Dear Community,

We're exited to bring this opportunity to our youth. Through Monday Night Football, we expect to provide a positive, learning and exciting environment for youth to foster comradery, learning and fun. We hope that this will provide our youth with a chance to experience encouragement, support and positive role models.

Please pass this on and come out to participate and support our youth.

BT Mathis, cell: 908-590-6100 

June 16, 2010 - Honoring Slaves Who Helped Build the Capitol:

Not long ago, when CAN visited Washington, D.C., so many participants noted that there was no evidence of the enslaved African Americans who built the US Capitol. On this day, the plaque below was placed in the United States Capitol in honor of our ancestors:

YOUTH GROUP LEADER WORKSHOP: Saturday, March 27, 2010

3pm to 6pm

ROSELLE COMMUNITY CENTER

1268 SHAFFER AVENUE

ROSELLE, NJ

TO REGISTER: CALL 908-298-8225

F R E E

PAST EVENTS:

1. Kwanzaa 2009: Kasserian Ingera: How Are the Children, December 2009
2. Friday, September 25th: African American Heritage Tour of Washington DC.  What a time we had...check out the pictures to your left!
3. Tuesday, October 20th: Speaker Series: Dr. Therman E. Evans
4. On Saturday, August 29th, we had a celebration to just pause and acknowledge the historical milestone accomplished this week with the confirmation of the 1st Hispanic Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor.   Check out slides from the program at: http://www.slideshare.net/dimmathis/community-acting-now-aug29-es-final             
5. Sunday, August 9th at 12:30pm, featured a video showing of: A War for Your Soul. This film is rated PG-13. This is a film that discusses the challenges society presents to at risk youth in the African American community. We intend on then facilitating a discussion on solutions. This is being done in partnership with the Culture and History Ministry from Morning Star Community Christian Center, Linden, NJ. The film producer is Reggie Bullock, Erisai Films.
6. August 3rd: Introduction to CAN and our featured topic was: Redevelopment of the Roselle Golf Club and Shopping Center. Here we provided an over to the community of CAN then facilitated a Q&A session between the community and the experts of the project (developers, engineers, etc.).
7. April: Act Now: Save Darfur: We invited people throughout the community to view the film "Save Darfur: A Call to Action. The viewing was followed by a discussion and ultimately a postcard campaign.  Check out the following short video's regarding these sessions:

Group 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6U8Xfa4xGk

Group 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpIBmbI14YA

Group 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyHXjUBv1Ms

 

We reach out to our entire community of the world. We build relationships with others to insure we remain diverse and focused on people. We are also resourceful and believe in supporting causes and organizations that are working in areas related to our interests.To do this we often lift up or promote events hosted by others that are related to our interests