African History Month Film Night:
Tuesday, Feb. 28 @ 7pm
In 1968, Ocean Hill Brownsville in New York was the center of a fight for community control of schools. Join us this Tuesday at Uhuru Furniture for a documentary and discussion about this landmark in the ongoing fight for quality education for all children.
Brian Harpster:
Volunteer of the Quarter!
Brian has been a staff member and volunteer for over seven years. He has deep appreciation for the APEDF mission and a hunger for positive transformation for the African community. Brian works on the marketing team and goes the extra mile to develop and nurture relationships with donors. He volunteers to fill in gaps wherever needed in the furniture store operations. His stance is respected by staff, volunteers and the surrounding community.
Uhuru Furniture is HIRING a Marketing Assistant
If you are interested, please click on the picture to link to our website job description and application process.
San Francisco is a city of haves and have-nots when it comes to nutrition
Lack of access to healthy food choices is yet another element of the toxic conditions faced by African people contibuting to poor health. Click on the picture to read the S.F. Bay Guardian article entitled "The Food Divide".
Look who shops at UFC... LiveWell Network's own Lisa Quinn!
The home improvement guru demonstrated design on a budget at Uhuru Furniture & Collectibles with her purchase of the elegant, mid-century McGuire sofa set. You can watch her visit to UFC in an upcoming episode of “Home with Lisa Quinn.” Click on the pic to visit the LiveWell website.
Statement from Uhuru Furniture when we were closed for Oakland's General Strike (click on the pic)
Education Worse Since Desegregation? - Marian Wright Edelman on community control of schools
Click on the picture to see the video.
Volunteers Welcome!
We are also looking for volunteers to help with customer service, furniture moving and grassroots promotion. Unemployed? Retired? Need community service hours? Use your skills and enthusiasm to support the APEDF programs building real community commerce and self-reliance in the hands of the African community.
Calling on Graphic Artists -- Volunteer Opportunities at UFC!
Foreclosures can make you sick, report says
A telltale article from the SF Chronicle links foreclosure rates to worsened health conditions in the African community in Oakland, CA and is indicative of how the subprime crisis in black communities across the country is deepening. Click the picture to read the article.
In August 2010, Green America certified The African People’s Education and Defense Fund as one of its first nonprofit "Green Business Allies"
A love letter to Uhuru Furniture (click on the envelope)
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The African People’s Education and Defense Fund is building programs to create a growing sustainable economy in the hands of the African community in Oakland and around the country. When you shop at Uhuru Furniture you support the building of a recording studio as an institution of international African culture and a commercial kitchen for community economic self-reliance. You can also donate directly to these projects. Click on the pic to find out how.
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- Positively impacting the transformation for African people throughout the world; defending the human and civil rights of the African community; developing programs addressing the grave disparities in education, health, and economic development.
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