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"Thanks For Your Giving"
Primed & Prepped Launches its Year End Giving Campaign with a Cell Party at the Bayview YMCA 11/16/17...Let the giving begin and keep on keeping on...
See how your support can make a difference...
Kelly Armstrong, not only makes a way for young people to engage in the hospitality industry, she's out there supporting others as well. A week before her own fundraiser, Armstrong stopped by Chef Alice Cravens' "In the Heat of the Kitchen" at Ida B. Wells Alternative High School to help raise funds during a fun "Long Table Event!"
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San Francisco Chapter National Coalition of 100 Black Women
Workforce Development Program, My Sister's Keeper Financial Literacy, Covered CA Partnership and more benefit from the San Francisco Chapter National Coalition of 100 Black Women "Day at the Races" Fundraiser. Check it out!
A LOVE STORY AMID WAR
"Love Separated in Life..Love Reunited In Honor" Directed by Jackie Wright &
Jack LiVolsi Among Films in Sixth Annual "San Francisco Veterans Film Festival
Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr., a Knight of the Air of the 114th Aviation Company serving in Vietnam ("
First to Arrive the Last to Leave"), is finally laid to rest after fifty years in a segregated southern cemetery in honor at hallowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery with his Lady, Ouida. Their children tell the 2014 story of love reunited almost to the day of the anniversary of their deaths. George Moll, a nineteen year old White Houston, Texas native, who served with Wright and Ginger Shannon Young, who was the young wife of helicopter pilot, Kenneth A. Shannon, who died within five days of Wright, an honor guard for Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, joined the Wright siblings at the March 10, 2014 celebration. "It's not a sad story. It's a story of the triumph of Love," said Joe N. Wright of Columbus, GA, son & U.S. Army Veteran.
CLICK HERE FOR A LIST OF SF VETERANS FILM FESTIVAL FILMS @ SAN FRANCISCO MAIN LIBRARY, DECEMBER 2-3, 2017. FREE TO THE PUBLIC. "Love Separated in Life...Love Reunited in Honor," a 14 minutes documentary that debuted at June 2017 San Francisco Black Film Festival on Father's Day in Honor of Veterans at the Marines Memorial Hotel, will be screened December 3, 2017 at 3:05 p.m at the San Francisco Library on Larkin Street. "Thanks to Eddie Ramirez, founder of OneVet OneVoice and the San Francisco Veterans Film Festival and his team.
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You May Have Missed...
Did the documentary make or miss the mark? See what San Francisco writer Anh Lê has to say. The article has a foreword by Mrs. Ginger Shannon Young, who was made a widow with two children at the combat death of her pilot husband Lt. Kenneth A. Shannon, March 15, 1964. And Charles Blatcher, III , Chairman, National Coalition of Black Veteran Organizations speaks on the subject of "Blacks serving Disproportionately in the Service during the Vietnam Conflict."
Bay Area Entrepreneur Dwayne Sparks Share Info on "You Better Not Tell!"
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Cindy Owyoung's "
Breaking the Glass Forums: Women of Color Leadership Forum Changing the Game" Conference November 7 @ Medallia in San Mateo..
An Excellent line up of leaders. What I like most
about events like this are the people you meet or reconnect with in the audience. So it was with running into Dr. Jennifer R. Cohen! (Wow...she looks a lot like...San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen?! O.K. O.K., cute, I mean "cut" from the same achievement cloth...They are sisters!)
"Role Models Make a Difference"...in a few Words!
Just a little more from Dr. Cohen... Share with your STEM Students!
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