The event will be held on Wednesday, February 27, 2006 at (you guessed it) noon.
Harambee members are expected to arrive at 11:30am to help set up and be at the practice on Tuesday evening (email Enesha for details). The theme for the service, in line with the Div School celebration of women, is:
"Remembering Women in the Struggle"
The service is dedicated to the named and unnamed women that participated in the struggle for black rights.
In Remembrance of:
Septima Clark, Alberta Williams King, Bernice Scott, Daisy May Bates, Ella Baker, Billie Jean young, Mary McLeod Bethune, Constance Baker Motley, Margie Pitts-Haines, Bertha Mae Carter, Rosa Parks, Ethel Mae Mathews, Dorothy Bolton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Coretta Scott King, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Shabazz, Victoria Way DeLee, Clara Muhammad, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, Ida B. Wells, Anne Julia Cooper, Alice Dunbar Nelson, and many more....
The service will include drumming, remarks, slide presentations, prayers for the community, a segment to remember our ancestors, singing of the black national anthem, and you can't forget refreshments (the good ones)!!
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