✊🏾Huntington, West Virginia - Word, Knowledge, and Rhyme will light up our Black. History in a multi-level, intergenerational, mixed-genre event. 5 Scholars, 2 podcast hosts, and 6 Hip-hop MCs siphon an element of history through a podcast conversation (the Biz), then lecture expands the facts (scholars), and then Hip-hop MCs (rappers) spit original rhymes on the same topic. Think... Podcast meets Ted Talk meets Coachella. Event Date: Saturday, November 6, 2021 - Showtime: 3-5 p.m.

The G.I.F.T. Project stop the violence block party, November 4, 2021, Glenwood Avenue, Charleston‘s West Side, 4 PM to 7 PM.  For a table contact

- West Virginia CROWN Coalition Meeting Fridays at 4 PM.   The Crown Act stands for “Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair.”  For more information text “info” to 304-896-9534.  Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85649537534?pwd=Zmt0Wm5KcUNzNG9qa0IzSjlKYWNQZz09

🎙 Online - Our Voices, Weekly podcast forum to discuss issues impacting the African-American community and allies.  This week former WV Secretary of State Natalie Tenant

https://www.facebook.com/1114402184/posts/10221043632336529/

☕️ Online - WV Women’s Commission Talk & Tea monthly episode launched November 5, 2021,   Featured guest speaker Crystal Allen, Director of the WV Families of Convicted Peoples.  Like the page

🧪 Rand - PAAC Covid-19 Surge Testing Team drive-thru Testing, Vaccination & Booster Clinic on November 3

10- 2pm at Levi First Missionary Baptist Church located at 5125 Church Drive.   For more information visit

or call 304-741-7157. Visit the PAAC Covid-19 Surge Team on Facebook and Instagram @PAAC.Surge for updates.

Community Events week of Nov. 2, 2021

Word, Knowledge, and Rhyme will light up our Black. History in a multi-level, intergenerational, mixed-genre event. 5 Scholars, 2 podcast hosts, and 6 Hip-hop MCs siphon an element of history through a podcast conversation (the Biz), then lecture expands the facts (scholars), and then Hip-hop MCs (rappers) spit original rhymes on the same topic.

Think... Podcast meets Ted Talk meets Coachella.

Event Date: Saturday, November 6, 2021 - Showtime: 3-5 p.m.

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