Temple of Mercy Association host Black Heritage Banquet
The Temple of Mercy Association will present its Black Heritage 2000
Saturday, 2000 at Chicago Celebrations', 11901 S. Loomis from 7 p.m. until
11 p.m. Dinner will be served at 8 p.m. The theme of the dinner is Knowledge
o f self broke every shackle & chain'.
Guest speaker for the event are Attorney Lew Meyers Jr. for Louis Farrakhan
& Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. A member of the Dream Team' will speak. For
additional or ticket information, call 773/483-1535.
Renowned Black feminist intellectual Bell Hooks to discuss her new
work
Bell Hooks, renowned writer, critic, educator, and Black feminist intellectual,
discusses her new work, All About Love: New Visions on Wednesday, February
2 at 6 p.m. at the Chicago Public Library's Harold Washington Center, 400
s. State Street. Please use the Plymouth Court entrance. This event is
cosponsored by the Chicago Public Library and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
Please call 773/684-1300 with questions.
Avoid Post-holiday blues and support a worthy cause
Avoid the post-holiday blues and support a worthy charity by participating
in fundraisers sponsored by the Chicago Bar Association (CBA) Young Lawyers
Section(YLS). The YLS is sponsoring three fund raisers in the months of
January and February, including the YLS Mardi Gras fundraiser and benefits
for the Law Explorers and Voices for Illinois Children.
Voices for Illinois Children will be held Thursday, January 27, 2000,
at North Beach Club, at Weed and Sheffield Streets, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door, and include access to sand
volleyball and miniature golf. For tickets or more information about this
event, call Jim at 312/516-5552.
Historian and public affairs commentator to speak on Martin Luther
King Jr. Day
Manny Marable professor of history and political science and director
of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia,
will be keynote speaker for the University of Chicago's ecumenical observance
of Martin Luther King Jr. Day at noon on Monday, Jan. 17, in Rockefeller
Memorial Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave.
In addition to Marable's address, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day program
will include poetry readings, dance, drama and musical performances. Rev.
Alison Boden, Dean of Rockefeller chapel, will present the invocation,
and a student will read passages from King's writing.
Free Genealogy Lecture/Forum
A free Genealogy lecture will be given January 15, 2000 at the Woodson
Regional Library Center, 9525 South Halsted, Chicago 60643. The lecture
meets 9:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. and the topic is Family Reunion.' Speakers
include Almeeta Steemer (What's is in a name?), Velma Gladney Griot Storyteller)
and Donna Beasley, Author of Family Reunion Planner. Call 312/7847-6910.
The Appraisal Fair January 22 & 23 rescheduled
Home and Garden Television Network's The Appraisal Fair,' originally
scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, January 22 and 23 in Navy Pier's Crystal
Gardens, has been canceled due to a scheduling conflict.
The Appraisal Fair' will resume taping in the Crystal Gardens at Navy
Pier Saturday, and Sunday, February 19 and 20, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Thomas Cahill at the Chicago Public Library
Best-selling author Thomas Cahill will visit the Chicago Public Library
to discuss and sign his new book, Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The
World Before and After Jesus.
The program will be held on Thursday, January 27 at 6:00 p.m., in the
Lower Level Auditorium of the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S.
State St. this even is cosponsored by Seminary Co-op Bookstores. For more
information, please call the Library's Communication Office at 312/747-4050.
Offices to close for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
All Secretary of State offices and facilities will be closed for Martin
Luther King Day, Secretary of State Jesse White announced. The only exception
is Ford City Mall. The holiday is observed by all state agencies.
Driver Services facilities outside Cook County and the Chicago West,
Midlothian and Niles facilities in Cook County, which normally are open
Tuesday through Saturday, will be closed Saturday, January 15, and will
reopen Tuesday, Jan. 18. All offices that normally are open Monday through
Friday will be closed Monday, Jan. 17, and will resume business Tuesday,
Jan. 18.
Free on-site counseling available at SCORE
SCORE offers free confidential counseling daily, Monday-Friday from
8:30 a.m. to1:00 p.m. No appointment is necessary. A Business Information
Center is also maintained which contains excellent reference materials
and computers. If you would like more information on SCORE counseling,
its eleven locations or workshops, call 312/353-7724 or visit 9our website
at http://www.scorechicago.org
African Americans in Ohio and Civil War maps are subjects of new
web presentation
The American Memory Program of the Library of Congress has just made
available two new presentations of historical materials: The African-American
Experience in Ohio' and Civil War Maps.'
The collections of materials relating to American-history that
are available from American Memory (www.loc.gov) are drawn from the Library
of Congress whose collections are unparalleled in their depth and diversityas
well as from other repositories.