Friday, December 22, 2023, 7 pm (doors open 6:30 pm), Prince Joshusa Avitto Center, 876 Schenck Ave. (bet. Stanley & Wortman), Brooklyn, NY • get directions. Our Community Thanks Inez & Charles for Dedicating Themselves to Leading, Building, and Protecting Our Community. A Free Community Invitation Music * Speakers * Food Community Organizations Get 8.5″ […]
Viola Plummer, Last of Original December 12th Movement Co-Founders, Rests; Struggle Continues
Article last updated January 17, 2024. By Nayaba Arinde, Editor-at-Large. Gratefully reprinted from Our Time Press (original article). On the day after the January 15th death of Viola Plummer, friends and family gathered at her Sista’s Place jazz and community venue in Bed-Stuy, to commune, reminisce, and share food prepared by Attorney Esmeralda Simmons […]
The Magnificent Homegoing of Viola Plummer, ‘Matriarch of the Movement’
January 30, 2024, Reprinted from The Final Call – January 30, 2024. https://new.finalcall.com/2024/01/30/the-magnificent-homegoing-of-viola-plummer-matriarch-of-the-movement/ By Nayaba Arinde, @NayabaArinde1. NEW YORK—The “People’s Republic of Brooklyn,” sent New York-based international activist Viola Plummer home as if she were a head of state, with a grand four-hour funeral with hundreds of family members, friends, and colleagues celebrating her life’s […]
Jazz Tribute to Sista Viola Plummer–SOLD OUT!
SOLD OUT! For more info contact Sistas’ Place at (718) 398-1766 . Sun., February 25, 2024, $35, 3 – 7 pm, Bed-Stuy Restoration Corp. 1368 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY Map/directions. Take A,C to Nostrand Ave. & walk 1.5 blocks. LIRR to Nostrand Av. Sistas’ Place where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture […]