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The 5th Annual Week of Non-Violence, Justice and Opportunities will be held October 15-23, 2017, in major cities around the world, sponsored by Black Women for Positive Change (BW4PC), and a network of Partners. The Week of Non-Violence was initiated in 2013, in recognition of countless minority youth and adults, who are victims of gun violence and random violence. The goal is to help young people, law enforcement and violence-prone adults learn that violence can be prevented through anger management, conflict resolution, de-escalation, improved law enforcement/community relations and other evidence-based methods.

Harry Belafonte

Mr. Belafonte is the Honorary Chair of the 2017 Week of Non-Violence, Justice & Opportunities. Joining him are Civil Rights Legends Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Chair of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Rev. James Lawson, who trained the Freedom Riders in the 1960’s; former Los Angeles Congresswoman Diane Watson; Kemba Smith, Criminal Justice Advocate whose unfair 24.5 year prison sentenced was commuted by President Bill Clinton in December 2000; Michelle Bernard, MSNBC https://www.charlestonchronicle.net/2017/09/20/leadership-team-announces-fifth-annual-week-of-non-violence-justice-and-opportunities/ 1/4 9/24/2017 Leadership Team Announces Fifth Annual Week of Non-Violence, Justice and Opportunities – The Charleston Chronicle

Anchor; Lucy McBath, Spokesperson, Moms Demand Action Against Gun Violence; and Chris Daniel, Project Management/Conflict Resolution Expert. Partners for the 2017 Week of Non-Violence are the National Black Nurses Association, Moms Demand Action, Next Generation Action Network, Highmark, Inc., United Steelworkers Union, National Organization of Black Law Enforcement (NOBLE) Masjid Muhammad, the Nation’s Mosque, Wednesday Clergy Fellowship, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, D.C. and the Positive Change Foundation.

Bernard Lafayette

Dr. Bernard Lafayette, esteemed Civil Rights Leader and Honorary Co-Chair of the 2017 Week of Non-Violence, Justice and Opportunities states, “Training individuals and groups in the Kingian Nonviolence strategy is essential to accomplishing positive results. Charlottesville was a stark example of what could happen when individuals and groups of citizens are not trained in expressing their discontent in a nonviolent way. During the civil rights era, if we had not engaged in a strict nonviolent movement, blood would have flowed in the streets even more so than it did. Protesters must be trained to resist violence despite temptation and to look toward reconciliation.” Virginia Delegate Daun S. Hester and Dr. Stephanie E. Myers, BW4PC National Co-Chairs commented, “We appreciate the dedicated leaders who are organizing non-violence events. During this time of global and national stress, natural disasters, and violence in communities we must work together to avoid conflicts and violence, with the goal of “Changing the Culture of Violence in America, and the World.”

Lucy McBath

Events will include Town Hall meetings, workshops, rallies, quilting bees, videoconferences, and non-violence concerts. Activities are scheduled in Houston, TX: Washington, D.C., Chicago, Ill., Los Angeles, CA; Cincinnati, OH; Durham, NC; Pittsburgh, PA; Miami/Dade, FL; Virginia Beach, Richmond & Hampton Roads, VA; the United Kingdom, and Pretoria, South Africa. (partial listing) Master calendar is available at www.2017weekofnonviolence.org (http://www.2017weekofnonviolence.org/) Black Women for Positive Change, (BW4PC) is an inter-faith network of Women and Good Brothers, from diverse backgrounds, races and religions. Interviews are available with the Honorary Committee and representatives from the various states. For more information, contact Karen Carrington, 202-210-4005.

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Penn Hills Cinema at 76 Federal Drive in the Penn Hills Shopping Center will host a movie premiere of 'Drop: A Story of Triumph' on Sept. 6.

A movie that promotes education as an alternative to violence and discourages high school students from dropping out will make its Pittsburgh premiere in Penn Hills.

“Drop: A Story of Triumph” will be shown Wednesday (Sept. 6) at 6 p.m. at the Cinemas at the Penn Hills Shopping Center, off of Rodi Road.

The movie stars Tray Chaney of HBO's “The Wire” and actors Jordan Norris and Dominique Spencer.

Chaney is expected to appear, along with former Steeler Will Allen.

It is presented by the Black Women for Positive Change as part of its fifth annual Week of Non-Violence, Justice and Opportunities.

http://triblive.com/local/pennhills/12693854-74/a-movie-that-promotes-education-as-an-alternative-to-violence-and-discourages 1/4 9/25/2017 Anti-violence movie has Pittsburgh-area premiere on Wednesday | TribLIVE “We want to encourage these students to influence their family, friends and neighbors to finish high school and avoid the pathway to prison,” said Black Women for Positive Change Chairperson Diane Powell. “We developed the film out of concern over the high drop-out rates in this country. (Roughly) 1.2 million students per year drop out. (Approximately) 65 percent of the African-American and Hispanic me(HnT wThPo:/ /aTrReI BinL IpVrEis.CoOnM d/rHoOpMpeEd/) out of school.” The event is open to the public and admission is free.

Many seats, however, will be filled by Penn Hills School District male athletes and coaches as part of a special invitation.

Approximately 20 Indian basketball players and two coaches, and 50 football players and seven coaches will attend.

“The event offers a united approach with representatives from the community and school district administration to emphasize the importance of academics and education,” Superintendent Nancy Hines said. “The coaches were willing to forgo practice time to sit in that theater with their athletes and reinforce this message.”

Head football coach Jon LeDonne believes the film's message will have a positive impact on the young men.

“Academics are the foundation of success and we emphasize this everyday with our student-athletes,” LeDonne said. “Football is a vehicle we can use to drive this home. We are thankful for the opportunity to view ‘Drop' as a team and hope to use it as a reference in the future.”

The Week of Non-Violence in October is in memory of “Trayvon Martin and other young people who have lost their lives to violence,” according to a release from Black Women for Positive Change.

Martin was a 17-year-old African American male from Miami Gardens, Fla. who was fatally shot in Sanford, Fla. by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer.

Zimmerman was acquitted of the crime in July 2013.

More information about the premiere (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drop-a-story-of-triumph-movie-premiere-tickets- 36160921289) is available online.

Michael DiVittorio is a Tribune-Review staff writer. Reach him at 412-871-2367, [email protected] or via Twitter @MikeJdiVittorio.

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TRAY CHANEY, second from left, spoke to Penn Hills basketball and football players about the importance of staying in school. Also in the photo are Diane Powell, and Penn Hills students Andy Plowden and Dylan Bennett. (Photo by Rob Taylor Jr.)

‘If you don’t have an education, you have nothing’

An African American high school male decides to no longer attend school, roll with his cousin who’s into bad things, then ends up being arrested, throwing his potential away. https://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2017/09/18/actor-tray-chaneys-words-uplift-penn-hills-students/ 1/5 9/24/2017 Actor Tray Chaney’s words uplift Penn Hills students at “Drop” movie showing | New Pittsburgh Courier But in the movie, “Drop—A Story of Triumph” there is a do-over. As the tape is rewound, the same African American high school male decides to attend school, stay away from his bad news cousin, and ends up becoming an award-winning film director.

These are the choices today’s young Black teens are faced with, and the film, starring Tray Chaney (HBO’s “The Wire,” Bounce TV’s “Saints and Sinners”) seeks to give teens the ability to make the right choices and stay on the positive path.

Chaney, along with former Steelers player Will Allen, was in attendance at the film’s showing at Penn Hills Cinema, Sept. 6, along with over 150 Penn Hills high school basketball and football players.

The movie’s creation and funding was sponsored by Black Women 4 Positive Change. Other organizations involved in the movie’s showing were Hammonds Initiative and the Penn Hills and local NAACP branches.

“It’s given me an inspiration to go out and help anybody that might be thinking about not coming to school for a few days,” said Hollis Mathis, a Penn Hills High School junior on the football team. “It makes me want to go out and help the next person—just to see how that scenario can play out, your life could be completely different.”

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Mathis said he knew people that could account for any of the characters in the movie—from Avon, the high schooler who later became a film director, to Curtis, Avon’s big brother who tried to show Avon the right path, to Ricky, played by Chaney, who was into the street life. “It’s almost sad knowing that there’s people out there almost ready to drop out, and they sometimes do follow that first option in the movie,” Mathis said.

Mathis plans to remain in school, seek Division 1 collegiate football offers and major in communications or journalism.

According to statistics from Black Women 4 Positive Change, 1.2 million high schoolers drop out of school each year in the U.S. Forty percent of all people incarcerated in the U.S. do not have a high school diploma or G.E.D.

“Follow your dream, anything that you want to do, definitely pursue your goals, and always know, don’t ever let anybody tell you that you can’t do,” Chaney told the Penn Hills high schoolers. “The number one thing is staying in school, and understanding that if you don’t have an education, then you have nothing.

“I had to learn that the hard way myself,” Chaney continued. “I was once your age, and definitely trying to be around a whole bunch of negativity and influence, and that did nothing for me but get me kicked out of school and got me in a whole bunch of trouble. But it wasn’t until guidance counselors, my parents, principals were definitely in my corner, and it helped me get on that better path, get back in school and graduate high school.”

Chaney added that “films like this should be in every school.”

“Our goal is to develop socially-responsible media that related to young people, and helps them give second thought to important life decisions,” said Diane Powell, national outreach co-chair for Black Women 4 Positive Change. The organization has chapters nationwide, including Pittsburgh, where there are about 20 members.

Powell said those interested in purchasing the 39-minute film can do so at http://www.blackwomenforpositivechange.org. Powell can be reached at [email protected].

At the movie’s conclusion, and after a question-and-answer session, the Penn Hills students boarded school buses and headed back to the school. Traney told the New Pittsburgh Courier in an exclusive interview that it’s his duty to leave the young ones with more information https://newpittsburghcourieronline.com/2017/09/18/actor-tray-chaneys-words-uplift-penn-hills-students/2/ 1/4 9/24/2017 Actor Tray Chaney’s words uplift Penn Hills students at “Drop” movie showing | New Pittsburgh Courier and guidance than they came in with.

“I like to keep it real with the young people and let them know that I came from where they come from,” he said. “Sometimes just showing up and saying a couple of motivating, encouraging, inspirational words, I know that can help them. I didn’t have people coming to my school when I was their age. But I always said, if I ever get in a position of power where I’m able to speak to young people, that’s what I want to do, and this is the best part about what I do as an entertainer.”

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