George Thomas "Mickey" Leland Library and Museum of African History, Culture and Social Change, Inc.

Calendar of Events 2001

Black United Fund of Texas  and the George Thomas "Mickey " Leland
Library and Museum of African History, Culture and Social Change, Inc.
"Schedule of Events for 2001". PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR. If any one
would like to volunteer please contact me at 713-534-5767.

January---- the George Thomas " Mickey" Leland Library and Museum of
African History, Culture and Social Change in concert with Black United
Fund of Texas will host 12 men and women ( ages 25-48) from Nairobi,
Kenya. We are looking for host families, because they would like to
experience living with a Black family in America. Also we will re-enact
a Kwanzaa celebration for their pleasure and understanding, everyone is
welcome to help out. Also we will travel to Austin and Dallas.(a 1 day
event in each city) We will need help in both places. Maybe a reception
or a get together to meet and greet everyone. After they arrive the stay
will be for a month in America. It is so hard getting permission to
visit America out of Africa, sometimes, so they will make the best of
it.  I need all board members and advisory council to help with a
welcome reception in Houston, Austin and Dallas. This has been very hard
pulling off this time do to government back-log and whatever. Thank You.

 Stay at Home Tea( Kenya tea) Thank You Reception ( mail-out all of Jan)
Need volunteers.

February open

Black United Fund of Texas, Inc

March--- is our Annual Media, Corporate, Community Leadership Luncheon
3rd thursday.
As always it will be held on the court yard of the Walter Bremond Center
-the Black United Fund of Texas Buildingg, 5407 Chenevert @ Calumet in
the Museum Dist. This years honorees have not been chosen, so if you
have someone in any of these areas who should be saluted please let us
know.  Also we want to have a panel to really have an open forum and
discussion, rather than a just a speaker. We need to truly share with
Media concerns and ideas for better programming. TV plays a very
important role in the lives of our children, like it or not and we must
stop the sex and violence. Children have to much access to this
vehicle, therefore, we must do something.

May---A Conference on Mental Illness in the Black Community---Looking At
Suicide and It's Many Forms as a Real Issue.

June 9, 2001---- Building Wealth in the Black Community-- Black Wall
Street will present a 1 day conference on Building Wealth. These brokers
are from the company Cromwell, Green and Greer on Wall Street (all
Black) have traveled around the country teaching and sharing with the
community "How to Invest With Little To Get Big Returns". This company
is working in concert with Black Enterprise to help our community to
start investment clubs for children, women and churches. These are
people with additional resources and yet have not placed their money in
a wealth building tool.

George Thomas "Mickey" Leland Library and Museum of African History,
Culture and Social Change, Inc. and the Black United Fund of Texas, Inc.

June 20-July 3, 2000--- Two trips to Africa----Dakar,Senegal and Banjal,
Gambia include airfare, hotel (5 star), breakfast and dinner (both
countries) travel by ferry to Goree Island (Lunch on the Island) visit
THe Slave House. A cruise to the Gambia( lunch on board)--tickets to the
Roots Festival, Kings Gala, all museums, a boat ride to Jureffre Village
( home of Alex Haley's Ancestors) and St James Island, a visit to the
Tie Dye Company were you can shop for some of the most beautiful sheets,
Mud Cloth, clothes, jewelry, artifacts and wood cravings for reasonable
prices. A naming ceremony, Rites of Passage, with the President of the
country in Kandili, Gambia the President's home village and more. All
ground transportation and luggage handling is also included and much
more.  This trip's total cost $1,980 from New York.

2nd Trip- same time- Senegal/ Ghana

Senegal is the same as above.

Hotel (5 star), breakfast and dinner, some lunches on the road to other
cities and places will be provided, airfare,( a wonderful dinner and
breakfast served) ground transportation, luggage handling( in both
countries) all is included in cost.  Ghana--A much larger trip with 3
cities included. Ashanti Village with the Ashanti Kings and Royal
Families, Kente Cloth country-- Kamasi, visit the manufacture that
produce the beautiful cloth, see how it's made and experience how to
make it. A naming ceremony for men and women, a trip to Cape Coast to
the Slave Castle. A visit to the December 31st Women a project of the
First Lady of Ghana, Mrs Rawlin's. Shopping at varies markets at
reasonable prices and beautiful gold and leather, and much more. Also
all tickets for any events is in this one cost--- This trip's total cost
from New York  is     $ 2,358.00. For more information and to make
reservations now-- please call 713-524-5767.

Black United Fund of Texas, Inc.

August---Conference on the Prison Reform and the Falsely Incarcerated.
This is in concert with MASS ( Dallas) and the Sentencing Project
(Washington, D.C.) Date to be announced

October 3rd friday and saturday
The 12th Evening of African American Excellence to be held at the The
all New Black owned Grand Room Downtown. Praise the Lord!!!!!! more
information will follow as honorees are selected. At this time Beatrice
Berry author and talk show host has confirmed. This year will be
unbelievable, trust me. Tickets are $75.00 and $100.00 each.

Again thank you for your network, please share this information.

Yours In Self Help
Faithfully,
Cleo Glenn-Johnson

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Again thank you for your network, please share this information.

Yours In Self Help
Faithfully,
Cleo Glenn-Johnson

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