Skip to main content

Remarkable Senior Florence Rice

37th Anniversary Celebration 
of the Canaan Senior Service Center
Sunday, September 23, 2012 at 3:00 pm.
Located, at 132 West 116th Street in Harlem, NYC

Please come out to learn your history through experience. I have found Harlem Seniors to be the most energetic and active seniors on the planet. 

It is so important that we take time to learn from them. There is no history like experience. 



Florence Rice just invited me to the event on Sunday at Canaan. She is a 93 year old consumer affairs activist. She is the founder of Harlem Consumer Education Council. She has been at the forefront for decades fighting for consumer rights. She was born in 1919 in Buffalo, New York. Her experiences read like a textbook on African American, American, and world history. She spent most of her early life in the Colored Orphan Asylum in NYC, and several foster homes. Most of her adult life has been spent in educating our people about their human and civil rights. She organized many boycotts and picket lines. She continues to advocate at 93 years old.
You can go to Youtube and find lots of video clips. She has a Public Access Television show called every other Monday. The show is called "30 Minutes with Florence Rice." 

Below YouTube Clip "30 Minute with Florence Rice."







Comments

Popular posts from this blog

JEROME JOHNSON - COMMUNITY SOLAR ENERGY DEMONSTRATION HOUSE

Update: Elder Jerome Johnson has passed away. We are taken aback with sadness. There was no support for his plight in continuing to do community work. He was very angry going thru the ageing process, and his dream of building community was deferred, and ignored. It is so sad how so many elders are treated. Especially, elders like Mr. Johnson who gave so much. His wish was to have the solar house made into a museum.  Jerome Johnson! J erome Johnson is 86 years of age. He exemplifies our society’s disregard towards our ageing population. How our ageing population is treated and ignored. As throwaway items in society. Where elder citizens are told you are old and youth is new). They are not appreciated, and their life long work is disrespected and in many cases seen as irrelevant.    Mr. Johnson is a People’s pioneer in how-to create and invent for the everyday citizen and community. He developed the solar cooker in the 70s, and created a demonstration community s

Palestine - Culture, History.

Palestine Culture , History. What you will not learn on the evening news.  The Wikipedia Book Creator is not operative. Alkebulan Wiki Edit and Study Group have decided to use blogspot instead until Wikipedia Book Creator gets reinstalled. Palestine History Map Gaza Before & After Bombing Attacks.  During  Sheltering in Place we used the Wikipedia Book Creator to create curriculum for learning, research, and discussions.  We had wanted to compile information about Palestine from existing Wikipedia articles. Since most of us know very little about that part of the world; its history, culture, and struggles.   We did a Wikipedia book using the book creator for Ukraine for Dummies. So we decided to do the same for Palestine. The legendary news mainstream does not educate us in ways other than with their agenda as to how we should think.   I wanted to create an article to show what existed in Palestine before the bombing.  We have to take it upon ourselves to self and group educate

Brother Zulu Zimmerman, also known as Rosvelt 'Zulu' Bynum

59 Years Later Brother Zulu Zimmerman-Organizer Revolutionary Ideology and Black Psychology Let me introduce myself as Brother Zulu who has traveled throughout America looking for ways and means to understand the position that we were in as Black people in the past, in the present, and probably today and tomorrow. Many of us have taken the position to march and pray and to go to jail for freedom that someone else decides to give to us because of his wish to remain in charge of his slaves. I can tell you now, 59 years later that we as a people are no more closer to solving our problems today than we were yesterday.  A lot of people who came here among us are gone today. These Black revolutionaries had good ideas on how to solve the Black man's problems, but the ideas  left without a blue print of how to win or how to solve the problems that we had then, and still have today. The Black man as a slave is suffering economically, politically