Greetings All, As April 4 approaches marking 44 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s body was taken from us, we at the Connecticut Center for Nonviolence are here to tell you that although he was shot, they missed! His work, our work and the legacy lives on. Nonviolence is the sword that heals. Attend our next Two-Day Core Introduction to Kingian Nonviolence [...]

NAACP State Conference President Scot X. Esdaile will join Gov. Dannel P. Malloy  for a town hall meeting on SB24, Malloy’s Education Reform Bill. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at the Walsh Elementary School, 55 Dikeman Street. “There have been a number of conversations about the Governor’s bill, which aims to address [...]

May 19 Inner-City Dental Clinic in Hartford Grants totaling $49,000 have been awarded by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving to support the fourth annual free Inner-City Dental Clinic to be held Saturday, May 19, at Community Health Services, 500 Albany Ave. in Hartford. The clinic, held in partnership with the West Indian Foundation, Inc., will be held from 8 [...]

Learn about Connecticut’s Palliative Marijuana Program. It will:      Protect patients, their caregivers and physicians from prosecution.      Help patients suffering with pain      Provide physicians with another option for cases they deem appropriate      Eliminate the incarceration of Connecticut’s most vulnerable patients      Enable local law enforcement to distinguish recreational users from patients      Create a board of 8 [...]

Drug Overdose Prevention Fact Sheet This year we are trying to make overdose prevention available to people who can assist if they believe some is experiencing an overdose. According to a 2004, Connecticut Department of Public Health report on fatal and non-fatal drug overdoses between: 2000 – 2002 About 73% of unintentional opiate overdose decedents were white and 8% were [...]

The Connecticut Young Writers Trust — the state’s longest-running literary competition for teens, now in its 15th year — announces its program for spring 2012. The trust will host free workshops for young poets and writers and their teachers from around the state on March 10 at the Jumoke Academy in Hartford and at Rockville High School on March 13. [...]

Coca-Cola Urges African Americans to “Pay It Forward” This Black History Month And Beyond Grammy Award-winner and philanthropist Ne-Yo, fashion designer Tracy Reese and Essence president Michelle Ebanks are joining Coca-Cola in a refreshing new Black History Month program urging African Americans to “pay it forward” to the next generation. The world’s most recognized brand celebrates Black history being made [...]

Connecticut Fair Housing Center offers classes state-wide One in every fourteen Connecticut homeowners is facing foreclosure or is more than 90 days behind on their mortgage payments. More than two-thirds of those homeowners lack legal representation. The state laws governing the foreclosure process are complex, as is the mediation process. There are unscrupulous scam companies, many of whom take large [...]

After the Cap and Gown How to Plan for your Child with Developmental Disabilities What happens when your child with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities turns 21? What questions should you be asking and where do you go to find the answers? Take the time to put a plan in place for your child’s future today. Who Should Attend? Parents of [...]

The Tuskegee Airmen Scholarship Foundation (TASF) and the National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) announced the establishment of the Della H. Raney Nursing Scholarship, named after the first chief nurse assigned to the Tuskegee Army Air Field. The $2,000 scholarship is targeted to nursing students enrolled in at least the sophomore year at an accredited BSN degree program. Each applicant must [...]