We are proud to announce that on January 18, 2021, Martin Luther King Day, the Alpert Jewish Community Center, in partnership with Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), Jewish Family and Children’s Service (JFCS), and JCC Cares we will be hosting a Non-Perishable Food Drive commemorating MLK Day of Service.
Feeding communities throughout the Greater Long Beach area, especially during COVID-19, offers each one of us the opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life.
Here is a list of in-demand items:
-Canned Vegetables, Beans and Fruits
-Canned Fish and Meat: Tuna, Chicken, etc.
-Household Items: Paper Products, Personal Hygiene, Cleaning Supplies, Baby Supplies, Laundry Supplies)
-Cereal and Breakfast Foods
-Peanut Butter
-Boxed and Canned Meals: Soup, Mac & Cheese, Hamburger Helper,
Tuna Helper
-Powdered, Canned or Shelf-Stable Milk
Juice … shelf-stable plastic bottles or juice boxes

All donations may be dropped off in boxes provided near the Health Screen area between the hours of 8:00am – 5:00pm at the AJCC.

Thank you for joining the fight against hunger in Long Beach.
Gayle Ehrenberg, RSVP Director, gehrenberg@alpertjcc.org, 562-506-2801 or 562-426-7601 ext. 1013

Westside Coalition is happy to announce the first-ever virtual presentation of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration for 2021. The holiday celebration will include:

– Performances by the Santa Monica High School choir and the Peace Player Drummers.
– Community Light Award presentation to the Village Nation.
– Annual Community Involvement Fair.
– Keynote by the Honorable Karen Bass and Tamika Butler, Esq.

Congressmember Bass was the first African American woman chosen to be Speaker of the California Assembly in 2008 and is currently Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus of the United States House of Representatives.

Tamika Butler, Esq. is a national expert and lecturer on issues related to the built environment, equity, anti-racism, diversity, and inclusion.

Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day immersed in music, culture, and community. This year’s virtual festival highlights MLK’s dedication to labor and workers’ rights, and these movements’ continued importance today. Enjoy these vibrant programs and activities for all ages.

10:00 am
Musical Welcome from ICYOLA
Kick off CAAM’s MLK Day Celebration with members of the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA), the largest majority Black orchestra in America. Enjoy a beautiful rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” followed by a mellow set to ease you into the holiday.

11:00 am
King Study Group
Join the King Study Group to engage with King’s speech in support of Memphis Sanitation Workers. Delivered the day before he was assassinated in 1968, this speech is commonly known by the theme in its concluding paragraph: “I’ve been to the mountaintop.” The speech is most remembered for that chilling phrase, which foreshadowed his untimely death, but King’s true message was about economic power, workers’ rights, and the strengthening of Black institutions.

1:00 pm
Black Workers and Social Justice: From Memphis, 1968, to Today
The labor movement was—and remains—essential to the struggle for racial equity and civil rights. King’s final campaign was undertaken to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Hear a distinguished panel discuss the struggle in Memphis, the right to strike, and Black labor’s role in the California economy and in today’s movement for social change. Panelists include Janel Bailey, Co-Executive Director of Organizing and Programs at the Los Angeles Black Worker Center; Steven Pitts, Associate Director emeritus of UC Berkeley Labor Center and host of the podcast, Black Work Talk; and sanitation worker Rodney Fowler Sr., Vice President District 5, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees District Council 36, and President, Local 127, San Diego. The panel will be moderated by CAAM’s History Curator, Susan D. Anderson.

2:30 pm
Family Storytime and Poetry Workshop
Close out the holiday with this family program celebrating MLK. Author Alice Faye Duncan will read excerpts from her children’s book, Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968, followed by a haiku writing workshop.

BAGELS BIRTH and BABIES is BACK!!!!
Bring your Bagel, your coffee or tea, invite your partners and let’s get together.

You don’t know what you don’t know!
For EXPECTANT and NEW families (babies included) – FREE Meet-up.

As the saying goes “it takes a village to raise a family”! Have you moved from your family, has your family retired and moved? If so, creating your own village locally and receiving the support that you deserve is what this meet-up is all about.

Each month we will have a topic for discussion that will better prepare you and your partner for your upcoming birth or travels into parenthood. New parents will share their wisdom as well.

Come connect with other families, receive the guidance and support that you need as a pregnant family or new parents.

Every Tuesday at 10 am (don’t log in later, we may have finished early)

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