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Jamie Hector’s Moving Mountains & NYC Paintball Present: “The Streets vs The Law”

Friday, June 11th, 2010

The cast of ‘The Wire’ is reuniting in New York for ‘The Wire: Paintball Edition’ for actor Jamie Hector’s (Marlo) non-profit youth organization Moving Mountains.

The tournament will pit cast members against each other as The Streets Vs. The Law. Players include but are not limited to Michael K. Williams (Omar), Sonja Sohn (Kima), Felicia Pearson (Snoop), Anwan Glover (Slim Charles).

100% of proceeds go to Moving Mountains Youth Summer Program

Tags: actor, charity, Give Back, Hip Hop, summer program, The Wire, Youth With Opinion
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Friday Jan. 22 “Respec’ Haiti” @ Vice in ATL,GA

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

This Friday @ Vice in ATL, GA (255 Trinity Ave.)

RESPEC’ HAITI! A Canned Good Drive and Donation of partial proceeds to benefit the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund.

Free Admission until 11:30 with Canned Good

Music by Vybestarr & DJ Kash

For more info visit:

http://www.irespecfridays.com

Tags: ATL, Give Back, Haiti Earthquake Fund, Party For Purpose, Reggae
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ATL: Rebuild Haiti! Benefit Concert Tonight at Lenny’s Bar

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Tonight at Lenny’s Bar 486 Decatur St. Atlanta, GA 6PM -1AM

REBUILD HAITI BENEFIT CONCERT Perf by

Dre-Money, The Movement, Invisible Circus and More!

For More Info Visit:

www.cariblifecentral.com

www.unitedforjamaica.org

www.transformhaiti.org

ALL PROCEEDS DONATED TO HATIAN RELIEF FUND

Tags: Benefit Concert, Give Back, Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund, Reggae
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LAX Paperboys pres: “The Cool Relief” A Haiti Benefit Concert Sunday Jan 17th

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

100% OF ALL PROCEEDS ARE GOING TO THE VICTIMS OF THE EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI

Los Angeles, CA. January 15, 2010.- This Sunday, January 17th, 9pm-2am Devi Dev & the LAx Paperboys will host The COOL Relief & Haiti Benefit Concert at Echoplex (1154 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles) in support of strategic and efficient Haitian relief efforts. You can play your part by getting involved, telling a friend, or bringing whatever you can (boxes of food, clothes, medical supplies, etc.)

The island of Haiti is widely reported to be the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. They need our help.

The COOL Relief & Haiti Benefit Concert will feature performances by Tiron, Problem, UNI, Fear & Fancy, Diz Gibran, Strong Arm Steady, Cherry Pop, Blu + Mainframe, DOM Kennedy, Pac-Div, Nipsey Hussle and 1500 Or Nothin plus opening sets by DJ Drewbyrd, DJ Bianca G & DJ Sean G.

The entry fee will be a suggested $20 donation. Again, all proceeds will be donated to WWW.YELE.ORG and their Earthquake Alliance. We hope to be able to brighten this dark time with our support and help save as many lives as we possible can. Please support & contact fred@laxpaperboys.com for any questions.

Any support is greatly appreciated. Let’s stay positive and be COOL. TONIGHT @ the Echoplex 1154 Glendale Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90026 9 PM EST

For more info visit:

http://www.laxpaperboys.com

Tags: Cali Love, Give Back, Haiti Relief, Hip Hop Gives Back, LAX PaperBoys, Yele Haiti
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DMV Artists “Helps Haiti Benefit Concert” Monday January 18th

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Washington, D.C. (January 15, 2010)- D.C. artists are coming together Monday, January 18th

at the 9:30 Club to raise much-needed financial support for earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

Wale, coming off of two sold-out shows at the 9:30 Club earlier this month, will headline. He’ll be supported by other D.C. area artists including D.C. Don Juan, Tabi Bonney, Phil Ade, XO, Kingpen Slim, K-Beta, Que (formerly of Day26) – and special surprise guests will take the stage as well.

The benefit concert will be hosted by Chris Cole of BET’s College Hill South Beach. Organized by DMV Helps Haiti, all ticket sales will be donated to the Partners in Health Organization and Yéle Haiti, founded by Wyclef Jean. The artists are donating their performances, the 9:30 Club has donated the use of the venue, club employees are donating their wages and the advance ticket sales service charge also will be donated.

To purchase tickets online go to

http://www.930.com/concerts/

Tags: Benfit Concert, DMV, Give Back, Haiti, Hip Hop Gives Back, Washington D.C.
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"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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Posts Tagged ‘Give Back’

Jamie Hector’s Moving Mountains & NYC Paintball Present: “The Streets vs The Law”

Friday Jan. 22 “Respec’ Haiti” @ Vice in ATL,GA

ATL: Rebuild Haiti! Benefit Concert Tonight at Lenny’s Bar

LAX Paperboys pres: “The Cool Relief” A Haiti Benefit Concert Sunday Jan 17th

DMV Artists “Helps Haiti Benefit Concert” Monday January 18th

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