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Join us on June 13th, 2008 at Franklin Park for our Opening Reception. Author will be Dr. Uhura & Taliban Baker Author of "72 Concepts to liberate the African Mind".
Dr. Uhura Hotep is a nationally-recognized authority on student achievement programs, service learning projects, and leadership development initiatives. He is a co-founder of Duquesne University’s Project for Academic Coaching through Tutoring (PACT), a service-learning project that connects college students with at-risk urban youth. 
For the past 15 years, he has served as the coordinator of the Manhood/Womanhood Development Program at Holy Rosary Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the aid of grants from the Al-kebulan Foundation, Dr. Hotep created the Johari Sita: The Six Jewels of African Centered Leadership, which is the nation’s first African centered leadership-followership training program. He also developed two nationally acclaimed seminars: “75 Ways to Raise the Intelligence of Black Children and Teens” and “Preparing African Youth for 21st Century Leadership and Service.” In addition, his is the co-editor of the best-selling book 72 Concepts to Liberate the African Mind. Over the past decade, Dr. Hotep has lectured on African and African American social, educational and cultural affairs in Japan, Jamaica, Haiti, Canada and the United Kingdom. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Pan African Studies. He is a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship; he studied in Ghana, West Africa where he researched the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Africa culture.
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 Beloved Sha, has hustled everything from drugs to Coach bags on the streets of Brooklyn, New York. In his book Chocolate Tears/Tears No More, Mr. Sha shares his life experiences though poetic expression. His powerful prose allows the reader to hear his footsteps as he runs across the roof tops of Brooklyn to escape being captured by the police. He finally tired of running and decided he needed a change in his life. While he searched to find himself he met a law student from Ohio—this event forced him to express himself on paper. Mr. Sha married that law student and now resides in Delaware Ohio with his family. He continues to work on other books full of life experiences that many youth can relate to. He is a grand example of change. |
 S.O.S. Band, the Atlanta, GA-borne band was started in 1977, S.O.S. standing for "Sounds of Success," will perform on Franklin Park’s Main Stage at 6 p.m., Sunday, June 15th. With such chart-topping hits as “Take Your Time (Do It Right)," that went platinum, parking at number one R&B for five weeks and peaking at number three pop on Billboard's charts in spring 1980. The debut LP, SOS, went gold, selling over 800,000 copies and holding the number two R&B spot for three weeks. went platinum, parking at number one R&B for five weeks and peaking at number three pop on Billboard's charts in spring 1980. The debut LP, SOS, went gold, selling over 800,000 copies and holding the number two R&B spot for three weeks. Just the Way You Like It went to number six R&B in fall 1984 (included the number six R&B single "Just the Way You Like It") and Sands of Time went gold and hit number four R&B in spring 1986 (included the number two R&B hit "The Finest"). Many of these releases as well as the sound of early releases of Chicago-born house music helped to popularize the now-classic sound of Roland drum machine, the TR-808, contributing to the advancement of music in our society. |
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A City-Wide Talent Show, sponsored by JuneteenthOhio, will take place from 2 to 5 p.m., June 14th Main Stage. All talent show registrants much complete an entry from and pay a $50 fee by May 31, 2008. There will be an award of $1,000 to the winner.
The festival will feature a multitude of activities, including the Cultural Marketplace, Children’s Pavilion, Health Pavilion, Soul Food Pavilion, City-Wide Talent Show, Author’s Corner, Workshops, and Main Stage Entertainment.
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