We were recently invited to attend a digital storytelling workshop facilitated by our friends at AfricAid. Following the model developed by the Center for Digital Storytelling, we created a short video along with a number of other local folks with some connection to Africa. The videos produced in the workshop were then screened at Starz [...]
As you know, tomorrow night is Halloween, and if you don’t yet have party plans you may want to check out one of the All Hallows Eve extravaganzas going on at two local African Restaurants. In Denver, stop by the Palava from 9pm for a halloween bash with no cover charge. Be sure to wear [...]
The Denver-Based literacy organization Ethiopia Reads recently announced the publication of a new children’s book written in English and Amharic. Trouble is a charming Ethiopian tale from award winning children’s author Jane Kurtz, who co-founded Ethiopia Reads with Yohannes Gebregeorgis. Artist Durga Bernhard donated her talents to illustrate the book. Proceeds from sales of Trouble, [...]
Entrepreneurial Proposals Collectively Represent More Than $22 Million In Diaspora Investment in African Communities WASHINGTON DC & DENVER, October 26, 2009 — Sixty finalists for the African Diaspora Marketplace (ADM), with proposals representing more than $22 million of diaspora business investment to spur job creation in their native countries, were announced today by Western Union [...]
The Denver chapter of Young People’s Front for Democracy and Justice recently hosted Eritrean stars Korchach and Bekita Ali at the Red Lion Hotel in Denver. If you weren’t there, check out the article below and the video that follows for a taste of what you missed. If you were there, let us know what [...]
by Martha Riley What do Manute Bol, Smiling Moose Deli, Wystone’s World Teas, Two Worlds Connect, and 500 Sudanese and Americans have in common? A goal of bringing clean water to the people of the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. All of these converged at Campus Middle School and Cherry Creek State Park on Sunday afternoon, [...]
Provides Much Needed Access to Healthcare, Education and Economic Opportunities DENVER–(Business Wire)– Imagine having to walk 15 miles to get the medication you need to save your life. That`s just what Africans have to do in the rural town of Singalamwe, Namibia where the HIV infection rate has reached 40 percent. Bicycles for Humanity Colorado (B4H), a Denver/Boulder-based [...]
This Sunday Denver non-profit AfricAid will host the second annual Kisa Film Festival at the Starz Film Center. The festival will feature a number of shorts by Coloradans about their connection to places around the continent of Africa. Each of the two screenings, one at 4pm and another at 6:15, will play the 2004 Sengalese-Spanish [...]
Commentator Pius Kamau recently contributed a piece to KUNC entitled The Black Conundrum. Listen below and visit KUNC for the full transcript of Dr. Kamau’s commentary. _______________ A growing number of high-profile black Americans seem to be interested in knowing more about their African American heritage these days. KUNC commentator Pius Kamau says they’re turning to [...]
Denver-based humanitarian organization the 1010 Project recently joined Global Giving on a challenge to raise $4000 in one month to fund a computer lab in a partner school in Kenya. The group’s supporters successfully met the challenge, raising enough money to provide computers for Candlelight School’s 307 students and securing the 1010 project a permanent [...]
