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Charles McCree presents 2nd Annual “Walk a Mile In My Shoes” Fundaraiser

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Music Executive, Charles McCree once again is calling on the support of the entertainment industry to give back in a very major way. Mr. McCree will enlist the help of some of the music business’ top movers and shakers to help raise over 10,000 pairs of shoes for the homeless and those in need for…

The 2^nd Annual Charles McCree Presents: “PROJECT WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES” set to take place December 19th in Atlanta, GA.

PROJECT: WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES raised over 2,500 pairs of shoes, and made donations to: Hosea Feed the Hungry, the Atlanta Union/My Sister’s House, Kicks for Kids; It’s Cool to Be Smart and the Boys and Girls Club of Atlanta.

Some of last year’s participants:

Tangie: Radio Personality for Atlanta V-103

DTLR

Amir Boyd: VP of Radio Promo for Grand Hustle (who donated over 450 pairs of brand new shoes)

Aaron Hudson: C.E.O of Entertainment Ventures Inc.

Ivory Weems: Artist Development for Disturbing Tha Peace Records

Entertainment Lawyer Charles Mathis & The Staff of the Mathis Law Firm

Nicole Garner of the Garner Circle PR Firm

Mike “Big Mike” Taylor of Upscale Ent./PhatFarm

and

Ernel Dawkins Owner of Laced Up Sneaker Boutique

Tags: Atlanta Charity, charity, Fundraiser, Give Back, Shoes For Youth, Walk In My Shoes, Youth With Opinion
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Kevin Powell’s “9th Annual Holiday Party and Clothing Drive”

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Friday, December 11, 2009
10pm-4am

at TRIBECA CINEMAS
54 Varick Street, at Laight Street
Right near the Holland Tunnel in Lower Manhattan
NEW YORK CITY

SUBWAYS:
1, A, C, E trains to Canal Street

ADMISSION IS FREE with the donation of CLEAN new or used clothes, which will benefit the SAFE HORIZON STREETWORK PROJECT, a program that assists approximately 10,000 NYC homeless young people each year with temporary or permanent housing, and other vital services. PLEASE BRING coats, gloves, scarves, hats, boots, shoes, shirts, pants, sweaters, sweatshirts, thermal underwear, socks, etc., for the winter months.

For more info visit: http://www.kevinpowell.net/

RSVP to rsvp@kevinpowell.net
You MUST be 21 or over with an I.D.
Cash bar entire night

MUSIC BY:
DJ Beverly Bond, DJ Misbehaviour, and DJ Reborn

ALL MEDIA INQUIRIES:
Marisa King-Redwood, mking@buzzig.com, or 212-360-0399

THE EVENT WILL INCLUDE:
-DANCE PARTY
-ACOUSTIC LOUNGE
-SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
-LIVE VISUAL ART
-COMEDY ROOM
-FASHION DISPLAY
-MASSAGES

Tags: Clothing Drive, Holiday, Kevin Powell, Party With Purpose
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The Frazier School

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

PRESS RELEASE

-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-

THE FRAZIER SCHOOL IS STEPPING OUT TO LAUNCH!!!

ATLANTA, Georgia, December 1, 2009 – The Frazier School is hosting its first ground breaker fund raising event on December 6, 2009 at the Rise Sushi Lounge, located in Atlanta, GA at 5:00 p.m. This event will be not only a momentous impact on the future of the Frazier School, but it will allow the opportunity to introduce the Frazier School to all communities within Metro Atlanta.

The mission of the Frazier School, a charter school to be launched in Atlanta in 2011, is simple yet powerful: to provide students in Atlanta with a safe environment where they will develop the knowledge, skills, and characteristics necessary for success in top quality high schools, colleges, and the competitive world that awaits them. Armed with these skills and achievements, the students and parents of the Frazier School will recognize an outstanding education as the instrument to achieve personal success and empowerment. The students of the Frazier School will soon learn that Attitude Determines Altitude to realizing these goals.

The dress code for this event is cosmopolitan. Appetizers will be served as well. We are seeking donations, volunteers, staff, and sponsors. All donations are tax deductible. All time volunteered can be honored as community service hours.

Come celebrate the birth and beginnings of the Frazier School! As you remember your childhood, think about making an impact in someone’s life.

Contact: Imani McIntosh
Phone: (678) 698-1329

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Tags: empowerment, Frazier School, HHGB, Project R.A.I.D, Rise Sushi Lounge
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Kevin Powell

"My life-calling is to be a servant for the people, period. Money, fame, status, personal achievements, and all that means very little to me when pain and suffering are still real on this planet. I am interested in the powerless becoming powerful." - Kevin Powell

Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America's most important voices in these early years of the 21st century. Legendary feminist Gloria Steinem asserts that "as a charismatic speaker, leader, and a very good writer, Kevin Powell has the courage...to be fully human, and this will bring the deepest revolution of all." Internationally acclaimed scholar and social critic Dr. Michael Eric Dyson has called Powell "a mighty wind of fresh air." And of Kevin Powell, the writer asha bandele says, "When you consider the intelligence and breadth of Kevin Powell's writing and activism, you come to the conclusion that there may be no better spokesperson and representative for a generation that has too long been counted out."

Kevin Powell is a political activist, poet, journalist, essayist, hiphop historian, public speaker, and entrepreneur. A product of extreme poverty, welfare, fatherlessness, and a single mother-led household, he is a native of Jersey City, New Jersey and was educated at New Jersey's Rutgers University. Kevin Powell is a longtime resident of Brooklyn, New York, and it is from his base in New York City that Powell has published seven books, including his current title, Someday We'll All Be Free (Soft Skull Press). This new book is a collection of provocative essays on freedom, democracy, justice, and race in America, as inspired by Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 presidential election, and September 11th. Powell is set to publish two books in 2008, No Sleep Till Brooklyn, his second volume of poetry; and The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life. Additionally, Powell is at work on his childhood memoir, homeboy alone, slated for 2010, and The Kevin Powell Anthology (2011), which will highlight the first twenty-five years of his literary career. Indeed, he has written numerous essays, articles, and reviews through the years for publications such as Esquire, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Essence, Rolling Stone, The Amsterdam News, and Vibe, where he was a founding staff member and served as a senior writer, interviewing and profiling, among many others, General Colin Powell and the late Tupac Shakur. Most recently Powell has been a Writing Fellow for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, as well as a Phelps Stokes Fund Senior Fellow. And Powell is currently a 2008 Democratic candidate for the United State Congress in Brooklyn, New York (http://www.kevinpowellforcongress.org).

A gifted and highly sought after public speaker, Powell has lectured on multiculturalism, building corporate responsibility, American and Black American history, the life of Dr. King, civil rights, American politics and civic engagement, sexism from a male perspective, leadership, social activism, the state of hiphop, redefining American manhood, and being Black and male in America, among other topics, at hundreds of colleges and universities, community centers, prisons, religious institutions, conferences, and festivals, as well as in corporate settings. Furthermore, Kevin Powell routinely offers his insights on a variety of matters, to TV, radio, newspaper, magazine, and internet outlets in America, and abroad.

A fixture on the pop culture landscape the past several years, Powell was a cast member on the first season of MTV's "The Real World"; hosted and produced programming for HBO and BET; written a screenplay; hosted and wrote an award-winning MTV documentary about post-riot Los Angeles; and was the Guest Curator of the Brooklyn Museum of Art's "Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage" which originated at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, and of which Powell was the exhibition consultant" the first major exhibit in America on the history of hiphop.

Of paramount importance to Kevin Powell, however, is his activism. He has been a leader in some form or fashion for over twenty years, dating back to his days as a teenager at Rutgers University. He was a participant in the student-led anti-apartheid movement, the drive to end racism in South Africa. He has been at the forefront of police brutality and racial bias cases. He has worked for years around voting rights. Powell is one of the most prominent voices in the hiphop generation, and he has organized a number of concerts, mc battles, rallies, and forums that stress the use of hiphop as a tool for social change. As a result of his own past personal struggles, contradictions, growth, and a commitment to therapy and healing, Kevin has become a very outspoken critic of violence against women and girls, of violence in general, and he has been at the forefront of the movement to redefine American manhood away from sexism and violence. Powell also plays a key role in the Black male development arena, having produced, the past few years, among other things, a 10-city State of Black Men Tour, numerous Black male think tank sessions, and Black and Male in America, a 3-Day national conference (http://www.blackandmaleinamerica.org). Powell has taught, mentored, and counseled in schools, camps, prisons, and on the streets of urban America. He produces an annual holiday party and clothing drive every December in New York City that benefits the needy. And Powell was a central figure in Gulf Coast disaster relief efforts, facilitating the delivery of goods and services to the affected regions, and being a cofounder of "Katrina on the Ground," an initiative that sent over 700 college students to work in the devastated region.

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