March 31, 2014
Congratulations to Executive Director, David Roach as the 12th Annual Oakland International Film Festival gets underway on Thursday, April 3rd at the historic Grand Lake Theater. Enjoy a lovely evening of artistic savior-faire as Jimmy Jean Louis, "The Haitian of NBC's former "Heroes" show, lights up the screen as a true hero, Toussaint Louverture produced by a French production company. It's truly a French Connection…in French with English Subtitles. The Oakland International Film Festival, April 3-6!
March 24, 2014
San Francisco publicist, Jackie Wright of Wright Enterprises, shares a glimpse into her "salt of the earth" parents, that she says exemplifies the millions of families. who work to make the U.S.A. great, yet the stories of their lives and contributions are often overlooked. After 50 and 44 years respectively, Wright and her siblings had their parents exhumed from different cemeteries in two different states to have them rejoined at Arlington National Cemetery as its 150th Anniversary is to be celebrated, fulfilling the biblical mandate to "Honor Thy Father and Mother."
March 20, 2014
Jackie Wright of Wright Enterprises, shares how people of the funeral industry has a newfound place in the hearts and minds of her siblings and herself, after they reburied their parents at Arlington National Cemetery, March 10, 2014. Parents, Sp5 Wyley and Ouida Wright were buried in two separate cemeteries in two different states for 50 and 44 years respectively. During the 150th Anniversary of Arlington National Cemetery and the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement their memorial trek began by removing their father a decorated hero, recipient of the Air Medal and two Purple Hearts spanning two wars, from the segregated Mt. Olive Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida on Monday, March 3, 2014.
March 19, 2014
From the Office of Dr. Joseph Bryant Jr., Director of Bay Area P.U.S.H.-Rev. Jesse Jackson will lead a delegation to the Hewlett Packard Annual Shareholder Meeting on March 19, calling attention to the lack of minority inclusion in Silicon Valley. He will shine the light on the virtual absence of African Americans in corporate boardrooms, C-suites, financial transactions, advertising and professional services.
March 18, 2014
In less than two weeks, Martin Luther King III will be a guest speaker for The Barbara Lee & Elihu Harris Lecture Series. This free event will take place on Saturday, March 29th, 7pm at the Allen Temple Baptist Church located at 8501 International Blvd. in Oakland. If you haven't RSVPed yet, you to do so now as space is limited.
March 18, 2014
Filmmaker and native San Franciscan, Jacquie Taliaferro is fighting for his family's property in San Francisco. His is just one of the stories of people appealing to Wells Fargo and other banks for a humanitarian solution to the foreclosure crisis. The banks were bailed out says Taliaferro, the least that can be done is that homeowners be giving affordable modified loans.
March 17, 2014
WRBL of Columbus, Georgia report on the quest of Jackie Wright of Wright Enterprises and her sibling's to "Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother" as they exhumed them from cemeteries in Florida and Georgia for the 50th and 44th anniversaries of their passing into eternity to be reburied at Arlington National Cemetery…..Love Separated in Life Due to The Viet Nam War is now Reunited in Honor."
February 27, 2014
Phyllis Cameron and husband Woodrow Cameron, residents of Antioch, CA find their desire to open a home for seniors is embedded in the legacy of Mrs. Cameron's parents, Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr. and Ouida Fay McLendon Wright, who will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, March 10, 2014.
February 27, 2014
CBS 5 and KBLX receive thanks from the SF NCBW for support of the Golden Girls "Bridging the Generations" Hats and Gloves Tea. Historic Marcus Bookstore Needs Your Help! Make a difference for this historic landmark. Get the rest of the story on other community news.
February 20, 2014
"It's a Black History Story. It's An American History Story. It's a Human Story. It's a Love Story." Jackie Wright of Wright Enterprises joins with her siblings to "honor their father and mother" as they move Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr. from a segregated cemetery in Florida and Ouida F. McLendon Wright from a perpetual cemetery in Georgia to Arlington National Cemetery for a March 10th reburial. Wright died March 9th 1964 as an honor guard for Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. Mrs. Wright died of pancreatic cancer, March 9, 1970, after building a home for their children.