Long Ships- Aly Mansuh
Lilies of the Field- Homer Smith- Academy Award for Best Actor
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1965
The Bedford Incident- Ben Munceford
The Greatest Story Ever Told- Simon of Cyrene
A Patch of Blue- Gordon Ralfe Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
The Slender Thread- Alan Newell
1966 Duel at Diablo -Toller (contract horse dealer)
1967
To Sir, with Love- Mark Thackeray
In the Heat of the Night- Det. Virgil Tibbs Nominated - BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated - Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner- Dr. John Wade Prentice
1968 For Love of Ivy- Jack Parks
1969 The Lost Man -Jason Higgs
1970 King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis Narrator documentary
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!- Virgil Tibbs
1971
Brother John- John Kane
Not Me Boss!!
The Organization Detective Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs SFPD Homicide
1972 Buck and the Preacher- Buck
1973 A Warm December- Matt Younger
1974 Uptown Saturday Night- Steve Jackson
1975
The Wilby Conspiracy- Shack Twala
Let's Do it Again- Clyde Williams
1977 A Piece of the Action- Manny Durrell
1979 Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist Narrator short subject
1988
Shoot to Kill- Warren Stantin
Little Nikita- Roy Parmenter
1992 Sneakers- Donald Crease
1994 A Century of Cinema- Himself- documentary
1996 Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick -Himself- documentary
1997 The Jackal -FBI- Deputy Director Carter Preston
2001 Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey- Narrator -documentary
2004 Tell Them Who You Are- Himself -documentary
The following is a list of many of his awards and recognition:
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, awarded in 1974. Because Poitier is a citizen of the Bahamas, a Commonwealth Realm that subscribes to the British Honours System, this is a substantive (as opposed to honourary) knighthood, which entitles him to the title "Sir".
1992 AFI Life Achievement Award
1995 SAG Life Achievement Award
1997 Appointed non-resident Bahamian Ambassador to Japan
1999 Kennedy Center Honors
2000 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special for The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
2001 NAACP Image Award - Hall of Fame Award
2001 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album - Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) and Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man
2002 Honorary Oscar - "For his extraordinary performances and unique presence on the screen and for representing the industry with dignity, style and intelligence.
Hope you all have enjoyed this mini presentation on Mr. Sidney Poitier.
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Post by Sapphire on Feb 4, 2008 23:28:49 GMT -5
LOL. *Looks at AKA all crazy eyed* Um, e-soror, you got something against Feb. 12?
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Post by Julie Art on Feb 5, 2008 9:11:01 GMT -5
Buahahahahaha!
Had to go ahead and get it out there, lol!
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Post by IvyByDesign on Feb 6, 2008 0:11:45 GMT -5
*notes ReRe has volunteered*
hmmmm
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Post by IvyByDesign on Feb 6, 2008 0:12:10 GMT -5
gamma!!!!!!!!! what it do, e-ls???
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Post by FatalDST on Feb 13, 2008 10:29:55 GMT -5
Good Morning e-sorors... im going to tell a little story to the kids.. its about a make believe world....
A very humorous and revealing story is told about a group of white people who were fed up with African Americans, so they joined together and wished themselves away. They passed through a deep dark tunnel and emerged in sort of a twilight zone where there was an AMERICA WITHOUT BLACK PEOPLE
At first these white people breathed a sigh of relief. At last, they said, No more crime, drugs, violence or welfare. All of the blacks are gone
Then suddenly, reality set in. The “New AMERICA” is not America at all- only a barren land.
1. There were very few crops flourishing, because the nation was build on a slave system
2. There are no cities with tall skyscrapers, because ALEXANDER MILS, a black man, invented the elevator
3. There were hardly any cars, because RICHARD SPIKES, a black man, invented the automatic gear shit, JOSEPH GAMBOL, a black man, invented the supercharger for internal combustion engines, and GARRETT A. MORGAN, a black man, invented the traffic signals
4. A rapid transit system wasn’t available, because ALBERT ROBINSON, a black man, invented the electric trolley
5. An then there was this thought, even if cars were available and rapid transit was available, the city streets were filth, because CHARLES BROOKS, a black man, invented the street sweeper.
6. There were few, if any, newspapers, magazines or books, because WILLIAM PURVEYS, a black man, invented the fountain pen and JOHN LOVE, a black man, invented the pencil sharpener. Along with those facts, LEE BARRAGE, a black man, invented the Type Writing Machine and W. A. LOVE, a black man, invented the printing press.
7. Life was questionable for this group. Even if the NEW AMERICANS, could write letters, articles and books, there was no way to transport them, as WILLIAM BARRY, a black man, invented the postmarking machine, WILLIAM PURVEYS, a black man, invented the hand stamp and PHILLIP DOWNING, a black man, invented the letter drop.
8. The NEW AMERICA was not looking good, as lawns were brown, overgrown and wilted because JOSEPH SMITH, a black man, invented the sprinkler, and John Burr, a black man, invented the lawn mower.
9. With outside looking so poorly, the decision to spend more time inside was made, however living conditions were not ideal with no heat or air conditioning and minimal lighting. You see, ALICE PARKER, a black woman, invented the heating furnace, FREDERICK JONES, a black man, invented the air conditioner and LEWIS LATER, a black man, invented the electric lamp.
10. MICHAEL HARVEY, a black man, invented the lantern and GRANVILLE T. WOODS, a black man, invented the automatic cut off stitch.
11. Now, the NEW AMERICANS, had harsh living conditions outside and inside. Without the mop, invented by THOMAS W. STEWARD, a black man, and the dust pan, invented by LLOYD P. RAY, a black man, clean the house became a difficult task.
12. What where they to do, as “cleanliness is next to GODliness, Without the shoe lasting machine to put soles on shoes, a comb to comb their hair, and ironing board to iron their clothes nor a dryer to dry their wet clothes. You see, all of these items were invented by someone black. JAN E. MATZELINGER, WALTER SAMMONS, SARAH BOONE AND GEORGE T. SAMON.
13. With some much on there minds, they resigned to eating a good meal and calling it a day but, without the refrigerator, invented by JOHN STANDARD, a black man, all their food had spoiled.
After much deliberation, the NEW AMERICANS could only conclude on thing,
What is AMERICA without BLACKS/ AFRICAN AMERICANS......
nothing I suppose!
The End.
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Post by Julie Art on Feb 13, 2008 10:42:14 GMT -5
*round of applause*
Good one e-soror Fatal!
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Post by FatalDST on Feb 13, 2008 10:56:28 GMT -5
Hey  |
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Post by Julie Art on Feb 13, 2008 11:00:07 GMT -5
LOL! That is my new avi! Thanks e-soror!
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Post by Ms. RedamnDickulous on Feb 13, 2008 11:04:13 GMT -5
Juicy Jones, are those some Juicy drawls?
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Post by FatalDST on Feb 13, 2008 11:04:46 GMT -5
heres another one even thought it aint you! lol  |
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Post by Julie Art on Feb 13, 2008 11:07:28 GMT -5
Dang it, that is the new one! That right there!
Sister Re-Re, just making it do what it do, lol!
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Post by Southie on Feb 13, 2008 16:36:50 GMT -5
Zora Neale Hurston
BIRTHDATE: Jan. 7, 1891?
EDUCATION: Graduated from Morgan Academy (high school division of Morgan College (now Morgan State University) in 1918. Attended Howard University and received her B.A. in anthropology from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1928.
FAMILY BACKGROUND: Her father was a Baptist preacher, tenant farmer, and carpenter. At age three her family moved to Eatonville, Fla., the first incorporated black community in America, of which her father would become mayor. In her writings she would glorify Eatonville as a utopia where black Americans could live independent of the prejudices of white society.
DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS: A novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston was the prototypical authority on black culture from the Harlem Renaissance. In this artistic movement of the 1920s black artists moved from traditional dialectical works and imitation of white writers to explore their own culture and affirm pride in their race. Zora Neale Hurston pursued this objective by combining literature with anthropology. She first gained attention with her short stories such as "John Redding Goes to Sea" and "Spunk" which appeared in black literary magazines. After several years of anthropological research financed through grants and fellowships, Zora Neale Hurston's first novel Jonah's Gourd Vine was published in 1934 to critical success. In 1935, her book Mules and Men, which investigated voodoo practices in black communities in Florida and New Orleans, also brought her kudos.
The year 1937 saw the publication of what is considered Hurston's greatest novel Their Eyes Watching God. And the following year her travelogue and study of Caribbean voodoo Tell My Horse was published. It received mixed reviews, as did her 1939 novel Moses, Man of the Mountain. Her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road was a commercial success in 1942, despite its overall absurdness, and her final novel Seraph on the Suwanee, published in 1948, was a critical failure.
Zora Neale Hurston was a utopian, who held that black Americans could attain sovereignty from white American society and all its bigotry, as proven by her hometown of Eatonville. Never in her works did she address the issue of racism of whites toward blacks, and as this became a nascent theme among black writers in the post World War II ear of civil rights, Hurston's literary influence faded. She further scathed her own reputation by railing the civil rights movement and supporting ultraconservative politicians. She died in poverty and obscurity.
DATE OF DEATH: Jan. 28, 1960.
PLACE OF DEATH: Fort Pierce, Fla.
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Post by Sapphire on Feb 14, 2008 0:30:53 GMT -5
LOL. E-Sorors your avi's making me nervous...
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Post by Sapphire on Feb 14, 2008 0:50:04 GMT -5
*Sapphy winds back the clock so that she's really following right after e-soror South and walks to the front of the room*
Hello everyone!
*The room full of children yell out “hello!” back*
Over the years black people have endured violence, struggle, pain and tragedy. But we have also risen and met each and every challenge that comes our way. We have shown love, patience and courage. We rise like butterflies over sadness and work to bring peace and progress to all. If we stay strong, if we stay focused… change gonna come.
*Videotape plays while OO E-Sorors stand to the side*
youtube.com/watch?v=zdQLX_0go58*Sapphy steps back on stage and continues*
Harriet Tubman's life was a true testament of courage, love and determination that stands out prominently in American history. Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman freed herself and played a major role in freeing many others.
She was born into slavery in 1819 or 1820, in Dorchester County, Maryland. As a slave, she was raised under horrible conditions and subjected to whippings even as a small child. She endured inhumane treatment from some masters, bearing the scars of beatings until the day she died at age 91. At the age of 12 she was nearly killed by a severe blow to her head from a dry goods store weight, thrown by an overseer who was attempting to capture another runaway slave. As a result of the severe blow, she suffered intermittent epileptic seizures for the rest of her life.
At the age of 25, she married John Tubman, a free man. But fearing she would be sold into the Deep South she decided to make an escape. When she ran away from Maryland, Mr. Tubman did not join her, but continued his free life in Dorchester County without her.
After freeing herself from slavery Harriett Tubman became a conductor in the Underground Railroad, which was a secret network of safe houses where runaway slaves could stay on their journey north to freedom.
Known as the "Moses of her people,” Tubman made 19 trips to Maryland and helped 300 people to freedom. During these dangerous journeys she helped rescue members of her own family, including her 70-year-old parents. At one point, rewards for Tubman's capture totaled $40,000. Yet, she was never captured and never failed to deliver her "passengers" to safety. As Tubman herself said, "On my underground railroad I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger."
Many slaves dreaming of freedom sang the spiritual "Go Down Moses." Slaves hoped a savior would deliver them from slavery just as Moses had delivered the Israelites from slavery.
Tubman later became a leader in the abolitionist movement, and during the Civil War she was an intelligence gatherer for the federal forces, as well as a nurse.
After the close of the Civil War, Harriet Tubman returned to her home in Auburn, NY. There she married Nelson Davis.
After her death, Harriet Tubman was buried with military honors. She has since received many honors, including the naming of the Liberty Ship Harriet Tubman, christened in 1944 by Eleanor Roosevelt. On June 14, 1914 a large bronze plaque was placed at the Cayuga County Courthouse, and a civic holiday declared in her honor. Freedom Park, a tribute to the memory of Harriet Tubman, opened in the summer of 1994 t in Auburn. In 1995, Harriet Tubman was honored by the federal government with a commemorative postage stamp bearing her name and likeness.
I present you with Harriet Tubman:
www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/tubman/aa_tubman_subj_e.htmlWe are queens. We are diamonds in the rough. We are mothers of the universe. From the beginning of time, we have nurtured, loved, built, taught and dreamed of all that could be. I ask you, where would you be without me? Where would the world be without the Black woman?
*videotape rolls*
youtube.com/watch?v=KUCObA7ZEf0
youtube.com/watch?v=MwJFFxSo6c0
*Forgets where she is and raises fist in the air*
Power to the People! Power to the People!
Happy Black History Month![/b][/color]
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Post by Sapphire on Feb 14, 2008 1:33:07 GMT -5
*Remembers that ReRe wanted to help. Peeps her in the audience and asks if she wants to help pass out the Black History Month packets for the kids*
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Post by Ms. RedamnDickulous on Feb 14, 2008 1:47:08 GMT -5
Sure, let me get that for you!
*Passes out the packets while smiling at the delightful children*
<-------Laying it on thick.
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Post by Julie Art on Feb 14, 2008 9:49:08 GMT -5
*takes notes*
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Post by Sapphire on Feb 14, 2008 10:09:44 GMT -5
*Whisphers to Lizzy... I like her*
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Post by Julie Art on Feb 14, 2008 10:13:15 GMT -5
*Whispers back...... yeah, she cool for now. Lets see how she is as e-time moves forward.*
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*takes notes*
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