Kitchen Table Talks
Flyer posted widely on social media. Services provided by Ms. Afrika Abney
Ms. Afrika Abney provided an array of consulting services for the African American Women's Resource Center operated by Ms. Cassandra Burton in 2017. Some of the services that Ms. Abney provided included online flyer dissemination announcing Kitchen Table Talks and sending press releases via email as well as social media.
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www.hillrag.com/2017/12/07/kitchen-table-talks/
PRESS RELEASE FOR KITCHEN TABLE TALKS
For Immediate Release
Contact: Ms. Cassandra Burton, The African American Women's Resource Center
840 First Street, NE – Third Floor
Washington, DC 20002
The African American Women's Resource Center presents Kitchen Table Talks
Washington, D.C. - Join the African American Women's Resource Center for Kitchen Table Talks on December 2, 2017, December 9, 2017, December 30, 2017 and January 6, 2018 from 10:00am to 1:00pm at 840 First Street, NE – Third Floor in Washington, D.C.
About The African American Women's Resource Center
" The African American Women’s Resource Center (AAWRC) is a nonprofit educational and cultural organization whose mission is to empower and support women and girls of the African Diaspora in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area.
The vision of the AAWRC was born in 1994 in the atmosphere of a local Black women-owned bookstore. During weekly conversations, women began to realize the importance of discussing the many issues affecting women of the African Diaspora and finding ways to meet the needs that they shared. Over 23 years later, the AAWRC continues to promote the mission and visions of the founders, and to include as a natural part of its vision, the empowerment of women, girls, and their communities.
The highlights of our long history of programs are here. These programs, the backbone of our organization, have provided and served women and girls in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area in powerful ways. In this new era, in response to the deepening challenges facing our women and girls, we are fortifying two of the AAWRC programs. The first program is the Oratory Contest for Teenage Girls, which empowers middle and high school girls to find their voices and speak their truths. The second program is the In-Her-Light Series workshops where women meet, share, and learn how to build on their strengths."
About the Kitchen Table Talks
This initiative, Kitchen Table Talks, is formed because we believe that we need to gain from the knowledge and strategies of women who were engaged in organizing social justice movements in the 70's, 80's and 90's in order to help us increase strategies/ for the fights of today. We do this by having Kitchen Table talks with women of color who participated in the Movement: be it Civil Rights, the rights of Women, or the rights of the LGBT community. (Kitchen Table talks come from an African American tradition of people sitting around the kitchen table sharing important and often life-saving information in a manner that everyone at the table could understand and act upon.) Five women who were there back in the day will be at the Table.