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 […]
Requiem for Malcolm X Tribute Concert
Mon., May 19, 2025, $35 per set; Showtimes: Doors Open: 7 pm, Concert: 8 pm, Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, 201 Lenox Ave, @120th St. Harlem, NYC Sistas’ Place, where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, presents This Monday, May 19th, a Requiem for Malcolm X Tribute Concert with Music, […]
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 […]
Film Showing: “Fundi, The Story of Ella Baker”
Sat., March 8, 2025, $35 per set; Showtimes: Doors Open: 7:30 pm, 1st Show: 8 pm. 2nd Show: 9:30 pm. Sistas’ Place, 456 Nostrand Avenue, Frederick Douglass Square (formerly Nostrand & Jefferson Aves.), where Jazz: A Music of the Spirit Lives and Culture is our Weapon, is in its 30th season with the music of […]
December 12th Movement – Celebrating 38th Anniversary Program
Fri., December 12, 2025, House of the Lord Church, 415 Atlantic Ave. (off Bond St.), Brooklyn, NY Doors Open: 6:30 pm, Program: 7 pm. Join the December 12th Movement to Celebrate Our 38th Anniversary Program with the First Inaugural Viola Plummer Serve The People Award this Fri., December 12, 2025. Award Recipients: Sister Pam Africa […]
D12M Celebrates Centennials of Patrice Lumumba, Malcolm X & Frantz Fanon
Sun. December 28, 2025, 2 pm, 456 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, NY – Map Join us to celebrate the Centennials of Patrice Lumumba, Malcolm X and Frantz Fanon. We will discuss their lives and legacy as we continue to integrate the lessons that these freedom fighters exemplified about Self-Determination, Courage, and Pan-Africanism. Questions? Call (718) 398-1766.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day We March!
Monday, January 19, 2026, 12 Noon: Assemble at Jitu Weusi Plaza, Harriet Tubman Blvd (Fulton St. & Grand Ave.), (Map) C to Franklin Stop Brooklyn, NY 1 pm: March, Harriet Tubman Blvd. (Fulton St.), Brooklyn, NY 2:30 pm: Rally, Malcolm X Blvd. Plaza at Corner of Harriet Tubman Blvd., Brooklyn, NY (Map) A to Utica […]