Rev. Dr. Joseph Bryant, Jr., Senior Pastor of the Calvary Hill Community Church and San Francisco Bay Area Rainbow P.U.S.H. Director to speak as San Francisco's grandest Easter morning tradition gets under way at 7:00 a.m. on Sunday, March 31, 2013 at the annual Sunrise Service at Mount Davidson Cross. This year's citywide celebration atop the City's highest peak marks the 91st anniversary of the event.

AfroSolo is celebrating it's twentieth session this year. See message from Artistic Director Thomas R. Simpson as he thanks all the artists, audience members, funders, press, volunteers and friends who have helped to make AfroSolo successful. Read about the four ladies making it a "Night with the Divas, featuring the Marcus Shelby Trio."

Only 7 performances remaining for the award-winning and critically acclaimed play, "The Mountaintop," appearing at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto. Special 25% off ticket purchase offer for you. (Click the Headline!) Best New Play 2010, Olivier Award | Regional Premiere A Memphis motel, 1968. First night for a sassy maid-last for an icon of our time, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fresh from the speech of a lifetime. In a breathtaking journey beyond realism, this provocative London/Broadway hit imagines the night before tragedy, burnishing a legend while revealing the flesh-and-blood man behind it. Humorous, magical, it is a daring rumination on life, legacy, and conviction that connects each of us in a remembrance of unforgettable things past. Contains mature language. "Emotionally powerful...theatrically stunning." Variety

CEO & Founder of Stella & Dot,a San Francisco-based 500-Fastest-Growing Company that sells boutique-style jewelry and accessories, will speak on April 11th, 5:30-8:00 p.m. at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel.

Cambodian American Filmmaker Daron Ker's film "Rice Field of Dreams" a center piece of the Oakland International Film Festival (www.oiff.org) will be highlighted at Ft. McKinley Restaurant in South San Francisco at the "Rice Field of Dreams" Red Carpet Preview Reception, Thursday, March 28th, 7:00-10:00 p.m.

Join the fun to support creative youngsters during ArtSeed's ten-hour art-making marathon. Come any time and stay as long as you wish. Collect pledges of sponsorship for every hour you create art or music to help ArtSeed serve more children.ArtSeed's Earth Day Art-a-thon Saturday, April 20th, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The Thoreau Center for Sustainability, in the Presidio of San Francisco

Tyler Perry says "We Can Do Better?" What do you think? Or better yet what will you do? Read his letter from Thursday, March 21, 2013.

"California in Crisis"shows that there are currently 11,616 homes in Wells Fargo's foreclosure pipeline. If these houses go through foreclosure, California will take an entirely unnecessary $3.3 billion hit: Each home will lose approximately 22 percent of its value, for a total loss of approximately $1.07 billion; homes in the surrounding neighborhood will lose value as well, for an additional loss of about $2.2 billion; and government tax revenues will be cut by $20 million, as a result of the depreciation.

From Industry to Journalism: Tone It Down-Google recently laid a little pressure on an Australian technology reporter after she wrote a story on security issues with the Google Play Store. Google insisted that the words "huge" and "massive" be retracted and security flaw be rephrased as security "flaw" - flaw with quotes being apparently somewhat less serious than a flaw without quotes. Read about this story and more from the office of Media Alliance Executive Director, Tracy Rosenberg

Black Men of Honor College Fair, Black Male Reimagined II and more news from the Black Star Project. See the latest e-newsletter.